What straight did you use today? Now with PICTURES

[Straight up]

@Straight up I thought that you were TI shaving this week. I will be trying my Comoy's of London for the first time on Friday. All other days this week are booked with other SR's. I honed it up yesterday. Needed to set the bevel and finished by putting it through a full diamond pasted balsa strop progression.

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That's the one.
I have 5 of the buggers and am using that set this week. They were so cheap and they give the nice razors a breather for a week thereby extending their precious lives

 

[R7photo]

 

[2bit_collie]

Another first shave with a recently-acquired razor.

WR Case & Sons “Manganese”
Trumper’s Violet soap
SOC boar

The Case did a great job on two passes. The Trumper’s which had improved greatly after I grated it, was back to its normal rotten performance. Oh well.

 

[Chard52142]

Razor J.R. Torrey 5/8
Missed my little Torrey...and today it gives me an outstanding shave! Being a workday...had limited time for SR but this razor is so nimble & the edge is so good (jnat)...3passes for a dfs/ccs result.

 

[ebonysw45]

Just received and honed.

Vintage badger Rubberset
Potter & Moore soap
13/16 Puma My Darling
English Leather Aftershave

 

[oscar11]

Puma 22
Stirling Sheep
Homemade boar

A well used but not abused old Puma, great shaver.

 

[haggis]

Heljestrand MK No. 42 | Simpson Duke 3 Two-Band Silvertip | Stirling Scots Pine x2

 

[Steve56]

Wade and Butcher, cream and AS were AdP, and a SOC boar did the lathering. It doesn‘t get much better, a perfect shave.

 

[Darth Scandalous]

Heljestrand MK 30, Yaqi Mountain Lake Two Band, Sandpiper, and Lilac Vegetal splash. This razor wowed me again. And the brush is quickly rising to the top of the pack too.

 

[RumpleBearskin]

Wade & Butcher FBU
Rick Montalvo
Razor Emporium, Barbershop (sample)
TOBS Eaton College

After abusing my face with too much wind and sun on Sunday, and then taking it easy with the mild GEM Featherweight yesterday, the big gun came out today. Wonderful BBS result with zero irritation.

Today was the second experience with the RE Barbershop. It was every bit as good as the first. It was easy to produce a wonderful lather that was very slick, rinsed off very easily, and left a great post-shave feel.

 

[Matt O]

Today's shave was with one of my five T.R. Cadman "Bengall" SR's. This SR has an attitude problem.

I was happily shaving away on my final pass, total concentration as normal, when the edge of this recalcitrant razor had the nerve to bite me!

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Definitely not operator error. Must be the tool.

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Too big for the alum so toilet paper was required.

How dare that razor bite you…you prince!

 

[Matt O]

Wade & Butcher that got a regrind somewhere along the way…quintessential Sheffield Steel, a grind that rivals all others, and an almost invisible bevel near the edge…it’s my Excalibur!

 

[Ravenonrock]

Friedr. Baurman & Sohne

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[Straight up]

RAZOR: Comoy's Of London 6/8"
CREAM: C&E Sienna
BRUSH: Jack the Barber synthetic knot
STROP: Black Beauty double sided hanging leather
AFTERSHAVE: Proraso Green

 

[CongaJon]

Going all modern (by my standards) tonight!
Henckels Inox, DLC-Yaqi, Stick Schick,
Edwin Jagger Best laying down
Eleven Shaving Cedar, Vetiver and Sweetgrass.
Finished off w/ Black Ship Hoptoberfest.

 

[Frank Shaves]

BaBa 77 takes the new, larger Ozuku for its first drive. Sharp and smooth. Same feel as the smaller Ozuku I bought one year ago from Maksim. Could not be happier!

 

[Christian1212]

Heljestrand mk 31 in ivory. Was a purchase from awhile ago so I went 6k 8k 12k then linen and leather. Was weird shaving off the 12k after not using it for so long. Very easy and smooth shave but definitely more aftershave burn then normal hah. Back to the naturals but definitely happy the 12k is in the arsenal.

 

[CRISANTO]

Baurmann, 5/8, Solingen, to Coutellerie Pradel, Vesoult, France, "Pour peau sensible".

 

[2bit_collie]

I’ve been scoring my sourdough with the tip of a Watanabe petty, which works OK. Last week I honed a Rodgers full hollow that is cracked near the heel and thus not safe for shaving. But the plan was to use it as a lame for scoring bread. You can see that the Rodgers did a fantastic job scoring the soft dough. So I did find a job for what otherwise would be a useless razor.

 

[DrStrange]

I’ve been scoring my sourdough with the tip of a Watanabe petty, which works OK. Last week I honed a Rodgers full hollow that is cracked near the heel and thus not safe for shaving. But the plan was to use it as a lame for scoring bread. You can see that the Rodgers did a fantastic job scoring the soft dough. So I did find a job for what otherwise would be a useless razor.
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What straight did you use today? Hmm... yes I see.
I have some that I actually do use for letter openers.
I never thought about those before in relation to this thread.
Thanks!