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SOTD – American Personna, Day 2

05 Friday Oct 2007

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Leisureguy has a good post today on the importance of proper preparation before applying blade to beard. It’s timely reading as it very much reflects my own experience with the American (not Israeli) Personna blade. Yesterday I had a very “modest” shave with this blade, but today it was excellent! What was different? The amount of time and effort spent in setting up the beard!. Yesterday I was in a rush and sidestepped the usual beard conditioning from MR GLO and a good, wet, superlather. Today, I took my time, washed with MR GLO, made a wonderful superlather with the Valobra shave stick and the Proraso Red cream (worked up with the voluminous and uber-soft Muehle-Pinsel silvertip brush with the bog-oak handle). Night and day! The Personna is still a little mild for my taste and left a fine stubble in some unusual places, but…overall an excellent shave.

Moral of the story? Gourmet anything can’t be rushed!

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POTD – Lafontaine Park, 2005

05 Friday Oct 2007

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Personna blades update

05 Friday Oct 2007

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This morning as I was loading a fresh Personna blade into the E.J. Chatsworth, I noticed the “fine print” on the blade that said: Made in USA. So this isn’t the Israeli Personna blade! No sooner had I sat down at my computer than I noticed a comment from Giovanni Abrate at Barbiera Italiana pointing out the same error. Thanks Gio. It turns out that the company that makes the Israeli Personna sells the same blade under the Crystal Platinum label. So that will be the next blade in my test as soon as I finish with the American Personna. My apologies.

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