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The turning point: The 7th (and likely final) edition of the Guide
Later tonight I will take the 6th edition of Leisureguy’s Guide to Gourmet Shaving: Shaving Made Enjoyable out of production. Copies will no longer be available on Amazon. By the end of the week, I...
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The NEW Stealth and a fine shave
That’s one of the Maggard branded shaving soaps, and it has a great fragrance and makes a very good lather. With the Omega beehive S-Series brush shown, I got a wonderful creamy lather. As usual with...
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Forbes article on iKon razors
Interesting article. One statistic from the article: Art of Shaving stores – a chained owned by Gillette – have been spreading and sales of safety razors there increased 1,000 percent from 2009 to...
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A perfect shave to start the day
Extremely good shave today. ChiseledFace on Wicked Edge pointed out that I’ve been neglecting my horsehair brushes, and so I deliberately bringing them back into the mainstream. I haven’t used this...
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The Holy Black returns—and the iKon H2O
Very nice shave indeed today. Two Vie-Long horsehair brushes are shown. The one one the left, at the end, is the one I used yesterday, and you’ll note its handle is a little smaller (though still...
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iKon S3S and The Holy Black
Another very good lather, this time from The Holy Black’s Sandalwood Smoke, made with a very nice little Vie-Long horsehair brush shown. The iKon S3S has much the same head design as the iKon 2-piece...
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Proof approved, book available
For now, only in the CreateSpace store: here. In 3-5 days, on Amazon.com. UPDATE: Link fixed.Filed under: Books, Shaving
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Soap Commander and RazoRock Baby Smooth
Soap Commander Love shaving soap, which has an excellent rose fragrance. I read someplace that he was going for the same fragrance as the now-discontinued Klar Kabinett, a very nice shaving soap. The...
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The Amazons (except .ca and .co.jp) now have the new edition listed
That didn’t take long: the Amazon sites .com, .co.uk, .de, .es, .fr, .it all have the book listed, and it’s Amazon Prime at .com and .co.uk. The book is not listed yet at .ca (and Amazon.ca does not...
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Mike’s Natural and the #102: Great shave
A very nice shave, typical of Monday morning. Mike’s Natural is a totally wonderful soap now that I know to start with a dampish brush and add 2-3 small driblets of water as I load the brush. The...
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Shaving with a prototype of the Heritage & Style adjustable DE razor
A BBS result from a shave with a prototype of a new adjustable razor. I had a very nice lather for it: the Vie-Long horsehair brush worked up a good lather with a wonderful fragrance from Essence of...
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The Valiant in detail
The Vie-Long horsehair brush is the brush I was using when I stumbled into my first really good lather. The problem was that I had not been loading the brush sufficiently, and one morning, lost in...
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Price of Guide to Gourmet shaving corrected on Amazon.es
The price apparently was simply an error, which has now been corrected. Amazon.ca still doesn’t list the new edition. If you want one from them, suggest they carry it and maybe they will list it.Filed...
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Vie-Long, Mystic Water, and the white bakelite slant
Excellent shave today. The brush shone was sold a while back as the “Bombito,” by Bullgoose Shaving. It was $15, and it’s a superb brush. I would swear that it’s horsehair, but Phil at Bullgoose told...
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Chiseled Face Summer Storm, with the Valiant and the Progress
Extremely good shave today. I brought out the Omega Pro 48 (model 10048), one of the Omega brushes sold on Amazon. Someone on Wicked Edge commented that he found the brush difficult to use in face...
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Perfect shave with D.R. Rose and the Standard
An extremely nice shave. The brush shown is one of my minuscule horsehair brushes, and it did a fine job with the D.R. Harris Rose shaving cream, as what brush would not. Extremely pleasant lather,...
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A perfect shave is a wonderful start to a week
After reading the lamentations of a man whose bakelite slant—like the one above—broke, I brought my own (still surviving, knock on wood) bakelite slant for a memorial shave. I am very glad I did. The...
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Brilliant shave: Wolfman Tech and Holy Black
That’s my Omega 11047 boar and badger brush, and it did a fine job with The Holy Black’s Bay Whiskey Lime shaving soap. I finally figured out a way to handle these truncated-cone pucks without losing...
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Another favorite razor: The Wolfman WR1-SB
The small Omega brush shown is a tiny badger brush (not to be confused with a tiny-badger brush). It holds ample lather and does a great job, and the Dapper Dragon Jasmine & Vanilla shaving soap...
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Tim’s Greek Peach with the Eclipse Red Ring
I used the Plisson brush and got a very good lather from Tim’s Greek Peach shave soap, which I found at Shave Revolution. No ingredients listed, but the lather was good. I assume it’s a typical...
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