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10-07-2007, 03:36 PM
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Sunday October 7 thru Saturday October 13
MUSIC:
Simon & Garfunkel Various Tracks – Simon & Garfunkel (7” open reel)
4” Coors Mortar
Kent BK 8 Finest
Penhaligon Douro SC
StraightRazorPlace Ltd. Ed. TI #160 6/8 Round Point
TM Artisan 3” 20 on the Latigo / 30 on the Brushed
2 Passes
NO Styptic Pencil
WWR
CWR
Alum Bock
CWR
QED Da Vinci Water
Penhaligon Douro ASB
Penhaligon Douro EdT
Pinnaud Clubman Hair Tonic
Have an outstanding day!
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Jay
Deus vobiscum Memento vivere
B&B-LE #8
SRP-LE #160
TIPTLE #260
My Shaving Stuff
“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do."
John Ruskin
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10-07-2007, 06:01 PM
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Status: B.B. says to shave
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Location: TEXAS
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Hot shower
Wapi razor
TM #2 strop
Katmando soap by augustine_9 (ebay seller)
Vintage Rolls Royce Scuttle
My own blend of Clubman Pinuad, alcohol and WitchHazel
Great shave! 
Ernest
PS: Oh, I forget! My new foam cupholder/cooler I'm using to wipe the lather off my blade after each pass. No more using towels or rinsing under running water.
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10-08-2007, 05:19 AM
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Status: Senior Member
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Simpson Chubby 1 Super
Pre de Provence soap
3" TM Honey Brown Strop
5/8 TI Handforged
Masters Bay Rum
Nice Shave
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10-08-2007, 11:42 AM
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Monday!!
MUSIC:
Various Tracks – Hank Williams (7” open reel)
4” Coors Mortar
Simpson Chubby #1 Best
MB’s Dragon Tears SS
Dovo Bismarck Super 5/8 Round Point
TM Artisan 3” 20 on the Latigo / 30 on the Brushed
2 Passes
NO Styptic Pencil
WWR
CWR
Alum Bock
CWR
QED Da Vinci Water
Aqua Velva Ice Blue AS
SCS Lavendula & Oakmoss EdT
Pinnaud Eau de Portigal Hair Tonic
Have an outstanding day!
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Jay
Deus vobiscum Memento vivere
B&B-LE #8
SRP-LE #160
TIPTLE #260
My Shaving Stuff
“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do."
John Ruskin
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10-08-2007, 03:55 PM
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Status: Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Westchester NY
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Mon
Rooney 1 sm finest
TM RL #1 strop
Roger & Gallet L'homme soap
Eicker & Sohn 11/16 RP
Dominica lime a/s
Floris Limes EDT
Outstanding
Jordan
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10-08-2007, 05:35 PM
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Status: Junior Member
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gilroy, CA, USA
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Saturday
Razor: Merkur 37C Slant Bar HD Double Edged Safety Razor Chrome
Razor Blades: Feather High Stainless Platinum Double Edged Razor Blades
Brush: Rooney 22mm Style 2 Small Ivory Super Silvertip Badger Shave Brush
Bowl: Mitsuwa 5" Blue swirl hand thrown Japanese rice bowl
Shave Cream/Soap: The Gentlemen's Quarter Cavendish Black Glycerin Shave Soap
Aftershave: Thayer's Witch Hazel Aftershave
Sunday
Razor: Merkur 37C Slant Bar HD Double Edged Safety Razor Chrome
Razor Blades: Feather High Stainless Platinum Double Edged Razor Blades
Brush: Rooney 22mm Style 2 Small Ivory Super Silvertip Badger Shave Brush
Bowl: Mitsuwa 5" Blue swirl hand thrown Japanese rice bowl
Shave Cream/Soap: Kiss My Face Cool Mint Shave Cream
Aftershave: Thayer's Witch Hazel Aftershave
Today
Shower
Issy British Leather with Bass Ale Bar Soap
Shampoo/Conditioner: Avalon Organics Peppermint Revitalizing Conditioner w/Babassu Oil
Shampoo/Conditioner: Avalon Organics Peppermint Revitalizing Shampoo w/Babassu Oil
Facial Wash: Nivea Sensitive Skin Facial Wash
Deodorant: Burt's Bees Herbal Deodorant
Shave
Razor: Feather Artist Club DX Japanese Style Non-Folding Razor ACD-N
Razor: Merkur 500 Progress Adjustable Double Edged Safety Razor Chrome
Razor Blades: Feather Pro Guard Blades for Feather ACD-N
Razor Blades: Sharp Stainless Double Edged Razor Blades v2
Brush: Crabtree & Evelyn Edwin Jagger Made Brass & Faux Ebony Best Badger Shave Brush
Bowl: Mitsuwa 6" Beige shallow hand thrown Japanese bowl with side rest
Shave Cream/Soap: Floris London Elite Conditioning Shave Cream (Woody Scent)
Technique: WTG/45XTG/Cleanup
Post Shave
Aftershave: Thayer's Witch Hazel Aftershave
Aftershave: Pinaud Clubman Aftershave Talc
Result: 4.6/5.0 BBS with almost no irritation. The Merkur Progress razor at 3 with the Sharp blade made one sweet cutting sound. It was singing to me. The talc gives a nice finishing touch as usual. The shave I did on Sunday was done in the bathtub while I was soaking in a a menthol mineral solution. Ahhh...heaven. I did the shave totally by feel with no mirror. Definitely a different experience. Not one nick though.
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10-08-2007, 06:49 PM
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Status: Purveyor of Nonsense
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The Wire in WireBeard has been beaten!
Hot Shower
MB Marauder's Citrus SS
Moss Scuttle
W&B 11/16 Medium Size Hollow Grind (1/4 hollow)
Vulfix Silvertip
Stroppage: 10 on linen, 10 on 0.1 Chromium side of a pasted TM 4-side paddle strop, 10 on TM 2" horsehide, 10 on TM 2" Latigo
Lather, hot towel, re-lather
3 passes - WTG, ATG, XTG
No blood offerings to the razor gods....
Bigelow's Citrus after shave tonic
No balm required
This has to be the smoothest shave to date...BBS all over (even upper lip and jaw/chin) and near BBS even against the grain!
Between the blade and TM's amazing strops/paddles...this shave was amazing!
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- Abraham Lincoln, 1865
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10-08-2007, 07:36 PM
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Status: Senior Member
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Location: NYC
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Shower using Issy's Almond Soap and Proraso Shaving Cream on face as PreShave
Hot Towel
Savile Row 3126
MB Awakening Soap / Coates Tea Tree Cream (Superlather)
Moss Scuttle
Hot Towel While Lathered
TM #1 20 Linen / 40 Leather
J.A. Henckels 7/8 Friodur Square Point with Joe Chandler Kauri Scales
WTG/XTG/ ATG (neck only)
WWR
CWR
Alum Block
CWR
Thayers Witch Hazel with Aloe
Aqua Velva Ice Blue Aftershave
Im back in the Saddle Again. Still have a few areas of ungrowns...but first shave after almost 1 week. The Friodur was very nice...and got me very close
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10-08-2007, 08:35 PM
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Status: Senior Member
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Grandpa's tar soap
Pure badger brush
Dovo shavette
Was a quick one.
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10-09-2007, 04:25 AM
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Status: Senior Member
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Rooney 1/1 Super
Trumpers Violet soap
3" Handamerican Red Latigo Strop
6/8 TI SRP ed. #85
Trumpers CSF
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10-09-2007, 11:37 AM
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Status: Senior Member
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Tuesday
MUSIC:
None Today
4” Coors Mortar
Simpson Chubby #1 Best
DR Harris Almond SS
Heribert quarter ground 6/8 Spanish Point
TM Artisan 3” 20 on the Latigo / 30 on the Brushed
2 Passes
NO Styptic Pencil
WWR
CWR
Alum Bock
CWR
QED Da Vinci Water
Osage Rub
Geo F. Trumper Wild Fern AS
Geo F. Trumper Wild Fern Cologne
Pinnaud Eau de Portigal Hair Tonic
One small nick. That spike point is VERY sharp!!
Have an outstanding day!
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Jay
Deus vobiscum Memento vivere
B&B-LE #8
SRP-LE #160
TIPTLE #260
My Shaving Stuff
“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do."
John Ruskin
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10-09-2007, 01:01 PM
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Status: Senior Member 
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Heh, Jay - I thought it was a bit rounded? Anyway, glad to see this one saved
<24hrs of stubble 
Little Cutie
Honeybee Chamomile Shea soap
Clydesdale shell strop
Cuppla razors I had to test
Lanvin Aprege ASB
Grey Goose + diluted grape juice (taken internally - a drink a/r the shave)
While edges weren't all that - the shave was nice overall.
Little Cutie, back from a long absence, is in the top spot of my small brush rotation. I don't even try to reach for another brush. Really nice backbone, and quite soft tips, perfect density (I find my Plisson may be too dense, which makes it harder to soak - air pockets, you have to twist and turn to take care of them - and forget about a quick soak if you are impatient). Also - drop dead gorgeous, in my eyes 
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10-10-2007, 06:47 AM
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Status: Senior Member
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Wow, 2 in a row
and 3 days w/ consequitive shaves for me - pigs can fly 
Vintage silver brush
Speick cream
Clydesdale shell strop
IXL Wostenholm 5/8 extra long monkey tail
Trumper's alum
Trumper's CSF
9+/10 edge, nice shave
Cheers
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10-10-2007, 06:56 AM
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Status: Carbon-steel-aholic
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Bay Area CA, IE Hell...
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Freshly honed and paddle stropped
Bismarck 1068 strop 30 passes
Altesse silvertip
TGQ Autum Spice soap
"Barber's Delight" (robeson clone) 6/8
No AS
Well the second hone job took the first was a bit less than ready... oops. But given that it took a while for me to get an edge on the other Robeson I have, it was expected. Great shave and a good workhorse of a razor.
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10-10-2007, 11:39 AM
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Wednesday
MUSIC:
Two Lane Blacktop – James Taylor (vinyl)
4” Coors Mortar
Kent BK8 Finest
My Time Body and Bath Orchid E.O. SS (sample)
George Wostenholm Original Pipe Razor 5/8 Medium Hollow Ground
TM Artisan 3” 20 on the Latigo / 30 on the Brushed
2 Passes
NO Styptic Pencil
WWR
CWR
Alum Bock
CWR
QED Da Vinci Water
Italian Floid
L'Occitane Vetyver EdT
Pinnaud Eau de Quinine Hair Tonic
Have an outstanding day!
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Jay
Deus vobiscum Memento vivere
B&B-LE #8
SRP-LE #160
TIPTLE #260
My Shaving Stuff
“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do."
John Ruskin
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10-11-2007, 03:26 AM
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Status: Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Ohio
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Wednesday
Tackled 3 days growth and never blinked 
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10-11-2007, 04:20 AM
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Status: Senior Member
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Savile Row 3228 Silvertip
Mitchell's Wool Fat Soap
3" Handamerican Red Latigo - Diamond / Smooth
6/8+ Capitol
Thayers Lavender WH
Czech & Speake Cuba edt
Smooth Shave
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10-11-2007, 09:29 AM
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Four days' growth
Hot towel
GB Kent T4
Tabac soap - first time use
6/8 Puma Friseur Freund No.1 (honed by me!)
CSF Pre and Post shave
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10-11-2007, 11:36 AM
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Thursday
MUSIC:
Tapestry – Carole King (vinyl)
4” Coors Mortar
Vulfix #2233 Super
QED Wild Rose SS
L'Alpin Diamant Stahl 8/8 Full Hollow Ground Round Point
TM Artisan 3” Linen/Canvas 30 on the Linen
TM Artisan 3” 20 on the Latigo / 30 on the Brushed
2 Passes
NO Styptic Pencil
WWR
CWR
Alum Bock
CWR
QED Da Vinci Water
Osage Rub
Booster Oriental Spice AS
SCS Savory Rose EdT
Booster Sage Hair Tonic
Have an outstanding day!
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Jay
Deus vobiscum Memento vivere
B&B-LE #8
SRP-LE #160
TIPTLE #260
My Shaving Stuff
“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do."
John Ruskin
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10-12-2007, 01:58 AM
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Status: Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Ohio
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Prep:
TI Travel Strop:
10 on Brushed
30 on Latigo
Simpson Major in Super
After Shower:
T&H Hair Cream
English Fern Talc
Shave:
Taz's Potion Pre-Shave
Em's Skindicinal SC
Red Imp 5/8 133 Spike Point
3 Passes
WWR
CWS
AV AS
Em's Skindicinal ASB
Finish:
Pashana Eau de Cologne Hair Tonic
SCS New Spice EDT
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