Saturday’s shave, which I forgot to post:
I’m finding myself growing gradually more forgetful—and noting also an increase in number of typos, wrong or missing words, etc.: the costs of aging. So on Saturday I failed to post the shave, which I was particularly wanting to post to highlight the British Gillette Aristocrat #12, a rhodium-plated TTO open-comb that is a very elegant razor.
First was the lather. Catie’s Bubbles is a very good shaving soap, and the tubs are substantial: half a pound. I got an immediate good lather with the grey badger Brusghguy.com brush—and I’m liking those brushes more now that I think of the knot as being like the Simpson Chubby 1 or Duke 3. I still prefer a longer loft, but I can use these quite happily, an effective little nub of a brush.
The Aristocrat did a good job but nothing special, so I think it’s (alas) time to replace its Astra Keramik Platinum blade. I prefer an amazing shave to an okay shave. Still, result was quite smooth, and I do like the Bulgarian Rose aftershave from Saint Charles Shave.
Today’s shave:
Now today was an amazing shave, just as I like. :)
Another fine lather from my Brushguy.com silvertip. This is the absinthe-scented version of Mickey Lee shaving soap—terrific lather, faint fragrance.
I wanted to try the iKon Shavecraft #102 slant using the handle from the iKon OSS razor. It worked beautifully. I think I might even prefer the OSS handle to the Bulldog handle. Blade was a relatively new Personna Lab Blue, and I was easily BBS after three passes.
A good splash of Pinaud’s Lilac Vegetal, whose initial fragrance is sort of off-putting, but then the dry-down is not unpleasant. But fragrances are the essence of YMMV.
Tomorrow’s shave—if I remember to blog it—will feature the Standard head on a UFO handle, another test: what the Standard is like with a hefty handle.
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