SOTD : Saturday 7th April - Friday 13th April 2018.

SOTD

Usual prep work shower and face wash then old school razor for today's shave
and mail call New soap and balm for me

Pre shave Myrsol Emulation
Brush 1250 boar
Soap Stirling Executive Man
Bowl Bideford
Razor 1952 Gillette Black tip
Blade Astra
Post shave Alum and cold water rinse
Stirling Executive Man balm

First time I've used this scent what can I say about this soap it preformed
great although to be honest I think prefer Baker Street scent more and the
shave bbs three pass

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Prep ~ Shower, birch tar soap
Razor ~ Feather Portable
Blade ~ Gillette Bleue Extra NOS
Soap ~ Barrister And Mann ~ Roam
Brush ~ Omega Boar
Post ~ Barrister And Mann ~ Aftershave Splash ~ Roam
Scent ~ Barrister And Mann ~ Roam EDT

A great shave using the full complement of B&M Roam products, a wonderful scent along with the normal great protective slip & slide from the soap.
The Feather Portable is a fab razor that works well with most blades I pair it with and today was no exception, the NOS Gillette Bleue Extra's are far superior to the currant Gillette Silver Blue (IMO) YMMV :p
A BBS finnish was acheved with no problem and I finnished off with a splash of AS splash and a spray or three of Roam EDT. Looking good and smelling great! :D

Have a nice day y'all ......P.

HELL YEAH!! (y)
 
Monday.
Prep: Hot towel
Pre shave: Prep
Razor: Sensor Excel
Blade: N/A
Brush: ‘Il Cinghiale' (Zenith EURO/RX)
Soap: Le Père Lucien: Oud-Santal
Post: Cold water rinse / Witch Hazel / ASB

A fantastic start to the week... nuff said..
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Prep ~ Shower, birch tar soap
Razor ~ Feather Portable
Blade ~ Gillette Bleue Extra NOS
Soap ~ Barrister And Mann ~ Roam
Brush ~ Omega Boar
Post ~ Barrister And Mann ~ Aftershave Splash ~ Roam
Scent ~ Barrister And Mann ~ Roam EDT

A great shave using the full complement of B&M Roam products, a wonderful scent along with the normal great protective slip & slide from the soap.
The Feather Portable is a fab razor that works well with most blades I pair it with and today was no exception, the NOS Gillette Bleue Extra's are far superior to the currant Gillette Silver Blue (IMO) YMMV :p
A BBS finnish was acheved with no problem and I finnished off with a splash of AS splash and a spray or three of Roam EDT. Looking good and smelling great! :D

Have a nice day y'all ......P.

@Blademonkey Paul +1 on the Gillette Extra's being superior to the current crop of Gillette silver Blue. I have about 6 unopened packs which I am saving :)
 
SOTD, Tuesday 10 April 2018 :)

Pre-shave - Warm shower, Wright's Cold Tar Soap wash followed by warm water splash.
Cream - Geo F Trumper Extract of Limes.
Brush - Simpsons Chubby 2 synthetic.
Bowl - Littke Wren Pottery.
Razor - Supply SE v2.0 (classic ** setting).
Blade - Schick Proline P20 (Day 1).
Post shave - Cold water splash; followed by OSP Neroli splash and Bart's Balm Lavender Post shave balm.
Post shave + - Geo F Trumper Extract of Limes Aftershave , applied to the neck.

As much as I have enjoyed DE shaving with the Rex Ambassador, I decided last night to get the Supply SE back in to rotation. I felt more 5 O'clock stubble than usual last night - putting it down to the Muhle DE blade; so decided to make the switch to a SE shave today. I loaded a Proline P20 last night, read to go this morning.

I also decided to give the Trumper's extract of limes shave cream a run out, a fabulous shaving cream, which I am surprised does not feature that often on SOTD as I had thought. I appreciate that YMMV :).

It took me a few strokes to get the optimal shave angle on the Supply SE, once I was there a great shave - 3 passes on the face (WTG, XTG and ATG) with a WTG and ATG on the neck.

No issues, other than some stubble, just underneath part of my jaw line, had escaped - not sure how I missed that, other than initial issues with the shave angle.

A very nice post shave feel from the OSP splash, topped up by the Bart's Balm. A spray of Trumper's extracts of lime on the back of the neck just finished off the shave well.

All the best,

Chris
 
I am guessing that KAI DE blades also feature in your top 3; and the Nacet? :)

Chris
In no particular order, the Gillette Bleue Extra, Lodz Polsilver and Personna 74s. The KAI Stainless are also a firm favourite of mine. I am running extreamly low on the 74s though, a real shame, such a good blade. :( Nacet's and Rubies are very good also but for me the blades I've mentioned are my blades of choice. ;)
 
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