SOTD Saturday 25th November 2017 - Friday 1st December 2017

Scotshave said:
Wonderful images of what looked like medieval torture implements
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Ha ha - you are absolutely right - I thought that too - you can shave with that - thing? A razor that looks like it came from the disturbed mind of the bastard love child of Yuri Geller and Gaudi? Yup - as good a shave as I will get with anything.

Scotshave said:
With genuine thanks to all you enablers, advice-givers and well wishers.
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I'd second that - to think - I was content with 'normal' razors before I joined here. Oh callow youth. You'll have to prise my Mergress, Merkur 37, Cobra and Aristocrat Slim out my cold dead hands though. Each to their own. Whatever works for you. cheers - I.
 
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Geller, Gaudi and Yukio Mishima
 
Wednesday 29th November 2017​

Pre Shave: Hot Shower + L'Oreal Birch Sap Face Wash and Proraso White
Razor: Cobra (on loan)
Blade: Feather Pro Guard (#1)
Brush: Semogue 610
Cream: Nivea
Post: Alum Block, Cold water and Thayers Lavender Witch Hazel
AS: Lucky Tiger AS and face tonic

Another excellent shave today, after saying yesterday that I preferred Kai guarded blades, I found the Feather guard really rather good today in the Cobra.
 


Pre: Valobra Glycerlanolina soap, Myrsol Emulsion
Brush: Tony Forsyth P&C LE 2017
Soap: APR Fougère Bourbon Rose
Razor: ATT Kronos S1
Blade: Personna Super Iridium (2)
Post: Myrsol Emulsion
EdP: De Marley Galloway Royal Essence

Sometimes you have to be away from a product for a while to appreciate how good it really is. Such is the case with the APR Fougère Bourbon Rose soap.
Wonderful lather, and the scent is, well, majestic. A perfect medium for my first slant shave with the ATT S1 plate. I can sum first impressions in three words - smooth and efficient. Let me try that again - SMOOTH and efficient. I was tempted to check to see if I'd forgotten to slip in a blade!
I can't say that it was perfect - I'm still experimenting with finding the optimum angle of engagement, but it is very forgiving, and I am very impressed with it on first use.
Three passes for a DFS. THe Galloway EdP was a nice match with the soap scent.
 
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Jonny on percussion .
 
Nice set up, @Blademonkey - I used the Semogue SOC and Valobra stick in a traveling shave kit earlier in the year, and it worked a treat. Can't say I was using a Gem, though .
 
Nice one, Paul - classic ad from Oz.
 

Had a sniff of the Proraso Green earlier. Not a fan, so thanks for the description and heads up.
 
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