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- 1,063
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- UK
P160
Vulfix Bodger
#11H New, English Wilkinson Sword
Barbershop Bay Rum
Vulfix Bodger
#11H New, English Wilkinson Sword
Barbershop Bay Rum
S.O.T.D. Sat. 1st Feb 2014 to Frid. 7th Feb. 2014
- Thread starter Norfolkdick
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- Messages
- 1,909
- Location
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Sunday 2nd February
Hot shower
Hot flannel
T&H Grafton cream scuttle lathered
Simpson Keyhole 2 best badger
Gillette NEW long comb (Made in England)
Personna Lab Blue (2)
Cold rinse
Thayers Lavender witch hazel
Old Spice Sensitive aftershave
A fine shave very nice.
Hot shower
Hot flannel
T&H Grafton cream scuttle lathered
Simpson Keyhole 2 best badger
Gillette NEW long comb (Made in England)
Personna Lab Blue (2)
Cold rinse
Thayers Lavender witch hazel
Old Spice Sensitive aftershave
A fine shave very nice.
- Messages
- 931
- Location
- Lisbon, Portugal
Sunday, 2.ii.2014
Predopobarba Proraso
Semogue LE2009
Valobra Sapone da Barba
Gillette British Aristocrat #16
Shark Super Stainless
Thayer's Witch Hazel Lemon
Institut Karité ASB
Predopobarba Proraso
Semogue LE2009
Valobra Sapone da Barba
Gillette British Aristocrat #16
Shark Super Stainless
Thayer's Witch Hazel Lemon
Institut Karité ASB
Have a great week, gentlemen!
- Messages
- 2,094
- Location
- Out of off of Chorley
Prep: Hot shower
Pre: Proraso pre-shave - sensitive
Soap: Tabac
Brush: MÜHLE Kosmo silvertip synthetic
Razor: Weber polished + Bulldog
Blade: Personna Blue (1)
After: Tabac AS, Tabac ASB
If you're wondering what the weird thing is on the left, it's my DIY Woolly Brush Warmer; face lathering has never been so much warm fun. Surprisingly it kept the brush warm throughout the 3 passes.
I'm also deciding if I should buy 100 Personna Blues as they're going cheap. It feels like quite a smooth blade especially suited as I shave everyday and I find harsher blades can be too much if used daily.
Happy Sunday, folks.
Pre: Proraso pre-shave - sensitive
Soap: Tabac
Brush: MÜHLE Kosmo silvertip synthetic
Razor: Weber polished + Bulldog
Blade: Personna Blue (1)
After: Tabac AS, Tabac ASB
If you're wondering what the weird thing is on the left, it's my DIY Woolly Brush Warmer; face lathering has never been so much warm fun. Surprisingly it kept the brush warm throughout the 3 passes.
I'm also deciding if I should buy 100 Personna Blues as they're going cheap. It feels like quite a smooth blade especially suited as I shave everyday and I find harsher blades can be too much if used daily.
Happy Sunday, folks.
- Messages
- 7,640
- Location
- Taured
Gillette Silver Blue (2)
Fitjar Shea Pleasure shaving soap
Turkish no. 6
Birth year Super Adjustable on 6, 3
Superdrug Forest Fresh a/s
Surprised how good my face feels after this without any balm
Fitjar Shea Pleasure shaving soap
Turkish no. 6
Birth year Super Adjustable on 6, 3
Superdrug Forest Fresh a/s
Surprised how good my face feels after this without any balm
- Messages
- 149
Hot Shower, Face Scrub
Anthony Logistics Pre Shave Oil
Speick Cream
Rod Neep Banded Azurite Stone and Stainless Steel Silvertip Brush
Wilkinson Sword "Sticky" Razor
Feather Blade
Alum & Speick Balm
Chanel Allure Homme Sport EDT
Three pass BBS, really nice shave
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Anthony Logistics Pre Shave Oil
Speick Cream
Rod Neep Banded Azurite Stone and Stainless Steel Silvertip Brush
Wilkinson Sword "Sticky" Razor
Feather Blade
Alum & Speick Balm
Chanel Allure Homme Sport EDT
Three pass BBS, really nice shave
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- 2,255
- Location
- 15 Miles SW of Denton, TX
So nice again ...
Prep: Hot shower
Soap: Proraso white
Brush: EJ Best badger
Blade: Rapira Swedish Supersteel
Razor: English 7 o'clock open comb
Post Shave 1: cold water splash
Post Shave 2: Alum block
Aftershave: Old Spice original
My second shave with the 7 o'clock, first time I've paired it with a Rapira, shaved at 10:00 this morning, my jaw and neck are still smooth as I type this at half past 9 at night.
A little sting from the alum block, but nothing much to bother me, not as smooth as the sputnik in the slim adjustable, but good
Soap: Proraso white
Brush: EJ Best badger
Blade: Rapira Swedish Supersteel
Razor: English 7 o'clock open comb
Post Shave 1: cold water splash
Post Shave 2: Alum block
Aftershave: Old Spice original
My second shave with the 7 o'clock, first time I've paired it with a Rapira, shaved at 10:00 this morning, my jaw and neck are still smooth as I type this at half past 9 at night.
A little sting from the alum block, but nothing much to bother me, not as smooth as the sputnik in the slim adjustable, but good
- Messages
- 16,007
- Location
- Halifax, Republic of Yorkshire
Sunday Night ...
Bit of a cool shave tonight. But, hang on ... didn't I post a SOTD this morning AND one last night? Why, yes I did. I was getting to grips with a PAL Adjustable injector and it rather felt like my last mows with a blunt cartridge leaving me with patchy scratchiness this evening.
What with work tomorrow I thought I'd have a quick polish to even things up.
I chose a known good favourite combination and ... ZIP! Of course I didn't, suckers! You know me
I went with the wildcard! The same chap who leant me his PAL Adjustable popped a Durham Dorset in with a honed blade and a couple of new blades. Well, Durham razors have been out of the shaving game for some time, so I reckon the "new" blades are carpet cutters. He did hone up the vintage blade that was in the razor but suggested I hand stropped it prior to use.
I can do better than that! I have a Lillicrap!
So, 25 strokes each quarter, soaked in Dettol, spritzed with alcohol and dried off, I went a mowing ...
Wow! This is fun!
The razor is huge! It's twice the length of a DE, if not more. It's gonna be a shredder! You know it is ... but, it isn't. I cannot recall a smoother, more intuitive, irritation-free and rewarding shave, well, I hesitate to say "ever" but you get my gist.
Is it a DE? Is is a Duplex? Is there a difference? Does Vinny wear ladies panties and do the Cha-Cha like a cissy?
The curve of the handle initially looks like it should only be used with one side of the blade, but actually the back of the head is there in the right position to draw back up against the grain once you've enjoyed a slick slice with the grain. But, but, the lather! Won't someone think of the lather? No drama, my friend. Going back against the grain, lather-free, curiously seems to work.
Okay, so what did I use?
Hot Towel
Palmolive Cream
Pure Badger 23mm
Durham Dorset/Honed Blade
Hot Rinse & Cold Rinse (no Alum or Witch Hazel, as is my usual routine)
Brut Aftershave Lotion
Bowl Lathered
Two Pass - With and Against the grain
Wow! Enjoyed!
I'm green, dabba-dee dabba-die ... no, that's blue isn't it?
You know what?
If someone told me that the carpet cutters that Durham still sell (and incidentally reference their shaving past on the product website) were the self-same razors that they made for shaving and they came in at a price I liked, I could really go for one of these. It's that step towards single edge shaving that fills me with shivers - all that honing, stropping and beggaring about. Give me a disposable.
If someone told me these blades were available, I might well jump at one of these razors in a flash!
Bit of a cool shave tonight. But, hang on ... didn't I post a SOTD this morning AND one last night? Why, yes I did. I was getting to grips with a PAL Adjustable injector and it rather felt like my last mows with a blunt cartridge leaving me with patchy scratchiness this evening.
What with work tomorrow I thought I'd have a quick polish to even things up.
I chose a known good favourite combination and ... ZIP! Of course I didn't, suckers! You know me
I went with the wildcard! The same chap who leant me his PAL Adjustable popped a Durham Dorset in with a honed blade and a couple of new blades. Well, Durham razors have been out of the shaving game for some time, so I reckon the "new" blades are carpet cutters. He did hone up the vintage blade that was in the razor but suggested I hand stropped it prior to use.
I can do better than that! I have a Lillicrap!
So, 25 strokes each quarter, soaked in Dettol, spritzed with alcohol and dried off, I went a mowing ...
Wow! This is fun!
The razor is huge! It's twice the length of a DE, if not more. It's gonna be a shredder! You know it is ... but, it isn't. I cannot recall a smoother, more intuitive, irritation-free and rewarding shave, well, I hesitate to say "ever" but you get my gist.
Is it a DE? Is is a Duplex? Is there a difference? Does Vinny wear ladies panties and do the Cha-Cha like a cissy?
The curve of the handle initially looks like it should only be used with one side of the blade, but actually the back of the head is there in the right position to draw back up against the grain once you've enjoyed a slick slice with the grain. But, but, the lather! Won't someone think of the lather? No drama, my friend. Going back against the grain, lather-free, curiously seems to work.
Okay, so what did I use?
Hot Towel
Palmolive Cream
Pure Badger 23mm
Durham Dorset/Honed Blade
Hot Rinse & Cold Rinse (no Alum or Witch Hazel, as is my usual routine)
Brut Aftershave Lotion
Bowl Lathered
Two Pass - With and Against the grain
Wow! Enjoyed!
I'm green, dabba-dee dabba-die ... no, that's blue isn't it?
You know what?
If someone told me that the carpet cutters that Durham still sell (and incidentally reference their shaving past on the product website) were the self-same razors that they made for shaving and they came in at a price I liked, I could really go for one of these. It's that step towards single edge shaving that fills me with shivers - all that honing, stropping and beggaring about. Give me a disposable.
If someone told me these blades were available, I might well jump at one of these razors in a flash!
SUNDAY EVENING
Prep: Hot rinse\Aleppo soap
Razor: Feather AC teak kamisori
Blade: Proguard
Brush: Semogue 2012 LE Boar 2
Soap: MdC Fougere - suribachi lathered
Post: Witch hazel\IK balm
Vinyl yesterday, CD today!
Bit of a French theme to today's shave and it delivered big time. Am sat here faceturbating like a good un!
Prep: Hot rinse\Aleppo soap
Razor: Feather AC teak kamisori
Blade: Proguard
Brush: Semogue 2012 LE Boar 2
Soap: MdC Fougere - suribachi lathered
Post: Witch hazel\IK balm
Vinyl yesterday, CD today!
Bit of a French theme to today's shave and it delivered big time. Am sat here faceturbating like a good un!
pjgh said:
That's amazing to read - and it's a good looking razor as well! Is it an original blade that you've got in it?
Anyway, onto my SOTD:
MRGLO
#77 (I think - see below)
Scottish Permasharp
DR Harris Arlington Cream
TOBS imitiation badger
Alum
I'd forgotten how "keen" the #77 is (at least I think it's a #77 - it doesn't quite look the same as those shown on Mr Razor, but it is a Gillette 2-piece) and subsequently had to use the alum for the first time in months. Totally BBS though with no touch ups required.
The Arlington is another superb cream and the Permasharp as pitch perfect as ever. I'll be gutted when I run out of these.
- Messages
- 16,007
- Location
- Halifax, Republic of Yorkshire
mulligano said:
Thanks, pal. Seriously, this was a very nice shave indeed!
I have been leant the razor, this blade and a couple of new blades. I don't know how old the blade in it is - it has been honed, then glass stropped by me. The new blades, I should catch up with him and ask where they came from.
In summary, it's an SE with two edges. It's NOT a DE
- Messages
- 675
- Location
- Carnoustie
Sunday evening,
Razor: ATT Atlas R1.
Blade: Vintage Scottish Perma-Sharp (2).
Brush: Simpson's Chubby 2 best.
Cream: GFT W. I. Limes.
Aftershave: D. R. Harris Arlington.
The R1 feels very similar to an R41, it's quite aggressive, I don't think I want to try an ATT H plate. Going on the how I found the R1, I wonder what people use the H for, skin graft harvesting?
Razor: ATT Atlas R1.
Blade: Vintage Scottish Perma-Sharp (2).
Brush: Simpson's Chubby 2 best.
Cream: GFT W. I. Limes.
Aftershave: D. R. Harris Arlington.
The R1 feels very similar to an R41, it's quite aggressive, I don't think I want to try an ATT H plate. Going on the how I found the R1, I wonder what people use the H for, skin graft harvesting?
- Messages
- 2,255
- Location
- 15 Miles SW of Denton, TX
