SOTD Saturday 14th to Friday 20th of September

Thursday AM 2019-09-19

Moss Anniversary Slate scuttle
Rooney 1/2 Ebony Finest (24/57)
Floris Verbena shaving soap (tallow)
Paradigm II Ti/Triad Polished-Satin Diamond Ti
Personna Super Platinum Chrome (4)
Guerlain Vétiver aftershave
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Thursday 19th September

Soap - Pre De Provence No63
Brush - YaqI 24mm Tuxedo Marble Handle
Razor - Rockwell 6C R4
Blade - Gillette Nacet (1)
Post - Pre De Province No63 Balm

With three days growth, I was ready for tonight's shave. Grey whiskers aren't a good look on me (think Albert Steptoe !)
I chose to use Pre De Provence soap - it's easy to lather, performance is excellent, and it smells very nice. It's a very hard, triple milled soap that seems to last forever too.
The 6C/Nacet pairing was smooth and efficient, and made short work in two passes, WTG/ATG - resulting in mostly BBS.
Finished with the application of a small amount of NO63 Balm.
 
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Thursday 19th September 2019 PM

Pre-shave: Hot shower / Sharp Dressed Man soap / Proraso white pre-shave cream
Brush: Stirling Soap Company Finest Badger
Soap: Sharp Dressed Man soap
Razor/Blade: Gillette Fatboy / GSB(1)
Post-shave: Thayers Cucumber / Sharp Dressed Man aftershave / Sharp Dressed Man balm

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I haven't posted a SOTD for a while as I'm really missing TSR on Tapatalk, however....

My shaves have been going really well and some new additions to my den have helped along the way. The major downside is a lot of my trusted software is now running low so I'll slowly have to start some sort of replacement program! Something that isn't going to attract too much attention from SWMBO.

Tonight's shave was a stunner. It was a total hassle free and relaxing time, probably helped by the fact that I'm now off until next Tuesday. That plus the fact that I had a good 2 days growth AND the rugby World Cup starts tomorrow!

I luckily won a recent raffle with lots Stirling's Sharp Dressed Man being the prize. Tonight I used the bar shampoo, bath soap and shower gel all in anticipation of a good shave.

With my face ready for a blade, I chose the Fatboy and paired it with a fresh GSB. A smooth blade that had me changing angle frequently as I didn't think I had the angle as there was nothing to feel. An occasional stroke on my cheek gave me reassurance that it was all in my head as each pass had me smoother.

The final 3rd pass ATG was like a hot knife through butter. Just a gentle relaxing glide over my skin.

The result - a BBS glass like feel. Splashing on the aftershave had a quick burn then that soothing chill. A small amount of balm made things smoother.

A cracking reminder tonight of why I indulge in this style of shaving and why I still enjoy it so much.

It's good to be posting SOTDs again!

Have a great night folks!
 
And here it is, my SOTD SOLN (Shave Of Last Night) as why change a habit of a lifetime? And for yesterday night my particular theme was 'I know what you did last evening'

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Last night's razor - Colonial General in brass
A blade to remember - Kai Captain
A brush with fate - Cadman 30mm Tuxedo
New Soap on the block - Signature Soaps Hibernian
The night before tonight - ESC Duine Fon Choill
A new nation arises - Banana Republic Neroli Woods

So last night I had every intention of scribbling some useless rubbish together, but then work rang and my night at home turned in to '0330 onboard for a job at 0430 please'. Excuses, excuses, excuses but I am just a slave to work and a slave to Mrs Satanfriendly when not subservient to others. 58 years a slave. Wasn't that a film?

So a couple of new items out on trial here, Signature Soaps and Banana Republic to join the ever expanding shaving library.

I have already said sufficient in reference to the Brass General and the more I use this baby the more I am thinking 'Top of the tree?'. It continues to amaze and continues to deliver in a most efficient and pleasing manner. And if REM ever had a song about shaving it would be called 'Shiny Happy Razors'. The Kai because until the point when a change of blade to a Proline happens (in a few days yet) I will remain single minded and ignorant to everything else out there in the world of SE blades. A nice pair.

Righty Oh. So just when I thought I'd found the new OSP in my favourite soap of the moment Extro, up pops a bunch of happy folk from Bolton with a whole host of tantalising soaps and a name to remember for the future, 'Signature Soaps'. Their description is a hybrid soap or I guess to use the commonly known name, a croap. I was rather expecting something down the lines of Extro with their 'hard jelly' approach, but I think the best I could describe this is 'chewable porridge'. Hard but soft and not a soap as we know it Jim. In this case being their Hibernian soap and in their own description:

Fragranced with a careful Balance of Lime, Lemon, Lemongrass, Sweet Orange and Lavender Essential Oils A natural vegetable shaving soap Vegan No Lanolin

And they are not kidding. I reckon I could smell every bit of their description in this soap and it certainly lives up to what it says on the very nice aluminium screw top tin. With the Cadman doing its brush thing this croap is easily picked up and distributed in to my Mexican cereal bowl for lathering. A few swirls later and a very nice and thick lather is produced with the scent really starting to come to life. Applied to ones face and one instantly knows this is way above average. Not only that, it stays there the whole shave and not absorbed by the skin. Some big ticked boxes here. Apply a razor and there is a wonderful sense of glide and of the razor being allowed to do its job as against to doing something.

I am very impressed by this new soap on the block and as good as anything else I have tried before. I am more than happy to put it on par with Extro for performance and very pleased for it to share the same cabinet shelf. For you guys who have the samples on their way I am quite positive you will find much the same results.

A stonkingly good soap and I think @BrianH and his team have arrived on the scene with a real bang and I wish them all the best. They deserve it. Impressed

So one very smooth as porridge shave later and time to apply scent. In this instance first a splash of ESC's Duine Fon Choill followed by a spray of Banana Republic's Neroli Woods. for £25 this is about the best thing I have bought from Debenhams for years. I am currently obsessed with any scent Neroli or orange and so this one fits the bill perfectly. The Neroli is not instant and takes a few minutes to expose itself, but shit, when it does so it does it with great effect. Not a bright edged scent and rather more a 'dirty orange' with a beautiful pizzazz in its air. Combines brilliantly with the citrus and woody angle of the Duine Fon Choill to have the fresh sweet air I rather like in a scent.

Altogether last night produced a wonderful shave with everything which I look for to give me that big fresh sensation. Pity I had to get up at 0230. But hey I must have been the closest shaven and best scented tug driver on the river last night. Like every other night and day.

Have a great weekend ahead you forum folk and be well one and all

 
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Satanfriendly said:
And here it is, my SOTD SOLN (Shave Of Last Night) as why change a habit of a lifetime? And for yesterday night my particular theme was 'I know what you did last evening'

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Last night's razor - Colonial General in brass
A blade to remember - Kai Captain
A brush with fate - Cadman 30mm Tuxedo
New Soap on the block - Signature Soaps Hibernian
The night before tonight - ESC Duine Fon Choill
A new nation arises - Banana Republic Neroli Woods

So last night I had every intention of scribbling some useless rubbish together, but then work rang and my night at home turned in to '0330 onboard for a job at 0430 please'. Excuses, excuses, excuses but I am just a slave to work and a slave to Mrs Satanfriendly when not subservient to others. 58 years a slave. Wasn't that a film?

So a couple of new items out on trial here, Signature Soaps and Banana Republic to join the ever expanding shaving library.

I have already said sufficient in reference to the Brass General and the more I use this baby the more I am thinking 'Top of the tree?'. It continues to amaze and continues to deliver in a most efficient and pleasing manner. And if REM ever had a song about shaving it would be called 'Shiny Happy Razors'. The Kai because until the point when a change of blade to a Proline happens (in a few days yet) I will remain single minded and ignorant to everything else out there in the world of SE blades. A nice pair.

Righty Oh. So just when I thought I'd found the new OSP in my favourite soap of the moment Extro, up pops a bunch of happy folk from Bolton with a whole host of tantalising soaps and a name to remember for the future, 'Signature Soaps'. Their description is a hybrid soap or I guess to use the commonly known name, a croap. I was rather expecting something down the lines of Extro with their 'hard jelly' approach, but I think the best I could describe this is 'chewable porridge'. Hard but soft and not a soap as we know it Jim. In this case being their Hibernian soap and in their own description:

Fragranced with a careful Balance of Lime, Lemon, Lemongrass, Sweet Orange and Lavender Essential Oils A natural vegetable shaving soap Vegan No Lanolin

And they are not kidding. I reckon I would smell every bit of their description in this soap and it certainly lives up to what it says on the very nice aluminium screw top tin. With the Cadman doing its brush thing this croap is easily picked up and distributed in to my Mexican cereal bowl for lathering. A few swirls later and a very nice and thick lather is produced with the scent really starting to come to life. Applied to ones face and one instantly knows this is way above average. Not only that, it stays there the whole shave and not absorbed by the skin. Some big ticked boxes here. Apply a razor and there is a wonderful sense of glide and of the razor being allowed to do its job as against to doing something.

I am very impressed by this new soap on the block and as good as anything else I have tried before. I am more than happy to put it on par with Extro for performance and very pleased for it to share the same cabinet shelf. For you guys who have the samples on their way I am quite positive you will find much the same results.

A stonkingly good soap and I think @BrianH and his team have arrived on the scene with a real bang and I wish them all the best. They deserve it. Impressed

So one very smooth as porridge shave later and time to apply scent. In this instance first a splash of ESC's Duine Fon Choill followed by a spray of Banana Republic's Neroli Woods. for £25 this is about the best thing I have bought from Debenhams for years. I am currently obsessed with any scent Neroli or orange and so this one fits the bill perfectly. The Neroli is not instant and takes a few minutes to expose itself, but shit, when it does so it does it with great effect. Not a bright edged scent and rather more a 'dirty orange' with a beautiful pizzazz in its air. Combines brilliantly with the citrus and woody angle of the Duine Fon Choill to have the fresh sweet air I rather like in a scent.

Altogether last night produced a wonderful shave with everything which I look for to give me that big fresh sensation. Pity I had to get up at 0230. But hey I must have been the closest shaven and best scented tug driver on the river last night. Like every other night and day.

Have a great weekend ahead you forum folk and be well one and all

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Thank you for such a detailed description. By the way I am the team, just a one man band!
 
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Thank you for such a detailed description. By the way I am the team, just a one man band!
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Well, Chris @Satanfriendly is pretty much my shaving mentor/enabler/benefactor and as such I trust his judgment almost without question, apart from his current Orange obsession and frankly unfathomable dislike of Oud, so I really look forward to receiving and trying out my sample pack!
 
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