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- Saturday March 27, 2010
flip-68 said:Brut! Who knew? I'm possibly the last person to realise how great this stuff smells! Wonderful end to a smashing shave.
pjgh said:Good evening, gents. What a glorious Monday evening!
Hot Towel
NSS Ice & Slice - Pure Badger
Star Safety Razor - Gillette Thai Super Thin [1]
Hot Rinse & Cold Rinse
Brut Aftershave
Face Lathered
One Pass ... all I needed
Many thanks to flip-68 for rekindling my interest in double edge shaving after a good stint of single edge and experimentation with straight edge. Phil dropped one of these into a Tech and loved the shave. I commented that I thought that would be the case, more through instinct than anything, so he sent me some to try out for myself.
Well, I am happy to report likewise - I absolutely loved the shave and the blade gave a peculiar lease of life to an otherwise seriously mild razor. I'm using a Star safety razor tonight.
History lesson - GEM ceased the name somewhere along their timeline, switching to Star for the 1912 until its final withdrawal after a brief stint also as Treet. Well, Star wound up their razor production with a double edge safety razor using a Gillette Tech style design. It's mild, perhaps milder than the later, lighter Techs.
With a Gillette Thai Super Thin strapped in, one pass was quite sufficient. Yes, I used the "Gillette Slide" on a couple of areas that I know can be problematic, but that one pass was quite sufficient for one day of growth. I got the kind of shave I get from a single pass with a slant. In fact, I'll use a slant tomorrow just to confirm.
Simple rinse down, no alum, no witch hazel, just water, splash of cold and a good splash of Brut to finish off.
Simple and effective shaving! It's so sharp, the sink was unusually full of stubble soup after that one pass, yet so gentle I could probably have pushed against my face with the razor in both hands and not drawn blood.
Thank you to flip-68 - all my Techs now have a reason other than completing a collection gathering nothing more than dust or a few and far between simple polish at the end of a problematic experimental shave with something peculiar from the early part of the twentieth century. Cheers!
782sirbrian said:Wednesday 16th April
Hot shower
Hot flannel
Wet Shave Obsession Signature scuttle lathered
Finest Badger brush made by myself
Gillette Executive adjustable D3 (1958) set on 5
Sputnik (3)
Cold rinse
Thayers Lavender witch hazel
Myrsol Antesol aftershave
Today was the first use of the WSO soap. What sets this apart from other artisan soaps is it's triple milled so making it a hard puck similar to MWF, Tabac, DR Harris. The other soaps such as Mike's, Barrister & Mann are soft and pliable making them easy to squash into a container. The WSO is very hard in this respect. I soaked the puck with warm water while I had a shower. I loaded the brush and built up the lather with ease in the scuttle. The scent was a good strength and was very pleasant during the shave. The lather lasted easily through the shave and was slick and dense. I'm happy to have this soap in my growing rotation.
fancontroller said:782sirbrian said:Wednesday 16th April
Hot shower
Hot flannel
Wet Shave Obsession Signature scuttle lathered
Finest Badger brush made by myself
Gillette Executive adjustable D3 (1958) set on 5
Sputnik (3)
Cold rinse
Thayers Lavender witch hazel
Myrsol Antesol aftershave
Today was the first use of the WSO soap. What sets this apart from other artisan soaps is it's triple milled so making it a hard puck similar to MWF, Tabac, DR Harris. The other soaps such as Mike's, Barrister & Mann are soft and pliable making them easy to squash into a container. The WSO is very hard in this respect. I soaked the puck with warm water while I had a shower. I loaded the brush and built up the lather with ease in the scuttle. The scent was a good strength and was very pleasant during the shave. The lather lasted easily through the shave and was slick and dense. I'm happy to have this soap in my growing rotation.
That soap sounds very interesting. Just visited their website and their Baywood scent (Bay Rum & Sandalwood) sounds amazing.
Did you order it from Etsy? Did you order any other varieties?
I had decided enough was enough with my soaps as the bathroom manbinet is bulging with them but this is very tempting...
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