SOTD 11-17 August 2019

Friday, August 16, 2019 - Shave of the Day

Prep  ||  Grooming Dept Mojito Pre-Shave

Brush  ||  Made Rite Faux Horse Hair

Soap  ||  Grooming Dept Soap (sample)

Razor  ||  Karve Shaving OC / Astra SP (3)

A/S  ||  Stirling Lime

Friday, 16 August, 2019:

1922 Gillette Bostonian
Rapira Platinum Lux
Vie-Long 14830 Horse Hair
CRSW Schapenmelk Shaving Soap
Myrsol Agua Balsamica  
Alvarez Gómez Agua de Colonia Concentrada

--
John

Friday 


Gentleman's Nod Vincent 11 
Semogue 1305 
Tatara Dark Masamune with  Astra 
Weleda balm 

PAA alpha elliptic razor
Astra stainless blade
PAA Atomic Rocket brush
Razorock Santa Maria Del Fiore soap. (With Menthol added today)
Witch hazel spray
PAA Ceylon Tease AS

Marc Ecko EDT


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Friday AM 2019-08-16

Moss Anniversary Slate scuttle
Rooney Beehive Ivory Finest (24/50)
Penhaligon's English Fern shaving soap (tallow)
Wolfman WR1-SB Titanium/WRH7 Ti
Wilkinson 'Light Brigade' (18)
Penhaligon's English Fern aftershave (vintage)

Reached for an Adjustable today and realized besides my Progress and Mergress I have’t had any in rotation for a while so the 1960 Gillette Adjustable forever the Fatboy! I own two besides this lovely 60 sent up from Texas by a friend the other being a mint cased 1959. Lots of discussions on which Adjustable shaves supreme - Fatboy, Slim, Super...I have all three and I love them all. I travel with this 60 on trips longer than a couple of days. Just nice to have a solid Adjustable on vacay to tailor your shave. Crystal Stainless fell into it today. Great blade of the Personna family.

RazoRock Black Bay is a favourite of mine and I have sang its praises before and often. For those of you that love Bay Rum scents like I do enough can’t be said about how good this smells! Soap and AS are great. Chubby 1 got the ball rolling and I loaded enough to do four or more passes. Hate wasting lather but it loads quickly and well so be careful not to load too much.

Leisurely and thoroughly enjoyable three pass DFS/BBS shave. Wasn’t chasing BBS today and no need really for the weekend is upon us! May you enjoy the last moments of Summer because the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) opens today and that is the “curtain call” for Summer in these parts...enjoy and happy shaves all!

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: Gillette Adjustable - Fatboy 1960
Blade: Crystal Stainless
Brush: Simpson Chubby 1
Lather: RazoRock Black Bay
Aftershave: RazoRock Black Bay
Additional Care:
  Bvlgari Man
  B.I.G. Co. Alum Block

SOTD August 16th


Stirling Mentholated Pre-Shave Soap
EDRIO #106 Baili BD-176
Shark Platinum (8)
JR #134 (24mm, Frigate Class)
Stirling Sharp Dressed Man soap and AS

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SOTD - 2019.8.16
Growth: 24h
Pre: Shower and blooming water
Brush: Kesar - by fm 24mm 2 band finest.
Soap: B&M Seville
Razor: Rockwell 6S
Blade: voskhod (3)
Post: face wash, alum, concoction (*), Nivea Sensitive
Passes: 2 - WTG (4), XTG (3)
Rating: 5/5

(*) witch hazle 50ml, 5ml glycerin, tea tree (10), Argan (25), aloe (10), menthol crystals - (drops)

Today premiering my latest design, Kesar (pronounced Caesar). With simple, architectural slim clean lines. It is 65mm tall and in the hand feels spectacular. It is the first unrefined prototy to try out but after this test trial I’ll be making my final handle.


Greetings from Santa Rosa, CA

Razor: 1958 Gillette TTO
Blade: Feather
Soap: Arko
Brush: Omega , Il famoso pennello
AS : Myrsol , metisol


This is a genuine ‘Paste’

I got 3 small cuts from that Feather. Those dang things are sharp.