My "weekends" are any days I have off or work late which frees the mornings. The best I have found is: Shower/wash face, shampoo hair + beard stubble. Lather with Dove exfoliating bar with boar bristle brush. At this piont if I am going to work soon I shave with a Gillette heavy adjustable. If it's a pamper day then the hot towel goes on over the lather with several re-heats from the full hot shower head and re-wrap. Then another lather. After shower dry everything except stubble. Check on hot pot with wash cloth over top which was on prior to shower; rainwater is the best. Make sure Jazz station is on radio (KCSM 91.1). Wrap a large towel around waist and secure with a belt; you never know when the towel will "let go"; and then slippers to protect feet. I have never dropped or nicked a razor but being careful is worth the effort. The razor was stropped prior to shower after heating it in very hot water and dried quickly prior to strop. Hot washcloth on stubble several times then lather with badger brush, cup, and Classic Vanilla cake soap (or Dove bar) with a hot, wet brush. Turn tap water down to warm and shave. Three passes (with re-lathering each time) with hot brush in 3 directions and a touch-up rinsing razor as needed in warm water and wiping to just below edge with an old, clean, and thin towel. I never let the water or lather get to the pivot. If it should I dry immediately with pipe cleaner and sponge. I usually strop between one of the passes and for sure before the touch-up. I can almost always get a BB smooth perfect shave by this method. If not it will usually be a not perfectly sharp razor or an error in technique. Hot water rinse to clear any soap followed by cold water washcloth. Let face dry while razor is heated with very hot water, wiped dry with artificial sponge cloth, heated with wife's hair dryer and then stropped while warm. Pinaud Bay rum is my usual after shave. I really love it when it when it all comes together. Very satisfying.
Monte