Thread: SOTD Sun Jun 28th - Sat Jul 4th 2009 American Steel for Independence Day Week

Racquets SC-BALM-EDT | Plisson 8 HMW | Livi 6/8

Originally Posted by Garry

Ok .. firstly , sorry no US steel blade used . However has to share the shave with you guys .

My first HEAD shave with a straight ( 01:00am 4th July GMT )
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Cheers Garry

Way to go Garry!! You da man!

Robert Williams CPM-S30V Stainless 7/8" square point elephant ivory scales
Straight Razor Designs 3" Leather Strop
Straight Razor Designs Scuttle
Straight Razor Designs Sandlewood Shaving Soap
CVS Pharmacy Boar's Hair Shaving Brush (about the 8th time I've ever used and it STILL sheds about 50 hairs per use... I am done with it)
Old Spice Classic After Shave

Prep: C & E face scrub
Strop: TM horse hide
Brush: Shavemac 23 mm Silver Tip
SC: Truefitt and Hill Trafalgar
Razor: 7/8s Thistle Cut - New York, U.S.A.
AS: Royall Musk

Shave: Wow!!

HBS Tea Tree EO SS
Semogue 1305 Boar Brush
Geneva Cutlery 5/8 round point
Old Spice AS
Vicco Turmeric Cream

It's Sunday here now, but there's no new thread yet so I'll post mine here.

Strop: IRC #127, 10 laps linen, 20 laps leather
Brush: Semogue 2015 (Silvertip with oak handle)
Soap: Omega Sapone da Barba
Razor: W.H Morley & Sons Barber's notch
AS: Ogallala Bay Rum aftershave & toner (really does tone - my face has never felt so tight!)

BBS, even though I got too confident and tried buffing on my jawline to get some stubborn chin whiskers - decent nick in there, fortunately not a bad bleeder.

Razor : C&H Birkendahl 5/8
Shaving cream : Купа fresh
Brush : Четкпром - Тетевен
AS : Top Ten Active

Good Sunday morning all...

A.Feist & Co 5/8
C&E BBB
Godrej Menthol Mist
Thayers Original WH w/ aloe
444 asb
Alcolada Glacial splash
Royall Lyme all purpose splash

A bit of overkill on this slow moving Sunday...time enough for the hot towel and straight with a good first pass and a slight nick on the second but a decent shave nonetheless. The styptic pencil worked just fine and I feel good about making progress with the straight.

Nathan