Williams Mug Shave Soap Williams Wednesday shave.

[Old Sarge]

Williams Wednesday!

Cold Water Shave w/ Hot Water Lather
Pre: Hot Shower
Razor: Ever-Ready 1914 (Steampunkified)
Blade: Treet Carbon (2nd Use)
Brush: Yaqi Green Obsidian Two Band Badger
Lather: Williams Mug Shave Soap, Face Lathered
Post: Osma Alum Block, T.N. Dickinson’s Witch Hazel, Aqua Velva Classic Ice Blue, Nivea Sensitive Balm

A successful two pass shave; not the best, but also not a disaster. I still need a lot of work on face lathering Williams. Not sure if I did not load enough product, or what. Lather was dissipating quickly. I might need to just practice this on the side. I had finally got the hang of it when I was bowl lathering. Another thing to add to the list to work on.

Day 2 of the Treet carbon blade, but considering the poor lather I can't really use this shave to judge fairly. The positive take away is that I didn't hack up my face despite the challenges so my technique must be improving. On to Day 3! 

It's been a really long time since I lathered Williams and I was bowl lathering exclusively then. However the disapating lather sounds simular to the issue I was having with boar brushes. With help I figured out I was using way to much water which is pretty much the same as not enough soap. I've had huge improvement in face lathering with a boar brush recently starting by loading a fair amount of soap nearly dry then adding in water as I lather. I've also been face lathering almost exclusively lately. Hope this helps.
PS. Great picture. I love the look of that razor.

Thanks Greg, I'll give that a try next week by aggressively shaking out the brush. I know you've been working hard on improving your use of boar brushes.

Even when I was bowl lathering the modern Williams, I found no matter what I did the lather always started out airy/bubbly and would settle down and smooth out only after a good bit of agitation. It was the same today, but a little more difficult to beat the airiness out of it when it is on my face, at least more difficult for me!