- Joined
- Wednesday May 19, 2021
- Location
- Stoke-on-Trent
I've used some truly awful stuff for shaving, most notably a bar of simple soap and a cut down blue 2 disposable (so it would fit in my webbing pouches), shaving out of a mess tin that I had just cooked porridge in, then asking my mate if I'd missed anything for a mirror.Iv been 3 years mate.
Don’t get me wrong iv wet shaved all my life & over the last 20 years used decent enough products
i.e L’occitane, Molton Brown and a few others that escaped me.
However i only had one brush a supermarket Wilkinson sword & i only ever used one soap until it was done.
3 years later the obsession hasn’t wavered and i genuinely thought i was slowing down except for the 4 brushes i recently bought.
I don’t have any interest in New Razors that come out although obviously iv got a few & there’s only now a few vintage i’m after but not in any rush as i want the whole set in pristine condition.
If i don’t get what i’m after i’m not worried it dosent bother me but i will continue to buy soaps, aftershaves & balms.
Geo F Trumpers is my next port of call unless someone brings out soothat takes my eye
I started to move towards better shaving after I read about brushes helping about 25 years ago, so Wilkinson sword soap and brush, usually with a squirt of gel - the WS brush is incidentally quite good for rifle cleaning!
Came up a notch after I'd been working in Italy and picked up Proraso soap, cream and brush, then last year changed completely. I've not been happier with shaving, as my whole time in the Army, it was just a daily chore and I used to look forward to the weekend when I didn't shave. Now, it's the other way around, I don't really want to miss a day!
Like you, I'm far more interested in the vintage stuff, although I do keep hankerin' after a Rex Ambassador for some reason. Thankfully I have only bought one dud vintage Tech, but the head ended up going to my brother with a cheap handle attached that I got for free with some blades off eBay. I think I do need to slow down a bit and just buy decent stuff, or wait for the right blue, or red tip. That said, I'm off to Italy for work next month, so now that I'm more 'enlightened', will be keeping my peepers out for some shaving gear when we're out and about in between work shifts