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Shave of the day
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You just need to try harder to find excuses. Start with the Smog...
And all this in one shave.
I should hope so. Unless you're very depressed or consider self mutilation an artistic/fashion statement, it's not something you'd do on purpose.
gthomas04
...was Drubbing's first. AKA Captain Tightarse
I'm getting boring I suspect.
Cella
Think the brush I am using is a boar - will check further - either way it does a great job of the Cella.
ClogPruf shave 2 with the Gem
Pass 2 is the Slim with the feather blade.
Smooth as silk and slap on some of the ex-Drubbing A/S.
And all is well with the World.
Cella
Think the brush I am using is a boar - will check further - either way it does a great job of the Cella.
ClogPruf shave 2 with the Gem
Pass 2 is the Slim with the feather blade.
Smooth as silk and slap on some of the ex-Drubbing A/S.
And all is well with the World.
pablo_h
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When did you start using the clog pruf?
Easy to use at the start, or was there some getting used to it, cuts and nicks etc?
One of my favourite razors. the worlds first TTO, nice heavy long handle, designed to used double sided SE type blades* to take the fight to gillette. Most SE razors use a spring to hold the back of the blade, so can't sharpen that end, but the micromatic uses the TTO cap to hold the blade in place so could have both edges of the blade sharpened
* Can't use both sides at the same time of course, but when it went blunt, turn the blade around...
Someone mentioned the engineering of the TTO mech was really something to see, as it just doesn't go tilting up of down, but forward/back to lock the blade in place. I don't want to take my MM apart to see it, but I wish there was an article about it somewhere.
I love the art deco styling of it too.
Easy to use at the start, or was there some getting used to it, cuts and nicks etc?
One of my favourite razors. the worlds first TTO, nice heavy long handle, designed to used double sided SE type blades* to take the fight to gillette. Most SE razors use a spring to hold the back of the blade, so can't sharpen that end, but the micromatic uses the TTO cap to hold the blade in place so could have both edges of the blade sharpened
* Can't use both sides at the same time of course, but when it went blunt, turn the blade around...
Someone mentioned the engineering of the TTO mech was really something to see, as it just doesn't go tilting up of down, but forward/back to lock the blade in place. I don't want to take my MM apart to see it, but I wish there was an article about it somewhere.
I love the art deco styling of it too.
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Perhaps it is because I don't regularly shoot animals and go to church and defend my right to arm bears..?
All MMs are beasts. The CP did give me a few now and then. I'm still very careful with it. Love the Bullet tip. Have you tried a Push Button? That's actually a very nifty opening and closing mechanism. I shove a blade in the Clog Pruf after I've used it in the Featherweight for a couple of times. After that it's a dream shave. Was my first MM.
When did you start using the clog pruf?
Easy to use at the start, or was there some getting used to it, cuts and nicks etc?
One of my favourite razors. the worlds first TTO, nice heavy long handle, designed to used double sided SE type blades* to take the fight to gillette. Most SE razors use a spring to hold the back of the blade, so can't sharpen that end, but the micromatic uses the TTO cap to hold the blade in place so could have both edges of the blade sharpened
* Can't use both sides at the same time of course, but when it went blunt, turn the blade around...
Someone mentioned the engineering of the TTO mech was really something to see, as it just doesn't go tilting up of down, but forward/back to lock the blade in place. I don't want to take my MM apart to see it, but I wish there was an article about it somewhere.
I love the art deco styling of it too.
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gthomas04
...was Drubbing's first. AKA Captain Tightarse
This is about shave 4 with it - Got really brave and slapped a new blade in a couple of days ago - no problems at all - no nicks just a nice smooth (noisy) shave) cant decide between it and the Featherweight as favourite razors at the moment. It just slides across the face removing everything in its path.
gthomas04
...was Drubbing's first. AKA Captain Tightarse
Will give it a go - just have to work out which one it is - will take someones advice and do some reserch.
It's got the tip of the handle shaped like a bullet! Hence Bullet....tip. And from memory you've got one either in your posession or incoming.
Anyhow, back on topic. I love saying that.
Last three shaves:
Two Peerless with TGM finest and one Wee Scot
Couple of Prorasos and one Arko:
7O'clock bakelite with Timor
Nice easy worry free shaves. This after the 1912 destructions. Hanging out for the Spanish gear. Should be here this week.
Last three shaves:
Two Peerless with TGM finest and one Wee Scot
Couple of Prorasos and one Arko:
7O'clock bakelite with Timor
Nice easy worry free shaves. This after the 1912 destructions. Hanging out for the Spanish gear. Should be here this week.
Couldn't help but sneak a shave in with the Spanish gear.
Vie Long horsey: Feels a bit like a perfect mix of boar and pure badger. Nice hefty backbone, soft tips and a bit of scritch. Blooms like a mixed brush too. Not the "legs wide open" bloom of a badger or the bedraggled look of a boar. Nice well packed brush which I'm sure will break in just nicely. Pongey!!
La Toja stick: Nice fresh soapy smell. Always a bit of a cop out description but I don't know how else to describe it. Some describe the unwashed plumbers arm pit scent of Valobra as nice and soapy but this really is. Not very strong, it barely masked the wafts of horse manure. It's a hard soap which will last for eons. Great lather too. Definitely up there I think.
Featherweight with GEM PTFE on No 1.
Very nice equine shave. The dog is chasing me around the house while I'm jumping hurdles.
Vie Long horsey: Feels a bit like a perfect mix of boar and pure badger. Nice hefty backbone, soft tips and a bit of scritch. Blooms like a mixed brush too. Not the "legs wide open" bloom of a badger or the bedraggled look of a boar. Nice well packed brush which I'm sure will break in just nicely. Pongey!!
La Toja stick: Nice fresh soapy smell. Always a bit of a cop out description but I don't know how else to describe it. Some describe the unwashed plumbers arm pit scent of Valobra as nice and soapy but this really is. Not very strong, it barely masked the wafts of horse manure. It's a hard soap which will last for eons. Great lather too. Definitely up there I think.
Featherweight with GEM PTFE on No 1.
Very nice equine shave. The dog is chasing me around the house while I'm jumping hurdles.
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gthomas04
...was Drubbing's first. AKA Captain Tightarse
And today was the day - very very nice razor - put a one shave blade in it and let it do its thing. Must admit I did finish with the Slim, but I will try 2 passes with the Bullet Tip.
Let me know if I have this straight... Horse hair = Pongey, (some) boar hair = blobby, so what does that make badger hair if the horse hair feels part badger, part boar?
I used what I think might be a Rapira (it's Russian I know that much - PAnИPA) blade in one of Glen's old flare tips, using the semi-hard sandalwood soap from Nanny's.
Feeling pretty good about that shave. It feels like I got most things right.
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Only been DE shaving for a month or so, I'm still working some stuff out for myself, I use a pre shave oil, oscars. I use a palmolive stick and hand rub it on and leave it while making some proraso lather in a bowl. I have been using an old gillette, but as of yesterday I am using a muhle r41 razor with a gillette blue pack blade.
pablo_h
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But I gave the brush and floid from gifts&cre.com a run last night.
I used cella soap and the MM CP BTW.
Horsey brush: Looks nice, soft but scratchy on the tips, decent backbone but not in the league of a simpson badger or anything. Though I did buy a smaller cheaper one. Shows promise though, better than a cheap badger or a similar priced boar, so we'll see how it develops.
Didn't try the la toja because I didn't want to mix a new soap with a new brush and get cut to ribbons by the MM CP, and the brush probably will work best with soft soaps like cella/proraso anyway.
Tried the floid vigaraso(sp?). It's like a feminine new age 1990s essential oil scent, like maybe ylang yling(something like that, it's in that ball park but don't know all my new age 1990s essential oil fragrances, but I sure know that smell since a mate sold it back then and give some massage oil or something to my mrs)
After the scent has mainly gone, my skin sure warms up a lot too.
I used cella soap and the MM CP BTW.
Horsey brush: Looks nice, soft but scratchy on the tips, decent backbone but not in the league of a simpson badger or anything. Though I did buy a smaller cheaper one. Shows promise though, better than a cheap badger or a similar priced boar, so we'll see how it develops.
Didn't try the la toja because I didn't want to mix a new soap with a new brush and get cut to ribbons by the MM CP, and the brush probably will work best with soft soaps like cella/proraso anyway.
Tried the floid vigaraso(sp?). It's like a feminine new age 1990s essential oil scent, like maybe ylang yling(something like that, it's in that ball park but don't know all my new age 1990s essential oil fragrances, but I sure know that smell since a mate sold it back then and give some massage oil or something to my mrs)
After the scent has mainly gone, my skin sure warms up a lot too.
Another Spanish one.
Vie Long horsey brush: This thing has an insane backbone. Perfect little face latherer. the scritch seems to have subsided a little bit but that could be my imagination. Doesn't bother me anyhow. Like it a lot.
La Toja stick: It's very different loading it on the stubble. It seems to glide on. Maybe that's a result of it being a really hard, dense soap. Very nice lather. The only non-tallow stick I've tried so far that I can actually see myself using on a regular basis.
Bullet tip with GEM on No 2: Need I say more!
Vie Long horsey brush: This thing has an insane backbone. Perfect little face latherer. the scritch seems to have subsided a little bit but that could be my imagination. Doesn't bother me anyhow. Like it a lot.
La Toja stick: It's very different loading it on the stubble. It seems to glide on. Maybe that's a result of it being a really hard, dense soap. Very nice lather. The only non-tallow stick I've tried so far that I can actually see myself using on a regular basis.
Bullet tip with GEM on No 2: Need I say more!
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