February 2018 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

clint64 · Feb 12, 2018

February 12, 2018
OneBlade Genesis V2
Feather FHS
Wild West Brushworks 30mm Tuxedo
Fine Platinum

Another rainy messy morning which should just destroy the morning commute. At least I can get in a relaxing shave before starting the day. This WWB brush has the huge 30mm Tuxedo knot installed. This brush's appetite for eating soap rivals that of the Chubby CH2 Synthetic. In no time at all the WWB had whipped up a mountain of rich slick lather. Three passes and touch ups ended in a near perfect shave. I can say that the Feather blades provide a smoother closer shave than the modified Gem blades but are more expensive and don't last as long. A splash of Fine Platinum aftershave and I am ready for the day. I hope everyone has a great Monday.

FaceScraper · Feb 12, 2018

NCoxSTL said: ↑

Favorite February

February 11 - A week with Williams. Day 3

Razor - Gem MMOC
Blade - ASR Carbon - CVS (3)
Soap - Williams
Brush - Omega BoS 10066 Boar
Post - Alum

Pop Quiz. How many nights can you forget to take a carbon blade out of a razor before you turn the blade into junk? Answer? Apparently it only takes one. When I reached for the OCMM tonight I realized I had just put it in the stand last night and walked off. I usually pull the blade, dry it and the razor, and leave the blade on top of the brush handle in the brush stand to let it dry. I pulled the blade and it looked like the top edge was ok. More than the usual amount of discoloration where the razor grips it but the edge looked clean. Turned it over and.....yep.....lots of corrosion starting and the edge looked a bit compromised. I grabbed my strop and gave it about 50 strokes on each edge. That seemed to clean it up. So here goes.

The Williams tonight looked fantastic in the bowl. It even looked great on the brush. Staying with my formula of a wet puck and brush and just beating it to death. The first pass as actually not too bad until the left side when it had almost all disappeared before I started on that side. Still slick so I went with it. I did the second pass still with the carbon blade and did manage to get the Williams to stick around a bit better. At that point, though, I knew I wasn't even CCS and the blade had been rough the whole time. Not killer rough but definitely not cutting like it should. I grabbed my rescue razor for this week, the Delta Echo New LC with Sharp Star and finished a third pass. The Williams held up through that pass as well as it did the second and I found the baby under there with that final pass. Alum was warm as the blade had clearly roughed me up a bit for allowing it to get roughed up.

When I squeezed the brush out I got what I always do with Williams. Bubbles. Kind of like bubble bath bubbles. Just no solid lather that I can find, but.....I can't complain about it not providing slickness. This was day 3, so 4 more to go to try and find that perfect lather. In the meantime I'll be starting a new blade tomorrow and trying to avoid leaving it in the razor again!

Hope you had a great weekend!

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I enjoy the writeup Neal! Nice photo of the gear too. I dig the brush - simple and effective.

Norcalnewb · Feb 12, 2018

Thank you, Clint!

FaceScraper · Feb 12, 2018

mrchick said: ↑

I just can't keep up with you guys. It's 1:00am and I gave up 150 posts back. I just want to pop in and brag about my sweet wife again. I've been traveling a lot for business and came home this week to find that my wife repurposed a piece of furniture for me to store my soaps and after shaves (most of them anyway) I came home to this in the master bath. I like it a lot. Have fun guys!
Good night.

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Your wife rocks, Brian!!

Like the others, I had to check out the inventory first. That is a beautiful cabinet though! Congrats again on the new digs - and the new den!

FaceScraper · Feb 12, 2018

clint64 said: ↑

February 12, 2018
OneBlade Genesis V2
Feather FHS
Wild West Brushworks 30mm Tuxedo
Fine Platinum

Another rainy messy morning which should just destroy the morning commute. At least I can get in a relaxing shave before starting the day. This WWB brush has the huge 30mm Tuxedo knot installed. This brush's appetite for eating soap rivals that of the Chubby CH2 Synthetic. In no time at all the WWB had whipped up a mountain of rich slick lather. Three passes and touch ups ended in a near perfect shave. I can say that the Feather blades provide a smoother closer shave than the modified Gem blades but are more expensive and don't last as long. A splash of Fine Platinum aftershave and I am ready for the day. I hope everyone has a great Monday.
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Great photo Clint!! The brush is beautiful! Quite an impressive knot in it as well. Good luck on your commute and getting through the first day of the week!

Norcalnewb · Feb 12, 2018

clint64 said: ↑

February 12, 2018
OneBlade Genesis V2
Feather FHS
Wild West Brushworks 30mm Tuxedo
Fine Platinum

Another rainy messy morning which should just destroy the morning commute. At least I can get in a relaxing shave before starting the day. This WWB brush has the huge 30mm Tuxedo knot installed. This brush's appetite for eating soap rivals that of the Chubby CH2 Synthetic. In no time at all the WWB had whipped up a mountain of rich slick lather. Three passes and touch ups ended in a near perfect shave. I can say that the Feather blades provide a smoother closer shave than the modified Gem blades but are more expensive and don't last as long. A splash of Fine Platinum aftershave and I am ready for the day. I hope everyone has a great Monday.
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Wonderful picture, Clint!

BaylorGator · Feb 12, 2018

mrchick said: ↑

I just can't keep up with you guys. It's 1:00am and I gave up 150 posts back. I just want to pop in and brag about my sweet wife again. I've been traveling a lot for business and came home this week to find that my wife repurposed a piece of furniture for me to store my soaps and after shaves (most of them anyway) I came home to this in the master bath. I like it a lot. Have fun guys!
Good night.

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Nice! I'm just happy when my wife doesn't say anything about my stuff. For her to go buy something for me to keep more stuff in is not even remotely in my future. Hope you are settling into your new place, Brian.

PLAla · Feb 12, 2018

SOTD February 12, 2018

Prep: Cold water and Stirling mentholated pre-shave soap
Blade: Schick Proline
Razor: RazoRock Black Hawk
Brush: Ever Ready 100T with restored badger knot
Lather: Stirling Glacial Lemon Chill
Post: Witch hazel, TSD Iced Yin Yang aftershave
WTG, touch up

Detour for today with Menthol Monday. My first goal for the next week is to finish off the sample of Jamestown Gentleman soap and move on to working on something else. This shave was a good one. Nice and easy. The Proline blades works well in the Hawk.

Good way to start the work week. Have a great day, everyone!

Boojum1 · Feb 12, 2018

Menthol Monday
February 12, 2018

RR Black Mamba DLC
Feather HS
Thater Beehive White Boar
Stirling Glacial Obsidian
Barrister and Mann Arctique
Pino Silvestri

Norcalnewb · Feb 12, 2018

February 12 SOTD:

Razor: Gillette Toggle
Blade: Astra SP
Brush: Simpsons CH-2
Lather: Maggards London Barbershop
Aftershave: Maggards London Barbershop
Additional Care:
Stirling Unscented PSB
https://shavingbuddy2.herokuapp.com/shave/5a818aeee26e520004a9e786

It was a nice shave this morning, and this soap will be my next target for usage. I got two passes for a DFS with the Toggle. I hope everyone has a great day!

Norcalnewb · Feb 12, 2018

PLAla said: ↑

SOTD February 12, 2018

Prep: Cold water and Stirling mentholated pre-shave soap
Blade: Schick Proline
Razor: RazoRock Black Hawk
Brush: Ever Ready 100T with restored badger knot
Lather: Stirling Glacial Lemon Chill
Post: Witch hazel, TSD Iced Yin Yang aftershave
WTG, touch up

Detour for today with Menthol Monday. My first goal for the next week is to finish off the sample of Jamestown Gentleman soap and move on to working on something else. This shave was a good one. Nice and easy. The Proline blades works well in the Hawk.

Good way to start the work week. Have a great day, everyone!

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Great picture, Perry!

Boojum1 said: ↑

Menthol Monday
February 12, 2018

RR Black Mamba DLC
Feather HS
Thater Beehive White Boar
Stirling Glacial Obsidian
Barrister and Mann Arctique
Pino Silvestri

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Beautiful picture, Mark!

PLAla · Feb 12, 2018

Norcalnewb said: ↑

Great picture, Perry!

Beautiful picture, Mark!
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Thank you, Jim!

Boojum1 · Feb 12, 2018

Norcalnewb said: ↑

Great picture, Perry!

Beautiful picture, Mark!
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Thanks Jim!

clint64 · Feb 12, 2018

FaceScraper said: ↑

Great photo Clint!! The brush is beautiful! Quite an impressive knot in it as well. Good luck on your commute and getting through the first day of the week!
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Thank you Bruce. I survived the commute and am already working on tax returns.

Norcalnewb said: ↑

Wonderful picture, Clint!
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Thank you Jim.

clint64 · Feb 12, 2018

PLAla said: ↑

SOTD February 12, 2018

Prep: Cold water and Stirling mentholated pre-shave soap
Blade: Schick Proline
Razor: RazoRock Black Hawk
Brush: Ever Ready 100T with restored badger knot
Lather: Stirling Glacial Lemon Chill
Post: Witch hazel, TSD Iced Yin Yang aftershave
WTG, touch up

Detour for today with Menthol Monday. My first goal for the next week is to finish off the sample of Jamestown Gentleman soap and move on to working on something else. This shave was a good one. Nice and easy. The Proline blades works well in the Hawk.

Good way to start the work week. Have a great day, everyone!

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Great lineup and photo Perry. I hope you have a great week.

Boojum1 said: ↑

Menthol Monday
February 12, 2018

RR Black Mamba DLC
Feather HS
Thater Beehive White Boar
Stirling Glacial Obsidian
Barrister and Mann Arctique
Pino Silvestri

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Fantastic photo Mark.

Norcalnewb said: ↑

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February 12 SOTD:

Razor: Gillette Toggle
Blade: Astra SP
Brush: Simpsons CH-2
Lather: Maggards London Barbershop
Aftershave: Maggards London Barbershop
Additional Care:
Stirling Unscented PSB
https://shavingbuddy2.herokuapp.com/shave/5a818aeee26e520004a9e786

It was a nice shave this morning, and this soap will be my next target for usage. I got two passes for a DFS with the Toggle. I hope everyone has a great day!
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All the big guns in this lineup with a Toggle and the CH2. Bravo. Fantastic Picture as well.

Norcalnewb · Feb 12, 2018

clint64 said: ↑

Great lineup and photo Perry. I hope you have a great week.

Fantastic photo Mark.

All the big guns in this lineup with a Toggle and the CH2. Bravo. Fantastic Picture as well.
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Thank you, Clint!

John Ruschmeyer · Feb 12, 2018

February 12, 2018

Razor: Schick '500' Injector
Blade: Chick
Brush: 30DC LE/Pure Badger
Cream: KMF fragrance-free
Post: Alum, Listerine, WH

Monday morning shave with one of my favorite Injectors. A BBS with no blood, but a bit of sting from the Alum. This blade has been in there for a while, so I suspect it may have faded a bit in storage. Still, nothing to be unhappy about.

PLAla · Feb 12, 2018

clint64 said: ↑

Great lineup and photo Perry. I hope you have a great week.
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Thank you, Clint!

LOOT · Feb 12, 2018

02.12.18 SOTD
Blackland Blackbird, OC, 100mm Handle
Stirling Vanilla Sandalwood
Rapira Platinum Lux
Stirling Badger brush

No time for photo today but I'm continuing my onslaught of the Vanilla Sandalwood. Estimate approx 60% gone. Same Blackbird...same blade...same soap. DFS.

Happy Monday men.

Linuxguile · Feb 12, 2018

sdguero said: ↑

SOTD 2.11.2018
Pre-shave: hot shower & Nivea Men Sensitive Face Wash
Brush: Marvy boar
Soap: VDH Scented Luxury
Razor: Ever-Ready 1912
Blade: GEM Stainless (7)
Post-shave: Assured WH, Afta Fresh AS Skin Conditioner, Adidas Dynamic Pulse AS

In an earlier post this morning I suggested to Neal @NCoxSTL he should sometime try the VDH Scented Luxury soap puck got me to thinking about the Luxury and using it today. This was the first soap puck I used when I got into wet-shaving and I've always liked it. The scent is really nice, it lathers well, its slick and feels good. Not bad for a soap you can find on the shelf at many local stores.

This was my seventh use for this blade. It used to be that I could manage about 4 shaves on one of these blades. Maybe my technique is improving? Regardless, I think I'll use it again tomorrow or until it starts tugging.

For those who may be interested the Marvy boar did not shed like it did yesterday. It was very tame today. Overall, I got a CCS today.

Happy shaves everyone!
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Dan, love the ER 1912! Fantastic pic!

NCoxSTL said: ↑

Favorite February

February 11 - A week with Williams. Day 3

Razor - Gem MMOC
Blade - ASR Carbon - CVS (3)
Soap - Williams
Brush - Omega BoS 10066 Boar
Post - Alum

Pop Quiz. How many nights can you forget to take a carbon blade out of a razor before you turn the blade into junk? Answer? Apparently it only takes one. When I reached for the OCMM tonight I realized I had just put it in the stand last night and walked off. I usually pull the blade, dry it and the razor, and leave the blade on top of the brush handle in the brush stand to let it dry. I pulled the blade and it looked like the top edge was ok. More than the usual amount of discoloration where the razor grips it but the edge looked clean. Turned it over and.....yep.....lots of corrosion starting and the edge looked a bit compromised. I grabbed my strop and gave it about 50 strokes on each edge. That seemed to clean it up. So here goes.

The Williams tonight looked fantastic in the bowl. It even looked great on the brush. Staying with my formula of a wet puck and brush and just beating it to death. The first pass as actually not too bad until the left side when it had almost all disappeared before I started on that side. Still slick so I went with it. I did the second pass still with the carbon blade and did manage to get the Williams to stick around a bit better. At that point, though, I knew I wasn't even CCS and the blade had been rough the whole time. Not killer rough but definitely not cutting like it should. I grabbed my rescue razor for this week, the Delta Echo New LC with Sharp Star and finished a third pass. The Williams held up through that pass as well as it did the second and I found the baby under there with that final pass. Alum was warm as the blade had clearly roughed me up a bit for allowing it to get roughed up.

When I squeezed the brush out I got what I always do with Williams. Bubbles. Kind of like bubble bath bubbles. Just no solid lather that I can find, but.....I can't complain about it not providing slickness. This was day 3, so 4 more to go to try and find that perfect lather. In the meantime I'll be starting a new blade tomorrow and trying to avoid leaving it in the razor again!

Hope you had a great weekend!

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I hear that dunking the whole razor head in alchohol will prevent rusting. No first hand knowledge though.

wchnu said: ↑

LAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD you know why.....

Yup the bunny is still in the US time to jump across the street and sign up!!!

Welcome to the show, This chatty bunch has covered all the bases !!!

Your pegging out the BS meter... I do not think the warranty is going to cover it if you keep it up and break it.

Glad things are better and Happy Birthday to the young one.

My Neil inspired shave this afternoon. Everything worked well.
Your making it too complicated......

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Fuzzy, that bottle of Clubman is running precariously low!

mrchick said: ↑

I just can't keep up with you guys. It's 1:00am and I gave up 150 posts back. I just want to pop in and brag about my sweet wife again. I've been traveling a lot for business and came home this week to find that my wife repurposed a piece of furniture for me to store my soaps and after shaves (most of them anyway) I came home to this in the master bath. I like it a lot. Have fun guys!
Good night.

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That is amazing, Brian!

clint64 said: ↑

February 12, 2018
OneBlade Genesis V2
Feather FHS
Wild West Brushworks 30mm Tuxedo
Fine Platinum

Another rainy messy morning which should just destroy the morning commute. At least I can get in a relaxing shave before starting the day. This WWB brush has the huge 30mm Tuxedo knot installed. This brush's appetite for eating soap rivals that of the Chubby CH2 Synthetic. In no time at all the WWB had whipped up a mountain of rich slick lather. Three passes and touch ups ended in a near perfect shave. I can say that the Feather blades provide a smoother closer shave than the modified Gem blades but are more expensive and don't last as long. A splash of Fine Platinum aftershave and I am ready for the day. I hope everyone has a great Monday.
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Clint, that brush is gorgeous! Mind posting a few more pics on my show me the green thread?

PLAla said: ↑

SOTD February 12, 2018

Prep: Cold water and Stirling mentholated pre-shave soap
Blade: Schick Proline
Razor: RazoRock Black Hawk
Brush: Ever Ready 100T with restored badger knot
Lather: Stirling Glacial Lemon Chill
Post: Witch hazel, TSD Iced Yin Yang aftershave
WTG, touch up

Detour for today with Menthol Monday. My first goal for the next week is to finish off the sample of Jamestown Gentleman soap and move on to working on something else. This shave was a good one. Nice and easy. The Proline blades works well in the Hawk.

Good way to start the work week. Have a great day, everyone!

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Excellent photo, Perry!

Boojum1 said: ↑

Menthol Monday
February 12, 2018

RR Black Mamba DLC
Feather HS
Thater Beehive White Boar
Stirling Glacial Obsidian
Barrister and Mann Arctique
Pino Silvestri

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Very nice Mark!

Norcalnewb said: ↑

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February 12 SOTD:

Razor: Gillette Toggle
Blade: Astra SP
Brush: Simpsons CH-2
Lather: Maggards London Barbershop
Aftershave: Maggards London Barbershop
Additional Care:
Stirling Unscented PSB
https://shavingbuddy2.herokuapp.com/shave/5a818aeee26e520004a9e786

It was a nice shave this morning, and this soap will be my next target for usage. I got two passes for a DFS with the Toggle. I hope everyone has a great day!
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Breaking out The Soap Destroyer and the Toggle!! Awesome setup, Jim!

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February 2018 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

What type is your favorite razor?

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February 2018 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

What type is your favorite razor?

Vintage DE

Modern DE

Vintage SE

Modern SE

Straight

Pain Stick

I'd say carts - but I don't want to admit it

Razor schmazer - pass the cookies!

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