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That's so weird - I stumbled across those cheap boars on AE yesterday and was wondering how they'd perform at that price. I'm curious to see how this one works for you13/4/20
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Soap - Palmolive Stick/RSC Cream
Brush - Vig Shaving Boar (20mm/55mm)
Razor - Ball End Tech
Blade - Personna Red (2)
Post - Witch Hazel
AS - Akcay Tobacco
I'm not one for photos usually (you can see from the photo above why!) but today I did one to show my new brush, a boar brush I bought from Vig Shaving for the paltry sum of $1.60 shipped.
Well how does the brush perform? I'd say like one worth what I paid for it. In the time of cleaning/soaking it, it must have lost close to 20 bristles and in it's maiden outing it must have lost another 10 bristles. It was a real struggle to build and hold any lather as well, I loaded the normal amount of soap I use for face lathering Palmolive but it wasn't having much luck so it needed a large dollop of RSC cream to get the lather going. From the side of the loft to the top there seems to be almost a 20mm differential.
I'll give the brush a few more gos to see if it improves though, as even if I have a terrible shave I'm not really seeing anyone to laugh at them.
It's great when you find a razor that you like using. An added bonus in that it's your birth year razor.Razor - 1976 Gillette SS Flare Tip
I received this beautiful, special razor last week, its special as its my birth year razor and I'd promised myself I'd have to wait 2 months until my birthday. However, I folded like a bad hand!
A wonderful, smooth, close shave. Acres of wonderful lather, I think as I'm getting used to using more water with these soaps I'm getting tons of lather. This combo of brush and soap provided enough lather for about 5 passes, however 3 passes was enough here.
This little razor is amazing, it's special and I've already fallen in love with it! Don't know why, just have! It's not the closest, not the smoothest (yet!) but it's so nimble and agile and intuitive to use, I feel like I've used it forever. The Gillette blade was a great partner for the razor and Barts Balm was a refreshing and quality post shave treat. This was gonna be a special occasion razor, but I'm already considering using it as my daily driver on workdays as it is so smooth and easy to use. Is this sacrilege? Can I relegate my Rockwell? It is a tool to be used after all. I can already feel myself falling for these vintage classics and falling deeper into this RAD world! I'm sorry to wax lyrical, but today was probably my most enjoyable and memorable shave to date. Looking forward to my Birthday, or possibly sooner.
Stay safe everyone.
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