Saturday 6th August
Ganders Goat Soap w/Hop, Sage & Birch
Wilkinson Sword (Vintage - Green Band) Shaving Bowl
Wilkinson Sword w/Synthetic Fibre 21mm
Wilkinson Sword Sticky & Wilkinson Sword (Vintage)
Pinaud Clubman Special Reserve Aftershave Cologne
Another weekend with a vintage Wilkinson Sword blade much thanks to
@Mike Smart ...
This time, it's the white curved plastic tuck with the black logo wrapper and blade with the same logo on the upper half and Made in England on the lower half which is slightly smudged. I'm not sure what to make of that, if anything. Era? I'm thinking 1980s or into the 1990s?
The Wilkinson Sword shaving bowl is vintage - it's the green banded black bowl which pre-dates the last generation blue bowl. I think it's from the 1990s or 2000s and it produces a good, but not great lather akin to something like Erasmic or Culmak. The scent is heavy synthetic citrus and a damn sight stronger than present black bowl or last generation blue bowl. Quite addictive, actually! Lovely to use the new synthetic fibre brush from Wilkinson Sword - it's certainly an improvement on the rather scraggy boar that they're known for and actually a surprising joy to use.
The shave was certainly good. Smooth, as before, yet not as staggeringly so like last week and actually more akin to the earlier blade feeling more like SuperMax Titanium than Lord Chrome. Sharpness, again, less so than last week but better than the first one I tried two weeks ago. Smoothness 9.9 and sharpness 7/10.
Good fun! Very much looking forward to shaving with this kit again tomorrow ...