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Sotd - Wednesday 22/11 -
Razor - Schick Type O clone
blade - mystery vintage single (2)
brush - Semogue 2015 HD
soap - SV Tundra Artica
post - witch hazel
a/s - Nivea 2 phase
balm - none, didn't need it.
Result - magnificent.
In part this shave was about what I didn't use - I have next to me as I type an astonishingly beautiful 1912 'Made in England' version - thanks P. In its Bakelite case. Pristine. I was kindly gifted earlier this year an American 1912 by @Wayne Pritchard and it proved to be my 'gateway drug' into vintage single edges. They are very good for me. I thought I would try a bit of delayed gratification - something I'm ordinarily very poor at achieving - and use my Type O clone again - which is also new, the second shave with it - I wanted to see what would happen with a heavier growth - 4 days. Just the same as last time - very mild in use but extremely effective. A wee bit of polishing after the second pass but it's so comfortable to use that it didn't irritate my skin whatsoever. I think you would have to be massively clumsy to draw blood with it. The brush was my first silver tip - it amuses me these days about the HD bit in it's name - high density. Oh really? Compared to a Maseto 30mm or Chubby - I think not. I still enjoy using it when in the mood for a floppy wall of super soft badger hair though. A bit of nostalgia too. I'd forgotten how good the SV soap is - I reached for it again as I was having trouble coming up with my hard soap of the year. I wanted to revisit this and a Wickam's 1912 before voting. Tabac and O.S.P were the obvious front runners for me. The post shave feel of the SV is really top end - paired with the Nivea 2 phase I really really didn't need a balm. So - top end shave - count me as a happy bunny. Smoother than a Neolithic obsidian hand axe - originally fashioned by a Pre-Columbian shaman - used in their smooth initiation rituals and passed down through the generations. Yours all - I.
Thank you for the tag Iain.
I am so pleased you are hooked on the vintage drug.
Better than any synthetic that I have ever experienced anyway.
For me the S.V soap is above and beyond anything I have tried. I must confess that there is many on my list to try including Eufro's and Stirling but at this moment in time the S.V. is unbelievable. P.S. lets not forget P&B, NNS, Wickhams .
Oh dear lord when does this all end ?
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