An extremely pleasant and smooth shave, and the pleasure began with the Simpson Persian Jar brush and the excellent shaving soap I bought some years back from Vintage Blades LLC when the company was still in Maryland. (Since then, the company was sold because the proprietor retired, and it is now located in Idaho.) My understanding is that this soap amounts to the traditional lavender-fragranced Truefitt & Hill (from before the reformulation and outsourcing). Thus it is another soap lost now in the mists of time.
Still, I have my tub, and the lather was really excellent. The Stealth, modeled on the Merkur white bakelite I used yesterday (though with some tweaks), did a superb job: smooth, comfortable, and leaving a BBS result. Apparently the Stealth requires excellent angle control because (I read) the effective cutting angle has a narrow range. My natural angle must hit this range spot-on, since I’ve never experienced any difficulty at all in getting it to cut, but I have read that some struggle to keep the angle right.
Three passes, a rinse, dry, and good splash of Annick Goutal’s Eau de Sud, and the day looks much better.
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