Thread: Sun - June 16th- Sat June 22nd

Originally Posted by unit

Just a restoration/repair/rescale I am working on for a friend. This photo turned out interesting, so here ya go

When You're working on the plates for the dollar notes, could You do me a favour and make a $ 2.50 as well. I'm really fed up with all the coins and a $ 2.50 note would help a lot.

Originally Posted by LegalBeagle

Today's shave exceeded all XPec-tations!

Nice razor Bill! Is that a replacement for the one that broke in two.

Prep; hot shower, face scrub
Preshave; Dreadnaught razor oil, proraso pre shave
Scuttle; SRD
Bowl; SRD
Soap; Tabac soap, glycerine drops and Proraso Green cream mix
Brush; Rooney
Strop; SRD Premium III (20/68)
Razor; Dovo Best Quality 6/8 (refreshed last night; 20 45 degree X strokes on Nani 12K, 10 X Crox on felt, 20X 0.25 diamond on felt, 100x lthr)
Aftershave; Shavex alum block, Proraso sensitive skin, Razorock aftershave wax (great stuff!)
Cologne; Tabac EDT
Shave; even the tough hollow parts of my neck were BBS, no irritation spots at all

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Of course, this evening I ironed a shirt and polished my boots…

A good man You are.

Getting shirts washed and ironed is rediculously cheap here in Germany, but I prefer doing it myself.

Lately I had a friend as an overnight guest as he had an appointment in Berlin on the next day. In the morning he asked to use my iron in order to prepare his shirt, ironed the collar, front and the cuffs and was done. He must have seen my internal head shaking as he said, he'd be wearing a suit and had no intention to take the jacket off (more internal head shaking on my side).

Highly efficient, but.... no I'm different than the other girls.

Definitely no candidate for a straight

Like most of Your pictures.

Originally Posted by lotse

The soaps of Jabonman from Barcelona I really appreciate. They are made from the finest ingredients and work very well with me.
This one is custom made for a Spanish shaving forum. The smell is hard to describe, maybe like this: A walk in the woods in summer. No German fir forest, more of a pine forest after a rain and a melting mints in the mouth.

sounds great. From the description I know exactely what it smells like. You can get it in Germany too but only when it's very warm and only at special points. I have two or three places on my running routes where I sometimes get this and it's only in an area of 15 or 20 meters.

Gentlemen, here is today's shave bill:

Razor: Hamlin & Co. 5/8 Bohlerstahl
Strop: Tony Miller
Brush: shavemac 23 mm silvertip
Soap: The Art of Shaving sandalwood
Pre-shave: Edwin Jagger
Bowl: Sara Bonnyman
Scuttle: Moss
Alum
Witch hazel
Balm: The Art of Shaving lavender
Aftershave: Bronnley

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

... It’s interesting, I think, how some razors are just nicer to strop. They just lend themselves to a nice satisfying flip at either end; they lay themselves nice and flat on the strop at each end and say ‘take me away; whisk me to the other end and I’ll flip again just as nice as that last one’ I like razors like that. Some, though, are ornery little bastards, struggling in your hand with the loose scales and the little narrow blades; being all pedantic and finicky about how they like to be laid on the leather 'Oh, just a little more to one side, please, I’m not quite FLAT on the STROP, you know’ they say in a whiny, nasally tone…

Ohhh yes. The same discussion over and over again, each and every morning. "Why did You pick her? Why not me. It should have been me today, me, me, me. It is my turn today. I know You saw me laying upfront. I saw it in Your eyes. And You turned me down, again."

And yes, yes she is right. She is the Dovo with the micarta scales; the ones that are too heavy, too bulky. I really don't like to strop her. Always turns out to be a crumpy motion and I have to readjust the grip three or four times, otherwise I fear her slipping away. I also don't like her noises when we actually do it. I mean... she's doing fine, always there, when I need her, never disapointed me. It's just not ... love.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

... It’s the little things that matter, the little things, because the little things are the big things …

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Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

"Although he has fallen at the centre of the painting, I must hide him from the eye."
"Why would you want to hide him?"
"Because he's the most important."

lovely!

Originally Posted by ratbag

Thanks DDTech, I always use window light and usually very late in the afternoon. If you look closely in that photo, you can see the bathroom window ( blue sky and clouds ) in the reflection on the brushes horn handle.

Yes, I had seen that. It's obvious You're using natural light. Late afternoon light is so rich and giving You a different quality each and every minute.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Just a sec, I'm confused about the porcelain. Do you like my porcelain and his light or his porcelain and my light or a bit of both?

In this case I like Your porcelain and his lighting and I truely appreciate the fact that they are separated. A combination of both would be too hard to bear.

Originally Posted by JoeSomebody

Nice razor Bill! Is that a replacement for the one that broke in two.

No, that was a Le Grelot. This is a TI that I got in a group purchase on the Spanish shaving forum...