SOTD 3-9 May 2020

SOTD SUNDAY MAY 3, 2020

Yesterday’s shave was excellent, although not quite as close as I prefer. My single bar Gillette OT usually brings me to BBS land, but was constrained by healing French Spadson injuries of two days ago. Just to prove I have nothing against French razors I selected my 100 yr old Le Coq Cage Head for today’s shave. This is a moderate to slightly more aggressive shaver, about a 7 on a 10 point scale, and generally provides a highly efficient shave with a fair bit of blade feel. For this shave I decided to try a bit of an experiment. My best vintage shaver is my SE GE Jones Shake Sharp with two stacked blades. Why not try stacked blades in my Le Coq? I really enjoy shaving with Suneko DE blades; so I selected two, aligned them, and loaded the Le Coq.

Six drops of M-Bomb and a bit of ice water in the iced scuttle combined with MrEE’s Custom brush fitted with its hybrid Badger/Boar knot sticky with WK King of Oud paste generated a beautiful, icy, cooling lather. Both dome and face felt great. Madame Le Coq made short work of my whiskers in that first WTG pass mowing them right down to the skin line. The second XTG and third ATG passes brought me very close to BBS land, but didn’t quite make it due to some of the still healing injuries from the Spadson shave. It was BBS everywhere but around the healing areas circling the Adam’s Apple, and in one spot in the back of my head. Great shave! I feel clean, cool, smooth and refreshed.

RAZOR: Le Coq Cage Head
BLADES: 2 Stacked Suneko DE
PREP: Iced water rinse
BRUSH: MrEE Knurled Handle #7
SOAP: Wholly Kaw King of Oud salted with 6 drops of M-Bomb
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with Glyce Glycerin soap followed by Thayers Lavender WH and Royall Lyme AS Splash. Finished with A&E Post-Shave Serum

Sunday, May 3

Williams~~Simpson Milk Churn~~Ralf Aust~~Small Batch Shave Tonic
Have a great day!

SOTD 20200503 DisAJ1o
by IschiaPP @ Forio
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Atkinsons "Country Musk"
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Nero Ardesia Luxury Shaving "Guerra di Piero", Finest Badger HD, 24x55x110mm
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The Goodfellas' Smile “Amber Fougere” Sapone da barba
Formula AJ1 by Barbieri Riuniti Srl (sample, repack)
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Tanifuji Fukutaro “Kintaka”
Folding Kamisori, Carbon Japan Steel, 20x55mm (-13/16"), Spine 5mm, 50g
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Alvarez Gomez cream/ZenShave mahogany +Shavemac Unique 24mm/ Oneblade Copper/ Fine Platinum/ Bulldog balm



Have a nice Sunday!

Sunday AM 2020-05-03

Rooney Polo 2 Ivory Finest (28/60) 
Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet shaving soap (tallow)
Paradigm Titanium II/UFO Titan Fine
Personna 74 Tungsten (9)
Penhaligon's Racquets Formula aftershave (vintage)

Blackland Vector w/Schick Proline P-30
TDR “The Legend” v5 Fanchurian
Declaration ATR

Razor: Blackland Blackbird
Blade: Gillette Rubie
Brush: Rudy Vey with Shavemac 2-band fan knot
Soap: Ethos Succes
Aftershave: Ethos Succes

H&S N076 with two shims, BIC blade. At least the equal to the new Paradigm Diamondback I've been using, I'd have a very hard time choosing between them.

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May 3, 2020
Supply Co SE V2
Personna
RV Rover with Shavemac D01 3 band
Stuga Lemon Myrtle Shave Soap
Fine Italian Citrus Aftershave