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Nice shave Matt! Just curious, what is it about the GSB blade that makes it a recommended blade for the DR? I got a kick out of your “before” pic. My first thought was it looks like a pic in the Lake Sun-Leader in the recent arrests column. (Matt knows what I’m talking about)Well, I NEEDED a shave really bad... I’ve been working 60+ hours a week for the last few weeks and just have not been able to carve out the time for a shave. We had a huge deadline at work today that turned into ashow at the last moment that forced me to stay late. Now that I have a day to catch my breath, before preparing for the next deadline, I figured I’d stay up late and have a nice relaxing shave. It was somewhat relaxing, even though I decided to film myself.
I had about 5-6 days of growth and decided to shave with a Wostenholme 6/8, 1/4 hollow and with a new to me Gillette Double Ring. I wanted to try out the Double Ring, but I knew it would be a bad idea to tackle a weeks worth of growth with a new razor. So, I settled on a combo shave and decided I’ll shave exclusively with the Double Ring tomorrow.
The shave went really well, except the silent whisker assassin(Wostenholme) tree topped something. Nice and smooth all around. I was given great advice, to try a GSB in the Double Ring and I was not lead astray. The 1/4 of a shave I did with the DR was very smooth, looking forward to tomorrow.
It’s crazy to think the DR is 115 years old and the Wostenholme is about 130 or more years old. They both shave like a new razor to me! I wonder what kind of man bought the DR, it was $5, back in 1905, that’s $148 in today’s dollars. So, he was almost certainly a businessman or someone that was well off. The different names and numbers scratched in the Wosty tell me that it spent its life in a barbershop. It would be incredible to know how many hands they had been in before mine!
Have a great day everyone!
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I believe the advice I was given was only that the giver of the advice, was impressed by the smoothness of the shave. Personally, I primarily use a GSB or Polsilver SI 95% of the time anyway and find the GSB to be the superior blade. It is keen and smooth and they seem to last a long time for me.
Yeah, I look like I walked my way out of Ivey Bend insearch of some munchies and got picked up for sleeping in the flower beds on the square.... lol
SOTD 10.03.2020
Razor: Gillette Double Ring
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue (2)
Brush Sponificio Varesino TSC
Shaving Soap: Barrister and Mann Fougère Gothique
Aftershave: Barrister and Mann Fougère Gothique
Balm: 444
Good afternoon, the family and have spent most of the day out at Lone Elk Park, watching elk practice fighting and looking for mushrooms. This morning, after making French Toast(requested by the tiny dictator) I finally got to have a full shave with my new Gillette Double Ring. It was a fine shave, but due to shaving with a straight about 95-97% of the time, my technique has started to suffer. It wasn’t quite a blood bath, but it was weeper city, for sure. It was still a BBS all over, but not without a little sacrifice lol. Ok, off to do all the domestic stuff around the house.
best wishes,
They are indeed aggressive, I think I’ve always perferred New and New Deluxe.
I'm just going to put this out there.... YMMV
Hi All,
We have the kiddo at home with us for the next few days until we find out if he has COVID..... SO, keep your fingers crossed. He had a fever yesterday evening and we figured it would be best to take him to urgent care, to get tested and to just be sure. We are staying at home, until we are certain of his diagnosis. Iryna and I both feel fine, but Nate is feeling rather puny and is laying on the couch watching Sesame Street, being doted on by his momma.
The shave this morning was blissful! The edge on this Martin is truly something to behold! I honed it several weeks back and did a test shave, but had not picked it up sense. I've produced some fine edges, but I'm gonna brag on this one, talk about smooth! It was like wiping the stubble off my face with a squeegee, superlative! The Tonsorial never lets me down. The scent is what it is, but it shaves like a dream! Used a new bottle of Speick, which I've been out of for some time, man I missed this juice. Have a great day!
SOTD: 10.08.2020
Razor: Henry Martin, Hamburg 5/8 Full Hollow (2 Escher Edge)
Brush: TSC SV Badger
Soap: Williams Tonsorial, Covered by @uacowboy's 3D printed lid
After Shave: Speick
Balm: 444
Strop: TM Plain Vanilla(40 Leather pre, 25 linen, 50 Leather.
We have the kiddo at home with us for the next few days until we find out if he has COVID..... SO, keep your fingers crossed. He had a fever yesterday evening and we figured it would be best to take him to urgent care, to get tested and to just be sure. We are staying at home, until we are certain of his diagnosis. Iryna and I both feel fine, but Nate is feeling rather puny and is laying on the couch watching Sesame Street, being doted on by his momma.
The shave this morning was blissful! The edge on this Martin is truly something to behold! I honed it several weeks back and did a test shave, but had not picked it up sense. I've produced some fine edges, but I'm gonna brag on this one, talk about smooth! It was like wiping the stubble off my face with a squeegee, superlative! The Tonsorial never lets me down. The scent is what it is, but it shaves like a dream! Used a new bottle of Speick, which I've been out of for some time, man I missed this juice. Have a great day!
SOTD: 10.08.2020
Razor: Henry Martin, Hamburg 5/8 Full Hollow (2 Escher Edge)
Brush: TSC SV Badger
Soap: Williams Tonsorial, Covered by @uacowboy's 3D printed lid
After Shave: Speick
Balm: 444
Strop: TM Plain Vanilla(40 Leather pre, 25 linen, 50 Leather.
Matt we are all thinking about you and your family! I know out here there has been a stomach bug going around that has caused fever and upset stomach. It has also led to an increase of testing because obviously people are concerned. Hopefully the little guy's test is negative.