Wade & Butcher Magnum Bonum…truly a delightful shave!
What straight did you use today? Now with PICTURES
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Can a shave be oxymoronic? Did I just make up a word?
Klass Tornblom, Eskiltuna with scales by Acer, New Taipei City.
2-band badger knot with handle by Momo laying down Stirling Alighieri soap, running slick(s).
Schick Stick handling the edging and a Gillette Fat Boy for a fat head!
Klass Tornblom, Eskiltuna with scales by Acer, New Taipei City.
2-band badger knot with handle by Momo laying down Stirling Alighieri soap, running slick(s).
Schick Stick handling the edging and a Gillette Fat Boy for a fat head!
Feon Kikuboshi 6800
Strop Martin J. Rubin 4601 New York
Morris & Forndran Beehive in Antique Ivory and Tortoiseshell
Mitchell's Wool Fat
Viktor & Rolf Spice Bomb Extreme Balm
Viktor & Rolf Spice Bomb Extreme Edp
#jamiemahoney
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Robert Wiliams 7/8 Classic | Simpson Duke 3 Manchurian | Tallow+Steel Boreal x2
Steve56
Ask me about shaving naked!
Unknown maker orihi kamisori, cream was SMN lathered with a Keyhole 3, and Agua Balsamica finished up a superb shave.
Fascinating kamisori.
Puma
Friedrich Baurmann & Sohne "Comfort 40" -- After using a SE, and DE this week I decided on SR shave w/good results and no blood drawn. I was reflecting on my "SR Journey" (SR shave #6 this morning) and realized that I didn't follow any of the recommendations about beginning to use Straight Razors (they were all good sound tips and advice), but I'm cheap, stubborn, and I like a challenge (okay, I'm mostly cheap). I happened across this razor and a Bresduck Strop for under $20 at an antique store, and after much research, sandpaper, elbow grease and neat's-foot oil, restored them to usable condition. I bought lapping film, a piece of marble tile and spray bottle, then set the bevel with the burr method and honed the blade w/lapping film and stropped on the linen and leather, and between this razor and another obtained off of eBay (and restored), I've been getting shaves in. Are they the best edges giving the best shaves I could possible get? Absolutely not, but they will be as I continue learning to hone a better edge (I promise to get a loupe as well, (probably a cheap one though)) and stropping (will eventually move to balsa). My first set of scales won't be the best peened ones when I decide to re-scale and hone the 5/8 Wade & Butcher wedge blade I have waiting, but the second or third set will be better. This isn't crowing/attention seeking (I'd give myself a C+/B- grade overall). I learned a lot in the process, so I wanted to bring attention to and thank the many old heads here on B&B who freely (read no charge!) share their knowledge, advice, encouragement and photos/videos to anyone willing to seek it out. I also wanted to be on the record that it's possible (not advisable though, as a ready razor would've been a GREAT place to start) for an absolute newbie to learn enough here on B&B to restore, hone and strop a razor well enough to shave (and gain an appreciation for SRs) for under $60.
a shave so nice I did it twice.... (in a row).
but with a different brush, a different soap. same razor. same bathroom. same face.
so yeah, twice in a row.
9/7/21
5/8 Dovo-Inox
9/9/21
13/16 Bengall
5/8 Dovo-Inox
9/9/21
13/16 Bengall
Dorko 42
Readjusted edge
how was the honing?
Dorko 42 tonight with a bit of Cella
RAZOR: S.K Collings & Co 5/8"
CREAM: C&E Sienna
BRUSH: Jack the Barber Synthetic knot
STROP: Black Beauty double sided hanging leather
AFTERSHAVE: CK Eternity
CREAM: C&E Sienna
BRUSH: Jack the Barber Synthetic knot
STROP: Black Beauty double sided hanging leather
AFTERSHAVE: CK Eternity
