Vie-Long horsehair brush, Barrister & Mann Leviathan, and the Rockwell R4

I have two of these horsehair brushes, handles very slightly different. This is the smaller, but it works just fine: horsehair brushes generate lather easily and release it without complaint. They do require the same sort of pre-soak as does boar.

The brush did a fine job with Barrister & Mann’s Leviathan: lovely lather, fine fragrance, great glide. With the R4 plate on my Rockwell 6S, the shave was a snap: three passes, BBS result, no nicks or other problems. The Rockwell 6S is a redoubtable razor.

A splash of Leviathan aftershave, and we wrap up the week—and what a week it has been.