SOTD : Saturday 10th -Friday 16th August. 2019

Friday AM 2019-08-16

Moss Anniversary Slate scuttle
Rooney Beehive Ivory Finest (24/50)
Penhaligon's English Fern shaving soap (tallow)
Wolfman WR1-SB Titanium/WRH7 Ti
Wilkinson 'Light Brigade' (18)
Penhaligon's English Fern aftershave (vintage)
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Reached for an Adjustable today and realized besides my Progress and Mergress I have't had any in rotation for a while so the 1960 Gillette Adjustable forever the Fatboy! I own two besides this lovely 60 sent up from Texas by a friend the other being a mint cased 1959. Lots of discussions on which Adjustable shaves supreme - Fatboy, Slim, Super...I have all three and I love them all. I travel with this 60 on trips longer than a couple of days. Just nice to have a solid Adjustable on vacay to tailor your shave. Crystal Stainless fell into it today. Great blade of the Personna family.

RazoRock Black Bay is a favourite of mine and I have sang its praises before and often. For those of you that love Bay Rum scents like I do enough can't be said about how good this smells! Soap and AS are great. Chubby 1 got the ball rolling and I loaded enough to do four or more passes. Hate wasting lather but it loads quickly and well so be careful not to load too much.

Leisurely and thoroughly enjoyable three pass DFS/BBS shave. Wasn't chasing BBS today and no need really for the weekend is upon us! May you enjoy the last moments of Summer because the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) opens today and that is the “curtain call” for Summer in these parts...enjoy and happy shaves all!

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: Gillette Adjustable - Fatboy 1960
Blade: Crystal Stainless
Brush: Simpson Chubby 1
Lather: RazoRock Black Bay
Aftershave: RazoRock Black Bay
Additional Care:
Bvlgari Man
B.I.G. Co. Alum Block
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Shave of the day. 16th Aug.

Prep ~ Johnsons baby soap
Razor ~ Tatara Razors ~ Nodachi
Blade ~ Personna Lab Blue
Soap ~ Agua Colonia - Alvarez Gomez
Brush ~ YaQi - Mocha Badger
Post ~ Agua Colonia aftershave balm - Alvarez Gomez
Scent ~ Agua Coloina EDC - Alvarez Gomez

My first use of the Tatara Nodachi, fitted with a Lab Blue blade, the shave was quite smooth and very efficient indeed.
It caught me out and gave me a couple of weepers but the finish was outstanding.
I will be trying different blades and maybe handles over the next week and see if I can get to grips with this razor.
I will be back! :) P.
 
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Today's Shave

Schick Krona
Wilkinson Sword Blade
Yaqi 26 Synthetic
Cella shaving Soap
Old Spice white water after shave Splash

Result BSS

After watching this Razor go globe trotting from America > Canada > (I don't live in either of those countries USPS you bunch of fuckwit's) America > Canada >America > then to the UK where I do actually live.....It's the first outing with the Schick, kinda odd vibe I'll have to spend more time shaving with it to appreciate it more.
 
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