Thread: January 28 - February 03

Hot shower
Face scrub

15/16 Dorko
(Three days of Growth)
proraso pre shave
Lemon & Cedar shaving cream
silvertip badger brush

C&E Nomad after shave balm


Nothing cuts down 3 days of growth like a big blade

Mon.

Vulfix BB
QED Sandalwood soap
TM Strop
5/8 Ontario 1/2 hollow spike
Coral Skin Food
SCS Sandalwood EDT


This razor just came off a couple gentle rounds with the Norton and Thuringen and it is sweet!. Great shave today!

Jordan

2 days growth
Hair conditioner soak while stropping razor & making lather in bowl
Hot towel
Shavemac 501
Mama Bear masculine musk soap
5/8 Wostenholm "Peerless", the $5 ebay special
Alum
JAKO A/S splash

Beautiful shave and I'm very pleased with results on the neck. This razor took a fine edge w/o much trouble - a keeper for sure.

• A. J. Krank 4/8 half hollow
• Whitfield Saddlery #1 strop
• Muhle Pinsel brush.(el cheapo, but I like it nontheless)
• Conk's Lime soap with a dab of Palmolive cream
• Cold water rinse
• Witch hazel splash followed by splash of Dominica Bay Rum

The strop holds a special place in my heart. It was my very first. The fellow at Whitfield Saddlery made it for me for $3 just before they closed for good back in 92. It's just a 3 x 10 inch piece of pasted leather. No adornments other than a "#1" stamped on one end to indicate it was the first razor strop ever made at the Saddlery.

Rooney small style 1 brush
Williams Mug Soap
Handamerican strop
5/8 Koeller spike
no a/s

Nice shave.

Shower
Conditioner
Bobbo's strop (liking that thing more all the time)
Some german shavecream
My own brush
Worldmaster 6/8 with cocobolo scales
Axel's Bay rum with mint
King of shaves moisterizer.

It feels like I've got my routine pat down. Good lather, good shave sharp blade. Everything is just wonderfull in my bathroom.

DD 6/8 Satinedge
Simpson Rover pure badger
Tabac soap
Alum
Tabac A/S splash
QED ASC

First shave with the Satinedge (honed by Joe Chandler). This is definitely the lightest/thinest razor I own and I can feel the difference. I got a great with the grain pass, but the against the grain pass was less than smooth. I now know why I like a slightly heavier blade - the DD is noticeably lighter than even my TI Sheffield steel.

Tue

Muhle silvertip
TM Strop
TOBS Lavender cream
Revisor 5/8
Coral Skin Food
Hammam Bouquet


Not a great shave today. A bit rushed and so little left after yesterday's super close shave. Oh well - there's always tomorrow.

Jordan

Monday Night
First shave with my 8/8 Henckels Friodur Scalloped Back Round Point
CF lime shaving cream
GFT lime skin food

What a fantastic shave and got it right the first time didn't even have to put it to a hone sharpened up nicely off of the pasted paddle strop. I’m glad I have a moustache I would hate to have to shave my upper lip with this monster. I just might have to pick up some of the larger size razors.