Tuesday SOTD Thread - October 24, 2023

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

• Prep: hot shower
• Brush: Unknown Travel Brush, Reknotted w/ Maggard Razors Shaving Brush Knot 20mm Timberwolf Grey Synthetic
• Razor: Gillette Ball-end Tech K4 (1965)
• Blade: Lord Super Chrome (2)
• Lather: Zingari Man - The Watchman - Sego Shaving Soap
• Post Shave: Zingari Man - The Watchman - After Shave Balm

Pleasant shaves to you all.

Oct 24, 2023 - Tusk Tuesday: Almond Leather

• Prep: Klar - Activated Charcoal - Face Soap
• Brush: Highlander Brushes Jade 26mm Cashmere Knot
• Razor: Aylsworth Razors Drakkant Plus
• Blade: Gillette Platinum [9]
• Lather: House of Mammoth - Almond Leather - Soap
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Almond Leather - Splash

The Aylsworth handled three days of growth like it was nothing and left me BBS.

I needed a scent that is clean, unobtrusive, and refreshing this morning, and Almond Leather did the job beautifully.

Rating: 4.5/5

Twenty-fourth Day of TabOKtoberfest

• Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts Tabak Oridjinal
• Razor: Union Cutlery Spike (5/8", wedge, square point, carbon steel)
• Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
• Post Shave: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
• Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original

The little Spike is an oddly pleasant razor. Smooth, silent, nimble, and the design is the Лада of straight razors.

Stank ++;

Side note: Uploading pictures is so much faster since the migration. It's almost like having pictures didn't have to be a PITA 🤔

Oct. 24, 2023

• Brush: Yaqi 26mm Synthetic
• Razor: Karve Overlander
• Blade: Personna Platinum
• Lather: House Of Mammoth - Sonder - Soap
• Post Shave: House Of Mammoth - Sonder - Aftershave

Good shave. Couple nicks on my neck honestly not sure how.

October 24, 2023

• Brush: Maggard 24mm 2 Band Badger
• Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
• Blade: Personna Platinum Chrome (2)
• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Piacenza - Soap
• Post Shave: Florida Water - Cologne
• Post Shave: Eufros - Dama Noche - Balm

I really like this knot. Overall this was a great shave. I'm starting to pick up a little bit of "Executive Man" in "Piacenza", but I think it's just the citrus in it that might be similar. I definitely like Piacenza better overall. To keep the citrus going, I went with Florida Water as an aftershave. Florida Water is an EdC, so using it as an aftershave requires me to add water, unless I want my face to turn red with alcohol burn. I do this by getting my face good and wet before applying it.

October 24, 2023

• Brush: Truefitt & Hill Wellington 24mm Silvertip
• Razor: Wolfman Razors WR4/WRH3
• Blade: Feather Artist Club Professional (4)
• Lather: Mäurer and Wirtz - Tabac - Soap
• Post Shave: Mäurer & Wirtz - Tabac - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Thayers - Lemon - Toner
• Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz - Tabac - Eau de Toilette
   

2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.

This was a closer shave with the WR4 than yesterday's was with the Vector. Same blade. Same shaver. Yesterday's shave was excellent for a 2-pass shave. Today's is excellent for a 3-pass shave, and it occurs to me that I have not done a 3-pass shave with this razor yet. Why? I think it comes down to design differences. I'm very impressed with the cleverness of the Vector, and it provides, good feedback from the edge. It's really a great razor. I think, perhaps, that the WR4 gives me more edge angle latitude control and that suits my style of shaving. Back to straights tomorrow.

Stank++;

• Razor: Kai Excelia
• Blade: Kai Mild (4)
• Brush: Omega 10015 22mm boar
• Lather: Mitchell's Wool Fat (tallow)
• Post: aloe

Been messing around with some honing experiments on troublesome razors and wanted to give my face a break so last shave I used my Fili as that's usually a nice vacation. It was almost but I'm not sure if it was the state of my face, not having used that blade in a while or maybe I really do have a bit of a reaction to Darkfall so I figured let's eliminate some variables and find out about the soap, I'd been meaning to get to know this new Kismet blade a bit better and compare to AC so I'm going to stick to unscentedish soaps and one pass shavette shaves with quality blades for a bit. That's almost a theme thingy, One'n'done'tober 11vember ...something. But I'm not quite that organised and will start messing with it soon enough by seeing how Darkfall goes once I do a few of these then maybe digging out some paste edges to compare to the shavettes.

I like Kai AC blades. This was nice, been a while. Feels a bit sharper than the Kismet yet less stressful as this setup seems less pointy (even though the corners are muted on the Kismet) plus the extra weight lends stability. I guess AC is the wedge shavette and Weck the hollow.

Oh, and this inspired me to order the Canada Shaving Soap I'd been vaguely interested in for a while (as it's rumoured to be comparable to MdC). So far I'd resisted as why would I use that much unscented? But it does have a place and maybe it's SV-ish too, was really enjoying SV lately so here's hoping. Looks promising anyhow: https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/canada-shaving-soap-review.614669/

https://i.imgur.com/joMktr1.jpg

October 24, 2023

• Preshave: Proraso Green Preshave
• Brush: Semogue C3 Galahad Horse 🐎
• Razor: Star 1912 Type Razor
• Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (9)
• Lather: Zingari Man Mousse Illuminée
• Post Shave: Mennen Skin Bracer
• Post Shave: Nivea After Shave Balm

I don't remember when I last shaved with a GEM razor, but it must have been before July. It was a very smooth shave, and an effortless BBS.

Have a good night!