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La Toja Manantiales - Semogue 610 - Henkotsu Kamisori - Floid Blue

04/6/2013

No pic today. I tried some stuff out on my iPod and its various camera apps... I wish I'd stuck with the Canon 50D.

Pre : Hot water, Kiehl's facial fuel wash, Proraso pre-post cream
Soap : ToBS Grapefruit
Brush : Progress Vulfix 404
Razor : 1960 Gillette Fatboy (#9 setting)
Blade : Feather
Post : Cold water, alum block, Nivea post shave balm

Finish : BBS

4 June 2013

* Weber DLC + UFO U2V1 Red Bronze
* Perma Sharp Supers
* WSP 2-band + Elite Razor Blue/Brown Mallee
* Mike's Lemongrass & Eucalyptus
* Unrefined Shea Butter

Okay, today's shave was just a quick one pass, as it always is during the week:

Location: Louisville,KY
Pre-Prep: 1 cup of coffee (instant, blech....)
Prep: Hot Shower
Pre-Shave: None
Soap: Van Der Hagen
Bowl: Wooden lidded shaving bowl of indeterminate manufacture
Brush: Boar hair of indeterminate manufacture
Razor: Vintage John Primble 1091 Extra Hollow Ground
Strop: Nicked, ripped, and chipped leather and webbing hanging strop of indeterminate manufacture
Astringent: Generic store brand witch hazel
Balm: Neutrogena for Men Razor Defense post-shave lotion

carlmaloschneider posted in a thread over in the "Shaving with a Straight Razor" forum about skipping the preshave so that technique in stropping, lathering, and shaving become more apparent so that's what I'm doing this week (#3 of using a straight razor everyday w/ one lapse back to a cart last Friday, I was really short on time). I'm getting a decent lather off the VDH soap it seems some of my early failures were just not working the brush on the soap long enough. The results a single pass shave that's at least good enough my boss isn't looking at me funny for not shaving. Although I seem to be getting a closer shave with my non-dominant hand than my dominant hand, go figure.

Pa's Gem
Feather Blade
Silvertip Badger In Cocobolo
Proraso White

Thanks for the great posts and pics gentlemen
Grant

Originally Posted by Deegee

Razor : 1960 Gillette Fatboy (#9 setting)

A Fatboy slammed to 9 sure gives a wonderful shave, wouldn't you say? How is the TOBS Grapefruit? I've been eyeballing it for a while and will soon take the plunge no doubt.

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

A Fatboy slammed to 9 sure gives a wonderful shave, wouldn't you say?

On hindsight, maybe an Isreali blade, or a Derby for #9, or perhaps not more than one #9 shave in a row.

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

How is the TOBS Grapefruit? I've been eyeballing it for a while and will soon take the plunge no doubt.

After years of having just Palmolive cream and Tabac soap, I'm used to the scent being one that you have to coax out. TOBS grapefruit... it's most definitely one you don't need to dig the schnoz in for a good lungful. As for lathering, it's second-to-none.

If you're considering the stuff, you'll not be disappointed.

Gentlemen, here is today's shave bill:

Razor: Thiers-Issard Evide Sonnant 6/8 round point
Strop: Neil Miller shell cordovan
Brush: Semogue Owners Club
Soap: Institute Karite
Pre-shave: Edwin Jagger
Scuttle: Moss
Music: Soundtrack from the film Easy Virtue, starring Jessica Biel — Oy!
Alum
Witch hazel
Balm: The Art of Shaving lavender
Aftershave: Santa Maria Novella Russian

Prep: Hot shower
Brush:
Razor: Iwasaki
Soap: Omega
AS: Proraso
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean
Finally, after two rounds on Mr Shapton 16k, the edge seems to be in the right hood again ... maybe one tour to Mr S for a final (well, you know what I mean) meeting


Still has a couple of pics, I haven't showed yet, from the garden:

Vie Long Brush
Muso Real Cream/Glyce Soap
Proraso Preshave
Hart 6/8 Razor



Always a pleasure to use the Musgo Real! Great Shave! The Vie Long is slowly replacing the Semogue 830. Though I have been using creams more lately.