Thread: SOTD Monday Feb.25th - Sunday March 2nd

Savile Row Ebony SR3318, in Finest Silver Tip Badger, B&B group buy
Saint Charles Shave Lime Rose, SCS Limited Edition Shaving Cream
6/8, Thier-Issard, Straight Razor Place, Round Point, Limited Edition #173
"Tony Miller" Heirloom Artisan 3" Linen / Red Latigo Strop, 10 / 50
WWR
Alum
CWR
Royall Lyme AS
Saint Charles Shave Savory Rose ASM

Gave my two shaving razors another conservative pyramid and they shave a little better today. I'm not sure whether to keep honing a little at a time or just stop and shave with them for a while. For the first time though, I shaved my chin acceptably. I feel accomplished.

Hot shower
Trumpers Lime Skin Food as pre-shave
Trumpers Lime Shave Cream
Moss Scuttle (large)
Kent BK4
Wapi, honed by me
Tony Miller Heirloom Latigo 3" Strop
30x linen, 50x Leather
WTG
XTG
NO styptic
WWR
Alum
CWR
Trumpers Lime Skin Food
Clinique M Lotion
Issy Miyake cologne.

Shower, shave head...

Freedom Farms Cool Citrus Basil Soap
Boar Brush
6/8 Clements "High Speed" Round Point
Somewhere around 40 or so laps on a homebuilt strop (I lost count)

2X WTG
1X ATG

Cold Water Rinse
Dickenson's Witchazel
Dominica Bay Rum AS

One mighty fine shave

Preshave: Hot Towel treatment
Brush: Rooney 1/2 Finest
Razor: Simmons Howe 5/8
Cream: TOBS Avocado
Aftershave: Floris Elite Splash
Cologne: Floris Elite
Out the door: Aubrey Organics Green Tea and Gingko Moisturizer

P.M. Head shave

Preshave: Hot Towel treatment
Brush: Shavemac Silvertip
Razor: Headblade
Cream: Trumper Coconut
Aftershave: Trumper Limes

Hot shower
Face scrub
Provence Sante SS
C&E BBB
RW 7/8
WTG, XTG
Speick AS
Skin Food
Brooks Brothers 1818

Williams mug soap lather
5/8 Double Arrow (no stropping at all)
Noxzema beard soak, then lather on top
1x WTG -> WWR -> relather
1x XTG -> WWR
touchup -> tiny nick on side of beard (grrr!)
shower -> no bleeding
homemade lime AS -> sleep of the sound

Tuesday:
5/8 TI
Kent BK4
T&H West Indian Limes sc
Trumper's Lime Skinfood
Meehan Bay Rhum

Preshave: Hot Towel treatment
Brush: Rooney 3/2 Finest
Razor: Shumate 5/8
Cream: TOBS Sandalwood
Aftershave: Trumper Spanish Leather
Cologne: Trumper Spanish Leather
Out the door: Jack Black Double Duty Moisturizer

Badger & Blade, Limited Edition 2006 Finest Silvertip Badger in Horn
Castle Forbes Lime OE Shaving Cream
6/8 Genco, Revisor, Spike Point
"Tony Miller" Heirloom Artisan 3" Linen / Red Latigo Handled Strop, 10 / 50
WWR
Alum
CWR
Col. Ichabod Conk Lime AS
Mama Bear Summer Ice Milk, Lime Ice ASM

Tuesday Afternoon

Finished my first resto and sent it on it's maiden voyage.

Soak mug and brush in warm water for 5 minutes.

Lather
TOBS Lavender SC
Pure Glycerin

George Wostenholm IXL 5/8 Barber's Notch
TM Starter strop 50X

Steaming towel
Lather up
1X WTG
Rinse

Strop 20X
Lather up
1X XTG
Rinse

Strop 20x
Lather up
1X ATG
WWR
CWR

Dry razor
Strop 10X

Thayer's Medicated Superhazel with Aloe Vera
Aqua Velva AS

John