SOTD December 7 - December 13, 2020

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SOTD December 7 - December 13, 2020

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Monday

Brush: Omega 13522 Pure
Cream: Erasmic
Razor: '52 Super Speed
Blade: Indian Wilkinson
A/S: Dollar Store Splash - Green / "Original"
Cologne / Fragrance: Brut Splash-On
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Zowada O1 custom, Martin de Candre soap, Rooney finest, Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet:

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Re: SOTD December 7 - December 13

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SOTD MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 2020

A bright sunny Pearl Harbor Day morning here in the Philadelphia suburbs. Seventy-nine years since the “day that will live in infamy”. My father fought in the Pacific as a young Marine Officer from Iwo Jima through the Japanese surrender. I dedicate this shave in his memory, and will briefly step away from my Feather DX focus to use what has become my favorite straight razor, my Manhattan Cutlery Sheffield Steel 13/16 for the mug shave. Continuing my den reduction safety razor review, this morning featured my Classic Shaving Occam’s DE, acquired a year ago and only used a few times. The MrEE Tuxedo Synth Aluminum handled ‘Monster’ easily whipped up the two kinds of MWF lathers I enjoy for my shaves - the thinner wet lather for my mug, and the thicker, yogurty lather for the noggin.

The three pass (WTG, ATG, XTG) mug shave with this wonderful straight was awesome. I selected the most aggressive plate, clearly modeled on the Eclipse Red Ring design, and completed an uneventful superb two pass (ATG, ATG) dome shave. The shave reminded me of my Eclipse Red Ring in feel, although the Occam’s Razor with the enhanced gold handle is heavier. I do like this razor, but do I need another Red Ring influenced shaver? I’ll have to think on this in light of the terrific shave it delivered. Should I sell it so someone else can give it the attention it deserves? It could easily, with its three plates and two top caps, serve as someone’s daily driver. Classic Shaving designed it as a razor for newer wet shavers, and it could serve in that role nicely. In any case I feel velveteen smooth, clean and refreshed.

RAZOR: Manhattan Cutlery Modified French Point 13/16 (Mug), Occam’s DE from Classic Shaving
BLADE: Feather DE
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: MrEE Aluminum Handle Monster Tuxedo Synth
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with Williams Aqua Velva (Spanish Version).
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Re: SOTD December 7 - December 13, 2020

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Semogue 830
Homemade sandalwood soap
Rockwell 6S plate 5
Gillette Silver Blue day 1
Dr. Galen aftershave tonic

The Semogue is growing on me. I used Semogue boars more or less all summer and most of the winter and have come to really appreciate many of them. The 830 was not on that list until today. It seems to have turned a corner in lather-holding capacity.
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Re: SOTD December 7 - December 13, 2020

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This will be today's combination; at least we know the Mappin & Webb will be good, as will the Crown Perfumery Eau de Quinine. I have never had any love for Provence Santé soap, but maybe the super soft and fine bristles of the Ostrich brush will wake it up. It will still stink, though!

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SOTD TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 2020

It’s a cool, gray 32 degrees Farenheit here in the Philadelphia suburbs. After our governor’s Covid presentation yesterday, I’m seriously tempted to retreat to an A-Bomb shelter! It’s bad out there, and not getting any better. As an advanced member of the danger demographic it’s not looking good for our country health nor economy-wise. All I have to fall back on are the pleasure of my morning shaves and return to my Feather DX focus. And this morning’s shave was one of the better ones, thank goodness. I selected my beautiful silver plated Valet Auto Strop Model VB2, and stropped the contained carbon steel Feather FAS-10 blade for forty strokes. The wonderful Sapele/Resin handled Pro48 built by an extremely talented Canuckian turner friend at TSD, performed beautifully. It effortlessly created the two different lathers I like for my dome and mug shaves. The result was a foregone conclusion, two great shaves, one with an open edge on the mug and the other with a classic, vintage safety razor on the dome. I feel refreshed, clean and smoothly velveteen!

RAZOR: Wood Handled Feather DX (Mug), Valet Auto Strop Model VB2
BLADE: Feather Super AC (Mug), Feather FAS-10 Carbon Steel (Dome)
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: Sapele/Resin Handled Pro48 Boar
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold Water wash with brush squeezings followed by Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with Krampert’s Frostbite AS Splash.
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Re: SOTD December 7 - December 13, 2020

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Razor: 1949-ish Gillette Super Speed w Polsilver blade
Brush: Jagger synthetic silvertip
Soap: The Mug o' Remnants
A/S: Epsilon Blue
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drmoss_ca wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 7:17 am This will be today's combination; at least we know the Mappin & Webb will be good, as will the Crown Perfumery Eau de Quinine. I have never had any love for Provence Santé soap, but maybe the super soft and fine bristles of the Ostrich brush will wake it up. It will still stink, though!


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Well, how did the date end?

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It smelled awful, and made so-so lather.
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Re: SOTD December 7 - December 13, 2020

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Wednesday

Brush: Omega 13522 Pure
Cream: Erasmic
Razor: '52 Super Speed
Blade: Indian Wilkinson
A/S: Gillette Aftershave Gel, Sensitive Skin
Cologne / Fragrance: Aramis

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I'm still puzzling over the final order of finishing hones, so a bunch of razors yesterday went on the 2k-lapped UF, then the 2k-lapped black Arkansas. The first of them, the little Abraham Knyn 4/8 did a stellar job today, with the aid of Institut Karité soap, a Simpson Beaufort B6, and some Penhaligon's Douro:

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C&E Moroccan Myrrh soap
Omega 80097 boar brush
Colonial General razor
Kai Captain Original blade
Aqua Velva Sport aftershave
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SOTD WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 2020

Well, my DX focus is over! I really missed shaving with my regular straights; besides, my DX shaves were exemplary. Time to return to a regular straight, and one that never disappoints is my C-Mon Special 11/16. For the dome I pulled out the Ronson which delivered a great shave the last time I used it. Needless to say, the mug and noggin shaves were a delight this morning. Both my straight razor and safety razor delivered refreshing, clean, velveteen smooth shaves.

RAZOR: C-Mon Special 11/16 (Mug), Ronson Safety Razor (Dome)
BLADE: Schick Proline B-20
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: JR Rosewood Silvertip Badger #378
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with Pre de Provence Bergamot & Thyme AS Balm.
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SOTD THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 2020

The sun is coming up as I write this on what looks to be a bright, cold, sunny day in the Philadelphia suburbs. This morning I selected a Gillette gold plated British Rocket for the dome and a straight razor I haven’t used in a while, the Genco 35, for my mug shave. My regular shave prep consists of a cold water rinse followed by a good scrub with Argan Oil. Everything went swimmingly well along with some rudimentary schooling. The three pass (WTG, ATG, XTG) mug shave went well until I decided that I could buff a small section of my right cheek without lubricant. I knew better, and my hubris against the shave gods resulted in the first cut I’ve had in quite some time. It was quickly addressed with styptic gel. Perfecting open edge shaving, at least for me, has been through aversive conditioning. Note to self, do not cowboy about! Always use lather for every shave stroke. The dome shave, on the other hand, went quite well. The Rocket, while not a favorite dome shaver, always does the job when equipped with a Feather blade. Two ATG passes put the baby to bed leaving me refreshed, chastened, yet still velveteen smooth. The score, Shave Gods 1, Jeff 0!

RAZOR: Genco 35 5/8 (Mug), British Gillette Rocket (Dome)
BLADE: Feather DE
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: Alpha Shaving T-400 Tribute with 26mm Two Band Badger
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with Pre de Provence Bergamot & Thyme AS Balm.
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Spear Wedge 4/8, Haslinger Sandelholz, Rooney Finest, Woods of Windsor EdT:

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MWF soap
Omega 80097 boar brush
Maggard V3A razor
Gillette Platinum Plus blade
Aqua Velva Sport aftershave
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Re: SOTD December 7 - December 13, 2020

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SOTD FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11, 2020

Welcome to Fatboy Wool Fat Friday! I was up early this morning and decided to pull my long neglected Fatboy out for this morning’s noggin shave. And as Monty Python was known to say as the opener to a sketch, “and now for something completely different!”. Although I had my first straight shave more than 5 yrs ago, there’s been quite a gap between that first shave and my straight shaves this year. So in addition to the Covid plague, 2020 has seen my return to straight shaving which for the most part has been with traditional folding western straight razors. For this morning’s mug shave I selected the Kai Captain Kamisori Clone and loaded a Feather Super.

My regular shave prep consists of a cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil. My soaking Viking Silvertip Badger whipped up the two kinds of MWF lathers I enjoy after exiting the shower. The shave that followed was excellent. After my punishment by the Shave Gods yesterday morning, I took particular care not to aggravate the site of my punishment and completed a velveteen close three pass (WTG, ATG, XTG) mug shave. The dome shave was a surprise! Usually my Fatboy delivers a ‘meh’ shave, but for whatever reason, opened up to 9, it sheared through the noggin whiskers with aplomb in two (ATG, ATG) passes, leaving me cool, clean, refreshed and velveteen smooth!

RAZOR: Kai Captain Kamisori Clone (Mug), Gillette Fatboy (Dome)
BLADE: Kai DE
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: Viking Silvertip Badger
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Humphreys Lilac WH and Osage Rub.
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J C Cast Steel wedge, Pré de Provence, Autruche brush, Trumper's Ajaccio Violets:

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Pré de Provence is pretty awful. Not as bad as Provence Santé, but still not worth wasting time on.
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The original Hart prototype, Trumper Sandalwood soap in a trad scuttle, Simpson E3, Trumper Sandalwood cologne:

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Now that was a shave!
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SOTD SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, 2020

This morning’s shave featured two of my favorite shave tools, the Dubl Duck Goldedge 11/16 and my Star DE which dates to the 1940s. It was developed by the American Safety Razor Corp. to compete with the highly successful Gillette Tech. This particular razor originated in a box of NOS found in a warehouse in Brooklyn, NY during a clean out where they’d been sitting for almost 70 yrs. The shave is a bit more aggressive than the Tech, and I have found that fitted with a Kai, which I shaved with today, or a Feather, delivers an exemplary noggin shave. There’s really not much more to say other than I retuned the DD Goldedge blade on my jasper stone last night. Stropping on pasted linen and then leather was just the ticket for today’s mug shave. Two ATG passes with the the Star DE on the dome and three (WTG, ATG, XTG) passes with the DD Goldedge for the mug left me refreshed, cool, clean and smoothly velveteen!

RAZOR: Dubl Duck Goldedge 11/16 (Mug), Star DE (Dome)
BLADE: Kai DE
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: Viking Silvertip Badger
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Humphreys Lilac WH and Osage Rub.
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