The brush is a Plissoft by Plisson, as it were, and a very nice brush it is, too. I do miss Strop Shoppe, which made excellent soaps, and I treasure those that I have, including Pêche, which has a bountiful peach fragrance similar to Tim’s Greek Peach, also an orphan soap.
I was cleaning up my razors to sell a few more, and I had the iKon DLC-coated stainless slant on the block (shown here on iKon’s SE handle), but I played with it a bit too much and lost interest in selling it. It’s a beautiful razor, IMO. iKon moved to the current B1 coating when some of the DLC models had problems with the coating peeling away. I got one of the very first ones made, and I’ve never had the slightest problem with the coating, but the B1 coating is by all accounts better overall.
The problem I’ve had with this razor (and the reason I seldom use it) is that it has a tendency to nick me on the XTG pass, particularly on the upper lip. (Note how I attribute the problem to my razor rather than to, say, my technique.) Today I took special care to keep the pressure light, and I didn’t have a single nick. Instead, I had a totally enjoyable shave and a BBS result. I think now that my technique had just gotten sloppy, and that perhaps is also the source of the problems I’ve recently had with the Maggard slant, the Fine slant, and the PAA Bakelite slant. So I’m going to try those again and focus on keeping the pressure lighter.
A good splash of Zi’ Peppino finished the shave, and I’m looking forward to the week despite Comey’s Hallowe’en surprise.
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