Razor: GEM Heavy Flat Top
Blade: GEM Single Edge Stainless
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Taylor of Old Bond Street Peppermint
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
New week, new shave. Next up in the rotation; my collection of GEMs and EverReady razors.
Razor: Schick Type A
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Brush Experimental Alpha
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Flying Mango
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara Additional
Care: Alum Block
Got safe water again, so getting back in the rhythm of shaving 😀
Razor: Gillette Old Type “Khaki”
Blade: Lord Classic
Brush: Omega #50014 Travel
Lather: BEA Shavestick
Aftershave: Krampert’s Finest Bay Rum
Additional Care: Alum Block
A quick shave at work.
Razor: Schick Type A
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Wilkinson Sword
Badger Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: B&M Latha Oceana
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A nice Monday shave means a nice start on the week.
Razor: Schick Type A
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Omega #10048
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Proraso Menthol & Eucalyptus
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Another fine Friday shave, featuring the Holy Grail razor, my first ‘real’ shaving brush, and the same cream I got when I started traditional wetshaving thirteen odd years ago.
It is a newer tube though…
Razor: Schick Type A
Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Pre-Shave: Prep Original
Lather: GzD Shavestick
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
A wonderful Wednesday shave, with a magazine repeating razor, the first LE brush from The ‘Nook, and the remains of a Turkish shavestick pressed into a puck.
Razor: Schick Type A Blade: Schick Injector
Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Flying Mango
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
Another week and another shave, this time with the first model Schick.
Razor: Schick Type B2
Blade: Personna Injector
Brush: Vie-Long #12705B
Pre-Shave: Prep Original
Lather: Pereira Experimental Sample
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
I bought a small tube of O Way Softening Shaving Cream in the before-time, in the long, long ago… well, before the pandemic at least.
Summer of twenty seventeen, to be exact.
Which is, when you come down to it, about six years ago.
Continue readingWho says a razor blade have to be flat? What if it was a segment of a sphere, with four or more cutting edges? The blade would in effect be a self contained spherical razor.
I mean, there is a couple of glaring problems with the idea, but even so. It isn’t the first all edge and no point razor we’ve looked at.
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