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Very nice shave with very good soap
A very fine shave today. I do like Strop Shoppe shaving soaps a lot, and not simply because she (unlike most artisan soapmakers) actually sell full tubs of the soap rather than tubs that are half...
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Tuesday’s shave and today’s
I am embarrassed that I forgot to post Tuesday’s shave, which was quite good: The shave above was done on Tusday. Sweet Gale has a wonderful fragrance, exactly like a Rusty Nail cocktail. And I got a...
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DE safety razors recognized in the NY Times
It’s taken a long time for the mainstream media to wake up to what’s happening in the world of traditional wetshaving. But the continuing (and apparently even accelerating) growth has finally caught...
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Wholly Kaw and fine shave
A very pleasant shave, though at the end I did switch out the Swedish Gillette blade for a new blade: a little too much work on the ATG pass. But first, the prep. Mr Pomp remains a favorite brush, and...
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Great shave, and thoughts on lathering
A wonderful shave today, with a BBS result with little effort. I used the Wet Shaving Products Monarch brush shown and Martin de Candre’s excellent shaving soap. In this case, the soap goes to the...
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What shaving should be: Great shave to start the week
A really fine shave today, and Maggard shaving soaps are first-rate, though personally I do not like the packaging: the tub is 2″ high, which leaves 1 1/8″ of empty space above the soap—that is, the...
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BBS with ATT
A very nice shave indeed—D.R. Harris is a great shaving soap, and the Arlington shown is quite nice. As shown in the photo, the soap (unlike Martin de Candre, for example) does not come up to the very...
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Perfect shave from Tech Gillette wearing a Feather blade
A really terrific shave today. The Simpson Persian Jar made an instant good lather from the Los Angles Shaving Soap Company’s shaving soap. I got this one from MaggardRazors.com, and I understand that...
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Perfect shave today
Very wonderful shave. I used my Rod Need brush—this one has a coin from the year of my birth embedded in the base—and TOBS Lavender, which immediately yielded a very fine lather. I now see that the...
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Perfect smoothness with a little help from razor and lather
Absolutely perfect result today. It began with the Simpson Duke 2 Best and my artisanal organic-asses’-milk shaving soap. You’ll note that the tin is filled to the very brim with soap, but lathering...
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Perfect smoothness once more: the Shavecraft #102
Extremely good shave today. I got a good lather with the Omega 20102, starting with a drying brush and adding small amounts of water as I loaded the brush. The gap between soap and brim in this tin of...
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Shaving bowl in a restaurant
You can tell The Wife has picked up on the shaving stuff. We had dinner at Fandango’s for our Thanksgiving meal, and she pointed out that her dessert bowl would make a good shaving bowl: And another...
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Perfect BBS with iKon DLC Slant
I’m getting to have the same attitude toward my good slants as I did toward my fountain pens: the one I’m using at the time is my favorite. They are all so good that I would hate to choose. First, a...
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Perfect shave once more, with basic tools
A wonderful shave today. The fragrance of Mickey Lee Soapworks Cocoa Maya is not in my range, somehow: I get very little of a fragrance hit from it. But the lather it makes is totally superb:...
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BBS with ATT slant—and Dr. Selby likes badger better than synthetic
A couple of shaves back, I used Dr. Selby’s 3x Concentrated shaving cream with the Plisson Synthetic, and the lather was not quite what I was accustomed to from this shaving cream: it was somewhat...
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Super smooth with the Stealth
An extremely fine shave today. Why wait for a three-day stubble when you can get perfect smoothness from a one-day stubble? A slant helps, of course. I got a very nice lather with the R&B Omega...
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Excellent shave in under 5 minutes
Today was a timed shave. I had said on Wicked_Edge that loading the brush takes about 10-15 seconds, and someone thought that was unrealistic: he felt that a minute was more like it. I feel pretty...
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LA Shaving Soap Company: Razor, brush, & soap
Another BBS result, using (mostly) an order I received yesterday from LA Shaving Soap Company. The razor is their entry in the high-quality, solid stainless razor field: the BBS-1, which sells at...
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A perfect shave: WSP, Mickey Lee, Above the Tie slant, UFO handle
What a wonderful shave today—enjoyment and absolutely baby-smooth skin at the end. Mickey Lee shaving soaps are excellent, IMO, and I really like The Drunken Goat—check out its ingredients in the...
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Terrific new synthetic shaving brush from Omega: $5.17
I just got this brush and have made a test lather with it. It is extremely good: a soft yet resilient knot, efficient at making lather and comfortable on the face. The feel is of a well-broken-in boar...
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