Proraso ASL
Semogue 830 Brush
Thiers Issard 5/8 Razor
Musgo Real Soap and Cream
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Sort of a Portuguese affair which delivered a fairly good shave. The cream was very rich and thick with lots of glide.
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Proraso ASL
Semogue 830 Brush
Thiers Issard 5/8 Razor
Musgo Real Soap and Cream
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Sort of a Portuguese affair which delivered a fairly good shave. The cream was very rich and thick with lots of glide.
Soap: Mamma Bear's Northwoods - Smells like Pine Sap
Mug- BIG Black Bowl
Keen Edge: W&B 7/8 Fine India Steel Wedge w/ Rosewood Scales
AS: Aqua Velvet Classic Blue
Finish: Lanolin Rubbed in between my hands until HOT.
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No shave today.
Strop - Jemico
Prep - Hot water + shave towel
Pre-Shave - Musgo Real Glyce
Brush - Dad's old brush
Soap - Palmolive
Mug - Grandpa's old mug
Razor - 4/8 Rex stainless near wedge
Post - Thayers + Nivea balm
I still love this little razor, gives an amazing shave with zero irritation.
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Good morning, Gentleman
I start my day with a nice Thiers Issard
brush: Muehle
soap: Calani
Good morning friends! :)
PREP: Floïd Sandolor Pre Shave Gel
BRUSH: 23 mm Vie-Long 16510 Silvertip Badger Shaving Brush
SOAP/CREAM: Taylor of Old Bond Street The St. James Collection Luxury Shaving Cream
SCUTTLE / BOWL: Fitjar Lathering Up Shaving Bowl
RAZOR: 6/8" Le Talisman / PEROUX-COGNET, Thiers
STROP: Kanayama Cordovan #60000
SHAVE: 2 passes, WTG/XTG
AS: Floïd (Spanish)
RESULT: First-class, BBS shave
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Have a nice day,
Béla
It is very nice. I use shorter, faster, flicking motions with it and it just deletes the stubble. I have pretty coarse beard growth on my chin and jawline and it handles it no problem. You do have to wipe the blade clean more often than say a standard 5/8 but it is not a big problem :)
Prep L'Occitane Verbena Soap
Razor Wade & Butcher 7/8
Strop Kanayama Cordovan #8000
Brush Bill Jack 59 in Buckeyed Burl
Cella Crema Da Barba
Alum & Witch Hazel
L'Occitane Baux Balm
L'Occitane Baux Edt
Jamie
Two pass shave very smooth finish from the Wade & Butcher.
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Love that brush handle. :tu
Thursday
Razor | Burrell Top Flight ‘No. 1’ | Soap | Madame Scodioli ‘Step Right Up’ | After Shave | Madame Scodioli ‘Step Right Up’
Nice close shave this morning, however, feeling my neck this evening at 6 o’clock I realise I really could have done with a second pass. I really only do a second pass now and again. The Scodioli soap is really nice to use, as is the after shave. This morning was hot and humid, it’s just started raining now, but I suspect we won’t get any real rain, it’ll just become even more humid. The weather is set to remain warm, with temperatures of 35, 34, 33, 38, 38, 34 for the next few days, with the night time temperature not dropping below the low 20s. I offer this simply to make you folk putting up with freezing temperatures jealous.
Everyone keeps complaining about the temperature in my office. I refuse to use the airconditioner. They stand there fanning their faces with their hands like 50 year old stern-looking Sicilian ladies saying “wow, it’s warm in here”. "I’m fine" I reply, "I think you’re teaching yourself to not put up with warm weather”. I do then tell them the other option is that there is something very, very wrong with me. They of course dismiss that concept immediately and readily engage in conversation about energy consumption, social norms, capitalist society Vs socialist society, calorie consumption in daily life through the ages, why supersets involving upper body exercises paired with lower body exercises is best, cycling calories and why fish oil capsules and 5 dollar T shirts really mess with my mind.
I really do think ‘we’ are conditioning ourselves to expect the weather to be 21 degrees constantly. The wife keeps on telling me to ‘put some clothes on'; as I like to fully embrace summer and get around in just board shorts. It seems wearing no shirt has become almost inappropriate. I think that all started when middle aged ‘chubby’ men started wearing T Shirts in the local swimming pool to ‘hide their shame’ instead of addressing the problem. We, then, as a society, started to get embarrassed about uncovered bodies. My father, who is German and 85, is not concerned about his body; often sitting on his front porch wearing a singlet (and shorts I hasten to add) even though he does look rather a lot like Grandpa Simpson.
I think it would be very interesting to do a comparative study on male and female body shapes over the ages. I note that leading men in movies from the 40s and 50s seem to have remarkably different body shapes that those of today, as do the women. It’s not all about body fat, either. I think a lot has to do with daily activities. Guys back then seemed to be quite skinny up top but seemed to have big legs and, um, bottoms. Maybe it was from carrying blocks of ice up 5 story apartments or bags of coal or something?
Of course I see that I’ve gone off on a massive tangent again, as I sometimes do. Today at lunch we started on allergies and before 5 minutes had passed I was entertaining the company with tales of the fellow (whose name I cannot recall) who wrote about the history of sexual activity and ‘norms’ through the ages - before that Kinsey guy. I was quite fascinated at the whole ‘visit to the brothel’ thing that seems to have been quite the done thing in the 1700s or 1800s or whenever it was even for those who were more 'pure'…and of course now I’m off on a tangent from a tangent so I should just shut up…
T&H preshave oil mixed with gentle men's refinery preshave oil. Jagger buckthorn shave cream with a little of almond T&H mixed in. Georgetown pottery scuttle and a cheap wilkinson DE which has given me some of the best shaves o my life. Followed up by T&H limes AS. Feels fresh.
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Kent T4
Martin de Candre soap in wooden bowl
Filarmonica Doble Temple 13, black scales
Roger & Gallet L'Homme ASB
Nivea Creme
CREED Aventus EdP
...not had a shave this good in a long time!!
When I got to carmaloschneider talking big bottoms and blocks of ice I moved on to the next razor :D
I also used the first smiley I have used in years.....
Well, we survived the storm that was not. The total snow accumulation in Washington, D.C. from this massive event that caused the federal government to shut down for the day: 0.0". But at least our public employees were safe from commuting in that rain!
Today's face scrape:
Razor: Filarmonica DT #14
Shave prep Morning shave, so a hot shower
Brush: D.R. Harris
Preshave: –
Soap: Castle Forbes Lime
Scuttle: Simple soup bowl
Strop: Kanayama 20 canvas strokes and 60+ strokes on the leather
After Shave Splash: Nivea aftershave Balm
Notes:
The widest blade I have, the 8/8 Fili sings loudly and thereby gives beautiful feedback!
Castle Forbes took care of some sound damping. :p
Very comfortable BBS result.
Paul
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Prep - None
Strop - 3 Inch bridal leather/hard felt
Razor - W&B pre 1891 wedgie type thingy/stropped previous night
Brush - Omega 10066 Boar
Soap - MWF/cold water face lathered
Post - Alum block followed with Thayers witch hazel
Been trying for months to get a edge that will give a decent shave on this thing. It got a passing mark this morning after biting me yesterday. With a 1/4 inch/12 mm thick spine you really need a bigger gap between skin and spine than I am used too. Anyway it was an experience but I am not too sold on W&B wedgie type thingies. Have a good day.
Bob
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Prep: Hot Shower
Razor: CV Heljestrand Mk4
Brush: Omega Boar
Soap: Tabac Shavestick
AS: Thayer's Lavendar Witch Hazel
Finish: Pinaud Lilac Vegetal
Stash Treatment: Murray's Pomade
Proraso|G5|Mountain Badger|CADE|Brummel 18|Iggy's Balm
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Have a Great Thursday Gents!
Thursday
Fatip Gold OC / Griest 360 Brass Handle
Gillette Super Thin
WSP Prince Silvertip
Sultans Sandalwood Shave Cream
Nivea Balm
Krampert's Finest Bay Rum
7 MARCH 2013
* Weber DLC + UFO Ur2V1 Red Bronze
* Super Iridiums
* WSP Stubby 2-band
* Mystic Water Mysore Sandalwood
* Unrefined Shea Butter
Gentlemen, here is today's shave bill:
Razor: Smiling Joseph Elliot 11/16-6/8 wedge with barber's notch
Strop: Mountain Mike 3" Latigo
Brush: Thater 24 mm silvertip
Cream: Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet
Pre-shave: Castle Forbes
Scuttle: Moss
Face lather
Alum
Witch hazel
Balm: Institute Karite
Aftershave: English Leather
Good morning y'all! Today's shave was another DE with the same razor as yesterday just because it went so well.
Prep - hot shower
Soap - Czech & Speake, Oxford & Cambridge
Brush - Simpsons Polo 8, Super
Razor - UFO Goliath XXL stainless, Goodfella head, Gillette 7 O'Clock super stainless (blue) blade
Post - cold water, Kiehl's lotion
EDT - Tom Ford, Grey Vetiver
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TOBS Jermyn Street - Semogue 830 - 5/8 Dovo - Nautica Blue
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Prep - Hot towel (3x in between passes)
Pre-Shave - Truefitt and Hill Pre-Shave Oil
Strop - SRD Kangaroo 3" Strop
Scuttle - SRD Scuttle
Brush - Simpson Commodore Best Badger
Soap - Trumpers Coconut Oil w/ a drop of Glycerin
Razor - 15/16 Wade & Butcher Faux Frameback
Post Shave - Cold Towel and Thayers Lavender Witch Hazel
Aftershave - Prorasso Blue Aftershave Balm
Sorry about the image, I cannot rotate it to be normal
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NO picture today due to the type of Shave.
No Shower, No oil, no Stephan's
1959 Fat Boy Wilky Blade
MWF shave cream
Badger brush
Aramis As
Vaseline for men
Quick, single pass shave in a cold bath room on cold whiskers.
Been a long time since I had a shave like this. It will be a looooonger time until I do it again.
Enjoy the day!!!
Thanks Maximillian!
Prep: Hot shower, conditioner on beard
Cream: Proraso Green
Oil: Art of Shaving scentless
Blade: Cheapo SE from CVS, palm-stropped (3rd shave)
Bowl: Antique silver sugar-bowl
Razor: 1912 Gem
Finishing: Feather Artist for "coup de maitre" under nose & couple touch-ups
Aftershave: Aqua Velva
Result: aaahhh... hello, world!
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Comments: as far as safety razors go, my face infinitely prefers single-edge to double-edge. Go figure...
Happy shaving!
Prep; Hot shower and proraso green
Cream: proraso red
Razor: Mozart Spezial
Aftershave: C&B West Indian Limes balm
A superb one pass shave.
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Last edited by Maximilian; Today at 02:54 AM. Reason: Rotated picture (was getting a sore neck)
Lol, love it.
~Paul
_Neck Shave-Cheek Trim Only_
Mergress/PolSilver(seems to be a very forgiving blade to my skin :-))
Vie Long 13061M (still stinks, lost one hair)/Proraso Green
xtendlife Age Defense Active Facial Fluid except for beard which got Desert Essence JoJoba Oil
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