Thursday March 8 - 30DC inspired shave
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Delta Echo refurbished Gillette Fatboy on 4 / Lord Super Stainless (1)
Semogue Owners Club cherrywood Tuxedo brush (APShaveCo knot set by Jason
@jtspartan)
The Dry Dock shave bowl (also by Jason)
Cyril R. Salter's Indian Sandalwood shaving cream (sample)
Alum and TSD Milk Aftershave Sandalwood
Today's shave brought to me by
@clint64 (I think),
@NCoxSTL and
@jtspartan. Why? Well, IIRC it was Clint's comments about how well the cerakote finish on one of his firearms had stood up that finally convinced me to send my Gillettes off to Delta Echo for the gun coating treatment. Neal donated a flat of Voskhods to the TSD Raffle, and when I won them, he arranged to have the Russian seller ship some directly to me, and the vendor threw in a couple sample tucks of Lord Super Stainless and Super Chrome blades. Also, Neal had done shave reports on them and said they weren't dreadful. Finally, Jason made my shaving bowl and also fixed my Semogue boar brush for me so that it now works the way I want it to.
The brush is great. It now whips up lather, holds lather, and has plenty of backbone when face painting. And it hasn't shed a single bristle. For my preferences, it's a 100% improvement on the original Semogue boar knot.
The shave ... well, I am not going to be dashing out to order a 100-pack of Lord Super Stainless blades anytime soon. The blade was very sharp but definitely not smooth compared to ones such as Voskhods, GSBs, Personna lab blues, etc. Still, two passes got me to a DFS without any nicks or irritation and without any complaints from the alum, so I can definitely shave with it if I have to.
With a healthy splash of TSD milk aftershave, I am smooth, clean and ready to face the day.
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