Thread: SOTD Monday Feb.18th - Sunday Feb.24th

Monday:
9/16 Joseph Allen
Simpson's Special best
AOS Lavender ss
SCS Lavender a/s milk
Trumper's Eau de Portugal

Another Monday morning, This morning is a test shave on a razor for a member here at SRP just finished honing this one up....



Steaming hot towel prep x 4
Hot water rinse
Build the Uberlather using a 28mm Silvertip Ebony Shavemac

Extreme Cushion Uberlather:
The Body Shop shave cream
Mitchell's Wool Fat shave soap
Pure Glycerin

Hot water rinse
Lather up
Razor: A Northfield Cutlery co 5/8 Barbers Notch
Strop Illinois #827 Russian
50 laps linen
60 laps leather
Steaming hot towel over the lather
Re-lather
My test for razors is pretty extreme I go ATG right off the bat, and they better not pull..... This one passed
Hot water rinse
Re-lather
20 laps leather
XTG
Touch up on beard lines
Hot water rinse
Cold water rinse
Coffee Time!!!! Write in the SOTD, Relax!!!!!

Hot Shower
Cold water rinse
Aftershave: Royall Bay Rhum AS




Have a Great Day!!!!

Simpson Chubby 1 Super
C&E Sandalwood Soap
3" TM Honey Brown Strop
5/8 TI PT Handforged
D.R. Harris Sandalwood AS
Floris Santal EDT

A great shave I had not used the brush or razor in a while and just did a couple laps on the
Escher for a touch up and had a very nice shave. The Chubby 1 is a great brush

Solingen 6/8 round tip
C&E BBB
Georgetown scuttle
Speick SC
Speick AS

Savile Row Ebony SR3318, in Finest Silver Tip Badger, B&B group buy
Cyril R.Salter French Vetiver Shaving Cream
5/8 Cutlery World 7802 Solingen, Round Point
WWR
Alum
CWR
QED Vetiver EO After Shave Skin Conditioner Balm
Guerlain Vetiver EDT

7/8 W&B wedge
TM latigo linen
Simpson PJ2 super
Tryphon permafrost
Proraso ASB

HWR- my sink pours water all over the floor and into the cabinet. Try the second sink and find the same thing
conditioner
strop20 linen 30 leather. I would strop more but the pins are so loose I kept having to stop my strokes to make sure I would not roll the edge. It was 30 half assed strokes at best
Gather up all of my gear to the downstaris bathroom sink where there is only a sink a toilet and a towel rack. Go to make my hot towel and guess what that sink is leaking. So I fill it with water and plug the drain.
Hot towel
lather
wait for lather to soak in while I have a smoke
hot towel from the microwave over lather
relather and shave 2 passes. This razor is not shaving what it should be and I have a good deal of irritation after the shave.

I think I went at this for an hour today. There you have it. A bad shave in the SOTD forum. Maybe I ought to only post here when I have a really good shave but I thought I should share.

Tuesday Morning....


5/8 Waterville
C&E Best Badger
TM #1 Horsehide - 40 Laps
Mitchell's Wool Fat
Lather
Hot, wet towel over the lather
three passes, two WTG, one WTG, XTG, ATG
Thayer's lavender Witch Hazel

Another Super Shave!

* Just recieved the C&E Best Badger in the mail yesterday. Great reviews at B&B! I was very dissappointed in this brush! Yea, it was only $35.00, but in lieu of the reviews @ B&B, I decided to buy it. Very floppy & not dense at all. Dissapointment!!

** My fourth shave with the Mitchell's Wool Fat. This soap has given me my best shaves since I started Str8 shaving a year age. Yes, lathering is tricky, but it can be solved. Very slippery! - The big thing about this soap is the quality of the shave it produces and how your skin feels afterwards. Yes, you need a good edge and good shaving techniques - but all in all, I feel this will be, and is, my #1 go to soap!

MUSIC:
Three – Bob James (CD)

Coates Tea Tree SC
B&B ’06 Ltd. Ed. Finest in Horn
“Sweet Sue” TI LE Hammer 5/8 Quarter Hollow Notch Point
SCS Aqua ASM
Creed Green Irish Tweed EdT

I felt like some Old Spice tonight

Joseph Allen 5/8 barber's notch
TM RL x 50
HBS Old Spice SS
C&E BBB
WTG, ATG
Strop x 20
ATG
Old Spice AS
Ray's Skin Food

Shavemac, Custom in finest badger, Knot Size 23 mm in black
Mama Bear's Spicy Lime Shaving Soap
5/8 J. Wostenholm & Son
WWR
Alum
CWR
Col. Ichabod Conk Lime Aftershave
QED Lime EO After Shave Skin Conditioner Balm
Mama Bear's Spicy Lime EDC