14/08/24
Vintage Wednesday
Pre - Sainsbury's Luxury Soap Fig and Jasmine
Brush - Semogue SOC TAJ Boar
Soap - Maca Root / Palmolive stick Superlather
Razor - Valet Canadian (VB1 head with VB2 fixed handle?)
Blade - Modified GEM PTFE S/S
Post - Cold water Rinse
Balm - Floïd Original
A/S - Floïd SE Mentolado Vigaroso
This Canadian Valet is a bit of a hard one to ID, it has a VC1 head, however, the handle is fixed instead of being threaded, a cross-over parts bin special maybe. Anyway it takes a fettled GEM blade so it can be used.
A lovely lather today and for all its "dungeon implement" looks the Valet is very much a Kitten on the WTG strokes, very mild but quite efficient, it does come into its own on the ATG pass picking up everything with a wonderful audio feedback.
I was done in 2 passes with some pickups in the usual places for a very close BBS finish.
I did get a little sting from the alum rub today, i usually check with either Straights or Vintage SE to check my technique.
A nice dollop of the original Floïd with a good Splash of the MV to finish.
Yes, that was a nice shave.
Enjoy your day all.
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. I’ve been leaving the lid off and it’s not detectable and neither can I smell it during the shave.
