Mick (turtle) former Steward in the Cafe and Shaving Soap forum.

I came to B&B in 2011 looking for a recommendation for a recommended replacement DE blade as I had run out of the stash of Gillette Spoilers I had amassed a couple decades prior.

I've been wet shaving since the mid 1960's and for all of the time up until finding and joining in here at B&B I shaved with the same razor, brush, and shaving mug for over 40 years. I came to B&B looking for a recommendation for blades as I had run out of the ones I stockpiled years earlier and found that Gillette no longer made the Spoiler blades. Since joining B&B I have expanded my horizons far beyond my old Gillette Super Adjustable razor and have shaved with just about every DE, SE, and Injector razor ever made.

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GEM / Ever Ready

• GEM Micromatic safety bar bullet handle (Flying Wing)
• Ever Ready (English) model 1912
• Ever Ready model 1924

Open-comb Razors

• Joris Lined Palladium
• Leresche
• BRW Custom Gillette NEW Long Comb
• BRW Custom Gillette NEW Short Comb
• BRW Custom Gillette R41

Solid-bar Razors

• PILS 101NE stainless
• BRW Custom Gillette Tech
• BRW Custom Gillette Carlo Walnut handled Tech and Brush set
• Gillette Blue tip
• Gillette Black tip
• Gillette 40's style Super Speed
• Gillette Rocket HD (British)

Adjustable Razors

• Merkur Futur
• Merkur Vision 2000
• BRW Custom Merkur Bull Progress
• Gillette Long Handle Super Adjustable
• Gillette Short Handle Super Adjustable

Injector Razors

• PAL adjustable
• Schick model G-1
• Schick model G-6 clear amber handle
• Schick model I-2 Hydro-Magic
• Schick model J Hydro-Magic
• Schick model K-3 Hydro-Magic
• Schick Grip model (tennis racket handle)

Straight Razors

• Thiers Issard 6/8 Spartacus
• Whitham short 6/8 razor

DE Blades

• Astra SP
• Feather New Hi-Stainless
• Personna Super Blue (lab and med)
• Personna Red
• Voskhod Teflon
• Polsilver

SE Blades

• GEM stainless steel PTFE coated
• GEM carbon steel
• TREET carbon steel

Injector Blades

• GEM stainless steel PTFE coated
• Schick Hydro-Magic
• Schick Krona
• Personna 74

Bowl/Scuttle Lathering Brushes

• Da Vinci 290 Globe Handle
• Trumpers branded Simpsons Harvard H6
• Vie Long 13061 (horse Hair)
• Custom Thomas Anthony Afzelia burl super silvertip brush
• Custom Pat Camara Amboyna Burl silvertip 24mm at 55mm loft
• Custom BRW Carlo Walnut silvertip 24mm at 58mm loft (set)

Face Lathering Brushes

• Da Vinci 293 Bead Handle
• Rooney Heritage 3XL Stubby
• Simpsons Duke 2
• Rudy Vey custom handle with a TGN 20mm silver tip set at 45mm loft
• Restored Rubberset 200-1 barber's handle with TGN 20mm Best at 50mm loft
• Muhle 19mm synthetic (as a travel brush)

Shave Sticks

• Arko
• Irisch Moos
• LaToja
• Palmolive
• Speick
• Tabac
• Wake Up

Soaps

• Cade
• Cella
• Figaro
• P.160
• Valobra
• Vitos
• Old Spice
• Mitchells Wool Fat
• Queen Charlotte Rose Otto
• Shave Library Hemingway
• Crabtree & Evelyn Nomad
• Crabtree & Evelyn Sandalwood
• Crabtree & Evelyn Sienna
• D.R. Harris Arlington
• Truefitt & Hill Luxury
• Williams
• Van der Hagen

Creams

• Truefitt & Hill 1805
• Truefitt & Hill Grafton
• Truefitt & Hill Trafalgar
• Gentalman's refinery
• Trumpers Coconunt oil
• Trumpers Sandalwood
• Trumpers Rose
• Trumpers Lavender
• Real Shaving company (RS)
• Kiss My Face Lavender
• Kiss My Face Bamboo & Green Tea
• Kiss My Face Key Lime
• ToBS Sandlewood
• Old Spice (Shulton - India)
• Proaso
• LaToja

Splashes

• 4711
• Pinaud Clubman (original)
• Pinaud Clubman Musk
• Pinaud Clubman Special Reserve
• Pinaud Clubman Virgin Island Bay Rum
• Pinaud Clubman Lilac Vegatal
• Pinaud tres Floras
• Pinaud Draggon Nauar
• Master topaz
• Master Challange
• Master Lilac Vegatol
• Master Musk
• Old Spice Shoulton (India)
• Barbasol Brisk
• Aqua Velva Ice

Balms

• Avon Wild Country
• Avon Black Suade
• Truefitt & Hill 1805
• Neutrogena sensitive
• Caswell-Massey Sandalwood
• Caswell-Massey Eucalyptus

• Caswell-Massey Tricorn
• Caswell-Massey Sandalwood
• Caswell-Massey Verbena
• Caswell-Massey Jockey Club
• Caswell-Massey Lime
• Caswell-Massey Number six
• Crabtree & Evelyn Nomad
• Penhaligons Sartorial
• Penhaligons Opus 1870
• Penhaligons English Fern
• Grey Flannel
• Truefitt & Hill Spanish Leather

Scuttles, Mugs, Bowls, & etc.

• Georgetown G5 Scuttle
• Georgetown G20 Scuttle
• Georgetown Ambrose Brush Scuttle
• World Market gravey server (brush scuttle)
• Dirty Bird Lather bowl
• Stainless Steel bowls

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