Wednesday 6th January
Wash with L'Oreal Men Expert Hydra Energetic Face Wash
Lather up with VITOS Super Extra & Yaqi Daffodil w/Cashmere Synthetic 24mm
Single pass shave with custom polished Muhle Rocca R96 & Tatra Platinum (1)
Hot rinse, cold rinse & Brut Original
New acquisition ...
This custom polished Muhle Rocca is a thing to behold! I simply cannot picture how smooth and flowing the raw metal is and how glowing yellow the handle is. Shaving with it, it's a delight, but it can be prone to doing that sticking to the face thing as highly polished raw metal can, unless you keep things well lathered.
The razor started life as the R96 model, I believe, with the black handle. The previous owner who did/commissioned the polishing found that upon removal of the black coating it was what appears to be brass beneath. That is interesting that Muhle use different materials in their handles. I have read that the birch handle is made to be super-light with aluminium in the core. I wonder what the R94, the all metal appearance model, has in the middle part of the handle.
Absolutely lovely and I am very please indeed to have bagged it!
First go, for me, with one of these new generation Czech blades. It is indeed nice! I don't think I'd put it up there with, say, the Treet Platinum of Rapira Platinum Lux (two blades that I rate at a straight 10/10 and would call both "go to" blades) but it is a damn good shave and every bit as good as many middle/top tier stainless blades, although not quite up there with, say, the Silver Star Super Stainless or PermaSharp Super which both feel like classy platinums despite being
mere stainless.
It has been a while since I used original Brut. I really should use it more often ...
In all, champion!