Hi everyone,

I didn't post much at the old forum, but I made it to this new one. Hopefully I'll participate more.

Joel

The Chinese vendor Sapphoo is already known.
It makes copies of Feather / Kai razors with Artist Club blades.
As well normal shavettes with hald DE blades.
Already offers the AC blades separately, at a good price.
Now it expands its offerings, not only on modern SEs.
https://it.aliexpress.com/store/group/La...64779.html

These blades seem interesting to me.
Type Feather (Proshave)


Type Kai Captain (Blue, without guard)


Type Kai ProTouch (Red, with guard)

On average they have a price of about € 0.50 per blade.

These days I am doing a test with the Sapphoo Red blade.
This is formally proposed as a replica of the Kai Captain Titan Mild MG ProTouch.


The first use (yesterday) was less comfortable than the original.
Even today, the feeling is that the edge is different.
Same effectiveness, but different protection.
In fact it can be seen that the guard is different.
The protections are wider, and less rounded.

To the eye they are very similar.
There are only a few differences:
• welding points, four instead of seven and less sharp
• straight shape of the guard openings, instead of a taller and wider bell shape
• the primary bevel is longer, and the secondary bevel shorter (different angle)
• steel has a different color and texture, due to the lack of Titanium and PINK treatments
http://ilrasoio.com/viewtopic.php?p=207192#p207192

Full size 1500x1500px https://i.imgur.com/tEaS25k.jpg

I thought Jayaruh had started a thread here for brush handles. But I don't see one.
Well here we go. This thread is a place for showing custom brush and razor handles weather made on a lathe or carved in another manner. This it for the makers of said handles to show what they have made. It's not intended for showing custom handles you have ordered or production products.

Here is my most recent brush handle. A good friend wanted another brush. He picked up this hybrid blank and the knot and asked me to make a brush of similar shape and size to one I previously made him.
This was my first time turning a hybrid blank. It was a little tricky in spots but overall went pretty good.
The knot is a 26mm Two band badger from Maggard's.

               

Not a frequent poster nor a frequent reader over at tos2. Mainly interested in stuff that's curved or tilted, a definition that fits a number of SE as well. So basically here for searching and sharing information on those :-)
New forum looks nice.
Cheers
Richard

Strictly Man sent me a tube of their new Arctic Shave Butter to try out.

It is a non-foaming, clear, shave butter. I am not a fan of this type of product, but I said I would give it a try. Today, I had my first shave with it. It is pretty slick. It has a lot of oils in it. I continued with my cold water shave routine. I did two passes and got a great shave. I didn't have to face lather or clean my brush, so I saved a little time. The shave butter was just about gone after the second pass. It was pretty easy to rinse off after the shave. Because it is clear, you have to feel your way through the shave. My guess is that this was aimed at multi-blade cartridge shavers.

Cold Water Rinse
Arctic Shave Butter
GEM Flying Wing
GEM Stainless
CWR
Granddad's Blend AS

The Arctic Shave Butter is a non-lathering product. Two passes and touch ups with the GEM Flying Wing with a GEM Stainless blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse I finished off with Granddad's Blend AS. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...


Here's the shave.

Hope you don't mind , I'll kick off the July hauls with a couple of Schicks

   

One NOS the other unused as it's still holding the dummy blade, looking forward to trying them out.

I saw a similar one and wanted it, so I made this today. I will be taking it out for a spin for Sunday's Lather Catcher shave.

As it turns out, the wife likes this. I was running low on my Granddad's Blend After Shave, so I mixed up a new batch. Makes me proud to be a Granddad. I should be set for a while now. The recipe is:

I use the Strand Safety Razor Blade Sharpener to sharpen a Damaskeene blade. Tom White sent me his sharpener to sharpen my blades. This video is the second blade I sharpened.



See it in action.


Here is the blade in my Open-faced Damaskeene razor.

Williams Wednesday's Shave


Cold Water Rinse
Williams Mug Soap
Jayaruh #413 Two-band badger
GEM Flying Wing
GEM Stainless
CWR
Granddad's Blend AS

The Williams Mug Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #413 Two-band Badger Brush. Two passes and touch ups with the GEM Flying Wing with a GEM Stainless blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse I finished off with Granddad's Blend AS. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...