December 2024

This was a combination holiday/birthday gift

Found in a German Forum…so happy

Another day, another soap arrived. 
Zingari The Highlander. What a scent 

Lucky for me, I was able to get a used Rex Ambassador for my Den. Now I have both Rex, the Konsul XL and the Ambassador. It didn’t come alone. Santa was good to me and did bring along some goodies (the Blades) and one of my all time favorites Le Père Lucien Cologne-Fougère

Lucky for me, I was able to get a used Rex Ambassador for my Den. Now I have both Rex, the Konsul XL and the Ambassador. It didn’t come alone. Santa was good to me and did bring along some goodies (the Blades) and one of my all time favorites Le Père Lucien Cologne-Fougère

I really enjoy and look forward to you introducing me to soaps and other products I have never heard of before.

Lucky for me, I was able to get a used Rex Ambassador for my Den. Now I have both Rex, the Konsul XL and the Ambassador. It didn’t come alone. Santa was good to me and did bring along some goodies (the Blades) and one of my all time favorites Le Père Lucien Cologne-Fougère

I really enjoy and look forward to you introducing me to soaps and other products I have never heard of before.

Thank you very much! It makes me happy when I can make someone else happier!

It finally arrived on the slow boat from China: 





It weighs a ton and has a very transformer/switch blade feel to it.  All of the pivot joints are loose and rattle so I don't know how it will shave.  The head is held onto the base plate by magnets in both the head and the base plate but they are not strong.

I guess that it is for use in the "forest"?

TSA would definitely  have a brain hemorrhage if you tried to carry this thing on board. 

Oh well.......

It finally arrived on the slow boat from China: 





It weighs a ton and has a very transformer/switch blade feel to it.  All of the pivot joints are loose and rattle so I don't know how it will shave.  The head is held onto the base plate by magnets in both the head and the base plate but they are not strong.

I guess that it is for use in the "forest"?

TSA would definitely  have a brain hemorrhage if you tried to carry this thing on board. 

Oh well.......

Well, everything I've heard, but not yet tested by myself: You get a really good shave for what it is. The blades and head are supposed to stay where they're supposed to be. But I'll find out in the first week of January when we visit my in-laws.

I had checked with Swiss International Airlines and they are okay with taking it on the plane as long as there is no blade loaded.

I had to stock up some Mitchell‘s Woolfat Shaving Soaps, although not tallow, the lot I got lathers pretty well up and has a decent smell. 

The set came with the porcelain bowl and three refills. 

The December seems to end as luckily as it started with the delivery of the remaining Simpson brushes I had ordered.


SE Commodore X3 Two Band Silvertip Badger, Faux Ruby


And after the first lather:


Eagle E3 Pure Badger Faux Ivory


After the first lather:


Chubby 2 Manchurian Badger Faux Ivory


After the first lather


LE Polo PL8 Super (Silvertip) Badger Lime Swirl


After the first lather 


Barbican Pure Boar Bristle Faux Ivory


With the LE Chubby 3 Best Badger Blue Opal and the synthetic Platinum as well as the Sovereign Fibres brushes that I have, I own now at least one of every knot material Simpson has in his program.