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Ramblings of a MilkCrate

Happy belated man! Good luck on restoring the blade. IMHO, I would keep the etching if you can. Start with some high grit paper. 1000 may be alright, you can test on a small portion. I would stick to 1500 or higher to preserve the etching.

And be careful about this whole collecting razors from different countries. It can be addicting! I even have a beat up Garibaldi from Italy that I never had the time to restore.
 
Sskim3 said:
Happy belated man! Good luck on restoring the blade. IMHO, I would keep the etching if you can. Start with some high grit paper. 1000 may be alright, you can test on a small portion. I would stick to 1500 or higher to preserve the etching.

And be careful about this whole collecting razors from different countries. It can be addicting! I even have a beat up Garibaldi from Italy that I never had the time to restore.
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Thank you on the B-Day and sand paper. I’ll give 2000 a try and see what happens. On the different countries, I may just grab a USA and call it done. I don’t want to fall too far down that rabbit hole.
 
MilkCrate said:
Some light reading http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43166?msg=welcome_stranger
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Got as far as this and realized his minimalist approach wouldn't work for me. Words like 1 or 2, "a" and either sounded too restrictive...............Lol
The shaving outfit should consist of one or two good razors, a first-class strop, a mirror, a cup, a brush, a cake of shaving soap, and a bottle of either bay rum, witch hazel, or some other good face lotion.

On a positive note, I'm caught up on the forum journals now, had a cup of coffee and you've convinced me to go with GTB for todays shave. ?
 
Tim, love your setup. I used Gaelic Tweed AS this morning. Never tried the soap. Perhaps someday, but I've bought a couple of soaps recently, so it'll have to wait.

Enjoy your shaves!
 
2018 Shave Count (DE: 224 SV: 8 SR: 27)

Kit-
Three Ranners SR
Graydog Synth
GTB soap & AS

Yesterday was a repeat of Friday since I had such a good shave. Kept the same gear, went with a late morning shave. Spent the day at the State Fair with the missus. Good times!
 
Dave in KY said:
Got as far as this and realized his minimalist approach wouldn't work for me. Words like 1 or 2, "a" and either sounded too restrictive...............Lol
The shaving outfit should consist of one or two good razors, a first-class strop, a mirror, a cup, a brush, a cake of shaving soap, and a bottle of either bay rum, witch hazel, or some other good face lotion.

On a positive note, I'm caught up on the forum journals now, had a cup of coffee and you've convinced me to go with GTB for todays shave. ?
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Too funny! Well that was 1905ish so there is that. GTB!
 
2018 Shave Count (DE: 224 SV: 8 SR: 28)



Pre Shave-
Warm water splash to shave.

Shave-
Dovo SR
Omega boar
Proraso Red soap

Post Shave-
Warm water splash
Proraso Red AS

Started the day with a shave. Keeping it random, I changed out all the kit. Grabbed the Omega and loaded it for 20 seconds. I worked the lather for several minutes and had a really nice lather.

I went with my standard three passes: WTG, XTG and ATG and have no drama to report. The shave today was a backslide. The Dovo is smooth but I think it may need to be a bit sharper. Today I walked away with a CCS, but I’ll take it.

Wrapped up the the shave with a splash of water, a quick towel dry and a splash of the AS. Everything was right as rain! Life is good!
 
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