Surfing online I've discovered a brand new handmade shaving soap line.

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It is April 1. My dad would have been 109 years old today. Hope you all have some awesome shaves this month.

Saturday's Proposed Cold Water Shave

Cold Water Rinse
Start Shaving Cream (CTAPT)
Jayaruh #224
Unmentionable Razor
CWS
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Pinaud Citrus Musk EDC

Gents,

This is the Compax razor from England produced in the 1920's. A rather unique razor.

It's an autostropper, adjustable (3 settings in the back) and telescopic razor.

One of the best pieces of my collection.

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I made this brush handle with cabinet grade plywood glued together. I set it with a Whipped Dog 24mm silvertip badger. It is a keeper for me. Like I need another brush.

Hello Gents,

My name is Walid, as in my handle. Nothing to hide here.

I am a vintage razor collector, I have a nice collection and I am going to post some picture of my collection.

These are relatively older pics but they represent about 10%

I will post newer pictures in the following days.

PS: if you know people who like lather catcher or want to trade razors, I am your guy. Let me know.

Cheers

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I had a rough night and woke up with a sore throat and coughing. I took a covid home test, and the results were unmistakable. I did have a good shave though. It helped me a little. I am thinking of skipping tomorrow's shave. We shall see. I'd appreciate your prayers for me and my bride. She is doing well now. Hopefully she won't get it from me.

I picked this Kampfe Lather catcher today at a local antique shop. Is this a 1880 model? Is there a way to use a modern gem blade or am I stuck honing that wedge blade ?
   
   
   
   

Williams Wednesday's Cold Water Shave

Cold Water Rinse
Williams Mug Shaving Soap
Jayaruh #436 2-band Badger
Burham Safety Razor
Personna GEM SS PTFE
CWR
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Pinaud Clubman After Shave

The Williams Mug Shaving Soap lathered well with the Jayaruh  #436 2-band Badger brush. Two passes and touch ups with the Burham Safety Razor and a Star Personna GEM SS PTFE Blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse I finished off with Dickinson's Witch Hazel and Pinaud Clubman After Shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

It has been a while since I have made a brush. I have been thinking about this one for quite a while. Yesterday it was nice, so, I got out there and did some cutting and gluing. Yes, this is an experimental handle. It is made with pieces of plywood glued together. After it was all glued up. I let it sit over night. So, today was a nice day, and I got out there and turned this handle. I stained it and finished with Minwax Polycrylic. I set it with a two-band badger knot that has been sitting here wanting a handle to live in.

You can see all my pictures here:  https://jrshaving.blogspot.com/2023/02/jayaruh-436.html

I admitted awhile ago that I was a hypocrite, being on a SE shave forum and not shaving. In my defense the hospital I was going to for cardiac rehab required masks and have you ever tried to exercise while wearing a mask properly? It's impossible to get enough O2 and exercise. My solution was to cover my face with the useless mask and have a beard to frustrate a proper seal so that I could breathe and exercise, so no shaving. The best I could do for hair removal that made sense to me was clip everything and leave a goatee. Today was my 1st shave since the pandemic insanity started. 
Why shave now and not then? I left cardiac rehab at the hospital and joined a gym to further my rehab by doing exercise that just wasn't available at the hospital. Since the gym doesn't require masks now I can shave again. 
So sitting here contemplating my "1st" shave I wondered exactly how to go about it. I've shaved thousands of times and maybe because of that I couldn't recall some of what I used to do. But once I got in front of the shave cabinet it all came back to me. It was like riding a bicycle. The brush was one of the $1 salvage boars that I got out of a bin at the local surplus goods shop many years ago. I bought a hundred or so and passed them on at cost + shipping years ago. I figured maybe they might last a month or so, but here I was using it in the rotation many years later and other than the recent past it has been in that rotation constantly. Not bad for $1. I hemmed and hawwed over the soap. My hand reached for Krampert's Finest Bay Rum, then decided on Martin deCandre. The razor was a MicroMatic with a blade that now has 8 shaves on it. I did forget about the MDC being so water hungry and I used too much, but adjusted the water to get the lather correct (I face lather). As I was shaving I realized one thing; I actually like the sensual experience. The 1st pass was completed with no blood, the light touch was never lost, same for the 2nd pass. End of shave, get some fresh hot water on my "shave towel", actually a microfiber chamois, wipe down the face and rinse, wring it out to dry the skin and done except for the splash. Krampert's Finest Bay Rum took care of that. I saw my face for the first time w/o hair between my face, eyes, and the mirror in 2 1/2 years. It went pretty good. This shaving thing could catch on. 
So Shadows Dad the hypocrite is a thing of the past.