- Joined
- Wednesday July 20, 2016
- Location
- Sunny Cornwall
Fab SOTD pic.Saturday 3rd September
Ganders Goat Soap w/Hop, Sage & Birch
La Savonniere du Moulin Shaving Soap & Ever Ready 600N w/Tuxedo Synthetic 26mm
AutoStrop 7 O'Clock & GEM by Personna (6)
Pitralon Classic Aftershave
Glorious!
La Savonniere du Moulin is so close to being my favourite shaving soap ... watch your back, Mitchell's!
Running out the week with this GEM blade, now despined and the back corners clipped in the pre-Valet AutoStrop 7 O'Clock. The retaining lugs on the underside of the top plate are half-moon in shape and I can see that they hold the (correct) blade just a smidge off the very back of the razor and so the de-spined GEM is ever so slightly too far back which can lead to an overly mild shave. It is literally half a millimetre, or so, which you can adjust the blade manually and it does stay in place for the shave. Even a slip of dental floss might be enough just to sit in there and take up that space.
I said it: Glorious!
First use of Pitralon Classic and I do like it a lot! Immediate comparisons went off in my mind with Alt Innsbruck, like a green and lightly herbal equivalent from the valleys of those mountains, while Alt Innsbruck is definitely on the slopes and the peaks. Enough metaphors. It also put me in mind a lot of LEA Classic aftershave, but without whatever it is in LEA that kinda puts me off the whole experience when I inevitably get a little in my mouth. Yeah! I like it!
Pitralon country with Alt Innsbruck up in the mountains on the right.
Paul.