Tuesday May 4, 2021
Razor: 1914 Ever Ready
Blade: Gem SS PTFE (2)
Brush: Paladin 26mm Vesuvius Chief
Soap: Ethos Mélange d'agrumes
AS 1: Humphrey's Alcoholado Maravilla 70
AS 2: Ethos Mélange d'agrumes SFS
Fragrance: Azzaro Visit EDT
Consecutive Daily Shaves - # 909

Outstanding shave today both in software and hardware. Have a great day Everyone !
   

April is in the past. This week I will be breaking out my Enders Speed Razor.
Here is Saturday's shave. 



Cold Water Rinse
START Shave Cream
Jayaruh #403 Synthetic
Wood Handle Enders Speed Shaver
Schick Proline 20
CWR
Aqua Velva Musk

The START Shave Cream lathered well with Jayaruh #403 Synthetic brush. Two passes and touch ups with the Wood Handle Enders Speed Shaver razor with a Schick Proline 20 injector blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse I finished off with Aqua Velva Musk AS. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Hello everyone.  I’m Mike aka HighSpeed, and I’m very glad to be here.  I’ve been traditional shaving since 2014, first with DEs, and then adding SEs and shavettes.  My wife and I live in Virginia with our Golden Retriever, Jack.  When I’m not shaving, I enjoy fishing, beautiful things, intriguing ideas, and an occasional glass of good wine or whiskey. 

I expect to learn a great deal, I will contribute as well as I can, and I look forward to sharing in the good times (and even the not so good ones).  Thanks for having me.

So hopefully this is okay here. This electric razor was designed to use ANY standard Safety Razor Head on it and I chose to use my RFB Modified SE Razor so as to share with y'all. If not allowable feel free to remove it.

So here's some info I found about this Vintage Electric Safety Razor and a pic of a complete set.
Racine
Racine (a town in Wisconsin USA) is famous for its lighthouses, but even more for its important role in the development of small electric motors. Several manufacturers of electrical products were established in Racine. The Racine Senior DeLuxe and the DeLuxe Esquire were manufactured by Racine Universal Motor Co. in the 1940s. This company's policy was to produce the motors for various products, and have specialised manufacturers produce other parts, like in this case the Gillette Company the shaving head. Racine Universal Motor Co. already existed in the 1920s and also produced hairclippers (brand Race and others), hairdryers etc. The company sold its OEM-products to various wholesalers, like W.L. Henne of Erie (PA USA) who sold the razor as Vibo-Shaver.

   

Wednesday April 28, 2021
Razor: Deluxe Esquire Electric Safety Razor (RFB Modified Head)
Blade: Half an Astra SP (1)
Brush: Techichi "The Hive"
Soap: T&S Sicily 1508.5
AS 1: Humphrey's Alcoholado Maravilla 70
AS 2: Ethos Fresh Lime SFS
Fragrance: Nuit D'Issey Noir Argent
Consecutive Daily Shaves - # 904

       

I had completely forgotten that Ordinaryshaver had set up a youtube channel at tost2.  I have asked him to remind me of the sign in information. Would anyone else care to post some content once we get it kicked off?

Tuesday April 27, 2021
Razor: Blackland Vector
Blade: Schick Proline (1)
Brush: The Hive  
Soap: T&S Sicily 1508.5
AS 1: Humphrey's Alcoholado Maravilla 70
AS 2: T&S Sicily
Fragrance: Avon Premiere Luxe Oud
Consecutive Daily Shaves - # 902

Amazing shave with a fresh Proline in the Vector. Hit the Sicily 1508.5 again to have tomorrow free for Williams Wednesday. The Sicily is giving the broken pieces at times on the face when lathering but I just repressed it in the tub so we'll see if it continues again next shave. Just a few shaves left for it. The Avon juice is nice but doesn't seem to have duration but still a nice scent. Happy shaves and day Everyone !
   
   

As some here know I'm in ketosis and that means I tightly restrict my intake of carbs. One of the things I can't eat is bread and I didn't get to be a great baker by not loving it. There are substitutes but they just don't taste the same but they can be used for some things, like pancakes, and they work fine for that. Recently I discovered that King Arthur Flour has a Keto Flour. I checked the nutritional info and 4 grams of net carbs per 1/4 cup. That acceptable if I go easy. So I made a loaf of bread this Saturday. Today was the first day I was abt to do this, but without toast to put them on I haven't had an over easy egg in 1 3/4 years. 

So today I cooked up some sausage, and made one piece of toast, buttered it and made my eggs. It was soooo good! The bread? It's bland since there's so little wheat in it the runny yolk made all the difference. But it's more like bread than any other keto loaf I've made to date. It would make a good sandwich, french toast, by itself it's tasteless as compared to full wheat flour bread.

The cost? 16ozs of the flour costs $10 (more online) and most of that bag is used for one loaf so it's not an inexpensive bread. But did I mention that it's the most like real bread of any keto loaf I've ever made? I got 15 slices out of it and there are 14 servings of flour in the loaf. Each serving has 4 grams of net carbs so each slice is under 4 grams of carbs. Until something better comes along this bread is a keeper. As costly as it is I sliced it up and wrapped a few slices per package and put them in the freezer. I'll take a package out as it's needed.

Another great lather today from a small brush. This time a beautiful Whiting-Adams badger. Not only does this little badger look awesome buy it performs!  I used it to work up a great face lather with Mitchell’s. 

I think I really like smaller brushes. At the least I prefer them to bigger ones.  What say the group? 

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Thanks to a generous member here I now am the proud owner of this beauty. 

From what I have read it appears to be a Arley Model. I used it for my pre work shave. Veddy nice!! It feels alot like the knot in my Yaqui brush.

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So I finally used up the last of the modern cake of Williams in my Hart mug.  I normally just drop a new cake in on the little bit left of the old cake at some point an keep going. This time i ran it down. I was a little amazed at how many hairs and bristles there were at the bottom. Then I got to thinking that I have not totally cleaned this one out in probably 10 years or so.

But it is now ready to go again with a new cake. VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!