Some of my Christmas Loot!

For Christmas my wife got me some shave supplies...isn't she great! She wanted to give me a taste of the goodstuff (something that wasn't from walmart).

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Some lemon scented shave cream from Art of Shaving. I make uberlather with it and it smells wonderful and I only use about a teaspoon at a time. Also a Tweezerman Badger brush. I really like it though I can see what seems to be the common complaint. It doesn't have much "backbone" to it. But it really feels good on the face.

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My parents also sent me some money for a present and I found this razor in an antique shop. I looked it up and I believe its a Cattaragus. There is no stamp on the spine but I found other razors with "Galvanic" on the blade.

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Here is a close-up of the blade. I shaved with it a couple of days ago and it shaves really nice. It's the lightest razor I have (out of the three).

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I also purchased this Belgian Coticule off of ebay for about $45, it measures about 2 X 4". I have a slurry stone coming in the next week or so off of the classifieds on SRP. I tried to lap it but it still needs some on the ends of the stone, they kind of slope down on the ends. I couldn't find 220 grit wet/dry sandpaper so I purchased 320 grit and it seems to be going slow.

Well that's about it. Money's been so tight lately that it was nice to splurge a little. :)

Nice gear and a GREAT wife. Be sure to thank her properly. Thanks for sharing and enjoy! Maybe you can get the wife into wet shaving also. Maybe start w/ just the shave cream, then a DE. She may even want to try a straight some day like the other ladies on the site!