SOTD 22-28 August 2021

Thursday SOTD

 

Razor: Gillette Fat Handle Tech Steampunk

Blade: Gillette 7 o’clock Black (D4)

Brush: Simpson Chubby 2 Synthetic 

Bowl:Creek Road Pottery 5½” 

Pre-Shave Scrub: MRGLO Lime

Pre-Shave Balm: GroomingDept Unscented

Shave Soap: Tallow + Steel Morikami

Balm: Organic Shea Butter

Aftershave: Tallow + Steel Morikami

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 - Shave of the Day

Prep  ||  Cantu Pre-Shave Scrub

Brush  || Vulfix 2235

Soap  ||  Mike's Orange, Cedarwood, & Black Pepper

Razor  ||  Above The Tie / Astra SP (1)

Post  ||  Witch Hazel

A/S  || Fine American Blend

Growth  ||  46.0 Hours

Thursday 08.26.21 SOTD
Rex Ambassador / Gillette Nacet
WCS Two-Tone Tall 26mm Silvertip
B&M Oceana Soft Heart & Aftershave

Thursday SOTD

 

Razor: Gillette Fat Handle Tech Steampunk

Blade: Gillette 7 o’clock Black (D4)

Brush: Simpson Chubby 2 Synthetic 

Bowl:Creek Road Pottery 5½” 

Pre-Shave Scrub: MRGLO Lime

Pre-Shave Balm: GroomingDept Unscented

Shave Soap: Tallow + Steel Morikami

Balm: Organic Shea Butter

Aftershave: Tallow + Steel Morikami

Love the Steampunk Tech, very cool!

Wade & Butcher razor with honing kit

It's ridiculous! I couldn't resist buying another "bloodletter”, this fine hollow-ground 19thC Wade & Butcher with its original scales.

I didn't like the satin finish, so I wore out my finger polishing the faces of the blade and spine. I like to leave some original grind marks, hand polished. Hardened steel is... well, hard, so it takes a lot of rubbing to polish it.

The W&B arrived "shave ready", but not for my tender face, so I refined the edge (spine taped) with the 4", 10, 15, 20 k Suehiro Gokumyo stones, mounted on aluminum for the Edge Pro. The stone surfaces are slightly cambered. My 5000 Chosera is cracked because I accidentally ran hot water over it, expanding the aluminum faster than the stone. However, it's still okay to set the bevels. I also have some 3M film abrasives for setting bevels but seldom need to use them.

I made a cBN pasted, and plain, leather loom strops for polishing the edge after finishing on the stones. The smaller pieces of diamond pasted leather shown in the image are for use when traveling.

I have some "used" whiskers in the glass jar for testing the edge by the hanging hair rating system. The 10x loupe is invaluable for finding unsharpened parts of the edge and seeing bits of burr hanging off the edge, glinting in the light.

The shave was smooth and painless. The paper-thin blade sings like a fat lady.

Before storing, I wipe a thin layer of gunsmith's water-dispersing oil (Brownells) over the blade to prevent rusting during the humid summer months.

Nice stuff I like the watch Loop 

Never tried minora blades

No preshave

Yaqi 24mm silvertip (recently bleached)

SV Desert Vetiver 4.3 + kokum butter

Carbon Ti "-" base plate and Ti R2 handle

Wilkinson Sword London Bridge

SV Desert Vetiver aftershave 

Ethos Mysore Santal EdT