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Very smooth result, with the fragrance of a Rusty Nail
A very nice shave, and Essence of Scotland’s Sweet Gale responded extremely well to the HJM, giving me as creamy a lather as it’s ever offered—and with the scotch whisky plus heather honey fragrance...
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Shave #16 with the Meißner Tremonia sample
The photos were all out of focus—no idea why—but the photo is familiar: the white bowl, the brush (my Plisson synthetic), the aftershave (Penhaligon’s Blenheim Bouquet), and the razor, in this case a...
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Learning shaving products
User cgdntx asked an interesting question on Wicked Edge this morning: “When you try a new product, how long do you give it?” He was specifically asking about Mitchell’s Wool Fat shaving soap, which...
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Starting the Super Speed series with the first Super Speed
This is the first Super Speed Gillette offered in the 1940s—the one in the photo has an unnotched center post. (A notch was added fairly soon to make it easier to pull the blade from the dispenser.)...
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A red-tipped Rocket and Neat Lathering™
In yesterday’s post and the comments that followed I figured out that loading in the brush is a thing—something that repays mindful attention—so today I selected another soap sold in full (rather than...
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Gillette Red-Tipped Super Speed and the art of loading the brush
An extremely nice shave today. Once again I picked a soap that’s sold in a full (rather than partially empty) container, this time Strop Shoppe’s Lemon Eucalyptus. Although the Simpson Emperor 3 shown...
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Gillette TV Super Speed and the new RazoRock synthetic brush
Very nice shave indeed today. I used another shaving soap that is sold in full containers, Martin de Candre. As you see, the soap goes to the very brim, but is in fact not at all messy if you pay...
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Smooth shave with sequential superlather
Extremely fine result. I selected one of Shannon’s Soaps and had no problems neatly loading my Copper Hat shaving brush. The razor today is a flare-tip Super Speed, and as you can see in comparing it...
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Very nice review of the Guide to Gourmet Shaving
I just read this review on Amazon.com and am chuffed by it. The reviewer really did a comprehensive review. (I’ve noticed that Amazon reviews in general have recently tended to be shorter, around 140...
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Esbjerg and the iKon DLC slant
An extremely good shave today, though I had to eke out the Esbjerg shaving cream with a bit of shaving soap. I apparently used too much yesterday to get a full lather today. So it goes. But the Kent...
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Gillette Rocket and Maggard Lilac, comparing RazoRock and Plisson angel-hair...
Sometime last week I said I’d do a side-by-side comparison of RazoRock’s new angel-hair synthetic and the Plisson angel-hair synthetic. The soap today is Maggard Razors Lilac, which has a wonderful...
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iKon Shavecraft #102 back in stock
They’re back—for now. Get one while you can. It’s the razor I always seem to pick when I can have only one razor (as on a trip).Filed under: Shaving
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Wonderful shave with Gillette Aristocrat Jr. and Connecticut Yankee shaving soap
A very fine shave today. The brush shown is the Wet Shaving Products Prince, a very nice little silvertip badger brush, and the soap is Razor Emporium’s re-creation of the original of the Williams...
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Long-lofted brush, Meißner Tremonia, and the Above the Tie S1 slant
Very fine shave today. The brush shown, with the snakewood handle, I purchased some years back from Strop Shoppe, mainly because of the handle. When I got it and used it the first time, I was somewhat...
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Another Joris razor up for sale
Another palladium-plated Joris open comb razor, listed here.Filed under: Shaving
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Great shave starting a “travel” series
An Australian reader (hi, Eddie) asked me to devote some shaves to travel-oriented kit—shave sticks and small brushes, for example. So I’m beginning today with the Simpson Case, which was known as the...
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Fasan slant up for auction
This somewhat aggressive slant is now listed on eBay. It’s in fine condition, just a tad more aggressive than I like.Filed under: Shaving
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Two brushes, two razors, and Meißner Tremonia’s Elemi shaving soap
I wanted to compare the feel and performance of the two RazoRock brushes shown, and also show the difference between two quite similar Gillette razors: the 1940’s Aristocrat (on the left) and the...
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Stupendous shave: Baby Omega badger, D.R. Harris shave stick, and the first...
A really superb shave today, thanks perhaps in part to the two-day stubble. Shower, wash beard with MR GLO, rinse partially with a splash, and then rub the D.R. Harris shave stick against the grain...
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A travel sort of shave: Mühle travel brush, Mama Bear shave stick, Anthony...
A very fine shave indeed. The Mühle travel brush shown is my favorite of travel brushes (other than small regular brushes). It is extremely well designed, and several types of knots are available:...
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