SOTD : Saturday 3rd April to Friday 9th April 2021.

Yes...the stench of barbecue accelerant and incineration is pervading the atmosphere already here. Folk that normally don’t have a clue how to make ice cubes are transformed into terrifying Keith Floyd/Raymond Blanc al fresco types...wall-to-wall garden vomiting awaits.
 

P Fox what are your favourite Lord blades? When I first started DE shaving, I used a few Lord blades to begin with and didn't really take to them as much as I do now.

The green Lord Classic SS and Silver Star are my favourites.
 
donnie_arko said:
P Fox what are your favourite Lord blades? When I first started DE shaving, I used a few Lord blades to begin with and didn't really take to them as much as I do now.

The green Lord Classic SS and Silver Star are my favourites.
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My favourite from the Lord camp what I have tried are the silver star, however I like all the other I've used too.. De blades have to be the most subjective item amongst the traditional wet shaving community.
 
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Saturday 3rd April



French Pink Clay & Charcoal Face Soap
Dalit Sandalwood Shaving Soap
hjm Professional (Boar)
Yaqi Katana w/Windrose Darwin Handle
Gillette Winner Stainless (1)
Pinaud Virgin Island Bay Rum

First, much thanks to @Scorpio93 for spotting this shaving soap. You can read about the dalit people and what the folks at dalit.co.uk are doing for them over at their website. Alas, not a great soap but we suspected as much. While I could produce a stable lather, it was thin and I did have to re-lather mid-shave of my single pass shave. That said, I got shaved and it provided some good slip ... just no cushion.

I like the scent very much! It's proper sandalwood and smells a lot like real attars that I have from India. What I'm going to do is cut the soap in half, use one half as bath soap and the other I'm going to grate together with some Vitos (Green) that has largely lost its scent in the hope that the scent from the Dalit is not killed off and that the Vitos brings some firmness and cushion to the lather.

With that in mind (the thin lather), the shave was very basic! The Gillette Winner Stainless blade is actually made by Vertice, who we know make the EuroMax Platinum but also the "One" blade under their own branding. The blade might have been thin as it was quite vocal and put me very much in mind of the Gillette 365. I say might, as a lather with more cushion might well have dulled that chatter.

It then occurred to me that the blade felt very much akin to the Vidyut/SuperMax Stainless in the burgundy/yellow packaging, an economy blade at the bottom of the heap for Indian Street Barbers. It's simple, clean, no-frills, good honest stainless, and delivers a super shave! One that I particularly like! I'm not surprised by this comparison as I've read that Vertice (well, EuroMax) was given a bit of a hand up by SuperMax, gearing up on their old equipment and with their guiding hand.

Given everything else was no-frills: the lather and the somewhat basic blade holder that we know and love as the Yaqi Katana, I think I got the real essence of this blade ... and I liked it!
 
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I fancied another lime shave, with a Scottish twist and one in which the lime soap actually lathered unlike Trumper's. This one featured two well regarded lime products from Scottish producers, which work very well together. The Castle Forbes lime soap is superb, smells of lime and lathers so easily. After my shave, a "wee dod" of Bart's Balm as usual, smoothed some post-shave irritation.

The Razorock German Slant is not too aggressive. However, having said that I somehow managed to scrape bits of my face off in the last shave, with a Feather ASD2! I'm blaming the crap performance of the Trumper's soap. I was therefore still a little sensitive in places, and so decided not to over-shave in pursuit of BBS. Still I managed it mostly, with some growth on the neck. I see from my records that I used a Shark Super Chrome with the Razorock last time, and that worked better than the Israeli Crystal, which is usually one of my smoothest balde choices.

Stay safe and enjoy your shaves.

Razor: Razorock German Slant
Blade: Israeli Crystal (1)
Soap: Castle Forbes Lime
Brush: PAA Peregrino
Pre-shave: PAA Cube
Post-shave: Bart's Balm Lime
Bowl: Captain's Choice Copper
 
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