Shave of the Day - 1/14

 

Dove Men Face Wash

Tabac

Jayaruh #32 horse

Gillette Black Tip

Personna

CWR, Asma Alum Block

Thayers Cucumber WH

Pinaud Vegetal

The Tabac Shave Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #32 horse hair brush. Two passes with my Gillette Black Tip razor and a Personna Stainless blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Cucumber WH and then Pinaud Vegetal after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Shave of the Day - 1/13

 

Dove Men Face Wash

Tabac

Jayaruh #32 horse

Gillette Black Tip

Personna

CWR, Asma Alum Block

Thayers Cucumber WH

Pinaud Vegetal

The Tabac Shave Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #32 horse hair brush. Two passes with my Gillette Black Tip razor and a Personna Stainless blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Cucumber WH and then Pinaud Vegetal after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Shave of the Day - 1/12

 

Dove Men Face Wash

Tabac

Jayaruh #32 horse

Gillette Black Tip

Personna

CWR, Asma Alum Block

Thayers Cucumber WH

Pinaud Vegetal

The Tabac Shave Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #32 horse hair brush. Two passes with my Gillette Black Tip razor and a Personna Stainless blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Cucumber WH and then Pinaud Vegetal after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Shave of the Day - 1/11

 

Dove Men Face Wash

Tabac

Jayaruh #32 horse

Gillette Black Tip

Personna

CWR, Asma Alum Block

Thayers Cucumber WH

Pinaud Vegetal

The Tabac Shave Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #32 horse hair brush. Two passes with my Gillette Black Tip razor and a Personna Stainless blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Cucumber WH and then Pinaud Vegetal after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Shave of the Day - 1/10

 

Dove Men Face Wash

Tabac

Jayaruh #32 horse

Gillette Black Tip

Personna

CWR, Asma Alum Block

Thayers Cucumber WH

Pinaud Vegetal

The Tabac Shave Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #32 horse hair brush. Two passes with my Gillette Black Tip razor and a Personna Stainless blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Cucumber WH and then Pinaud Vegetal after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Shave of the Day - 1/9

 

Dove Men Face Wash

Tabac

Jayaruh #32 horse

Gillette Black Tip

Personna

CWR, Asma Alum Block

Thayers Cucumber WH

Pinaud Vegetal

The Tabac Shave Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #32 horse hair brush. Two passes with my Gillette Black Tip razor and a Personna Stainless blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Cucumber WH and then Pinaud Vegetal after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Shave of the Day - 1/8

 

Dove Men Face Wash

Tabac

Jayaruh #32 horse   (first shave) 

Gillette Black Tip   (first shave) 

Personna

CWR, Asma Alum Block

Thayers Cucumber WH

Pinaud Vegetal

This is my first shave with the JR# 32 horse hair brush. The Tabac Shave Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #32 horse hair brush. Two passes with my Gillette Black Tip razor and a Personna Stainless blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Cucumber WH and then Pinaud Vegetal after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed... All in all, an excellent shave. The Tabac and the Veg seem to work well together.

Jayaruh #32 Completed

I had started this brush earlier, but I had messed up on the blank somewhat. On December 1, I finished the #32 in a day by working around the imperfections, and set it aside for a while. Again, I was negligent in taking pictures of the procedure. However, I did stain it with red oak stain, polyurethaned it, and set the horse hair brush with silicone. Today, December 12, I did the test lather.

Jayaruh #31 * Jayaruh #33

Three Brushes Completed

I completed brushes 31, 32, and 33 today when I siliconed the knots in the handles. Twenty-four hours and they will be ready to enter service.

31 and 32 are walnut stained with red oak.
33 is wild cherry stained with golden oak.

Two-band finest badger, horse, and hose.

Glamour shot with my new DeFitch DE91 razor.

Jayaruh #31 and Jayaruh #32 Begin

Today, I worked on the #31 and #32. They are both made from the walnut stock I picked up a couple of months ago. #31 (left) has been stained with red oak stain. I will use the same on #32 (right) when I have finished sanding it. I had actually started #32 a couple of weeks ago and set it aside for later. I patterned it after the Rubberset 400, but at the time I was a little careless and made some mistakes on it. However, today, I took my time and worked out the mistakes. I made it so it would hold the new horse hair knot I got in the mail yesterday. Tomorrow, I will finish sanding it and put the stain on it.

The #31 (left) still needs to be finished with polyurethane, and the knot needs to be set. The knot is a Virginia Sheng two-band finest badger. I think this handle was made for it. HA! As a matter of fact it was. This brush is destined to be a favorite.

Jayaruh #31 (left) and Jayaruh #32 (right)

Jayaruh #31 with Virginia Sheng two-band badger knot

Jayaruh #32 with horse hair knot