Chinese Wilkies are surprisingly good blades (at least for me)!
What did you learn from your last shave?
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Same here, and the price is incredible!
Today I learned to occasionally return to your older equipment, your "newbie" stuff, if you have forsaken it. More specifically, I learned that even a Vander-Weishi can deliver a DFS with the right blades and 8 months of daily-practiced technique.
I love MENTHOL to pick up a hot morning!! 
‘Negative’ pressure results in zero irritation!! 
That what you once thought was"the" blade, may not be over time. My blade has been the Gillette Wilkinson Sword for a couple months Now I'm starting to get weepers all the time and some of the blades don't line up quite right. Tried the Gillette Silver Blue today and am blown away by the difference!
With a good few days of beard growth, face wash is the way to go! No tugging/pulling! 
Long Rifle Bay Rhum gives a great shave but scent if very faint, hopefully tomorrow it will be better.
My first purchase of Haslinger Sheepmilk & Lanolin is ridiculously small but is slick and lathers extremely well. Didn't seem better than MWF though.
It is not worth it for me to push a blade once the shaves stop being comfortable.
That old favorites still work regardless of new stuff in the den.
Started out loving TFS soap and then moved on to artisan stuff that cost more.
Broke one out the other day and it was the best shave I’ve had all week, by far.
New smells/bases/advertising can hook us, but just because something great has been sitting in your den for months is no reason to discount it.
Started out loving TFS soap and then moved on to artisan stuff that cost more.
Broke one out the other day and it was the best shave I’ve had all week, by far.
New smells/bases/advertising can hook us, but just because something great has been sitting in your den for months is no reason to discount it.
What I learned from today's shave is that it is possible to pour your bloom water into your lather bowl and lather the bloom water without loading the brush from the puck. It's not easy, but it is possible. It takes FOREVER to knock the bubbles in the protolather down to size, though.
When you're a septuagenarian retiree, you have the time to play around with these things.
When you're a septuagenarian retiree, you have the time to play around with these things.
That using a Gillette Techmatic for the first time makes for an interesting shave.
I recently learned that there is something to this infatuation with a cold water shave. While traveling I ended up doing 4 cold shaves (Parker 26c, Gillette 7 O'clock, Valobra stick, WCS synthetic) Not at all what I remember from my cartridge days of long ago. Absolutely possible to get BBS with no irritation. And cold was better than hot with temperatures and humidity in the 90s.
But definitely not as soothing or as pampered as my scuttle and piping hot water in my normal, less sweltering conditions.
But definitely not as soothing or as pampered as my scuttle and piping hot water in my normal, less sweltering conditions.
I was reminded how much alum hurts and razor cuts bleed.
I learned today that now that my technique has improved over the course of several hundred shaves, a Derby Extra will shave me as close and as comfortably as a Feather in my R41.
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