August 2016 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

I had the Pro 48 too, but SWMBO took that one for herself. I preferred the 10066, however, so no tears were shed. I have another BoS on the way...the Semogue 620. I'm looking forward to comparing it to the Omega as I've never tried a Semogue. Will be interesting to find out if I have another brush I love or just deal with. I pretty much stick to a three brush rotation right now with the three faves. One boar, one badger and one horse.

 

Must have Swedish mattress.........Must have Swedish Mattress..........
Actually I have a Tempurpedic. And before you ask, no it's not over 8 years old.

 

Interesting concept. I often only do two pass shaves to achieve the 'desired' results ( a good, close shave but not quite the true and complete BBS which often requires at least three passes plus a little touch-up on the rougher patches). My beard is light ( density) so two passes usually suffices to pass inspection most days. For guys with denser, barbed-wire beards, a two-pass near-BBS shave simply ain't a reality.

 

Finally caught up on the thread. Nine pages in two days. Impressive. I'm doing a no focus focus this month as far as software and hardware. I am going to try to get back to two pass and done. I have been doing up you four passes on my chin, and want to get the irritation level down.

Gear will be mostly straights, unless I get more business trips. I still have two borrowed straights from @Norcalnewb to try out, a new straight and shavette on the way, and about 40 recently purchased straights to home and test. I will try to follow along with @mrchick on his honing adventures. Also need to start working on thinning down the heard, and sell some straights.

 

LOL Man those ads have been good to us.

 

Well the focus, then, is two pass shaves. With an unfocused group of razors. Works for me.

 

Lovely two pass shave with my new C-Mon Blackie purchased from Kevin @HolyRollah A very keen, smooth shaver. After receiving a refund from EBay on a no show razor I purchased another of his offerings, the restoration of which can be seen here:
http://theshaveden.com/forums/threads/wostenholm-son-pipe-6-8.51547/
Can't wait to try out a razor that may be 200 years old.

 

Probably not in my case. I replace a mattress when it no longer provides good sleep. The one I had before the Tempurpedic was at least 12 years old.

 

Nice! Kevin does beautiful work.

 

I think the record so far for me is a couple who had a 28 year old mattress. That had to be a beat down piece of crap.

 

Packed and ready to go out in tomorrow's mail!

 

SOTD
8/2/16

Pre: shower, Nivea face wash
Razor:Gillette Fat Boy (3)
Blade: Personna Lab Blue
Brush: TGN synthetic
Soap: TSD Special
Post: cold water, alum, witch hazel, Nivea sensitive aftershave balm, Aqua Velva Ice Blue aftershave

Well I guess I'm getting in a bad habit of only shaving every other day. I'll try and correct this shortly, but as for tonight's shave it was a little better than DFS. First pass was WTG and gave me good reduction. Second pass was XTG and again with good reduction, but I started feeling a slight irritation on one spot of my neck. Third pass was ATG and got pretty close but I could defiantly tell I had gotten some irritation on the right side of my neck. I rinsed my face with some cold water and then applied the alum which stung a little bit where I had the irritation, but it wasn't bad. I rinsed off with cold water again after it stopped stinging and applied the witch hazel. Next I decided to sooth my skin with the Nivea aftershave and let it soak in a bit to sooth the irritation. Later I applied the Aqua Velva aftershave and again got a little sting but I did not get the cooling sensation that I had previously gotten from it. Maybe the Nivea stopped it, I'm not sure. Anyway all's well that ends well, hope everyone had a great shave today and a even better one tomorrow!

 

What a beautiful razor, congrats Cmorris357!

 

Hero.

 

There's certainly no rule that says you have to shave every day. If you need to, of course, then skipping could be a bad thing. I know I can't skip Wednesday through Sunday because of work. No penalties assessed for shaving every other day though. The Cartel is a merciful dictatorship.

 

Greetings and welcome to our little 30 Day Thread!

 

I am a lucky guy, and I get to be outside in Colorado every single day for 6-12 hours. Amazingly good climate, all things considered.

 

Fun fact:

Apple autocorrect makes "Tempurpedic" into "tempura edit".

It's gonna be a while, I need to ponder that.

 

Mmmm....Tempura

 

I guess you'd edit it by ordering a different kind?