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October 19, 2025
- Brush: Wald Nimbus Chryselephantine 29mm A1 Fan
- Razor: Iwasaki 13/16" Full Hollow Square Point Tamahagane
- Lather: Declaration Grooming - Cerberus - Soap
- Toner: Thayers - Coconut - Toner
- Aftershave: Noble Otter - Cerberus - Aftershave
- Fragrance: Declaration Grooming - Cerberus - Eau de Parfum
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
I haven’t used Cerberus in too long. I think of it as more of a colder weather scent, but that’s only because I have enough scents for hot weather to use during that part of the year.
Today’s shave was very enjoyable using my desert island razor (Iwasaki with Tamahagane steel and mammoth ivory scales).
October 19th, 2025
- Brush: Grizzly Bay - Chisel & Hound v24 Fanchurian 28mm Badger
- Razor: Chiseled Face Titanium Legacy Razor
- Blade: Personna Lab Blue (2)
- Lather: Fanzine Saponifications - Caravaggio - Soap
- Post Shave: Stirling - Cypress - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Oleo & Co. - Facial Toner - Toner
- Fragrance: Chiseled Face - Summer Storm - EdP
Great shave, this blade works very well in this razor for me.
SOTD 2025-10-19
- Prep: Stirling Soap Co. - Haverford Pre-shave Oil
- Bowl: Captain’s Choice - Obsidian Copper
- Brush: Semogue Owners Club - Cherry Wood Boar 24mm
- Razor: RazoRock - Superslant - L3
- Blade: Feather - New Hi-Stainless
- Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz - Tabac Original
- Post Shave: Mäurer & Wirtz - Tabac Original Aftershave
- Post Shave: Mäurer & Wirtz - Tabac Original Balm
- Post Shave: Proraso - Polvere Post Rasatura
- Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz - Tabac Original EdC
This was my first shave with the Superslant L3. Wow, what an efficient razor.
It’s chunky (which I like). 316L stainless steel with the UFO handle. 100g total weight (36g head, 64g handle).
The blade exposure is wild. Tanuki on Badger & Blade made this image comparing blade exposures on FaTip Lo Storto Originale (L) to Superslant L3 ®. Its definitely blade positive, yet it was comfortable.
I really just moved the razor around my face and it mowed everything down. Alum block gave me a B grade (which is on par with Lo Storto) but I had no burn with the aftershave.
Have a great day!
One thing to note is that blade exposure isn’t the distance from the top-cap to the edge of the blade. Blade exposure is measured while looking at the razor from the side.
The picture you shared shows “cap span” as it’s called in the picture below. The “shave plane” is the reference used to determine blade exposure.
This example picture has a slightly positive blade exposure. If a razor designer wanted to decrease the blade exposure they could do a few things – make the safety bar stick out further, make the top cap thicker, make the top cap stick out more (like shown in the photo you shared). Any one of these changes alone doesn’t determine the geometry of the head though, since there are two surfaces in play (the top cap and the safety bar).
Thanks walden!
October 19th, 2025
- Brush: AP Shave Co. - w/Maggard SHD 26mm Badger
- Razor: Chiseled Face Legacy Raw Titanium - (#69)
- Blade: Personna Lab Blue (5)
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Deep Blue Sea - Soap
- Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Petrichor - Aftershave
Nice shave. My first time with a Bleu de Chanel dupe. Nice aquatic scent, but a tad too mainstream for my personal preferences.
Yes, but now you can do Bleu Teusdays 😊
I didn’t know that was a thing!
I think it’s only a thing with me. I love Rod’s use of ‘Man’ for his Creed series and have felt that he should extend it for high end fragrance dupes beyond Creed. Certainly Bleu de Chanel qualifies, so I tend to call the Deep Blue Sea dupe “Bleu Man”. (Bleu is French for blue.) A Bleu Teusday is “Bleu Man” soap and splash followed by Bleu de Chanel. It’s also a nod to how (from an English-speaker’s perspective), the French always seem to reverse the letter order in words; Blue -> Bleu, NATO -> OTAN, IAT (international atomic time) -> TAI. There’s more.
