May 2016 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix and Discussion

@Mr. Freeze93

Happy Birthday! Hope you had a great day!

 

Route 66 ended SAD for me. I think it will remain top tier for you. Glad you like it so far!

 

A Tech and a TGN knot is a sweet kit! Ladas is as sharp as it gets. Very cool!

Chalk another up for the good guys!
@clint64
@NCoxSTL

 

Yes I am very fortunate that those 2 guys helped me out so much. I'm not sure if I can repay there kindness.

 

I used a straight today. Taking the party over to June, @RyX turned me on to a sample of vintage Williams Stick. It was cool.

I'll lock this thread in the morning so everybody can finish out.

Great Month, Everyone! Looking forward to Jolly June...

TTT

 

You can't repay them. You repay by helping and teaching new guys. You now have knowledge to share. ☺

 

I will!

 

May 2016 Wrap


53.8% of TSD members who voted in Neal's poll will sell me out for cookies. Good times.

 

ROFL @Bama Samurai

 

well the Russian PIF is over. and our Mr.Chick took first prize!

 

Thanks for a great month everybody! Great month for the 30 Day crew. 99 pages of posts, 1,970 total posts and that's a LOT of MAYhem! On to June to have another great month!

 

Yea, I was hoping that we would reached 100 pages! And we might yet!

 

Epilogue

June 1, 2016
Razor: Thick Cap OT / German Vest Pocket Handle
Blade: GSB(1)
Brush: Noname Chinese Pure Badger
Soap: Nutragena French Milled Soap

I'm in Aberdeen, MD today for day 2 of a 2-day trip for work. Stayed last night at a Hampton Inn which featured Nutragena personal care products. Looking at the "French Milled" soap and since my focus for May was soap/lather, I wondered how it would do as a shave soap. Treating it like a shave stick, I rubbed it on my wet face and worked it with the badger. The result was a respectable lather with little or no dissipation. We use the words slick and protective to describe a lather and, if I could fault this one, it was the almost too slick; indeed, I actually had to check to make sure that I had loaded the blade in the razor because I had no feel for it.

The shave was marvelous and the soap was definitely not Marvy.

 

I think the Marvy experience has created a culture of experimentation. What soaps can be used to lather that aren't really for shaving? And, rubbing it on your face then lathering.....just classic TSD and 30 day technique stuff. I love it!

 

Some of these razors were ground by Geo. W. Korn in Little Valley, NY. I just picked up a Queen, and am trying to get confirmation on that to determine if it will stay in my collection.

 

Final shave was yesterday, picture below. Another "shave ready" straight that wasn't. Had to clean up with the Mongoose. Got some cuts and irritation, but I found another soap I really, really like.

My wrap up for Mayhem? I used a wide variety of razors, and didn't use any of them two days in a row. I like getting to learn a razor well, so this wasn't the best month of shaves for me. I did discover I like injectors and the Mongoose, but not so much on the old GEM. Straights need to be dialed in to get a good shave. Korn fixed blade straight is a whole new learning curve. I didn't do that this month. A DE can be used with no guard if you ride the cap, and gives as good of a shave as a straight if you do that. Looking forward to a relatively calm June focus of three razors.

 

I do like the razor. I would recommend them to someone to try.

 

Well Mayhem is over, some of are going to be sad that it's over. It was a panic to read some of the posts in here. Well on to June let's see what happens this month.

 

I think that the strangest thing about the Marvy experience and the culture of experimentation is that, on one hand, you have so-called shaving soaps which completely underperform (fail miserably?) while you have other soaps which are not marketed as shaving soaps but are perfectly reasonable and usable (albeit with a bit of technique).

Makes one wonder what the Product Manager for Soap at the William Marvy Company is thinking...

 

Apparently he's out golfing a lot.

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