February 2018 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Beautiful picture, Mark!

 

Yet another travel SOTD. It’s a beautiful morning in Colorado Springs
Travel SOTD
Tabac Shave Stick
AoS Pure Badger Brush
Edwin Jagger DE89 Razor
Astra SP Blade
Ogallala Bay Rum After Shave
Have fun!

 

It is a nice set up! A guy could do a lot worse for a month.

 

Great travel set up. Brian! Have a good and safe trip.

 

Thank you Jim.

 

Great setup and photo Perry. I hear you on finishing up some soaps. I am trying the same thing but it seems to be a slow go.

 

Day 90
Gem Micromatic
Gem Stainless
CTAPT SC
Omega Baby Pro

Quick shave to get out the door this morning.

 

Great job sticking with the program. You will continue to improve over the coming weeks and months. However, if you hit a rough spot you can always return to the proven lineup.

 

Wow that is an fantastic lineup. How do you like the Seville AS?

 

It's OK! I like it more than my wife. She gave it 2 Thumbs Down!

 

Thank you, Jim!

Great photo, Mark!

Thanks, Clint! Soaps seem to gird up down at the bottom when you're trying to polish them off. They get to be stubborn!

 

Okay, I admit that I would get flagged in a drug test for amphetamines, but that is only because I'm on Adderall.

 

Sigh. It's bad enough that curling is already wracked by the controversy over high-tech brooms.

 

That's not good.

 

Awesome photo, Jim! too bad the Maggard's didn't work better for you.

Fantastic setup, Keith!

Beautiful photo Clint! I do believe that my Soap destroyer is starting to open up a little, like your Ivory.

Great photo, Perry!

Congrats on making great strides on your technique!

Beautiful setup, Mark!

Nice photo, Brian! Though your comment about Colorado Springs makes me think that you didn't have to drive anywhere this morning, 5" of snow and the city felt it wasn't necessary to break out the plows.

 

Thank you Andrew. The ivory CH2 knot has opened up more than the jade CH2. I have always thought the ivory one was more dense.

 

Thank you, Andrew!

 

SOTD February 20th


Ever-Ready 1912
Gem PTFE (4)
Stirling Baker Street
Yaqi Boar (24mm, Frigate Class)

Fist shave with the Yaqi boar. The knot feels quite small when compared to the Stirling Boar. I though I had a heavy soap load but I almost didn't have enough lather for the third pass. The ER 1912 is my absolute favorite SE razor. Smooth and easy 3 pass BBS. Baker Street is the sample on the chopping block now, a nice scent but probably wouldn't make my Stirling top 10. Have a great day my friends!

 

Today's review in my soap thread involved Williams, so I figured given the "lively discussions" this group has about Williams, I'd repost it here...


It's not Wednesday, but the showdown with modern Williams was inevitable. Would it lather? Would it not lather? I know... the suspense is killing you, right? So, I loaded up the brush and went to work. (By the way, for consistency I use a 26mm Maseto or a 26mm Stirling two band for all these reviews (including the side by side ones), so the soaps get not only a fair trial, by two good badger knots that perform almost identically. It also means the soaps have to lather up "Old School" without any boosts from the synthetics; the soaps have to do it on their own.) OK, anyway, the Williams did lather, but it didn't give particularly good lather in my opinion. Made me wonder how it'd compare to the soap puck I got free with my first crappy $10 badger brush on Amazon. (I actually may have to dig that thing out and try shaving head to head with those two on a day I'm bored.) It also smelled like soap. If you like the smell of soap and are a purist this is fine. Having said that, if you are a purist you probably only need one soap, and I clearly missed that exit on the highway about three states back.

So in conclusion, despite having learned many a shave trick and technique from Fuzzy, @wchnu and I are going to have to agree to disagree on this one. (Still love you, brother Fuzzy!)

 

Thank you Bruce & Clint! I try to keep my photos closer to realism, but S.Peaches had me in a psychedelic frame of mind.

You are welcome, and you've done an admirable job of sticking to your Rule. All I did was hold the door open. You've become a 30 DC Member through your own perseverance!

Someone ought to tell them about vintage gear and Technique Trumping Tools. Not like synthetic brushes will ever catch on in traditional wet shaving.