SOTD : Saturday 15tt - Friday 21th August 2020.

19/08/20
Face Wash with Whickams pre shave soap
Brush: Yaqi Sagrada Familia
Soap: CR Salter Indian Sandalwood
Razor: Yaqi Adjustable V1
Blade: Gillette Rubie (4)
Post shave: Cold water rinse, TC's Bay Rum splash #1
Balm: Barts Balm Lime Balm & Lotion
Aftershave: Mäurer & Wirtz 4711 EDC

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I am glad a did not give up with the YA - V1, loaded with a 3 shave Rubie and set to about 1.75 it delivered a very smooth Comfortable BBS shave from 3 passes.
I think i will probably go down a touch more to 1.5 and see how i go the next time it gets a run out.
Sad day tomorrow as its a friends funeral. We cannot attend although we will be lining his route to Church then the route to the Cemetery.
These are strange times we live in, diagnosed with a brain tumor a couple of year ago, he fought long and hard, however, it was not to be.
57 is no age.
Stay safe and enjoy your evening All.
 
Wednesday AM 2020-08-19
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Rooney 3/2 Ivory Finest (24/58)
Harrods by Floris shaving soap (tallow)
Wolfman WR1-SB Titanium/WRH7 Ti
Gillette Super Stainless 'Spoiler' (3)
Ginger's Garden Ginger Blossom aftershave
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And this vintage based shave had the theme 'Nineteen Hundred and Twelve'

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Scott of the Antarctic - Ever Ready 1912
RMS Titanic - Gem
Republic of China - Yaqi Dandelion (Very fitting)
Stockholm Olympics - Signature Soaps Danum
International opium convention - Czech and Speake No.88

'N-n-n-n-n-Nineteen' sang Paul Hard Castle but it had Jack shit to do with shaving or razors. Or 1912

As it is though Nineteen Hundred and Twelve was actually quite an eventful year in many historical respects. It was also the year when Ever Ready decided to digress from batteries and bulbs and in to razors.

As you may already know this 1912 was a very nice charity shop find and later informed by you well heeled folk to be circa 1930. I actually thought given its condition it had undergone some level of restoration, only to learn this is how they are. For something pushing 90 years it is one remarkably well-made razor.

What blade? I asked. Easy. There is only one, the Personna Gem. A very kind @culcreuch made sure I could get off in a positive manner and a small batch arrived through the post. (y)

Figuring out how to load a blade took a whole ten seconds. First thoughts were 'by fuck that is a lot of Blade exposure'. Scary shit. The fright factor thank God was short lived.

A face full of the excellent Danum by @BrianH and if ever, ready.

After my normal selection of SE razors this thing was a bit like shaving with a shovel head. Easy to find the angle as all I had to think was 'like scraping dry toast'. Get that sound and you're there. Yup easy enough.

Certainly very light weight compared to what I am used to, but certainly very effective. In fact deceivingly so. A bit dodgy around the chin and trying to steer a gardening implement under my nose was a tad Hairy. In all respects. But job done and one incredibly close, smooth and efficient grin inducing shave. Totally ecstatic. More so this thing is as old as my dad. He is not grin inducing.

Utterly stunned and all I can think is that we have not come all that far in the past 90 years.

To finish it all off in an old fashioned kind of way a light spray of C&S 88 and everything is coming up Roses.

A super shave and the ladies are queueing up to check out this charming man


'Excuse me but do you mind if I go before you?'

'No problem at all but I think we are all after a group of Japanese ladies anyway'



Of course I was getting my Ever Ready's mixed up at the start and I was thinking more Ethel The Eveready who invented electric hand torches.
 
Tony'schin said:
19/08/20
Face Wash with Whickams pre shave soap
Brush: Yaqi Sagrada Familia
Soap: CR Salter Indian Sandalwood
Razor: Yaqi Adjustable V1
Blade: Gillette Rubie (4)
Post shave: Cold water rinse, TC's Bay Rum splash #1
Balm: Barts Balm Lime Balm & Lotion
Aftershave: Mäurer & Wirtz 4711 EDC

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I am glad a did not give up with the YA - V1, loaded with a 3 shave Rubie and set to about 1.75 it delivered a very smooth Comfortable BBS shave from 3 passes.
I think i will probably go down a touch more to 1.5 and see how i go the next time it gets a run out.
Sad day tomorrow as its a friends funeral. We cannot attend although we will be lining his route to Church then the route to the Cemetery.
These are strange times we live in, diagnosed with a brain tumor a couple of year ago, he fought long and hard, however, it was not to be.
57 is no age.
Stay safe and enjoy your evening All.
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Sorry to hear about your friend Tony
 
culcreuch said:
I had been fighting the urge to buy the 2015HD Silvertip
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This might not be helpful to you - but I doubt you would regret getting the 2015HD - it was the first decent badger brush I bought - as a commitment to permanently adopting proper shaving. That would have been 10 or 12 years ago? It still gets used regularly - despite it having been joined in the den by some much more expensive badger knots. It just works well - it is super soft without being floppy - I only ever face lather - and it does that with ease - soap or cream. There might be an element of nostalgia for me - granted - but the highest praise you can give any bit of kit - do I still reach for it on a regular basis - yes I do. Cheers - I.
 
Digimonkey said:
This might not be helpful to you - but I doubt you would regret getting the 2015HD - it was the first decent badger brush I bought - as a commitment to permanently adopting proper shaving. That would have been 10 or 12 years ago? It still gets used regularly - despite it having been joined in the den by some much more expensive badger knots. It just works well - it is super soft without being floppy - I only ever face lather - and it does that with ease - soap or cream. There might be an element of nostalgia for me - granted - but the highest praise you can give any bit of kit - do I still reach for it on a regular basis - yes I do. Cheers - I.
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Thanks for that Iain. Now peer pressure comes into play. I was humming and haahing about the 2015HD until I saw that you were using it. It then became a 'must have'. The only thing tighter than a Scotsman is a Ballymena man and I qualify for that.......so if you say it is good .....it has to be considered and @Boycie83 had a great deal with the same knot. Done and dusted. I might still get the 2015HD for the different handle.
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culcreuch said:
Thanks for that Iain. Now peer pressure comes into play. I was humming and haahing about the 2015HD until I saw that you were using it. It then became a 'must have'. The only thing tighter than a Scotsman is a Ballymena man and I qualify for that.......so if you say it is good .....it has to be considered and @Boycie83 had a great deal with the same knot. Done and dusted. I might still get the 2015HD for the different handle.
B:
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Ha ha - my work here is done :cool:. As I am sure you know - the high density description only really refers to the comparison to the non-hd version of the same brush - if you bought it thinking it would be similar to the hair density of a Chubby, Maseto or Epsilon knot - it isn't - that isn't a criticism. The handle is one of the best things about it - really comfortable to hold - there is no way this is going to skid out of soapy hands. I'm not aware of it having shed hair at all - nice. Yours - I.
 
Greybeard said:
Just checked it out on Amazon...Complete 'Pogo' comic strips...£31 for a hardcover in the UK...nearly bought it...then realised it's the first of a 12 volume set:eek: I am still tempted...but please keep posting them!(y)
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Yes, I'll keep posting what I have on appropriate days. But meanwhile you can see quite a few of the old strips here:

Whirled of Kelly

An examination and appreciation of the comic art genius of Walt Kelly
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