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The always enjoyable perfect shave
A totally wonderful shave. It began with a pre-shave beard wash using Jlocke98′s formula, this time with emu oil. Given the quality of the shave, I’m going to try that one again. The brush has a...
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A “plain” Strop Shoppe shaving soap
The soap today is the “regular” Strop Shoppe soap: no tallow, not Special Edition. It’s just plain old superb shaving soap. The 2011 Pogonotomy horsehair shaving brush, by Vie-Long, immediately...
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Horse, badger, and the Rotbart
The title sounds somewhat as if the post should start, “Once upon a time…” The horsehair+badger Vie-Long brush with the Reddit Snoo shown is my Wicked_Edge brush, and it does a fine job. It’s a...
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A smooth shave but no shame felt
Another BBS shave, and a very fine shave it was. As you see, I used my Ecotools Finishing Kabuki for my shave brush. The title reference is to this comment on Reddit’s Wicked_Edge: I know that some...
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A premium shave today
Today I went top-drawer, stimulated by a comment thread to my previous shaving using (on the whole) very economical tools: the Sodial razor (head: the action part) and the Ecotools Finishing Kabuki...
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Remarkably good shave with various discoveries along the way
First, a comment on the Brent ebony-handled brush. This has a knot similar to that in my Strop Shopee snakewood brush: very soft and fluffy. I realized that I was not exploiting that...
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Perfect shave with the comfortable, efficient DLC Weber
Another efficient and also comfortable razor: the Weber DLC—and indeed all the Weber family. But first, the lather: Wee Scot easily worked up a fine lather from my tin of Klar Seifen shaving soap....
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Perfectly smooth once more
Once more with a BBS result. Occasionally someone will ask what’s the point of a very smooth shave since within a few hours roughness reappears. To my mind, that’s like asking what’s the point of a...
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Frank and the ARC
A really perfect shave today: totally BBS. Someone had commented on the Frank Shaving brushes, so I decided to trot out mine: a good brush at an excellent price. The soap today was Stirling Shaving...
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The iKon Slant & Mystic Water
I went with the Semogue Owners Club brush. As a precaution, based on my previous Semogue experience, I also soaked the Omega Pro 48 boar brush. In both cases, I wet the knot thoroughly under the...
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iKon Slant and Merkur Slant, along with Al’s Shaving
I wanted to play around with different handles, so today the iKon head rests atop the UFO Zeus XL handle. But first, the prep—always. I used the Jlocke98 formula with olive oil this morning, and it...
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BBS with the iKon Slant
An extremely good shave today. After discussing the Omega 11047 mixed boar/badger brush, I decided to use the little guy. The soap is new to me but the ingredients look good: Made with Avocado Oil,...
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Another tiny-brush shave—with an enormous puck
The Omega Bambino (also available with a white handle) is a terrific little shaving brush, good for home or travel. It easily held enough lather for three passes, and an excellent lather it was. On...
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BBS with a tiny shave
A small-scale shave today. The Rooney Style 3, Size 2 is included just for scale, though perhaps the bakelite slant would have provided that. When I saw the tiny puck, a sample of Woodsy Lavender from...
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Another tiny-brush shave
In addition to the boar+badger 11047, Omega makes a baby badger brush (not, I hasten to add, a baby-badger brush), with a knot somewhat larger (in terms of bloom) and coarser than the Wee Scot. The...
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Super-smooth shave, extremely pleasant
An extremely smooth result today. I used my tiny Vie-Long horsehair brush today, and I couldn’t resist returning to my HTGAM soap: it makes a totally wonderful lather and the large-surfaced puck makes...
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Sandalwood is great
Somehow I tend to get lids crooked or upside down and bottles backwards. This time I managed to cover the brand of shaving soap with the little Vie-Long badger+horse shaving brush. The soap is Mike’s...
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Super shave and blade finding
This will be boar-brush week. I got four new Omegas, and I’m using them. I had read that those with the dyed band break in faster, so I’m trying a few. I like the look and feel of the one above, but I...
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New favorite Omega boar brush
A WEdger pointed out this brush to me, and I really like it. It’s not broken in—I tried it out once when I got it, so this is its second use—but already I had no problem in getting three passes from...
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Surprising brush, excellent blade, fine shave
Really superb shave today. First, the surprising brush: I do have to say that on its first use today, the banded Omega Pro 20248—the banded equivalent of the Pro 48 (10048)—seemed already to be broken...
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