Blades improving after initial use. Anybody have thoughts as to why this may happen? It seems counter intuitive to me but I have noticed it.SotD: 02/12/2023
Razor: Above The Tie SE1
Blade: Schick Proline P-30 SE, 1st use
Brush: Simpson Trafalgar T3
Bowl: Kikier Ceramic Bowl
Preshave: Proraso Crema Pre Barba con Olio Di Sandalo Cream
Soap: Tabac Original Puck
Aftershave: Barber Station Devil's Water Aftershave
Additional Care: Osma Alum
Additional Care: Cold Water
Using a new blade for the first time is always a tricky point for me: blades apparently become 'sharper' after a few shaves. It happened this morning again with the new Schick Proline: it was scraping rather than shaving... The preshave and soap could not improve on that. So today only a three-star experience, but maybe better tomorrow. Nice weekend, everyone.
I have one of these lavender P&M soaps. I don't think I've ever used it. Unless I have a duplicate I often feel like I can't use it; one for use, one for the museum.Saturday 2nd December
Potter & Moore Lavender (Vintage) Shaving Bowl & Mohawk w/PurTech Synthetic 22mm
Muhle Rocca (Polished Head) w/Souplex Bakelite Handle & BIC Chrome Platinum (2)
Brut Splash-On
My goodness me! What a perfect marriage of razor and blade! Super-smooth, super-safe, super-efficient ... super! True, you can't put a bad blade into a Muhle Rocca but that shave was, well, just amazing. I made three passes, which is unusual for me and really shows just how much I was enjoying it. In stark contrast to yesterday where I shaved with this BIC blade in an R89, my alum stone gleaned absolutely no rawness. Tonight, more like Personna Platinum Chrome than my comparison last night to the Shark Platinum.
That was memorable and noteworthy.
Really nice using the Potter & Moore, too. I like vintage soap.
I have one of these lavender P&M soaps. I don't think I've ever used it. Unless I have a duplicate I often feel like I can't use it; one for use, one for the museum.
Sounds good!Mate. We need to have some words. Take some photographs if you want to remember it unused ... and then get it ruddy lathered!
Lather is as you'd expect from a soap of that vintage. Very much akin to, say, Boots or Culmak from the '60s (I'm guessing the P&M is '60s ... maybe '70s?) with perhaps a creaminess beyond those. Dead easy to pull up a super-thick lather which has good residual slickness, particularly evident on my third pass which was more a quick swipe of the brush and then repeatedly washed razor so as to buff out any stragglers with water and that slickness.
We played marbles midday, but we knew it as Alleys. We couldn't play on the road or the pavement, so we played it in the gutter - watching out for drains. It was village life and traffic, but there was concrete all around the school. In autumn, conkers was more popular.I was also an avid marble enthusiast when I was a kid. Myself & best friend shared our collection, having knock out competition events with other schools...Do kids still play marbles i wonder?..Great days.