Quest for a better shave

[GBerry]

20220718
Razor: RazoRock SS Hawk V3 Standard Plate - Bamboo Handle (34)
Blade: Feather Professional (1)
Pre-Shave: Hot Shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

No nicks; No irritation; Close and very smooth; Pleasant DFS+ shave.

The combo met my objectives this morning.

Shave summary 20220713

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220719
Razor: RazoRock SS Hawk V3 Standard Plate - Bamboo Handle (35)
Blade: Feather Professional (2)
Pre-Shave: Hot Shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

1 nick; No irritation; Close and very smooth; Pleasant DFS+ shave.

I was rushed but, the combo met my objectives this morning.

Shave summary 20220713

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220720
Razor: RazoRock SS Hawk V3 Standard Plate - Bamboo Handle (36)
Blade: Feather Professional (3)
Pre-Shave: Hot Shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

No nicks; No irritation; Close and very smooth; Pleasant DFS+ shave.

Very nice uneventful shave.

Shave summary 20220713

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220721
Razor: RazoRock SS Hawk V3 Standard Plate - Bamboo Handle (37)
Blade: Feather Professional (4)
Pre-Shave: Hot Shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

No nicks; No irritation; Close and very smooth; Pleasant DFS+ shave.

I was a little heavy handed on my lower left neck region. Post shave feel was good.

Very nice uneventful shave.

Shave summary 20220713

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220722
Razor: RazoRock SS Hawk V3 Standard Plate - Bamboo Handle (38)
Blade: Feather Professional (5)
Pre-Shave: Hot Shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

No nicks; No irritation; Close and very smooth; Pleasant DFS+ shave.

Perhaps a Goldilocks shave!!!

Shave summary 20220713

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220723
Razor: RazoRock SS Hawk V3 Standard Plate - Bamboo Handle (39)
Blade: Feather Professional (6)
Pre-Shave: Hot Shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

No nicks; No irritation; Close and very smooth; Pleasant DFS+ shave.

I maybe developing a preference for this razor!

Shave summary 20220713

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220724
Razor: RazoRock SS Hawk V3 Standard Plate - Bamboo Handle (40)
Blade: Feather Professional (7)
Pre-Shave: Hot Shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

No nicks; No irritation; Close and very smooth; Pleasant DFS+ shave.

The Feather Professional is becoming less effective!

Shave summary 20220713

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220725
Razor: Stirling Soap Co SS-ST plate Dallas Handle (9)
Blade: Personna Platinum Chrome (3)
Pre-shave: Hot shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

No nicks; No irritation; Close; Smooth; Pleasant 3 pass DFS+ shave. Touchups required in some areas.

Shave summary 20220713

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220725-2
Razor: Stirling Soap Co SS-ST plate Dallas Handle (10)
Blade: Personna Med Prep (1)
Pre-shave: Hot shower
Brush: none
Lather: Barbasol Original
Aftershave: Cold water rinse

No nicks; No irritation; Very Close; Very Smooth; Pleasant 2 pass + touchups DFS++ shave.

Decent, simple shave

Shave summary 20220713

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220726
Razor: Stirling Soap Co SS-ST plate Dallas Handle (11)
Blade: Personna Med Prep (2)
Pre-shave: Hot shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

No nicks; No irritation; Very Close; Very Smooth; Pleasant 2 pass + touchups DFS++ shave.

Last 2 shaves were cap riding adventures into the unknown. The Med Prep found stubble I did not think was there.

Shave summary 20220713

Cheers!!!

 

[thombrogan]

Last 2 shaves were cap riding adventures into the unknown.

Very awesome phrasing!

 

[GBerry]

20220727
Razor: Stirling Soap Co SS-ST plate Dallas Handle (12)
Blade: Personna Med Prep (3)
Pre-shave: Hot shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

No nicks; No irritation; Very Close; Very Smooth; Pleasant 2 pass + touchups DFS++ shave.

Shave summary 20220713

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220727
Razor: Stirling Soap Co SS-ST plate Dallas Handle (13)
Blade: Personna Med Prep (4)
Pre-shave: Hot shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

No nicks; No irritation; Very Close; Very Smooth; Pleasant 3 pass + touchups DFS++ shave.

This is about where the Med prep begins to give up but, so far so good.

Shave summary 20220713

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220729
Razor: Stirling Soap Co SS-ST plate Dallas Handle (14)
Blade: Bic Chrome Platinum (1)
Pre-shave: Hot shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

1 nicks; No irritation; Very Close; Very Smooth; 2 pass + touchups DFS++ shave.

This blade appears to be wider from edge to edge than the Personna Med Prep leading to more blade feel. The Med Prep has a better post shave feel and gives a more pleasant shave.

Shave summary 20220713

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

Shave log summary 20220730

Since this log is getting hard to edit, I will resume with the RazoRock SS Hawk V3 standard plate.

Razor: RazoRock SS Hawk V3 standard plate (16)
Blade: KAI Captain Titan Mild Protouch MG (16) 16 shaves on 2 blades

No irritation, no nicks, very close and very smooth shaves.
5 DFS, 10 DFS+, 1 BBS

This combo consistently produces mostly DFS to DFS+ shaves without issue. All are pleasant shaves. Very good shave tool.

Rex Envoy
Gillette Platinum
4 shaves on one blade
1 nick in 4 shaves
No irritation
2 very close and very smooth shaves
2 smooth and close shaves
1 DFS++, 2 DFS+ and 1 DFS Shave 2-1/2 passes.

Blackland Vector
KAI Captain Titan Mild Protouch MG
8 shaves on one blade.
No nicks, no irritation, very close and very smooth shaves. 1 BBS, 1 DFS++ and 6 DFS+ shaves.
Awesome results.

RazoRock Hawk V3 Standard Bamboo Handle
KAI Captain Titan Mild Pink
8 shaves on this blade
3 nicks; No irritation; 5 very close; 3 close; 5 very smooth; 3 smooth; 1 DFS++; 4 DFS+; 3 DFS; this blade gets very close and then I create nicks. Either my technique or blade has to change.

Blackland Vector
KAI Captain Titan Mild Pink
8 shaves
7 nicks;
No irritation;
6 very, very close; 2 very close;
2 very, very smooth; 6 very smooth;
2 BBS; 6 DFS+;
I’m getting too close with this combo; Either my technique has to change or the blade has to change.

RazoRock Hawk V3 Standard Bamboo Handle
Schick Proline P-30
8 shaves; 1 nick; No irritation; very close; very smooth; Pleasant DFS+
The 1 nick is attributed to user in attention.
A nice combo that meets my goals.

Blackland Vector
KAI Captain Titan Mild Protouch MG
8 shaves; No nicks; No irritation; 8 very close; 8 very smooth; 8 pleasant; 2 BBS; 1 DFS++; 5 DFS+

At this point 2 Protouch MG blades have been used in 16 shaves with excellent results.

Blackland Vector
KAI Captain Titan Mild Pink
1 blade 8 shaves
3 shaves with nicks; 5 shaves with 0 nicks
8 shaves without irritation.
3 shaves Very close and very smooth
5 shaves close and smooth
1 shave DFS++; 7 shaves DFS+

I will be coming back to this combo to see if I can improve my technique making these shaves nick free, very close, very smooth and DFS+.

Blackland Sabre L1
Personna GEM Coated
8 shaves in one blade
No nicks; No irritation; 5 Very Close; 3 Close; 5 Very Smooth; 3 Smooth; 6 DFS+; 2 DFS; 8 Pleasant shaves

Blackland Vector
KAI Captain Titan Mild Pink
1 blade 8 shaves
4 nicks; No irritation; 4 very close; 1 Too close; 3 Close; 8 very smooth; 1 DFS++; 7 DFS+

The Blackland Vector is efficient and effective.
Mastery of this combo is pending.

Blackland Vector
KAI Captain Titan Mild Pink
9 shaves, 6 nicks, 0 irritation, 9 very close, 9 very smooth, 9 DFS+

This would be perfect if I can get the nicks down.

Blackland Vector
Feather Artist Club Professional Blade
9 shaves on this blade; 1 nick on the first shave; No irritation; Very Close; Very Smooth; Pleasant DFS+ shaves.

Blackland Vector
Feather AC Professional Blade
7 shaves on this blade; 1 nick on shave #6; No irritation; 5 very close & 2 close; 7 very smooth; 5 DFS+ & 2 DFS shaves.
This appears to be the best combo so far.

Edwin Jagger 3ONE6 Knurled Handle
Lord Platinum Class
1 blade 1 shave; No nicks; No irritation; Close; Very smooth; DFS+

Rex Supply Co Envoy
Gillette Perma-Sharp
1 blade 1 shave (5th shave this blade)
No nicks; No irritation; Very Smooth; Close; DFS+

RazoRock Hawk V3 Standard Bamboo Handle
Feather AC Professional Blade
1 blade 7 shaves; 1 nick; No irritation; Close; Very Smooth; DFS+
Best blade for this razor so far.

Stirling Soap Co SS-ST Dallas Handle
Lord Platinum Class
2 blades 6 shaves; 5 nicks on 6 shaves; mild irritation on one shave; 6 very close; 5 very smooth; 1 smooth; 4 DFS+; 1 DFS; 1 DFS++

Stirling Soap Co SS-ST Dallas Handle
Personna Platinum Chrome
1 blade 3 shaves; 1 nick in 3 shaves; 2 very close; 1 close; 2 very smooth; 1 smooth; 3 DFS+

Stirling Soap Co SS-ST Dallas Handle
Personna Med Prep
1 blade 4 shaves; No nicks, No irritation; 4 very close; 3 DFS+; 1 DFS++
Best blade with the Stirling so far.

Stirling Soap Co SS-ST Dallas Handle
Bic Chrome Platinum
1 blade 2 shaves 2 nicks; No irritation; 2 very close; 2 very smooth; 2 DFS++

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220730
Razor: Stirling Soap Co SS-ST plate Dallas Handle (15)
Blade: Bic Chrome Platinum (2)
Pre-shave: Hot shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

1 nicks; No irritation; Very Close; Very Smooth; 3 pass + touchups DFS++ shave.

This combo is a biter. Not quite as smooth as I would like.

Shave Summary 20220730

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220731
Razor: Rex Supply Co Envoy (45)
Blade: Gillette Perma-Sharp (1)
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Pre-shave: Hot Shower
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold Water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Aqua Velva Classic Blue Ice

No nicks, no irritation, very smooth and Very close. A pleasant BBS result. LBSS (Light Bulb Smooth and Squeaky). Post shave feel was very smooth and comfortable.

Shave Summary 20220730

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220731
Razor: Edwin Jagger 3ONE6 Knurled Handle
Blade: Lord Platinum Classic (1)
Brush: none
Pre-shave: Hot Shower
Lather: Barbasol Original
Aftershave: Cool Water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut

1 nick; No irritation; Close; Smooth; Pleasant DFS+

With a gap this large, you can’t let your guard down. And I did.

Shave Summary 20220730

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220801
Razor: Edwin Jagger 3ONE6 Knurled Handle (225)
Blade: Lord Platinum Classic (2)
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic - 26mm
Pre-shave: Hot Shower
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cool Water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut

No nicks; No irritation; Close; Smooth; Pleasant DFS+

Good lather helps

Shave Summary 20220730

Cheers!!!

 

[GBerry]

20220802
Razor: Stirling Soap Co SS-ST plate Dallas Handle (16)
Blade: Bic Chrome Platinum (3)
Pre-shave: Hot shower
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft Monster Synthetic Shaving Brush - 26mm
Lather: Stirling Soap Co Naked & Smooth
Aftershave: Cold water rinse; Thayer’s Witch Hazel Aloe Vera Coconut; Stirling Sandalwood Post Shave Balm

1 nicks; No irritation; Very Close; Very Smooth; 3 pass + touchups DFS++ shave.

Quite a nice shave actually.

Shave Summary 20220730

Cheers!!!