Today I had my first shave with my Ever Ready 1912 made in England Razor.  Wow!!  Having never shaved with a vintage SE before, I really didn't know what to expect.  I. am. hooked!!!   This vintage SE world is awesome!!

Well I tried having a very UK shave Friday. I got out my Made in England ER 1912 and my British Made Pal Injectomatic. Then I whipped up a fantastic lather with some UK based Wickham 1912 Irish Fern. This is my first use of Wickham and man this stuff smells great and lathers wonderfully. I loaded a 6th use Gem SS PTFE and started the shave with the ER. This is my second time using this razor. I took a few strokes and looked closely at the razor. I had heard the English/British ERs are more aggressive but this one is mild but I LOVE the handle. Anyway I looked closer and saw that the blade wasn't seated right. Readjust take a stroke look close. Not seated tight. Ok what gives well the blade is shifting all over. Grab my US made ER 1912 try things out, works perfect. Hmmmm. As far as I can tell the blade stops are bent up slightly making to much room for the blade to slip to far under them and making enough room for it to not get properly engage by the back clip. So do I adjust the blade stops? Or do I find a way to adjust the back clip push the blade forward further with would make it a more aggressive razor?

Anyways I finished up the rest of the shave with a pound in the US made ER. Results are a fantastic shave.

   

Join me in welcoming the newest member to The Order. mayer57619 took on the task of sorting out the plugins and other stuff we needed to get Tost3 running. He has done so on his own time. Behind the scenes he continues to be a driving force as well. 

Thank you for your time and effort on out behalf!! Welcome to The Order of the Toady Sir Justin. 

These old lather catchers are great shavers. They are easy to use also. 

So question fir the group. Do we want to bring over post counts from TOST or let everyone start new? It is a manual one at a time operation but is not really hard. What say the gang?

I ran into a guy at Sam's Club today who had  a nice home made walking stick, and we struck up a conversation. He has made hundreds of them and given them away. He said he had some out in his truck and that I could pick one out. Well, I did. It was a walking stick height, but I cut it down and put a handle on it to make it more of a cane for me. Here are the pictures after I finished. I ended up taking about a foot off the whole length, some from the top and some from the bottom.

  

I secured the handle to the top with two dowels.

  

  

  

Am I wrong, or did post counts and other data carry over for some?  I was forced to "register", so all that's gone for me.  It's not a huge disappointment, because post counts aren't that important to me.  Just curious what happened.

Anyways..I'm Matt from Athens, TX.

Not to sure about how much I will contribute,I loved Tost2 such a wealth of info. I am not good with photo apps so dropped out of posting.Also have gone a bit overboard on use of modern SE rather than Vintage, so posting SOTD with modern SE not appropriate for the site ?

I prefer sticks and pucks that you can just rub on your face now. That eliminates having to load your brush. I also prefer cold water shaves. I just wet my brush with cold water and use it to wet my face. If I can rub the soap directly on the face, that is preferred. That is what I do in this short video. It works great for me. The soap is Col. Conk Amber that I melted into an old deodorant dispenser. I am lathering with my Jayaruh #1 Silvertip Badger, the first of my hand-made brushes.

    Hi guys just thought I'd see if anyone else is into watches. There's a bullhead chronograph I picked up.