April 2017 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

For the win!
We can call him Adam Razorhands

 

This razor is rapidly moving to the top of rotation. Today's shave was as good as it gets.
Route 66 Perfect Storm Soap
Wolf Whiskers Brush
Portland Razor Company Siren
Lucky Tiger
Ogallala Bay Rum
Have fun!

 

Safe trip and have fun Perry!

 

Great picture, Clint! The books make for a nice back drop.

 

Thank you, Clint! Have a great day!

 

Have a safe and fun trip! Does your performance at the Willis Tower include a trip to the observation deck?

 

Oh yes, we're going to the deck first before performing. Also going to the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Sciemce and Industry Museum, see the Blue Man Group, etc. Going to fun! Driving through Nashville at the moment.

 

At this point no tape limitations have been imposed. It's mostly posturing and pondering.

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Thank you Jim.

 

You guys are really trying to enable me into a Simpsons synthetic.

 

Thank you Jason.

 

When you get one and use it, you will be thanking the Tres Amigos.

 

Razor: Supply Provision Custom 3 dot head
Blade: Chick
Brush Handle: B-400 The Brush by Tom
Knot: APShaveCo Tuxedo
Soap: Catie's Bubbles Le Piment de la Vie
Post Care: Thayers Witch Hazel
Alum
Osage Rub
Aftershave: Catie's Bubbles Le Piment de la Vie

First try of this soap and AS and it's fantastic. Great cushion and glide, easy to lather and the scent is wonderful. I'm impressed. Two easy passes this morning, barely missed the baby but the alum was completely silent. It's been almost 5 hours since I shaved and the scent is still going strong. Have a great day folks!

 

SOTD April 19th


Ming Shi 2000s
Sputnik(4)
Italian Barber Amici
Satin Tip The Purest

Another quick two pass morning shave. This razor pulls it off without issue, well worth the $15 investment, and it has indeed earned a spot in the dream team

 

Any comments on post shave feel from CB's soap ?

 

Simpson has the Butterscotch LE Chubby 2 and Butterscotch LE Duke 3 in stock now. Enablers R Us

 

If they had them in anything but butterscotch or cream/ivory I would have one in the mail already.

 

You can send an email to Mark at Simpson and ask. Someone on another forum got a Faux Tortoise CH2 Synthetic last week by asking. I didn't want to break any rules so pm me for the email info if you want.

 

Nice photo, but there is a conflict in it for me. The photo should give you a feeling of cold enviroment. And then you read "turkish bath" and the whole atmosphere vanishes... The devil is in the details!!!

Oh, excuse me, i didn't think you were taking it so seriously. I was joking, thus the many smilies. I WISH i could solve everything with a DE razor! I 'd always win! Now i have solid metal in my hands, while 99% of ther others would have to challenge me with their puny, plastic Gilettes! I don't fight with neighbours, i find it futile. If necessary, i send them a legal paper threatening with legal suit unless they change. There is no need to ruin my blood vessels' health try to reason with people i disagree with. But, i don't know what would happen here if gund were widespread and certainly wouldn't like to have women that can use them. I 've seen some fighting through the balconies and it's a good thing they are separated through the balconies and not just by a fence. It's a matter of different temperament. Plus, vendetta is an italian word! On the other hand, i read a recent article, claiming a research which says that over 60% of Americans are of anglo-german descent. This would explain the cold blood.

Anyway, to tell you my opinion about why in general, we Europeans find you a bit "overweaponized". Because, we regularly see on TV, someone "going crazy", grabbing a gun from his house, entering a school or mall and start shooting. These things here are much, much rarer. And if you see some world crime rate or homicide rate rankings, you will see that they are almost always, lower in the "unarmed" countries of the industrialized nations. Simply, in the US, the burglar also carries a gun, because he knows the house owner probably has one. While in "unarmed" countries, very often the burglar is unarmed too.

But, don't worry, i know you just don't kill each other in the street. I was just having some fun. Do you know how many jokes i 've had about the mafia from people all over the world in the internet? I 've lost count. I just join them in the joke!

The only thing epic, was the size. I even made a translation error in the point 4 of the "newbie guide rules" i wrote. I realized it later and corrected it today. To me, those 4 rules, give the most plausible theory to explain everything i 've read about people saying different things about the same products. Because otherwise, in this forum, it's like the Blade Jedi's Round Table. Everyone is past the point of shaving with DE and are in shavettes, injectors and i don't know what else. I still haven't had the time to understand what's an injector. So, everyone says "I can shave with anything".

No wonder this is the only shaving forum i 've seen without a blade section! And then you have the rest of the internet with people talking about blades. I mean, i had to find at least 1 theory to explain all of these situations. Because here, you have "Master Bama Samurai" and you, the newbie asks "Master, what is the better weapon for me, the katana or the bow"? And @Bama Samurai answers: "It matters not. They are just instruments in your hand. You can kill with both. If they shoot you with a bow, you simply deflect it":





Then, you have @wchnu , who also says "oh well, no problem with anything, what? You think the shave would be long? I 'll show you!"



"@wchnu, the man who shaves faster than his shadow". (Note that both @wchnu and Lucky Luke are smokers).

I mean, today i was reading in a local forum a man with many razors, who tried a new blade and he got completely different ideas about the same blade in 5 different razors. Which also, reminds @Drygulch, having problem with the Weishi only. I had to find one theory that can explain all. Those 4 points are the best i 've found for a holistic theory so far.

Nice photo. It's the shavette that ruins it a bit for me. I think without it would be better with only the 3 elements in the field, in equal distance. But it could be just me and my natural avversion for shavettes.

Nice photos, but i think you cripple way too many objects in the photos. Crippling your subjects is a no no in photography.

Hello again, my favourite photographer with the pretty brush!

Interesting photo. I wouldn't call it pretty, but it's interesting. And that's a good thing with a photo.

@PickledNorthern also had a nice last photo.
@BaylorGator also posted a nice photo with 4 brushes, but i think there is too much "white empty space". It needed some colour element to make a bit of a contrast, since all brushes had bland colours too.

P.S: Ordered another 300 Astra SP (total 400 now), 200 Dorco St301 (300 total now) and 10...Supermax Super Stainless blu that my fav shop has, just out of curiocity, because like a good Italian i am a sucker for bang for buck and noticed that Amazon sells 200 of these for 6 EUR. They 're probably crap, hence just the 10, but you never know. Also, unbelievable but true, just today, someome went to my fav shop and swept all the Shark blades both SS and SC. So i couldn't order more. But oh well, since i can get amazing shaves with Astra and Dorco, who cares. I still have 100 Sharks and can get BBS too, but with some more effort. I can buy more later. I also ordred a 2nd Weishi FL, just in case, cause i saw that of the short handle models, only the F is now sold at Amazon. The others disappeared. Better thave a spare. I was ready to buy a 2nd DE89 too, but then i saw some horrible pics of broken heads in the british amazon and removed it from the cart. If i break the one that i have, i will see what i will do. Maybe i will just jump to Fatip Gentile or something.

Tomorrow, Weishi + Derby again. If i STILL can't get at least DFS, next time it will be DE89 + Derby. I found the most curious thing. That Weishi, used to ship Dorcos with the 9306, which by coincidence (?) gave me amazing shave. On the contrary, Derby was selling under its own brand a Ming Shi razor (or something), which is more aggressive than Weishi. So the 4 points rule may prove right again.