Shave of the Day 2015

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Rather preoccupied for todays shave - the usual focussed mindfulness was rattling with "ETW"s and "WTS"s haha

Face Wash : O Melhor Exfoliating Pre-Shave Soap
Pre Shave : Draco Noir Pre-Shave Oil
Brush : Epsilon Horsehair
Soap : Martin de Candre Original
Razor : Kamisori - Hoshi Tombo 6000
After Shave Splash : Myrsol Metilsol
After After Shave : Eau de L'Occitan

A all round nice shave nevertheless, until I cut my finger while cleaning the razor in isopropyl alcohol - talk about sting.............
 
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SOTD Saturday, 3/10/2015
Cold water shave
Pre-shave: Bloom water
Soap: Shaver Heaven, Ginger Snap
Brush: Edwin Jagger badger
Razor: Gold Monkey 6/8

After 2 weeks of using the kamisori I decided to move back to one of the straights this morning.

Ginger snap by Shaver Heaven is an interesting offering. Like all of @Anthony's soap, performance is second to none. Great lather, good performance/glide, retains moisture content for the entire pass. The interesting part is the scent. Ginger Snap is just that; a very sweet aroma. I've used it 4 times now and each time it reminds me of Nan's old fashioned Christmas puddings she would prepare for days before the big family feast. You remember the one; so full of fruit and goodies, including the sixpences (wrapped in Alfoil to be reused every year as Decimal currency came into circulation 14 February 1966) that it weighted about 2 ton. That's why hot custard was essential; break the mass up and wash it down. Just too "sweet" for my nose.

Anyway, back to the shave. Great to be using a straight again. I did have one nick though. I was so busy admiring how smooth the straight was performing I wasn't watching the blade properly. As I placed it back to my neck, the lump from my Adam's apple being slightly higher bore a slight nick.

Good performing soap with an "interesting" scent (by no means unpleasant though; just different). Great performing straight.

Happy days. Especially when the MIGHTY NQ COWBOYS take out the NRL Grand Final tomorrow evening.
 
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Pre-Shave: Occams pre-shave soap, cold water
Razor: ATT M1 Kronos (kindly loaned by @Draco Noir)
Blade: Voskhod (1)
Brush: Semogue 610
Soap: Barrister & Mann Lime, Lavender & Cedarwood
Post-shave: Alum, Stirling Vetiver alcohol free Witch Hazel, South Australian Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil​

Really nice shave with the M1 plate, smooth and close - not quiet BBS - but I will give it a couple more tries. Finally managed to get a boar out again, after seeing it in a beautiful SOTD pic over at the Nook. Boy they are so sparse. I now understand, why some refer to all boars as floppy. It's not the actual hair, it's the sparsely packed knot...

I wonder, if one day those boar brush makers realise what I really want: a brush with SOC like hair, 26mm+ knot, shorter lofted, more densely packed, a nice resin handle and NO FAKE BADGER BAND!!! Will be a pain to break in, but then it could be a truly amazing brush. They should have a look what Vie-Long did with the Epsilon - but I would assume this was more the making of @Gifts&Care.com
 
Pre-Shave: Proraso Green
Brush: Jack Black
Soap: Ingrams
Razor: Mergress XL (2) :)
Blade: Voskhod (1)
After Shave: Proraso

My second shave with the Mergress. @stillshunter advised that the Gillette I used last shave might not be the best blade to start with in the adjustable so I went for a Voskhod at his suggestion. A nice blade and a nice shave. The Ingrams soap/cream was excellent but I used way too much and I had foam overflowing from the bowl. I quite liked the scent - rose maybe?
 


Brush: Eplison Horsehair
Razor: Maggard
Soap: Soap Commander Gusto

Good shave today with the soap commander summer scent. It seems that summer has come early, so I used the soap. Great raspberry lemonade scent and good performance.
 
CRC32 said:
Pre-Shave: Proraso Green
Brush: Jack Black
Soap: Ingrams
Razor: Mergress XL (2) :)
Blade: Voskhod (1)
After Shave: Proraso

My second shave with the Mergress. @stillshunter advised that the Gillette I used last shave might not be the best blade to start with in the adjustable so I went for a Voskhod at his suggestion. A nice blade and a nice shave. The Ingrams soap/cream was excellent but I used way too much and I had foam overflowing from the bowl. I quite liked the scent - rose maybe?
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Great to hear you're bonding a little more with the Mergress XL mate - so do you think she's a keeper?
So the Voshkod was a little more comfortable? Another nice blade in it I found was the Permasharp Super, Gillette Blacks and the Personna Blue - even the Rapira doesn't go too badly.

alfredus said:
I wonder, if one day those boar brush makers realise what I really want: a brush with SOC like hair, 26mm+ knot, shorter lofted, more densely packed, a nice resin handle and NO FAKE BADGER BAND!!! Will be a pain to break in, but then it could be a truly amazing brush. They should have a look what Vie-Long did with the Epsilon - but I would assume this was more the making of @Gifts&Care.com
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Definitely put me down for one of these brushes too please mate!
 
Kamisori: Benkei
Brush: Omega S10108
Soap: Bald As Olive/Lanolin
Aftershave: Truefitt & Hill 1805

Shave was good. I did extra passes in order to practise my technique, so on the neck there's a little warmth from over-shaving but not too much. Afterwards I had a nice little win with the post-shave stropping so I'm very satisfied.

Bring on tomorrow evening's tilt!
 
khun_diddy said:
I'm finding stropping the kamisori more difficult than shaving with it. Tonight the stropping went really smoothly and the motion was more fluid than it has been previously.
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Thanks mate, I expected a larger disaster.
Anything you noted in the difference which you care to share that might help us also early on the kamisori path?
 
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