My visit to Victoria resulted in three shaving purchases shown in the photo.
The Copper Hat has its own line of brushes, and that’s one of them. The handle is made of Delrin™, a plastic dense and tough enough to be used for gears, and the silvertip knot is soft and resilient at once.
The soap has a very nice fragrance and seems exceptionally hard. At first it seems that the brush is doing nothing, but soon the loading is visible, though with little lather on the soap. I add just a little water and load some more, and it does fine. The lather is not quite so dense as with some soaps, but quite workable.
I am still becoming accustomed to my Blackbird razor, and I have resisted taking a honing stone to the sharp corners, though that may happen in time. I still don’t find it a fully comfortable razor, and in particular the XTG pass seems challenging, but it is undoubtedly efficient. I got a BBS result with no nicks by shaving with some care. I feel the blade’s edge distinctly with this razor, and I do not get the feeling that I could not nick myself if I tried—more a feeling that if I don’t shave carefully, I will nick myself, though to be fair I have not yet had a nick from the razor in three shaves. More shaves are needed to get comfortable with it. It will probably appear again this week.
The big discovery was the Anthony Gold Red Cedar aftershave. The brush is remarkably good, but good silvertip brushes are not particularly rare—I have several, in fact—whereas aftershave with a good clear red-cedar fragrance are uncommon. This one has the fragrance and in addition feels good on the face—i.e., there’s more to it than water, alcohol, and fragrance. Quite nice.
It’s raining cats and dogs here, a welcome experience.
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