January 2018 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Sometimes you see things in here you least expect. That can be a good thing. And also a very bad thing.

 

Cinco de Julio baby!!!

 

Corrupting them early now aren't we.

 

Pointless to ask. You already know the answer. Sanity is an overrated trait here.

 

If you are facelathering, the "plaster" is an easy fix. Just dip the tip of your brush in a cup of water or flick it under a running tap to get a bit more water in the brush and then run over the soap on your face again. Keep doing this until you get a consistency you like. And if the soap is too runny instead when you lather it on, just add more product to the brush and do the same thing. If you're bowl lathering, you do the same process in the bowl -- trickling in more water to the bowl or adding more soap to the brush until you get where you want.

And yeah, the amount of water most soaps hold is surprising. I now add at least four times as much water as I used to when I started here. Of course, I also use about twice as much soap. I used to try to be frugal about the amount of soap I used but the guys convinced me that soap is cheap and there's no point being miserly about it and ruining the shave.

 

I love this time of year.

 

Oh, that's merely a tingle. If you want burn, we can hook ya up.

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Wednesday night January 24 - Jeeves and Jayaruh January

EverReady 1912 SE with Jayaruh wood handle / Gem PTFE (3)
Semogue Owners Club cherrywood boar brush
Jeeves Key Lime shave stick
Alum and Thayers Witch Hazel Rose Petal and Florida Water



After reading about Neal's @NCoxSTL inspiring shave, I was tempted to dig out my Simpsons Cafe Latte cream and have a bite ... er, I mean a shave. However I remained true to my focus of Jeeves January and went with the juicy Key Lime instead.

I switched from yesterday's Gem 1912 to the EverReady 1912 but stayed with the boar brush for face lathering the shave stick.

I may have been in a bad mood yesterday and unfairly blamed my razor and brush. Certainly the EverReady today not only gave me an excellent two-pass DFS with no irritation, it was also a pleasure to use. I apologize to Fuzzy @wchnu for dissing his beloved Gem SEs as I did.

I haven't changed my mind about the boar brush though -- for facelathering, I find a synthetic or even a badger much easier. Tonight I ended up taking my own advice to @9nein9 and alternately dipping the brush and rubbing more product on my face until I finally got the lather where I wanted it. It took a bit of fiddling.

I don’t have a Jeeves splash to match the soap, so I finished off with the very nice Florida Water. There's a reason it's still in production after almost two centuries...

 

@9nein9

We love shenanigans, and yes the popsicle thing is true. It's a proof of our guiding philosophy that techniques trump tools. Any blade in a stiff mount can be dragged across the skin at a low angle for a comfy shave. It's really just a homemade straight or shavette.

We're not insane. Crazy isn't the same.

The only rule we have for shenanigans is that we never start anything we wouldn't actually do to ourselves. Read carefully, and you'll notice all the players were basically SR shavers or technique geeks on aggressive DE razors. No one is ever shamed into participating, in fact we think it's funny when people drop in to say we're nuts...but we are very proud to say we've never had anyone get seriously hurt, in any form beyond a bad nick, with a razor, due to a 30DC shenanigan. When the time comes, jump in, watch and learn, or make fun of us... We want you here for the fun. You'll know when a shenanigan is right for you.

(We just say this aloud once in awhile as we gain new ongoing members.)

 

@RyX that is not molesting...Fuzzy approves of the drops of good stink.

Great williams pics too.

I am not going to shavette fu things tonight.

@9nein9 great to see you are settling in.

Whoever it was talking about shimming a 1924..off the bus!!!

Oh and for @NCoxSTL this is how you lather Williams Sir. New Semogue 1305 absolutly knocked the modern stuff out!!

We all have bad days.

I prefer badger usually with shave sticks also.

Move the wood handle away from the 1912. Those are for lather catchers...real ones not the 1914.

 

Great video. He makes it look so easy

 

He is me...and it is easy. Just takes some practice.

 

Well, I had to try out the wood handle with something and I haven't dug down to my Kampfe/Star yet...

 

It is beautiful isn't need. Need a shovel? Stop posting and get crackin' on digging that razor out....just saying.

 

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The most important tidbit in this is how he adds water to the brush , under the dribbling faucet.

If the lather is pasty on your face, add dribbles and work the water in. You keep that up until you get shiny lather.

I want my lather to look like soft serve ice cream that’s JUST starting to melt under a bare 100 watt light bulb. SHINY.

 

Also works to dip just the tip of the brush into water. Where does he soak his brush? Seems overly complicated actually. Keeping the water dripping and all.

 

Thank you. The Stirling variety is the kind I like, straight up woody and not a woody note mixed into fifty other scents, but named Sandalwood. It reminds me of sanding on balsa wood, only deeper. The scent of those stupid little wind up rubber band airplanes you could get at the supermarket when we were kids.

[JARED’S MOM 1976]: “Oh leave the boy alone, let him play with it how he wants.”

[JARED’S DAD 1976]: “I don’t know, something wrong with that kid. Won’t fly the damn airplane, just sits over there in the corner smelling it.”

 

No. I am actually in a LivInn this week. It’s where I have to stay when I have to be at our yard in the mornings. It’s the closest I can get without having to empty your pickup out at night, leaving the doors unlocked with the glovebox and console open.

 

Might as well get it all out in the open.

 

Maybe he doesn’t soak it. Half the time I don’t soak a badger anyway. I never soak synthetics. And be honest with me. You’ve never dipped your brush tips a little too far and put in too much water?

Never thought of a slow running faucet as complicated.