April 2017 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Injectors are absolutely awesome. The shaves are just so smooth.

 

I meant to reply to this sooner. No need to hunt for any Williams. Sling me an addy. I got 15 or 16 cakes around the place.

 

Good man.

Williams!!!!!BULLY for you Sir.

 

He's near the Birmingham AL area, the water should be fairly soft coming out of those hills. Probably gonna work just fine.

 

Of course it will.woo

 

Thank you and will do! Surely this is Williams is guaranteed to be the one, it's from the the master stash!

I can try it with my CO tap water, bottled spring water, distilled water, and good old KY water. AL too. It will be a fun experiment, and should give some insight in to the soap for people who aren't actually familiar.

 

Sounds like a plan.

For the record I opened a cake of older stuff today. Needed something to put in my old foley scuttle. It lathered like the new stuff to me. I will be using both, but more of the new stuff until I use that cake up.

 

Today has been exciting for a number of reasons. Some historically bad storms came through the area for much of the day. There were thunderstorms. Oh, the storms! It seems that there were tornadoes and hail all around us (within a few miles) but they seemed to barely miss us, and for that I am thankful. All is finally calm and I am enjoying sitting on the porch and listening to wildlife slowly climb back out of hiding.

My wife and I took advantage of being stuck inside and went to work on our bathroom, which has been in a state of flux for some time. End result? I finally have something resembling a shave den. My daughter and I have been working on a little cabinet we rescued from a second hand shop, and I finally got it mounted. It's amazing what I have amassed in less than a year of wet shaving, and I finally have a place for it within easy reach. I also took the time to wash all my razor before setting them up. I have them on two racks: one is a test tube rack, and the other a nice pipe rack that I repurposed. It has a humidor jar in the middle that is now slap full of fine Russian steel. Here's some pics of the results:






In the process of cleaning up, I came across something I had forgotten: my last cartridge razor, complete with one last cartridge. It has been a full year since I have used one. I decided to send it off with the least sexy shave I could muster. My shave of the day?


End result? Honestly, a perfectly acceptable result. But while it was fun to reminisce, I really didn't enjoy the process as much as I do with my vintage gear. So I send off my cartridge with this last hurrah. All in all, lots that could have gone wrong today: tornadoes, hail, strong winds, flash flooding, cartridge shaves... but all is well that ends well. I just don't want to see any of them again any time soon.

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Well done. Pull out the Magic tomorrow and go for a drive!

 

I am off to the mountains tomorrow with my bride. I may just bring the Magic along with me. Three days with my favorite Shavette could be just what the doctor ordered.

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And that will LITERALLY be a drive with my Magic.

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That is a room slap full of Awesomeness. Might even be awesomelicious. I use a pipe rack also but keep qtips in the jar. I think I need one the size of yours. Thank you for the pics and glad the day did not go South on you!!

 

It's pretty awesome to me! Thanks! I may start finally adding some pics now that I have some space to take them.

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Bring the Magic and one other! Have fun and stay dry!

 

I found the pipe rack at a local antique shop for next to nothing. It's perfect.

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I'll bring one other for the head shaves. But Magic only for the face. If you're gonna do it, do it all the way!

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I think I will bring the Arko along too. Turns out my wife actually likes it.

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I never much minded having to scrub a little film from my razors, it was the vision of it caked completely around tens of thousand of individual badger hairs that was causing me the therapy bills.

 

Very fun post. It is cool to see your den come together.

 

Sure, I'll get in the mail tomorrow yours is a vintage trac II right???