Come forward you merry gentlemen for I bring forthwith my shave with the theme 'listen to the monkey. L i s t e n t o t h e m o n k e y'
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Razor monkey - Brass Hone with long handle
Blade monkey - Feather
Brush monkey - Cadman in carbon fibre
Cream monkey - OSP Chypre (throw in a few curses while on the subject of OSP)
Smelly monkey - Brut aftershave
L i s t e n t o t h e m o n k e y
My advise from a very wise and well known monkey when I first bought the Hone was, use a Feather and ride the cap. After coming to the realisation he was not talking sexual innuendos here I followed his words of wisdom, used a Feather and rode the cap. Brilliant. This monkey gone to heaven.
So in my infinite knowledge, this evening I said 'Bollocks to the monkey' and went the way of the one blade does it all, Polsilver Lodz. What a bloody crap move that was. A dreadful start followed by an equally dreadful shaving experience. 'Mmmmmm?'........
Listen to the monkey. L i s t e n t o t h e m o n k e y
Not to waste the Polsilver, in to an Ikon it went and in exchange a Feather popped in to the Hone. Ahhhhhhhh shaving heaven. This brass Hone really is the dogs danglies.
@Rob998 said it looked a bit like a futur, maybe, possibly, no it doesn't and whereas the Futur is an awkward lump to throw around this dances around the face in poetic motion. Absolute heaven and all minus the fear factor. Three passes to a shave smoother than Errol Flynn playing the piano for the ladies.
The OSP is perhaps getting past its usefulness and it doesn't exactly lather easily with a slightly stiff and oily characteristic about it. Usable in a 'living on borrowed time' kind of way. Not much left to go and soon to make an appearance on 'Finished' and at which point I shall pay
@OSP a friendly visit.......even
if I do have if my wife has a few of his creams left which perform superbly. She would have.
The Brut was a cheap purchase today from Home Bargains. What has happened to the offensive Brut I remember from all those years ago, when Henry was the man and Brut was the new way to clear a room? This is actually very acceptable if not being a bit watered down from when I was a young lad. £2.99 worth of freshness though and a happy buy even if my good lady missed this one in the trolley. She thinks I'm a shit, but I can live with that.
At the end of the shave all I can say is
@Blademonkey is the knowledge and may be once in a while I should listen to the monkey.
Monkey Gone to Heaven? The Pixies? Okay then
the little F@#KER. The next outing I'll be more diligent, I've waited for a long time to get a Hoffritz Slant, and the irony I shaved with my 39c 2 day's ago without a scratch. 
