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One post, two shaves
I simply forgot to blog yesterday’s shave, so I’m including it with today’s. When I ordered my new formulation Stirling Soap in Rose, Rod included a Rose in the old formulation so I could compare,...
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Three passes of lather from Hallows
The brush has indeed progressed well toward complete break-in. I got three passes of lather today from Barrister & Mann’s Hallows shaving soap. The lather at the third pass was perhaps a little...
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Super-nice shave with La Toja
Extremely nice shave this morning. The Vie-Long horsehair brush performed admirably, and the lather from my La Toja soap in a tree section was quite good. Three passes of the Eros slant, a good splash...
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Good shave with Tabula Rasa
The lather was wonderful, the shave okay. I think it was the fault of an aged Swedish Gillette blade rather than the British Gillette Aristocrat razor. Still, nicely done and with Creed’s Green Irish...
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Great shave with QED shave stick and Gillette NEW
Really wonderful shave today with BBS result and no nicks, using the long-toothed Gillette NEW introduced in 1931. I generally don’t use a boar brush with a shave stick because badger, horsehair, and...
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A great shave with great products
A great shave to celebrate the vernal equinox. The Omega silvertip brush shown is one of my favorites; it has a big, fluffy knot that holds an enormous amount of lather and feels wonderfully soft on...
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Fine shave with iKon straight bar
This is the same handle and cap as I used yesterday, but I substituted an iKon straight-bar baseplate for the asymmetric baseplate used yesterday. I turns out that I have a second iKon straight-bar...
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Excellent shave with my other iKon straight-bar head
A really excellent shave. The straight-bar head in stainless is contemporaneous with the handle: it’s model 2 of the iKon line, the polished-steel open-comb, with the straight-bar head purchased...
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The iKon Slant and Dr. Selby, with R&B
I had noticed that I was not using the iKon Slant so often as I expected, and that after an initial very positive experience I had started to encounter nicks. When a commenter mentioned his own...
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iKon Slant again
I plan to use the iKon slant daily in order to learn it better. Today’s lather was superb: my Plisson Chinese Grey clearly like HTGAM’s Gondolier shaving soap. I got BBS with three passes, but also...
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iKon Slant: I cracked the code
Totally wonderful shave today, and thanks to Phil Wilson. He mentioned in a comment that he had found the Personna Med Prep blade to work quite well in the slant. I don’t have those, but I do have a...
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iKon Slant a perfect razor once more
Today’s shave confirmed that the blade brand was the reason I was getting small nicks in recent months when using the iKon Slant. I had been very excited about the razor’s performance initially, but...
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The new Apollo razor: Quite good
A very good shave today, all round. First the lather was wonderful. I really like the I Coloniali shaving cream shown, and my little Omega badger brush made an extremely good lather and held enough...
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Standard razor, great shave
A really find shave today. First a terrific lather from Lenthèric, in a lavender fragrance. It’s a vintage soap, some decades old, but very sprightly at providing lather, this morning generated with a...
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Perfect shave: The blade’s the key
A totally wonderful shave today. The tiny Vie-Long horsehair brush did a fine job and held plenty of lather for 3 passes, and the lather, from the VintageBladesLLC.com private label soap was...
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Al’s Shaving soap and the Apollo Mikron
Good shave today. The Thäter is an exceptional brush—hooked bristles, as you see, and very compact and effective. Al’s shaving soap is pretty soft—the photo shows the head of the Mikron resting on the...
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Comparing two iKons
I was asked to compare the iKon OSS and the iKon Open Comb, so I used both this morning. First, of course, was the prep, and I again want to express my appreciation to Todd O. for telling me about the...
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Super smooth shave with Creed, Ecotools, and Ri Mei
The Ecotools continues to perform extremely well. I really do like this brush, for all that it’s a repurposed make-up brush (the Ecotools Finishing Kabuki Brush, around $7.50 in the cosmetics section...
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A perfect shave: iKon Slant, Otoko Organics, and Rooney Emilion
I could not ask for a better shave than this morning’s. The Rooney Emilion shown has an extremely nice knot: firm at the core, very soft at the tips, and arranged to be generous with the lather...
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The R&B brush, the Standard razor, and Klar Seifen
An excellent shave: the Omega R&B brush loaded up well from the Klar Seifen soap, an excellent soap. Three passes with the Standard razor, leading to a smooth finish, and a splash of Klar Seifen...
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