SOTD "British Razors" Theme Week 14-20 July 2014

sarimento1 said:

fram, just a couple suggestions, perhaps spend more time prepping the chin and neck. I use a bar of glycerin face soap and smear it heavily over the stubble, then massage and lather it well, rinse partly, and proceed from there to lather with shave soap. even if I bowl lather, I will also spend extra time face lathering with the shave soap. Also, hydrate your shave lather more, with a spoonful or so of hot water into the brush, from time to time as you lather and as you shave.

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Thanks for the tip. In my years of shaving I haven't tried glycerin as prep. For today's shave I took a shower as prep but it didn't seem to change anything. I normally don't use any prep other than face lathering and get excellent tug free shaves out of my SEs- on the chin too. The exception being while using carbon steel blades. Now, I've heard that carbon steel can be polarizing but I'm not sure about getting a stainless steel straight because I imagine the coating that makes stainless blades so smooth will not be there

fram773 said:

Thanks for the tip. In my years of shaving I haven't tried glycerin as prep. For today's shave I took a shower as prep but it didn't seem to change anything. I normally don't use any prep other than face lathering and get excellent tug free shaves out of my SEs- on the chin too. The exception being while using carbon steel blades. Now, I've heard that carbon steel can be polarizing but I'm not sure about getting a stainless steel straight because I imagine the coating that makes stainless blades so smooth will not be there

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There's nothing wrong with a carbon steel straight blade. In "general", carbon steel edges will be as sharp, or even sharper, than stainless steel edges. In my limited experience, stainless blades just will not oxidize and might keep the edge a little longer than carbon steel. To my knowledge, there are no special coatings on stainless steel straight blades, as there are on stainless DE blades.

Re prep, the suggestion is not glycerin, but rather a bar of glycerin soap. Such as Neutrogena or Musgo. I used to apply preshave oil, but have largely switched to a preshave glycerin soap as preshave prep. Either one, however, is great; don't skimp and use a nice amount of product, massaged well.

Proraso pre-shave
Simpson X2 Best Badger
RazoRock Son of Zeus
Panny Arc 5
Witch Hazel
GFT Coral Skin Food

Monday

USA: GEM Contour
USA: GEM blade
USA: Stirling Iced Coffee
USA: Aqua Velva
Italy: Omega 40033

* Wonderful photos, gentlemen!

Tallapoc said:

14-7-2014


Water and soap :: Myrsol, emulsión :: Druida, Michelle, Macassar ebony, high mountain white 26mm :: Aqua di Parma :: Pils, astra(#2) :: Myrsol, fórmula k :: Aqua di Parma, bálsamo :: Aqua di Parma, colonia


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mkiraly said:

Gillette NEW LC in rhodium
Gillette Spoiler (1)
TGN 24mm Finest Badger
Mike's Bay Rum
RazoRock Baby Blue

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Have a great day, all!​

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bmilcs said:

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MONDAY

ABOVE THE TIE KRONOS R1
TREET PLATINUM
PRORASO GREEN CREAM
SEMOGUE 620
MYRSOL FORMULA K


A+ SHAVE

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Chrisarelli said:

Proraso | Simpson Tulip 2 | Mike's Rose and Cedarwood | Rocket LD | Myrsol Formula C

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ikos said:

Proraso pre-shave
Simpson X2 Best Badger
RazoRock Son of Zeus
Panny Arc 5
Witch Hazel
GFT Coral Skin Food

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7.14.14

TOBS sandalwood
Parker black badger
Tepco mug
Peter J. Michael's C-Mon 5/8
Shae butter

July 14 - all british shave
MWF & NGT pure badger - face lather
Aristocrat #66
NGT grapefruit & sandalwood after shave balm
Vintage English Leather

2014-07-14 "Salad Shave II The Revenge"



Night Prep Glenova Rosa Mosqueta
Pears/Shave Oil SS
C&S Oxford and Cambridge/FS Silvertip 21 mm
Merkur Vision/Personna Blue Med
Hot washcloth/LGA AS Lotion/Cool washcloth+Rose Water Ice/Lab Series AS Balm/C&S Oxford and Cambridge

Great shot fellas!

Thank you Witeq
Celestino... Canadian go home!

Tuesday

Prep: Hot Shower-Stirling Scots Pine Bath Soap
Soap: Stirling Glastonbury
Razor: Gillette Slim [6]
Blade: Viking’s Sword (1)
Brush: oscar11 TGN 2-Band Finest-24mmx50mm
Aftershave: Fine American Blend

WTG-XTG-ATG (adjusted angles for my beard)

My first shave with the Stirling Glastonbury (great scent). I loaded up a new Viking’s Sword in my Slim and went to town. Excellent smooth, close, nick free shave. I finished up with Fine American Blend. Another great scent by Fine Accoutrements!

Bob

Tuesday

Vulfix 660
VDH soap
G20 scuttle
ikon slant
Red IP
Alum block
Witch hazel
Master bay rum

AlfredoT said:

2014-07-14 "Salad Shave II The Revenge"



Night Prep Glenova Rosa Mosqueta
Pears/Shave Oil SS
C&S Oxford and Cambridge/FS Silvertip 21 mm
Merkur Vision/Personna Blue Med
Hot washcloth/LGA AS Lotion/Cool washcloth+Rose Water Ice/Lab Series AS Balm/C&S Oxford and Cambridge


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wow! Some salad! Good thing you pulled out the monster Vision to cut it up!

Great shave the one that you get with this British razor. It is a pity that Gillette does not produce such kind of razors anymore.

Bye!