Thread: A shave back in time

Wow, So where is this located? Im heading to london this year... All in all I want to move there.. So I hav a few more visits before I make my desicion.

I had a shave at Trumpers once and it was very nice, but it sounds like your experience was better.

Isn't T&H the place where Prince Phillip goes sometimes, or they send people to cut his hair / do shaves?

Well, T&H has a royal appointment I think, but all that means is someone in the royal household (the corgi's wife's cousin twice removed) uses them.
Here's the link. I went to the St James Street shop (Global Headquarters, which when you go inside will make you understand why I'm laughing at that!). You do need to book an appointment to be sure, but it really wasn't that difficult or far in advance. The shop had me and only two other customers inside (plus one of the customer's significant other). The place was small. But that just added to the charm.

Excellent description, Mark -

-thanks for sharing

-Lou

Originally Posted by majurey

... he then VERY GENTLY took the razor edge at about 20 degrees to the skin of the meaty pad, spine of razor towards his body (i.e. edge away from body on the meaty pad). And then VERY gently (almost imperceptibly) ran the edge along the stretched skin in very short strokes until he had worked his way along the entire length. He couldn't stress enough that NO PRESSURE should be used.

This description seems pretty clear to me, but I wanted to check a few things. By 20 degree angle, you mean like a shallow shaving angle, right? So the spine is close to laying flat on the ball of your thumb, but not quite?

And by "run the edge along" you mean make a very short, tiny "slicing" motion, right? I can see why this would give you cold shivers. I'm interested to try it, since I haven't had much luck with the thumbpad test.

I'll hold you fully responsible if I cut myself. Seriously, if I bleed it's my own dumb fault. Thanks for sharing this! Very cool post.

Josh

Thanks for the great info. I'll be in your fair city in a few months and although I'm sure I'll have neither the time nor money for the extravigance, it's nice to see the great photos. It's getting me excited for my first trip over the big pond.

X

Originally Posted by JoshEarl

This description seems pretty clear to me, but I wanted to check a few things. By 20 degree angle, you mean like a shallow shaving angle, right? So the spine is close to laying flat on the ball of your thumb, but not quite?

And by "run the edge along" you mean make a very short, tiny "slicing" motion, right? I can see why this would give you cold shivers. I'm interested to try it, since I haven't had much luck with the thumbpad test.

I'll hold you fully responsible if I cut myself. Seriously, if I bleed it's my own dumb fault. Thanks for sharing this! Very cool post.

Josh

Yes, 20 degree angle was just like a shallow shaving angle. And you're exactly correct with the tiny "slicing" motion. I'm still incredulous from seeing what he was doing. I WANT to try it, but I'm not going to until I am a whole lot more confident with the blade, like maybe next year sometime!

If you do try it Josh, please do let us have a full description of sensation. Unless of course it involves searing pain and a lot of blood!

I could see why he would do this. A) you can actually feel the edge on your skin instead of through the nail. B) As he said, it is not harmful to the edge.

As long as you don't put any pressure on the blade, and you don't slice across the same place for the whole length of the blade, it really isn't that scary. Do short strokes from the top to the heel, always moving to a different place on the hand. Overlap your strokes on the blade length a little just to make sure you have felt the whole length.
Does this make sense?

I could really feel the edge of the blade and any subtle changes in sharpness or shape really are much more apparent, or they would be if my blade had them. Still I could tell which part of the blade were the sharpest and which needed maybe a bit of a touch up. Again, no pressure at all. You do not actually rest the blade against the skin, just lightly touch it. If you were to actually rest the blade, then I would imagine you would cut you self quite easily.

Matt

Originally Posted by majurey

If you do try it Josh, please do let us have a full description of sensation. Unless of course it involves searing pain and a lot of blood!

I would think you'd still want to hear about this.

Josh

Originally Posted by Kentriv

If you do try it Josh, please do let us have a full description of sensation. Unless of course it involves searing pain and a lot of blood!

Originally Posted by JoshEarl

I would think you'd still want to hear about this.

And pics! We want lots of pics!