Yeah, it’s quite nice. Nowhere near pristine, but in good enough shadow
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Well, speick splash is a small enough investment to just give it a try👍
Looking forward to reading it!
Wow. I wonder what made it so unhealthy. This is brutal 😞
Each cat their own rat.
Never heard that. I like it 🙂
ToBS is a bit iffy for sensitive skin though (background).
Shit, I just read @DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social’s skin care advice on your other question (thanks Dave, btw!). I had forgotten about your menthol sensitivity. Speick has menthol.
I overdid it with SSL and after my second AA with it it got vetoed by my wife😅
Tue Oct 08 2024
- Brush: Zenith – 506 N XS (extra soft horse)
- Razor: Delolme – Le Thiernois №14
- Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
- Post Shave: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
- Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
This is the razor that taught me that there’s a “numero sign” (№) in the unicode spec.
“Le Thiernois” is France’s equivalent to the “Solingen” or “Eskilstuna” brand (and, to a lesser extent, “Sheffield”) used by small manufacturers who think that their own name carries less weight than the fact that they are part of the knife industry in a city famous for it. Nowadays, “Le Thiernois” with that same art is a model of Thiers Issard, but this one’s still from before TI became the only known razor maker in Thiers.
It’s my only round tip 14 which makes it a great autopilot straight because it’s basically impossible to poke your cheek or nick your earlobe with this unless you do it on purpose.
The extra soft horse is a nice change of pace. The big horse hair bristles lather more slowly that boar or badger knots, but that also makes it easier to avoid fluffy lather.
Mühle Rasurlotion and Speick. They’re alcohol + witch hazel with a light fresh scent. The witch hazel makes me optimistic about the “plays nice with my skin” part.
Pitralon.
SSL++;
It was my AA soap two years in a row.
RIP 20.1
Mon Oct 07 2024
- Brush: Zenith 506B MB (27 mm × 51 mm Manchurian badger)
- Razor: Filarmónica 14 Doble Temple (8/8, extra full hollow, red scales)
- Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
- Post Shave: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
- Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
For today’s edition of running through the 14 section of my den, I chose the venerable Fili 14. It’s really easy to understand why they are so popular.
Big, elegant, soft as a feather, and butter smooth, you can just wipe the stubble of your face. So nice.
Silly joke because of the F(riedrich) W. Engels razor. If Engels made one, his colleague and best friend K(arl) W. Marx probably dabbled in it as well when they took breaks from theorising the liberation of the proletariat?
Ok, I’ll show myself out
Definitely with a try
K. W. Marx razor when?
Sun Oct 06 2024
- Brush: Zenith 506B MB (27 mm × 51 mm Manchurian badger)
- Razor: Thiers Issard 14 Médaille d’Or 1921 Exposition d’Algier Acier Spécial (7/8", extra hollow, square point, carbon steel)
- Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
- Post Shave: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
- Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
Continuing my run through my 14s with this vintage TI. The razor hasn’t been stored properly by a previous owner and has specks of surface rust as a result. The rust is purely a cosmetic issue though, and none of the edge is affected. Coincidentally, this TI 14 Médaille d’Or 1921 Exposition d’Algier actually came to me from a Moroccan seller.
This one feels a bit different than most 14s I’ve tried in that it’s much less loud. Even though visually, the grinds look similar, this TI certainly sounds like a thicker grind. It feels more like a 17 than a 14 IMO, but that’s just saying that it feels like a different fantastic razor.
Happy Sunday to you all!
My skin is very dry these days
Mine too. Cerave face moisturising lotion helps me a lot.
I bought one in my quest to dezingify my den, and I’m curious about the difference.
Wed Oct 09 2024
This concludes a week of shaves with 14-type razors with a stellar shave. After a lacklustre bout with the factory edge, I refreshed the edge, and there it is, that smooth, soft extra hollow feeling. This modern 14 is really on par with the Fili, Frio, and Henckels originals. I’m really looking forward to comparing this to the Moarteen soon.
Zenith extra soft horse ++;