Thread: Sun - February 17th - Sat February 23rd

Prep: Splash of hot water
Scuttle: SWK
Brush: Thater 22mm 2-band fan
Cream: TOBS Jermyn Street
Razor: Herder 6/8" full hollow, "Friday" blade
Astringent: Osma Alum
Aftershave: Speick



Notes: Great shave today, quite easy and smooth. A little sting as I do find full hollows slightly more challenging still.
Spent a few hours the night before cleaning and polishing the razor before honing her up. Very thin grind and stiff, able to get very keen.

22 FEBRUARY 2013

* Weber DLC + UFO U2V1 SS
* Super Iridiums
* Frank Shaving synthetic 24/48mm
* Mike's Lemongrass & Eucalyptus
* Unrefined Shea Butter

Good morning y'all! Sorry, no pic today. It's rodeo time in South Texas, and as I was enjoying my shave, the wife and I were talking about going to the rodeo and stock show tonight when I gave myself a "chingaso" (South Texanism...trust me, it sucks) on the space beneath my bottom lip. So, as I sulked and applied the styptic pencil, I defiantly forsake the SOTD pic. But, I am BBS...just with a chingaso underneath my bottom lip which looks like a scabby soul patch.

prep - hot shower
strop - Rup Razor
soap - Bath House, Spanish Fig and Nutmeg
brush - Vie Long, JL Petree LE, 2 band
razor - Powell custom 8/8, crabapple scales
post - cold water, styptic pencil, alum, styptic pencil, Kiehl's lotion, styptic pencil
EDT - Creed, GIT

Have a great day!

Originally Posted by ojinsa

razor - Powell custom 8/8, crabapple scales

Sorry about you chingaso, but those crabapple scales sound intriguing, too bad no pic...

22nd February 2013

Location: Milano, Italy
Prep: Hot shower + cold splash
Soap: Cella
Brush: Custom Silvertip Badger 24mm
Razor: Wade & Butcher 5/8 Barber's Notch "The Hollow Ground Razor", black resin scales
Strop: Tony Miller 2.5" Horsehide Leather and Linen
Shave: 1 pass WTG
Astringent: Alum
A/S: Pinaud Clubman Virgin Island Bay Rum

Originally Posted by JoeSomebody

Sorry about you chingaso, but those crabapple scales sound intriguing, too bad no pic...

It's this one.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...-shoulder.html

Originally Posted by Cangooner

[FONT=Century Gothic][CENTER]Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Razor: A newly-arrived Soviet 11/16 half hollow "весна"...snip...
I have always been curious about Russian/Soviet blades, and finally got around to buying one which arrived today practically shave-ready. I touched it up on the Zulu Grey, lathered up, and was *very* pleasantly surprised. It shaved absolutely beautifully!

I have one; and, as you say, it shaves delightfully. The name means SPRING. A fitting name for a razor. Mine was in horrible condition but well returned that effort of renewing and honing almost a half mm off to get to good steel!
Enjoy it Ruskies are good steel even if not very pretty!
~Richard

FRIDAY
Hot shower prep
Razor: Winfield “The Improved Eagle Razor”
Soap: Nivea shave cream
Mug: Soup cup
Brush: re-knot generic mixed badger
Aftershock: Alum block
Splash: Avon

The Day: partly cloudy and snow since midnight -4ºC. The shave: Better than yesterday! Nivea, hot towel, wash, lather again, hot towel, lather, shave, close in three. I call that a win!
The fun of trying things makes the day go a bit better and quicker!
~Richard

Friday evening
Hot water prep
Greaves razor - Badger brush - Sanders sc - cold water - Gilette asb - hot towel - Arlington as

Not as smooth as I had hoped, but still a fine shave.
Have a great weekend!

Originally Posted by slantman

Friday

Mergress
Astra SP
JL Petree Vie-Long Silvertip
Prorasso Sandalwood Shave Cream
Nivea Replenishing Balm
Kramperts' Finest Bay Rum

I'm anxiously awaiting my Progress coming back as a Mergress.