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Rockwell R3 (with Feather), Maggard 24mm synthetic, and Dr. Jon’s Savannah...
A while back I often recommended the $8 Ecotools Finishing Kabuki make-up brush as a frugal but good shaving brush. At the time, there were no synthetics in that price range, and the Ecotools wasn’t...
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A Tiny Town shave: Wee Scot, Meißner Tremonia, and Chiseled Face with iKon X3
The tiny tub is a sample of Meißner Tremonia’s Lavender de Luxe shaving paste, somewhat firmer than a shaving cream. Given the tub size, it seemed appropriate to use Simpson’s Wee Scot as the brush,...
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Comparison shave: Feather Popular and Dorco PL-602, with Eufros Haitian...
I was asked whether I preferred the feel and performance of the Dorco PL-602 or the Feather Popular, both being inexpensive razors likely to be selected by someone just dipping his toe into the DE...
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Things change: Inexpensive but good shaving brushes
For a while I recommended the Ecotools Finishing Kabuki (at left in photo) as a good but inexpensive shaving brush for the frugal novice. At the time, the Ecotools was $7.50 at Walgreens (in the...
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Tim’s Soap Greek Peach and the Maggard V3A
Tim’s Soap is closing its doors and going out of business. His soaps were available from a variety of vendors, as he says at the link, so you may be able to pick up a tub or two for a while, but the...
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Mr Pomp, Creed, and Wolfman
An extremely smooth and pleasant shave today. Mr Pomp made a superb lather from Creed’s Green Irish Tweed shaving soap, and the Wolfman bar-guard razor removed lather and stubble with equal ease,...
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iKon’s DLC slant, with Stirling brush and Strop Shoppe soap
I haven’t used my Stirling brush for a while, so picked it this morning. It’s a very nice little Plissoft: good knot, sort of stubby but pleasant handle. I easily got a top-notch lather from Strop...
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Semogue 830, Tim’s Ruby Red, and my 37G
I’ve made lather using the Semogue 830 shown a handful of times, and the brush seemed ready for a real shave. I generally prefer boar brushes with plain knots, lacking the dyed stripe, but I wanted to...
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Test driving the Kraken slant so you don’t have to
Recently a 3-D printed razor, and a slant at that, became available: the Kraken 248. I decided to try it. First, of course, the prep: My Semogue Owners Club boar brush is very gradually breaking in,...
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iKon Shavecraft X3, Omega boar, and Tim’s Wood & Roses soap
What a lovely shave! The bright side of shaving with the Kraken slant is that it makes you appreciate a good razor all the more. Today’s Tim’s Soap is Wood & Roses, and the Omega boar brush shown,...
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The Black Mamba, a great razor, with Meißner Tremonia Indian Flavour and the...
What a wonderful shave today! The prep was MR GLO, as is almost always the case, and then I used the Omega 20102 shown to make a great lather from Meißner Tremonia’s Indian Flavour shaving soap. I...
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Order your Rockwell 6S now: Price goes up $20 on Saturday
I just received an email from Rockwell. Among other things, it says: Now that all the pre-orders and free upgrade Rockwell 6S’s have been shipped out, we’re able to flip over to regular orders! Any new...
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The Rockwell with Otoko, and a Blenheim Bouquet finish
The Vie-Long brush shown was sold as a boar brush (the Bombito from Bullgoose Shaving), but it has always seemed like horsehair to me. I checked with Phil, and he told me that Vie-Long sold it as...
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Omega Pro 48, Strop Shoppe, Baby Smooth, and Bulgari
As you can tell, I’m working through the boar brushes. This is the best of the lot, probably because it’s the most broken in. Some say that this brush, the Omega 10048 (aka Pro 48), is too large for...
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Semogue 830 still struggling, but Catie’s Bubbles and the iKon were great
My Semogue 830 brush is slowly breaking in, though at this point I still have to reload the brush for the third pass. At one time I would have gotten rid of the brush as a bad brush, but now I have...
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The Rockwell backstory
“Trust but verify” was the formulation Henry Kissinger used, and it’s good advice. (One common manipulative appeal is “Don’t you trust me?” The answer is, “I do trust you, but I also verify. Doing both...
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Mr Pomp, Tcheon Fung Sing, Rockwell R6, and Paul Sebastian all walk into a...
Yesterday I happened to pick up this Tcheon Fung Sing soap, an artisanal soap from Italy, to use in making lather to continue breaking in my two Semogue brushes. (One reason I recommend Omega rather...
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Omega 21762, Tim’s Soap Signature, iKon X3, and Bathhouse splash
I continue to love the Omega 21762 boar brush and its incredibly soft knot, and I had no trouble getting a fine lather from Tim’s Soap Signature. After using my Rockwell R6 yesterday, the iKon...
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Gillette Aristocrat, Barrister & Mann Solstice, WSP Stubby, and Floïd
The Wet Shaving Products Stubby that I have—a take on the Simpson Chubby, I believe—is a bit of a lather hog, though I did get three passes from it. I think I may part ways with this brush, since I...
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Barrister & Mann and the Gillette Executive
My Whipped Dog silvertip, which is really quite a good brush, made a fine lather from Barrister & Mann’s Roam shaving soap. And the Gillette Executive (the gold-plated version of the Fat Boy) did...
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