SOTD: Saturday 14th July - Friday 20th July 2018.

Monday AM 2018-07-16

Thrift store mug
Rooney Stubby 1 Porcelain Finest (22/45)
Cussons Imperial Leather shaving soap (vintage)
RazoRock Mamba/UFO Titan Fine
Personna Super Stainless (8)
Penhaligon's Racquets Formula aftershave (vintage)
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Monday

Cyril R. Salter tallow
RazoRock BC Silvertip 24mm synth
Face lather
Fa Tip Piccolo
Gillette Rubie
Thayer's Cucumber and Aloe Vera
Fine Fresh Vetiver

A tremendous soap; as I'm sure those who use will testify to. The Rubie pairs really well with the incredibly efficient Fa Tip. 3 passes and a slight buffing left me billiard ball smooth.

I do feel that leaving the soap on after the shave, as I clean up brush and razor etc. really enhances the post shave feel. Plus, I hate wasting soap.
 
And for today the theme was 'Welcome to the dark side' (or at least the photo says this)

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Timeless 0.68
Gilette 365
Muhle synthetic Butterscotch
Gentlemen's Tonic cream
L'Occitane Cade balm
No scent as it was all about the shave

The past few weeks being too full to allow time to check in here at TSR I have finally found space and time to scribble a few lines together. This time and space being called 'work'. It is lovely to find myself back on the ship and away from the distractions called life and family.

One has to be somewhat selective and limited when travelling and for this particular trip I decided to take a tried and trusted approach.

The Timeless because my vision is tainted and I can't think of anything else which brings me so much Shaving pleasure in a single item. The Gentlemen's Tonic because what a brilliant cream it is. I would have happily stocked up for the next 10 years if Jame's at OSP didn't have other ideas. The Muhle synthetic as it always was to be my 'take away brush'. And it is a jolly nice colour.

The new kid on the block for me was the 365 blade as my usual weapon of choice would be a Polsilver Lodz. What a lovely surprise. I wouldn't call it the sharpest of blades but incredibly smooth and incredibly effective. With the Timeless a very wonderful pairing. I see more 365's in my 365 day life.

Altogether a pretty damn fine shave and up there with the best I can recall. Being as I can't recall much prior to yesterday that doesn't say too much.

Overall an excellent facial hair removing exercise which makes me think of bottoms and smooth.
 
Prep:Shower followed by a cold face rinse with ice cold water put ice cubes in the basin just wished i had a menthol soap :(
Soap:Kent (Mitchells Wool Fat) had no problems building a lather which has well ard water
Bowl:Timeless Plastic
Brush:proraso Boar
Razor:Rockwell 6C plate 3
Blade:Gillette 7 O'Clock SharpEdge (1)
Aftershave:Nivea 2 Phase
 
Monday 16th July


RazoRock 400
Palmolive Classic Cream
Rockwell 6C plate 3
Voskhod (1)
Nivea 2 Phase Aftershave

It's been a long time since I last used Palmolive Classic Shave Cream.
A large blob of cream nestled into the damp brush knot and face lathered. It didn't take much coaxing into a thick creamy lather that performed very well. Cushion, glide and slickness were top notch. Residual slickness was outstanding, matching any soap or cream I've used.
It's scent is nothing to write home about but that can be overlooked given it's performance.
I wouldn't mind giving the menthol version a try if I can pick it up at a sensible price here in the UK.
Finished with Nivea 2 Phase, another cheap product that performs very well.


Accompanied by Mr Waters . . .

 
SOTD Monday 16 July 2018

Pre-shave: Warm shower, facewash Wright's Cold Tar Soap.
Cream: Musgo Laveder.
Brush: Muhle Silvertip Fibre.
Bowl: Aesop.
Razor: Rocnel SE.
Blade: GEM PTFE (Day 2).
Post: Musgo Lavender Cologne and Bart's Lavender Balm.

Had a bit of the man flu from Friday and over the weekend; decent shave today with the Rocnel-SE. As ever, for me, honed the corners of the blade before loading, to avoid scratches. Brilliant 2 pass shave, very light touch, BBS finish.

Have a great week all,

Chris
 
Maybe you really do know you've cracked it with a straight razor when you can tell it's not shaving as well as it did, and it's not you that's the problem.

I bought and lapped a Naniwa 12k last week (not that it took much lapping) and re sharpened my Wostenholm. Today it was the turn of my Herder.

I feel I did a moderately good job as previously, in the condition it was in, it would have been just past the point of no return on my pasted strop and needing to be sent away to be re honed.

Using it again today it felt much sharper and no roughness to the shave which is good. Is it as good a finish as someone else may put on it? Probably not. But it felt much better than before.

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Maseto 30mm Silvertip
Valobra soap
Freidr. Herder No. 77 square point
A little alum, and
L'Oreal Men Expert Hydra Energetic Balm

Avoiding aftershave lotions at the moment as I can't work out what works with my new EDT, Bulgari Aqua Amara. May reintroduce if I get my head around it.
 
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