This is phenomenal. Up until now, I did not think that anything would equal the Leaf razor with the Gillette 7 O'clock green label blades along with the Twig sculptor with a Feather blade for trimming the old moustache area. I was wrong. Earlier tonight, I just wanted a relaxing shave off camera and I had zero plans for doing a blog post. In fact, doing a blog post wasn't even on my mind. So this is a spur of the moment kind of post. For tonight's shave, I used Cremo's cooling shave cream as a preshave, Taylor of Old Bond Street's coconut scented shave cream, my Omega 10019 S brush synthetic boar and the Fine Accoutrement's Marvel DE safety razor with a Gillette Platinum DE blade and oh wow what a great combo:
I did my usual two passes with the grain and I went against the grain on my bottom lip. After that, I did a half pass against the grain on my neck. NOT ONE DROP OF BLOOD and a slick as black ice post shave feel. I was blown away and this was a brand new blade fresh out of the pack. Man what a shave, wow. I'm going to continue to shave with this combo off camera to see how many shaves I can get and to see what the shaves are going to be like after the first one.
This also makes me want to sneak over to EBay and get my old "go to" blades which was the Gillette Platinum Plus that I use to get at Kmart before they decided to quit carrying them and closed. I think I will do that this evening and see what else I can find. Those blades that I just mentioned in an Edwin Jagger DE 89 were epic. I'm also considering getting a bulk pack of the Gillette 7 O'clock green label blades as well for my leaf razor.
My straight razor shaving is going great now that I've switched to Shapton's Professional stones and I'm loving my Ralph Aust straight razor in addition to my other Vintage straight that recently arrived from EBay. I'm just about done in the straight razor department. I might get one more before calling it quits in terms of buying straights at least for a little while.
I've also gotten a request to use a straight razor with Barbasol shave cream. I'm considering it but I really don't want to because I really don't care for that stuff and my barbershop already uses it with a Personna shavette after heating it in a hot lather machine and performing a hot towel treatment. I think I will substitute that out with Phoenix Artisan Accoutrement's C.a.D.
So to sum up this blog post, my wet shaving hobby has hit another level of excitement. RazoRock has a brand new half DE blade single edge currently in production. They are calling it the "Eco" which will be really cool. Leaf has not delivered on the metal prototype of the Twig Sculptor and to be honest, I think RazoRock's will be much better and more affordable than Leaf Shave's version will. I'm waiting on the Eco razor with great anticipation. My next shave video will be in a few days or so. Probably around Sunday. So I will see you all then.
