SOTD 1-7 November 2020

SOTD THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This morning evolved into a bright, cold, sunny day here in the Philadelphia suburbs. My Riga razor arrived with a very hard sharp edge a month or so ago. After my second shave, I accidentally dropped it into the sink chipping the middle of the edge on the faucet. I was going to send it out, but decided to attempt the edge repair myself. After bread-knifing the edge on a 320K DMT plate, I reset the bevel on a Shapton 1000 and finished the edge on my Jasper stone through a series of decreasing slurry dilutions, finally finishing under plain water. Then to a series of pasted strops, finally finishing it on my son’s horween leather strop.

Not everyone is a fan of these jasper stones, but I’m a simple guy. Mine has delivered nothing but buttery smooth edges on all my razors. I find this Riga razor a bit clunky when compared to some of my nicer vintage razors, but I can’t argue with the great shave it delivers now. Three slow, leisurely passes (WTG, ATG, XTG) was all she wrote to deliver another lovely MWF enhanced velveteen shave. My Eclipse Red Ring is just a remarkably efficient dome shaver. I’m not sure what it is about the head design but a single ATG pass with a bit of selective buffing is the equivalent of two ATG passes with any of my other DEs or injectors. Only my AC safety razors are as efficient. I feel clean, refreshed and velveteen!

RAZOR: Riga Razor 7/8 (Mug), Eclipse Red Ring (Dome)
BLADE: Feather DE
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: MrEE Knurled Aluminum Handle Hybrid Knot #007
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with Royall Lyme AS.

Barrister & Mann Nordost
The Varlet Beehive
Charcoal Goods Lvl 1
Wizamet
SMN Melograno

Max Sprecher 9/8 Barber's Notch
Sē'bŭm Latte 
Mozingo ZT3

[font=Roboto, sans-serif][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]Pre-shave:- ETHOS First Lather Unscented[/font][/font]
[font=Roboto, sans-serif][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]Soap: ETHOS Dragonsbeard V2[/font][/font]
[font=Roboto, sans-serif][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]Razor: H&S P076 Copper DC[/font][/font]
[font=Roboto, sans-serif][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]Brush: Simpson Duke 3 Ebony Manchurian[/font][/font]
[font=Roboto, sans-serif][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]PostShave: ETHOS Remede Sensative Skin[/font][/font]
[font=Roboto, sans-serif][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]AfterShave: ETHOS Skin Food Unscented[/font][/font]

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Rex Ambassador / Topaz (NOS) / MdC Original / Simpson's Chubby 2

Thursday AM 2020-11-05
Natonal Doughnut Day


Rooney Polo 1 Ivory Finest (24/54)
Eufros Tobacco shaving soap (tallow)
LASSC BBS-1
Personna 74 Tungsten (1)
Cigar Aficionado aftershave

Thursday, November 5, 2020.
Tabula Rasa, Patchouli. Epsilon, synthetic hair, butterscotch. Le Grelot, P. Hospital & Cie., Thiers, France, 6/8, Pour peao sensible. Santa Maria de Novella, patchuli, lotion aftershave & EdT. Truefitt & Hill, Clasic aftershave balm.

November 5, 2020
Pils 101NL
Gillette 7 O’clock Yellow
Thäter 4125/3
SV Cubebe
Shave Soap & Aftershave