Shave of the Day 2014

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I found my last shickster hiding in the bottom of the blade box, and decided to give it a go.
I still don't understand the fuss about these blades. For some reason my face just doesn't like them but everyone elses loves them.

I'll persevere with it for a couple more shaves to see if it comes good, but I'm pretty sure I won't be bidding against any of you on ebay for these elusive blades.
 
First shave today with my new Feather stainless razor, I've been using a Muhlé R89 Grande for some time.
Feather blade.
Mitchell's wool fat mixed with Proazo red for my lather.
Mensbiz super badger brush.
I did three passes, W/X & A the grain.
Came out BBS! This has a mild feel, but it is very efficient and comfortable.
I think this might take over from my R89 as my daily razor!
 
eggbert said:
I found my last shickster hiding in the bottom of the blade box, and decided to give it a go.
I still don't understand the fuss about these blades. For some reason my face just doesn't like them but everyone elses loves them.

I'll persevere with it for a couple more shaves to see if it comes good, but I'm pretty sure I won't be bidding against any of you on ebay for these elusive blades.
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That's blasphemous. The uncultured Philistine stick has come down for a lot less than those utterances.
 
Third shave with the same brush!

Brush: PJ Special - vintage butterscotch Culmak re-knotted with a TGN finest
Soap/Cream: Mike's Natural Soaps Hungarian Lavender Shaving Soap
Razor: Eclipse Red Ring
Blade: Personna Blue (day four)
After-shave: Lucky Tiger
Cologne: Special Reserve Double Strength Genuine Ogallala Bay Rum Cologne

I normally rotate my brushes but this one is so great to use I'm enjoying sticking with it for a while.

I shower and shaved last night before going out rather than in the morning and wanted to be gentle on my face this morning - thus the Lucky Tiger followed by cologne. The Lucky Tiger is great for restoring faces!

The Mike's lathers really well - he knows what he is doing making soaps. I picked this up with another tin on YWW - not sure I like the scent of this one but gee it works well.

Wanted to go the whole hog with a cologne with sticking power as later today I'm going to the airport getting a briefing, strapping myself to a stranger, hoping into a small plane, ascending to 13,000 feet then jumping out of said plane.

I'm not good with heights (hope this is a good idea) but want to at least smell non-offensive to my strapped on stranger.
 
I survived - and shaved today :)

Pic of the view over my shoulder just before I'm about to fall out of the plane over CBR


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Pjotr said:
Did your instructor like your aftershave?
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Rats, forgot to ask. Was too busy freaking out!

He was a Yank too, maybe I should have done the Old Spice?
 
Pjotr said:
Same here. Where do you think I've read that! The one and only shaving video I've ever seen was that weirdo Mantic with his bloated face and bulging eyes doing a three pass with touch ups using a Feather. His skin looks like chopped liver. I almost gave the whole thing away after that. A part of me wished I had!
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Had you noticed http://paste-and-cut.com.au/community/members/mantic59.1132/ before you said that?
 
It is his birthday today, maybe you could make it up to him?
 
Nah. I just found myself on the members page earlier and noticed that it lists birthdays of the day on it.
 
Rockin' shave this morning. iKon SB w/ Perma-Sharp, Mike's Orange/Cedarwood/Pepper and Duke 2. Dense soap, dense brush makes for a thick lather with plenty of cushion. Good match for the sharp blade and angry razor. For aftershave, I switched up a little bit. I picked up a tub of shea butter in Sicily last year, and this stuff is interesting to say the least. It's only got three ingredients. Shea butter, vitamin E and some kind of binding agent. It's a little greasy but absorbs quick, and it leaves the skin feeling great. I wouldn't use it everyday, but it's a good cure for any lingering redness from an ATG pass. Nice to have in the den as a (relatively) natural post-shave option.
 
I am on day 3 with a Personna red and my face is quite bad with red bits everywhere. I could feel the blade pulling a bit.

So I am going to chuck it for tomorrow but the last time I tried one it lasted better than that.

Yeah, technique! But I did do a full on prep in my defence.

I might try and score some of those Perma Sharps from eBay too,seeing that you guys reckon that they are pretty good.

Also just a question. What is a shaving den, is it just your bathroom or do you have a dedicated room or some such thing?
 
Marlow said:
........Also just a question. What is a shaving den, is it just your bathroom or do you have a dedicated room or some such thing?
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To most it's just a dedicated space in the bathroom where you store your gear. To some it's an entire bathroom and to others it's half a house. Check out the pictures of your den thread over at B$B. It can get pretty obscene.
 
Thanks.
Off now to check it out as I will probably need to do some extensions to accomadate the electron microscope so that I can check my blades each morning.
 
Pjotr said:
Oops. Oh well. A similar observation nearly got me banned over at B$B. The fact that I didn't know he was a member wasn't considered relevant. I think it is!
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The fact @mantic59 is a member here is great. I am sure he has a sense of humour about it, unlike some admins at another shaving board. That, or we will see some philistine-esque voodoo doll slashing action with a 4-shave Feather in an upcoming video.

Lets face it, to do all those videos and post them to youtube - there's something wrong with the bloke. But I respect the body of work produced and the amount of people worldwide which he has brought into the wet-shaving fold. He even has his own link on the Paste&Cut footer!

There's even an e-book floating around, and it is free!
 
Pjotr said:
Same here. Where do you think I've read that! The one and only shaving video I've ever seen was that weirdo Mantic with his bloated face and bulging eyes doing a three pass with touch ups using a Feather. His skin looks like chopped liver. I almost gave the whole thing away after that. A part of me wished I had!
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