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Matsukura double shot :: Hadoson 63 // Aiku for Barbers 60
Frameback Friday!
Wade & Butcher Frameback
Fine, Green Vetiver
CRV Silvertip
Pecksniff's Active balm
Love this razor.
Like this soap.
Love this brush.
Not so sure about Pecksniff's...
Wade & Butcher Frameback
Fine, Green Vetiver
CRV Silvertip
Pecksniff's Active balm
Love this razor.
Like this soap.
Love this brush.
Not so sure about Pecksniff's...
T&I Crown Wing #327!!
This one bit me today. My fault... I wasn't paying attention... She's old but she definitely still has teeth.
Saturday morning with a Puma 52 6/8
I’d like to own that set, but man it’s out of my price range for now! Nice! How do you like it?
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3/26/20
11/16 Opinel
11/16 Opinel
Tonights Shave
Friedr Herder 77 Solingen
Dr. Jon's Krampus Shave Soap
Turn-N-Shave custom silvertip
English Leather by Dana
Friedr Herder 77 Solingen
Dr. Jon's Krampus Shave Soap
Turn-N-Shave custom silvertip
English Leather by Dana
Hello everyone! The cub and I are, considering the bleak situation for all of us, well and I do hope that you are too.
As you might have noticed I use the same razor for seven consecutive shaves. The effect is that my shaves get a tad better and that I fully get to appreciate the unique qualities of each razor.
I also shift shaving soap once a week. The soap of the passed week is worth a special mentioning. It was “Toivo” a Finnish tar scented shaving soap. These days it can be bought from the Nordic Shaving Company under the name "NSC Shaving Soap Pine Tar". I got it about five years ago, but only shaved with it once. This due to that my then dying wife asked me where the nauseating stink came from and asked me to get rid of it. At the time I had my shave den in the basement and she was one floor and about fifteen yards away. I put the soap in two sealed plastic bags and then in a waterproof plastic container. Even so I could still smell it. The years passed by and my wife sadly enough passed away. So when I last week saw the soap in its box I took it up and sniffed the plastic container. I could still feel the tar scent, but not as much as back then. I decided to take a chance. I got the soap out. The smell was still potent, but not as it once had been. It lathered really well and I was surprised to find that the soap was an excellent shaving soap.
The to me not unpleasant tar scent sent me down memory lane back to the army in the last years of the cold war. In the summertime up above the Polar Circle there was only one repellent that could keep the billowing clouds of stinging insects away. The main ingrediency was tar. Everyone’s face and arms were striped with tar that wasn’t possible to wash away, but that was better than the alternative. We also waterproofed our boots with grease mixed with tar. In short everyone reeked of tar, sweat, weapon grease and mud.
The soap itself was surprisingly good. Actually I’d put it up among the top tier in every aspect but the scent. The first morning I woke the cub to have breakfast as I do every day after having shaved. He sniffed and asked me why there was a smell of burning faeces in our home. I rose from my chair, got the soap from the bathroom, opened the lid and let him have a sniff. He coughed and kindly asked me to put it away. I did, but I’ve used the soap all week since then. This is a soap made by and suited for the sons of the veterans of the Winter War. Actually I have found another soap with an interesting description on maker’s homepage: Birch Shaving Soap: Clean and fresh birch scent brings alive the finest elements of Finnish summer: birch, sauna and fresh summer breeze.
This week's shaves will be more ordinary shave wise: A Heljestrand No.24 quarter hollow, an excellent shaver in experienced hands, and Klar Sandalwood Shaving Soap, a top of the line soap that aren’t that easy to come by. The best about the Klar soaps is however the picture on the lid with me and the cub having a bath.
I wish you all a very nice weekend.
As you might have noticed I use the same razor for seven consecutive shaves. The effect is that my shaves get a tad better and that I fully get to appreciate the unique qualities of each razor.
I also shift shaving soap once a week. The soap of the passed week is worth a special mentioning. It was “Toivo” a Finnish tar scented shaving soap. These days it can be bought from the Nordic Shaving Company under the name "NSC Shaving Soap Pine Tar". I got it about five years ago, but only shaved with it once. This due to that my then dying wife asked me where the nauseating stink came from and asked me to get rid of it. At the time I had my shave den in the basement and she was one floor and about fifteen yards away. I put the soap in two sealed plastic bags and then in a waterproof plastic container. Even so I could still smell it. The years passed by and my wife sadly enough passed away. So when I last week saw the soap in its box I took it up and sniffed the plastic container. I could still feel the tar scent, but not as much as back then. I decided to take a chance. I got the soap out. The smell was still potent, but not as it once had been. It lathered really well and I was surprised to find that the soap was an excellent shaving soap.
The to me not unpleasant tar scent sent me down memory lane back to the army in the last years of the cold war. In the summertime up above the Polar Circle there was only one repellent that could keep the billowing clouds of stinging insects away. The main ingrediency was tar. Everyone’s face and arms were striped with tar that wasn’t possible to wash away, but that was better than the alternative. We also waterproofed our boots with grease mixed with tar. In short everyone reeked of tar, sweat, weapon grease and mud.
The soap itself was surprisingly good. Actually I’d put it up among the top tier in every aspect but the scent. The first morning I woke the cub to have breakfast as I do every day after having shaved. He sniffed and asked me why there was a smell of burning faeces in our home. I rose from my chair, got the soap from the bathroom, opened the lid and let him have a sniff. He coughed and kindly asked me to put it away. I did, but I’ve used the soap all week since then. This is a soap made by and suited for the sons of the veterans of the Winter War. Actually I have found another soap with an interesting description on maker’s homepage: Birch Shaving Soap: Clean and fresh birch scent brings alive the finest elements of Finnish summer: birch, sauna and fresh summer breeze.
This week's shaves will be more ordinary shave wise: A Heljestrand No.24 quarter hollow, an excellent shaver in experienced hands, and Klar Sandalwood Shaving Soap, a top of the line soap that aren’t that easy to come by. The best about the Klar soaps is however the picture on the lid with me and the cub having a bath.
I wish you all a very nice weekend.
Paul Drees « Super Bolta « - 13/16
That is one beautiful Torrey. I’m having a Torrey shorty rescaled. Looking forward to it. Very good razors indeed.
Being in Massachusetts I couldn’t miss Torrey Tuesday so out comes the monogram. Used Noble Otter Plunder w/ matching splash
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Interesting. I still have the link to this soap you sent me. I use pine tar soap as a shampoo which is the best shampoo I’ve ever used. I used coal tar soap until some creatures made it illegal. I grew up in a coal mining area and the scent is very nostalgic for me. Hej to Erik.
Steve
Today would have been the Big Shave S'West gathering. Obviously that's not happening with things the way they are in the world currently. So today's shave is not as much about the razor, a homely (but proud) Torrey Hollow Ground, as it is about the soap, the official soap if last year's Big Shave S'West.
Thank you I found it essentially NOS and after sitting in drawer for awhile I sent it to Alfredo and it’s perfect now. Can’t wait to see pics of yours Steve
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5/8 Gotta
First straight shave in a week .Been busy with work keeping the flow of packages and mail for the State of New Hampshire.
The Gotta delivered a great shave .Very nice Solingen blade.
First straight shave in a week .Been busy with work keeping the flow of packages and mail for the State of New Hampshire.
The Gotta delivered a great shave .Very nice Solingen blade.
MK10 w/ my new soap and splash that arrived this morning [emoji89]
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Just having common black scales to try it out. If it turns out to be a really good shaver I’ll have “fancy” scales put on. I think it is a “Little Giant”’or something along those lines.
