A nice start in May!
Wednesday morning:
http://up.picr.de/14303550cp.jpg
Floris Elite Shaving Soap
Thäter 4125/2
Kiyotaka Ichihara Kamisori
Tüff sensitive AS
(untitled) Maison Martin Margiela EdP
Have a nice public holiday!
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A nice start in May!
Wednesday morning:
http://up.picr.de/14303550cp.jpg
Floris Elite Shaving Soap
Thäter 4125/2
Kiyotaka Ichihara Kamisori
Tüff sensitive AS
(untitled) Maison Martin Margiela EdP
Have a nice public holiday!
Prep: Hot shower
Brush: SOC 2band
Razor: B. Worth "Supreme"
Soap: LEA stick
AS: Floid Blue
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean :D
Nice shave, when I checked the edge it was good sharp everywhere but close to the point, even though the over all shave was good, hmm.
http://i1118.photobucket.com/albums/...psfc1640db.jpg
Now I'm finding that very interesting. I LIKE the photo, but I also like what's interesting in the photo to me, i.e. the playing card. I know of no card in English with a 'B' on it, we have a K for King, Q for Queen, a J for Jack (I think it's also called a Knave; I'm no card player). But no 'B'. I' guessing the 'B' is the first letter of the German word for 'Knave' or Jack. Am I right?
That's not prompted me to think of tonight's theme for the SOTD; I was thinking about it ALL the way home and couldn't come up with one!
Carl,
the "B" means "Bube"= Knave
Nearby (10 miles) is Altenburg, where most of the cards were produced. There is also a very good museum.
http://www.altenburg.eu/sixcms/detai...19676&_lang=en
@Carl: I am glad if you like it!
@Tom: Thanks for the help!
It's the Knave of Hearts, a romantic sentence to the beginning of May. :)
Wednesday
Razor | Jernbolaget Frameback | Soap | Crabtree and Evelyn Nomad | Cologne | Lavanda
I HAD decided on a ‘old games’ theme for the SOTD photo today; there are so many old 1930 odd games out there, but then I got carried away positioning the bottle of Lavanda Eau de Cologne and decided to just take pictures of THAT.
I was a bit embarrassed to find, at around thirteen hundred hours today, that I had stubble. Yes. You heard it. Stubble. I was raving about this razor’s edge only last week, and now it (or maybe something else) fails me. The lather, I admit, was rubbishy. It was too cold in the bathroom for me to bother, really. I need one of those electric bar heater things, you know, the unsafe ones that suck power out of the grid like, well, some sort of Super Hero that sucks power out of the grid. Is there a ‘Transformer Man’? I’ll have to ask my son…
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[EDIT] This picture makes the patina on this razor much darker than it really is. However, looking at it, I'm wondering if a REALLY dark patination or even gun bluing might not look really nice on the blade, leaving the frame silver? Hmmm. I think I've found a project...
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Carl, what on earth did you do to your razor?
It looks like you shrunk it :D
- Pre-shave: Prep Pre-Post Shave Cream
- Soap: Proraso Classic Green Shaving Soap
- Brush: Omega Badger Brush 63167
- Bowl: Ancient Nickeled Brass Barber's Bowl
- Razor: George Wostenholm & Sons Pipe Razor, 5/8 Half Hollow, Square Point
- Post-Shave: Umbrian Extravirgin Olive Oil
- After Shave: Floïd Classic Orange After Shave