What straight did you use today? Now with PICTURES

[Toro Blanco]

My first full WTG-shave with a shavette!!!

It went pretty well, just cut myself twice pushing it down too hard.
As instructed in B&B wiki-page I stopped after one WTG-pass and finished up with my DE razor.

It's pretty do-able but I find the grip so difficult, pretty sure I won't ever master it. When I had the DE in hand, I had a sigh of relief.But am VERY content that I managed to survive.

It only gets better and better! By the time you get to 30 shaves in muscle memory kicks in and by 100 it becomes child play.

I kid you not but I have not knicked myself in over five years of shaving with a straight razor. When I first started with a shavette I would get 5-10 tiny knicks. That lasted less than 10 shaves and I jumped to a traditional straight razor and never looked back.

I have never knicked my strop either while stropping my razor. Just take it slow until muscle memory kicks in on that part too.

 

[Darth Scandalous]

Ekstra.

 

[Steve56]

E.A. Berg, brush was a M&F Finest and all the software was Czech and Speake 88.

 

[haggis]

Hoshi Tombo 8000 | Shavemac Beagle | Noble Otter Two Kings x2

 

[RumpleBearskin]

CVH MK №22
DG Trismegistus
Heritage Collection Klenzo
Pinaud Clubman

Great start to the day. Now of you the hospital for a morning of being poked, prodded, and pictured.

 

[haggis]

May everything be where it belongs, and nothing where it doesn't.

 

[Matt O]

This is a great shaver…full size EPBD!

It certainly has what feels like a stiffer edge than the more common Filarmonica razors that I have used in the past.

I might be crazy, but some of my Filarmonica razors have extremely full hollow/thin/fine grinds, and they feel like they conform to my face….this felt and sounded like a full hollow, yet with a reinforced edge.

I liked it, and the shave was beautiful…just different.

 

[Eastcoast30]

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Hoshi Tombo 8000 | Shavemac Beagle | Noble Otter Two Kings x2

Short blade, big tail. The perfect kamisori in scales. I have one that I am quite fond of.

 

[totorlekiller]

The mysterious Sheffield razor with esoteric markings

 

[Yaron]

SOTD
Aiku Derby
Simpson Chubby 2
Penhaligon”s Bayolea shaving soap
Penhaligon”s Bayolea AS

 

[2bit_collie]

Sheffield week continues
Greaves 6/8 near wedge

 

[Mr Bedlington]

Hoshi Tombo 6500 First Edition
Strop Martin J.Rubin 4601 New York
Semogue LE Boar
Crabtree & Evelyn Moroccan Myrrh Soap
Frankincense Sweet Orange Neroli & Myrrh AS Balm
Jo Malone Myrrh & Tonka Bean Cologne Intense
#jamiemahoney​

 

[eezee]

11/16 Ed Wusthof #83

 

[sanookd]

F.W.Engels 11/16 Full Hollow
Grooming Dept Chamomile & Lemon Preshave
Knightsbridge Bergamot Shaving Cream
Lucky Tiger Face Tonic
Barrister & Mann Spice Aftershave Splash
Stirling Spice Aftershave Balm
Simpson Chubby 2 Super Badger Brush

 

[Straight up]

RAZOR: Comoy's of London 6/8"
CREAM: C&E Sienna
BRUSH: Maggards synthetic knot
STROP: Dovo double sided hanging leather
AFTERSHAVE: Jimmy Choo Man

 

[Ravenonrock]

Greaves & Sons

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[CongaJon]

Yasuki Special Steel,
Yaqi DE,
TOBS Sandalwood Cream.

 

[CRISANTO]

Beter 14, modelo XXX.

 

[camoloc]

Thiers Issard
CF Midnight Stag
24mm Yaqi Sagrada Familia Synth
Tony Miller Horween Strop
Surgical Black Ark Finish
CF Midnight Stag AS Splash

first time using midnight stag. to my nose, the gasoline scent battles with the Hoppes #9 bore solvent to determine who wins. on an odd note, my shower towel still carries the scent of B&M Lyssa that I used yesterday. combine Stag and the funeral flower smell of Lyssa.............downright creepy indeed.

happy Fall all. be well.

camo

 

[Darth Scandalous]

Herder. Whenever I get razor envy I just pull this one out of the case.