SOTD 8-14 November 2020

Merica Razor & Tatra Platinum 

Dragonsbeard/Knothead 26mm Tux Resin Handle

Ethos Grooming Melange D’ Agrumes soap

Ethos Grooming Skin Food a/s splash

Yves Saint Laurent L’Homme Ultime

Henson AL13 UFO Handle
Personna Stainless
Razorock Don Marco Soap
Yaqi Sagrada Familar 2 band
Proraso vitamin E balm
Canoe

Razor: Gillette Fatboy
Blade: Iridium Super
Brush: Silvertip
Pre-shave: Castle Forbes
Cream: Plisson
Balm: Penhaligon’s Endymion
Finale: Penhaligon’s Endymion
Coffee: New Guinea
Music: Rimsky-Korsakove — Scheherazade

SOTD 20201108 Allocco
by IschiaPP @ Forio
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Bat71 Calice XL
Noce Daniela (Ovangkol), Abalone, Oumo Black Mother Lode (Tuxedo Superfine), 26x50x112mm, 66g **
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Denim Original
Crema da barba & Lozione dopobarba
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FrankenRazor Allocco Blu
(King C. Gillette * / Cumbo Srl Focus Tritok Blue)
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Wilkinson Sword by Gillette India #4
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#Shave #WetShaving #WetShavers
#ShaveOfTheDay #ShaveLikeaMan
* Grazie a Bat71@ilRasoio
** Grazie a Vicenzo@ilRasoio




Full size:
https://imgur.com/53HHEjK
Soundtrack:
INXS - Devil Inside
https://youtu.be/hv_zJrO_ptk

Max Sprecher 8/8 Spanish Point
Ethos Dragonsbeard
Mozingo ZT3

GartBnx.....

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SOTD SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Today’s mug shave features a Chinese Gold Monkey razor obtained from Slash McCoy of Crescent City Razor. I've modified the original edge by killing it on the corner of my jasper stone and refinishing it in a series of decreasing slurry dilutions. The original edge shaved just fine, but my jasper stone has spoiled me. I’ve learned in my open edge journey that there are degrees of sharp, and the original edge pretty much defined the hard edge of the sharp spectrum. The refinish yielded that buttery smooth soft sharp edge I've grown to appreciate. In any case the star of this shave is the beautiful new Sapele wood/acrylic brush graciously built and provided to me by a friend at TSD. A new Omega Pro48 was the knot donor.

The new brush is an awesome lather machine. I own several Badger brushes, but my favorite brushes tend to be boar. While this brush has a way to go to be broken in, it still easily provided the two types of MWF lather I enjoy - the thinner, wetter lather for my mug shave and the thicker more yogurty lather I like for my head shaves. The Gold Monkey delivered an extremely smooth three pass (WTG, ATG, XTG) mug shave and my 2011 R41 equipped with its Weber handle felt great in hand and did the same for my two pass (ATG, ATG) dome shave. I feel velveteen smooth, cool and refreshed!

RAZOR: Gold Monkey 666 5/8 (Mug), 2011 Muhle R41 w/ Weber Handle
BLADE: Feather DE (Dome)
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: Sapele/Acrylic Handle w/ new Omega Pro48 Boar Knot
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with Osage Rub.

November 8, 2020
Yaqi DLC Katana SE
Gillette 7 O’clock Yellow
Zenith B25 Olive Wood Boar
TOBS St James Collection
Small Batch Shave Tonic “Winter Reserve”

Sunday AM 2020-11-08
National X-Ray Day


Rooney 3/2 Ivory Finest (24/58)
Acqua di Parma Colonia shaving soap (vintage)
Paradigm 17-4
Personna 74 Tungsten (4)
Acqua di Parma Colonia aftershave

A warm Colonia shave on a relatively cold morning here. Wonderful.