SotD: Saturday 26th April - Friday 2nd May

Wednesday morning:

Wade & Butcher Special 6/8"
Simpsons The Commodore X3, Best Badger
D.R. Harris Winsdor, soap
Steve Woodhead Scuttle
Neil Miller-2.5"Latigo Leather
D.R. Harris Winsdor ASL
WTG, XTG & ATG (neck)

Have a great day!

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Prep: Hot Water
Soap: How to Grow a Moustache Pumpk'n 3.14
Brush: Simpson The Jubilee
Razor: Boker Elite
Moustache Razor : The Mab Dwarf Razor
Post: Cold Water and Alum Block
AS: Floid Vigoroso

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Mostly Artisan​
Prep: Hot shower
Pre: Murdock pre-shave oil
Soap: NSS Down Home Summer (our soapalchemist)
Bowl: Woodhead Pedestal (Steve)
Brush: NF 2213 (our Fido)
Razor: Fatip + custom handle (our templ8)
Blade: Ladas (1)
After: Barbershop Bar Rum (our Sunburyboy93), Bluebeard's Revenge ASB

Used as many artisan products as I could today. Great to know how talented the people are on this forum.
Excellently close shave today.
Note to self: Ladas work very well in a Fatip.

Have a great day, folks.

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Wednesday xxx April, 2014

Prep: Hot shower, Dove Men+Care Revitalising Face wash
Pre: Cold water splash
Brush: Thäter 4125/2
Cream: Musgo Real Lime Basil
Razor: Fatip Grande Anthracite
Blade: Feather Hi-Stainless #1
Post: Alum, Myrsol Agua de Limón, Trumpers Extract of Limes Skin food

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Result: All very good. One little weeper from this tigerish combo, but all feeling soft, smooth and generally very good.

All the best,

Jon
 
Wednesday

Afternoon, everybody.

Prep: Claus Porto's Lime-oil face soap
Razor: iKon Bulldog Open
Blade: Feather (5)
Brush: Ecotools Kabuki
Shave cream: Super Smooth Southsea Spray
Aftershave: Brut
Cologne: Brut Splash

Now that was a very easy and close shave.
 
Pre: Village Barber oil
Soap: Tabac
Brush: Custom 782sirbrian Oak handle, birth-coin & 22mm WSP HMW
Razor: EJ DE89 with Templ8 custom handle
Blade: PolSilver stainless NOS (6)
Post: Tabac, followed by Village Barber balm

Silky smooth 3-pass BBS...again. This blade is still smooth and performing well but I think it'll get retired tonight.
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Wednesday 04-30-14. MUSIC: Etta James - The Best Of Etta James.

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Aleppo soap - Rodney Neep Extra Silvertip 26X50 - Feather all stainless - Iridium Super #5 - Pre JASÖN - Shaving cream RazoRock XXX - Alum block - Thayers Cucumber Toner - ASB Massimo Dutti - ASL Massimo Dutti.
 
Cold water splash
La Toja Stick (grated, bowl lathered)
Simpson Commodore X3
ATT Kronos M1
Sputnik (4)
Clinique Post-Shave Healer, Clinique M-Lotion

May have pushed the Sputnik a shave too far as suffered slight irritation today. Time for a new blade tomorrow.
 
Wednesday 30th April

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Hot shower
Hot flannel
Fitjar Frost Rose soap scuttle lathered
Finest Badger brush made by myself
Gillette 58
Gillette Super Thin (2)
Cold rinse
Thayers Lemon witch hazel
Rose of Bulgaria aftershave
GFT Ajaccio Violets Cologne

The Frost Rose soap was better today than the first use last week. The soap was more hydrated and whipped up into a dense lather in the scuttle. The menthol coming through nicely as the shave progressed.
 
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