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I used D.R. Harris Rose shaving cream and my Whipped Dog silvertip with the optional ceramic handle: a very nice little brush.
Loads of fragrant lather—rose is a great fragrance to start the day. Three easy passes with the iKon 2-piece stainless razor (I forget the model number) holding an Astra Superior Stainless blade, and a splash of Coral Skin Food to finish the shave and continue the rose.
UPDATE: Oops: the following paragraph is true, but it concerns the razor I’ll use tomorrow. The razor in the photo, which I used today, is the iKon S3S, a three-piece razor with an asymmetric head—the head is very like the head of the two-piece iKon, as you’ll see tomorrow. It’s by virtue of the three-piece construction that I was able to swap the regular S3S handle for the “bamboo” handle shown in the photo.
I made the error because I was setting up tomorrow’s shave and that razor is indeed the one described: I just jumped the gun.
The iKon is, like the Pils and unlike the various Merkur two-piece razors (the 34C “HD”, for example), in fact a two-piece razor: a cap, with the baseplate and handle permanently joined with a roller bearing (so that the handle can turn independently). The Merkur two-piece design attaches baseplate and handle in such a way that the handle cannot rotate independently. Thus to tighten the cap, some other means must be found. Merkur uses a hollow handle with an internal threaded shaft that can turn freely and is held inside the shaft by a friction ring: not exactly “two-piece.”
One small chin nick, put to rest promptly with My Nik Is Sealed.
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