January 2017 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Third hotel room straight shave in a row. I'm not sure why I always carried a safety razor on the road. The straight works the same as it does at home
Very nice shave today.
Travel SOTD
Route 66 Twisted Tweed
Badger Brush
Sensation Razor
Lucky Tiger
TSD Iced Egyptian Spice AS
Have fun!

 

January 12, 2017

Razor: F2 Gillette 195 Adjustable (4)
Blade: Astra SP (4)
Brush: Razorock Plissoft 22
Cream: KMF fragrance-free

Plenty of lather from the KMF. I turned the Fatboy up to 4 which got me almost to BBS, though it did wake up the Alum a bit. No blood, though... which is always a good thing.

 

I love those Plissoft brushes.

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Thanks, Clint. I had some hopes Erasmic would be good, but it doesn't seem to work for me.

 

Great picture, Mark. What is the background?

 

Nice black and white pic!

 

I have a Stirling Kong synthetic, which is about the same brush. I love them both. They are just so convenient.

 

January Shavette Focus

Tabac stick & JR #130 synth
Weck Sexto & Personna
Gillette Starburst, Feather
Alum, Pinaud Clubman AS


Now I get the Tabac fandom. I wet my brush, couple swipes across the top of the stick installed in an up-cycled dispenser, and bowl lathered more than I expected. The soap seems quite tolerant when hydrating. More water, more lather & wetter is better when applying open blade to face. After WTG and ATG shavette passes there didn't seem enough soap to go again. Using the dispenser as intended I rubbed my neck like an armpit and applied wetted brush. Poof! Plenty more creamy slick for the Lady Gillette (butched up with a sharp fresh Japanese blade). While attempting different grips with the Weck I found one that took a divot off my neck. Alum sealed it and afforded an otherwise standard warm pass. Finishing with Clubman complimented the powdery scent of Grandma's purse and Certs mints. Thank you Perry @PLAla for the generous sample!
Good shaves Y'all

 

Yea, verily! I'll share a sample of the sample with a Lady friend to get her impression. I wonder if many females wear the EDT or EDC. My reading suggests there is a subtle difference in scent between the two products.

 

Thank you. I had some time in my hotel room and had fun playing with photo editing.

 

You are my hero for posting that picture. I laughed out loud. Hard.

 

I was given a sample of the cologne in an order from Gifts and Care. It smelled nothing like the soap at all, and if I bought cologne, would buy it in a heartbeat.

It was so different from the soap that I wonder if it is the same product I commonly see used here, or something else they were promo-ing.

 

Glad you've enjoyed it so far! I found that Tabac needed a good bit of water. The face lathering straight from the stick has never been my strong suit. I would end up with drying lather when I used the Tabac. I'm glad it's getting some more use!

 

No personal information about the EDC & EDT. I've read they are slightly different. Also there's the old Tabac, then the new formula. Check the labels for angled (old) or horizontal (new). I think, I'm waiting in line at the DMV rather than at my command post.

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Shavette Focusing Month, Shave 24:




This shave turned started out really badly, and then ended pretty okay. For the sake of science, I put a Personna injector blade into Irving. I had early on decided that he does his best work with an AC blade, but I decided to give it another run. First pass, N to S, WTG, dominant hand, feels a little tuggy, like it is pulling the hair out of my face. I mean it plain old hurts. I finish that side of my face, and start on my neck, same drill. Okay, something is wrong. I look at the blade, everything is aligned, I look in the mirror, and I have like fifty tiny, just barely weeping scratches on my cheek. Okay, five. I rinsed off, and got them all stopped with cold water. I changed to blade to a new Feather Pro, and proceeded to finish up with a pretty okay shave.

I couldn't see anything wrong with the blade. Could it honestly be damaged enough to scratch me like that and not see it? Was I scratching myself with the front corner of it? That would seem the most likely, but it isn't something I have done before, with any razor, let alone this one, especially not in the easiest spot on my face to shave.

I probably need to chalk it up to operator error and move on.

Hope you all are having a good day. Sort of a ground blizzard today, so I am probably just going to clean out rabbit hutches, throw another bale of straw to the dogs, and hunker down.

 

It's definitely a great performer. I suspect that if I ever went minimalist, this would be my setup.

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I just realized that if we eliminated all the posts that say "great pic", and the subsequent "thank you" posts, this thread would be 3 pages long.

Just kidding guys. There are some great photographers here. Keep up the good work.

 

Excellent picture of quality gear Troy. Great looking mug. Old Spice mug that is.

 

Great photo Mark. I have a memory of green grass somewhere.

 

Razor: Gillette Black Tip X 3 1952
Blade: Wilkinson Sword (5)
Brush: Orange & Black Handle Made in Switzerland, Boar (I think)
Soap: Route Route 66 Cavendish
Aftershave: 2x Iced Yin Yang

Took awhile to get this brush loaded, but it did a pretty good job once loaded. End with a DFS.