May 2017 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

I have had enough bad shaves this month that I really appreciated this fine English wedge razor and 42 soap and aftershave from Barrister &Mann. Happy Towel day everyone!

 

It was the deluxe model.

 

Tell us about the soap! What's it smell like? I ordered mine a few hours ago. Sounds great!

 

You are. Though I'm personally holding out for a woman who will bring me a boxes of ammunition and owns a gun or two.

 

Sammy Soap - 4 Me - 0

So tonight I had another shave with the Sammy Soap. I'm getting closer (I think) to getting the ratio right. Still performed the disappearing act, but following the second pass it stuck around a bit longer. Still, plenty of slickness. In fact when I splashed my face with warm and began running my hands around my face to see where I needed to touch up, my hands came away soapy. So I used that to touchup instead of the witch hazel.

The Schick E3 worked like a charm, though I think I'm getting a bit too cocky and was a bit aggressive. Got a couple of nicks, but nothing serious. Ending the shave, I decided some TSD Eucalyptus witch hazel, and then some spritzes of my go to cologne Invictus. All set to go watch the Cards game tonight. And so begins my 4-day holiday weekend.

Happy Thursday.

 

Not sure if you are a brave man or foolish. I always find a way to piss off my wife and if she knew how to shoot and had a gun, I think she would make good on the promise to shoot me!!

Good luck with that!!

 

What makes you think she won't slit your throat with your own razor blade...

 

I don't have a straight and she's Siciliana. How often have you seen one go near a razor? It is like garlic to a vampire !!!

 

Floral, lemon, earthy undertones from the tea and the thing that starts with a that I can't spell. It's a different scent, but I like it.

 

This can go sideways quicker than you would think.

 

I'll risk it. I prefer someone who can watch my back and reload for for me.

 

How's the 42 smell? It's difficult to determine from the description. Is it more floral? Cologne-ish?

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And you already answered my question. Ish.

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More floral.

 

I am such a fan of the books I need to try it.

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Wooo. Gotta love the ride on the wild side. Handle.....he don't need no stinking handle!! Bully!!!

It was farrrrr out!

 

Yeah, it is/was a weird one. I don't know what I did to it. It was just fine before, and I made it worse. I have finished a handful of razors on that stone, even one really hard one, and they all worked out fine. Guess I got me some practicin to do.....

 

Yes - just buying the hones is an expensive proposition, then the strops (buying, then making your own), plus the various grit powders and rouges, AND buying the razors.

Oooh - and the argument of 'water vs oil'.

 

No, they don't. They really don't.

I can't really describe the folks that live in the hill country and the Big Thicket (Rural East Texas), but they're interesting. We won't discuss Vidor.

 

"It's Mega-Maid, sir! She's gone from suck to blow!"