April 2017 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

I've got a machine shop at the plant where I could cut down the height if I can just find and get my hands on the right shell casing. Any and all ideas from fellow enablers are welcome. Maybe a realoader or black ops mercenary in the group?

 

Go check out a surplus store or a gunshow. They usually have dummy rounds. I don't see why you couldn't cut down the casing to make it more manageable. Alternatively, you could find something like a ferrule to mount the knot and then stack a bunch of casings together and then figure out a way to mate it. So your handle might have say four or five .223 casings, but that would actually allow you a better grip

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A Christmas present from Herself. It was the after shave of choice prior to my, erhm,conversion to Aramis.

 

That sums it up, Paul!

 

.45ACP (~11mm) is the largest cartridge diameter I have. My rifle is 5.56.

 

30mm AA rounds, fill casing with sand?

 

Razor: Timeless SB w/ TRH5 Dimpled
Blade: Personna Star (1) Made in Great Britain
Brush: El Druida Ebony Zebra w/Manchurian
Soap: Route 66 Cavendish
Aftershave: Floid Blue
Very good shave. I will need a few shaves to get a better feel for this blade. If anyone has any information on this blade please post it. I can't find anything about it.

 

Hopefully the brush didn't throw a flag on your shave

 

It didn't throw a flag, but I did get 2 minutes for roughing.

 

That brush is stunning. Is it new? I don't recall seeing it in the past.


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Good eye Clint. I ordered it in 2016 November. It came with 2 other brushes which I wanted to use first. This will be my first week use it.

 

With real warm weather coming later this week, I might get the L&L Grooming Marshlands A.S. going.

 

whatsa matter, couldn't get it reversed by the boys in Toronto?

 

April 23 SOTD:

Razorock Plissoft Brush
Arko
Gillette Fatboy
Stirling Unscented PSB
Clubman AS

This morning's shave, but just getting around to posting. I'll have to play catch up. I hope everyone has had a great day!

 

When you get into that size, you're going to have a large handle. If that is your thing, then you could really do anything. I would probably start with the knot you want, and then figure out how to build around it. And as cool as it might be, I wouldn't limit yourself to one piece of brass.

And for you soviet lovers, you could use some steel 7.62 Soviet casings.

 

Tonight's shave...

Well it is the start of a new week, but I forgot to rotate out the soap. So tonight was the last night for Stirling's Pharaoh's Dreamsicle.

Schick E3 Injector with Blade.......... Check
Excessive amounts of lather...............Check
Mostly quiet alum...............................Check
Too many nicks..................................Check
One weeper that wouldn't go away....Check
Witch Hazel to the rescue..................Check

A solid C because I got three nicks/minor weepers on the first pass, and one that wouldn't go away. But I got two good passes, and the witch hazel did its magic on the cleanup. And the alum was mostly quiet except for one spot on my neck which sang like a canary, but quieted quickly.

 

I'm percolating on this one. It may require a trip to a gun show with a caliper to find a WWII surplus piece or something. I'll have to think on it a bit. I've got 7.62's, but I like the idea of cutting down a big casing...

 

If you can make your own knot, you could probably make a novelty brush out of like a .50 AE, perfect for traveling.... though I wouldn't fly with it.

 

30mm would weigh like a pound and a half if filled with sand.