Proraso red/sandalwood shaving cream
Henk walnut silvertip
Gillette New Standard (New Improved)
P&G/B&H Super Iridium second shaves with each
Proraso pre/post shave cream
First try with this razor and cream. The cream is good - it has a nice old school smell (as many have said, though, it's not what I think of as sandalwood). I needed to use more than I expected but it did the job well.
The New Improved is very nice. I seemed to find the blade angle easily and decided to try out the real and knock off Iridiums. First, the real one. Nice smooth, easy first pass. Next, the fake. I could feel the blade on my skin much more and got one or two nicks but not a bad result. Of the two in this very unscientific test I preferred the real Iridium and that's what I used for the final pass and touch-ups.