Happy Sunday Everyone; I say this with a fair amount of sarcasm, as the weekend comes to a close. This happens to mean little to me as I work pretty much 24 hours a day 7 days a week; it just goes with my job, I just fill the voids with the things in life that I enjoy.

Today I used a new straight razor I bought and received yesterday, a Ralf Aust 6/8 Spanish point in Olive wood scales. Beautiful razor by every account, and came from Straight Razor Design in the fast and professional way in which I am starting to measure everything else by. dammit Amazon Prime; FASTER ! I really like the feel of the 6/8 blade opposed to the 5/8 mainly due to the weight added; I like the 5/8 just fine, but it is good to know that there are options now for me ranging from 4/8-7/8 in my den.

Being my last day of the week shave and it also being a “S” day I decided to end it for the Lord with St. James from Taylor of old Bond street (TOBS). This is a great youthful and light scent that really says spring is on its way and is by no means a winter or fall scent. Perfect for an oddly hot 80 degree April day in the northeast. I used my Plisson synthetic which works amazingly well at lathering creams enough said there. I have not tried many synthetic brushes but where this brush lacks is in backbone where it excels is in softness easily being the softest brush I have ever used bar none; hence why it works as a bowl latherer with creams so well.

I ended the shave with the standard cold water rinse, and alum block, and Thayer’s unscented witch hazel. I used the matching St. James after shave splash and Aveeno scent free balm. Almost zero feed back from the alum block and my face is getting nearer to BBS smooth with every straight shave. – Aaron