Razor: Yaqi Mini, red & black
Blade: Lord Classic
Brush: Omega #50014 Travel
Lather: LEA Shavestick
Aftershave: Krampert’s Finest Bay Rum
Additional Care: Alum Travel Stick
Shave of the night 11th November 2021
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Category Archives: Wetshaving
The Gentlemen’s Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness
Book titles were longer in the past. I suspect this was at least partly down to people having more time. That, and the fact that your book’s title was the first impression the potential reader got, so it better tell the reader what the book was all about.
Continue readingShave of the day 10th November 2021
Razor: Yaqi Mini, red & black
Blade: Lord Classic
Brush: Omega #50014 Travel
Lather: LEA Shavestick
Aftershave: Krampert’s Finest 80 Below
Additional Care: Alum Block & BullDog Original Beard Oil
Schick E2 from 1941, first impressions
Thanks to a fellow shaver from the ‘Nook, I recently received a Schick E2 dated 1941. That’s right; the razor is eighty years old.
The razor looks really nice and is in excellent condition, and I’m looking forward to contrasting and comparing it to my Lady Eversharp and G4.
The box is also in very good shape, with nice and sharp text. The text on the underside is interesting; what company today gives a twenty year, no question asked warranty?
Shave of the day 8th November 2021
Razor: Yaqi Mini, red & black
Blade: Lord Classic
Brush: Omega #50014 Travel
Lather: LEA Shavestick
Aftershave: Krampert’s Finest Bay Rum
Additional Care: Alum Travel Stick
Shave of the day 5th November 2021
Razor: Gillette 1958 TV Special
Blade: “Normal”
Lather: Prep “The Original Formula”
Aftershave: Prep “The Original Formula”
Additional Care: Alum Block
A do good, feel good advent calendar for 2021
As I’m writing this a few weeks before Christmas, there have been a volcano eruption going on at La Palma for more than a month. It is – quite frankly – a ongoing disaster. Thousands of people having to flee, earthquakes, lava flows, acid rain, toxic gases, and ash.
So what have that to do with traditional wetshaving, you ask? Or Christmas, for that matter.
Well… Gifts & Care, the well known (to some of us) Spanish shaving equipment store are selling a Solidarity Advent Calendar. For only 1€ / 1.16 USD / 0.85 GBP / 9.86 NOK a day, you can help the people of La Palma – all proceeds go to the many people going through a hard horrible time.
Oh, and you also get to enjoy a new sample every day in advent. With, as they point out, a final surprise on Christmas Day.
I’ve ordered one, of course. Which means that come December, I’ll have an additional post every day until the 25th with what is in the Solidarity Advent Calendar.
As a side note; Gifts & Care is also celebrating their anniversary these days, and are offering 15% of their entire store with the coupon code ANNIVERSARY. So it’s also a good time to pick up a seasonal gift to yourself in addition to the Solidarity Advent Calendar.
Shave of the day 3rd November 2021
Razor: Gillette 1958 TV Special
Blade: “Normal”
Brush: Semogue TSN LE 2012
Lather: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Aftershave: Asylum Shave Works Frankincense & Myrrh
Additional Care: Alum Block
Another revolving razor
A few days ago I wrote about a disposable revolving razor from 1966. Unshockingly – since there is nothing new under the sun – I found a broadly similar idea patented a few years prior. Funnily enough, the patent filed by Mr Alfred Curci1 is – in my eyes at least – an improvement upon the idea patented later.
I guess the chicken came before the egg, in the case of disposable revolving razors.
Continue readingShave of the day 1st November 2021
Razor: Gillette 1958 TV Special
Blade: “Normal”
Brush: Artesania Romera Manchurian Badger, imitation horn
Lather: CRSW Glide Morning Ghost
Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
Additional Care: Alum Block
