July 2018 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

July Focus

Been there, done that, don't have the T-shirt however.

Buttercream anyone? @wchnu ?

A man walked into a bar...
Take my wife, please...
There was a young girl from Nantucket...
Oh, wait, this is a shaving forum, I don't seem to be focussed.
The Williams is biting the dust. Won't make it to the 31st. The ring is breaking apart and will have to be
reloaded into my Aesop SS Bowl tomorrow.
The brush today was my lone synthetic, a second generation Simpson CH2.
Usually, this brush resides in a large medicine bottle, with holes drilled in the top and bottom for travel,
but, because I am looking to make my daily shaves more interesting, I grabbed it.
It is a really nice brush, no arguing that fact.
So here's the most interesting part of today's shave. You see that big, green Personna Double Edge II dispenser?
It was part of a vintage lot of razor blades I picked up a while back on eBay.
Today, I thought I would give one a try.
Those familiar with older dispensers such as this will have experienced difficulty getting a blade out.
Today was no different.
Pried and pulled until a couple of stuck-together (or so I thought) blades came out.
So I began to separate the blades. Man were they ever stuck together. I had to pry them apart.
I did and then took a closer look at the blades. Low and behold, there was a "top" blade and a "bottom" blade
that were INTENDED to be together. One side said "top, away from handle" and the other said "bottom, towards handle"
Ugh, I had just mistakenly pulled apart 4 blades...now 8.
(Anyone out there ever had experience with these blades?)
I decided to insert a pair into my razor, after cleaning them off with 92% alcohol, of course orienting them according to the labels.
Jammed the remaining 6 (3 pair) back into the dispenser, which is why they look so cock-eyed in the picture.
Proceeded to bloom my Williams, soak my brush, YES, I know it's a synthetic, I do it anyway. It's my shave and jump in the shower.
Whipped up a glorious lather with the on its last leg soap.
I asked my wife if the lather looked like Buttercream Fuzzy and she said "no, it looks like whipped cream"
Prepared to immediately abandon and chunk, chuck, bin, trash the blade(s) and the rest of the dispenser at the FIRST sign of trouble,
I went to work.
Well, sonofagun. Great shave. No issues. BBS in 3.
More Floïd, which too won't last until the 31st. Oh well.
My focus will end when these products are gone.​

 

I just got back from having blood taken at LabCorp. There were two technicians working the intake- one was a redhead of decent chunkiness, the other was a tatted Tabac calendar girl. Guess which one I got.

 

Thanks, Perry!
Enjoy your day too.

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Thanks, Clint.
I was letting it patina to start with. It was getting darker in a few spots. I lost patience. I wipe it down every now and then with a Cape Cod cloth.

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Nice B&W shot ,Clint.

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Good catch up post, Adam.

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Thank you, Joseph!

Great report and photos!

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Thank you Perry.


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Awesome picture, Jim!

How is the Boomtown? I have some of the AS coming. How does it compare to Atomic Age?

 

Beautiful picture, Clint!

 

The razor looks pretty nice, Adam! Nice set of pictures and congrats on finishing the tub.

 

July 21 SOTD:

Razor: Gillette '41 Ranger Tech
Razor: Gillette Red Tip
Blade: Polsilver
Brush: PAA Atomic Rocket
Lather: PAA Atmotic
Aftershave: PAA Atmotic
Additional Care:
Stirling Unscented PSB

I decided to repeat yesterday's comparison, and the results are the same. The Ranger Tech has a bit more blade feel and the Red Tip is possibly a bit smoother. It is hard for my to pick a preference, but I would probably go with the Ranger Tech by a bit. The scent of this soap has really grown on me, and the lather was about perfect. A really great shave overall all this morning. I hope everyone has a great day!

 

Close your eyes. Did she smell nice?

True story. Kinda NSFW, but I will keep it clean. So there is this pretty big four day music festival/camp out that goes on up here every year. Always chock full of out of date B bands, spiced up with one good, mostly out of date A band headliner each night. I don’t mean to disparage, we have had ZZ Top, Boston, Johnny Lang, 38 Special..... State Fair kind of stuff. You get the idea.

So they do a sort of Fat Tuesday/Mardis Gras thing at the campground, and as people get drunker, beads are passed out for all the normal reasons beads usually get handed out at these sort of occasions.

A younger guy that worked for me was there with his 15 or 16 y.o. Brother. So as one would expect, the kid is in a candy store watching young ladies get adorned with beads, he and his brothers also handing them out.

This old biker couple is strolling by, and older brother tells younger brother to offer the old gal some beads, thinking everyone would have a good laugh over it. The old lady walks right up to him, and asks, “you wanna give me some beads, boy?” She lifts up her skirt, butt naked under it, pelvic thrusts what God gave her, full of piercings, two inches from his face, and says, “Don’t worry Kid. It ain’t dead, it just looks like it.”


@RyX @Bama Samurai - If this is a little too over the line, my feelings aren’t hurt if it needs to go.

 

Jared @PickledNorthern - for those that have attended such gatherings you hinted at enough to paint an accurate picture of how these events go down.
Since The 30 DC is trafficked by a mix of enthusiastic eccentric eclectics with (I assume) few pop-in Visitors I'll let you post stand. It reminds me of a few festivals I've attended.

 

Thank you Jim.


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Thank you Jim.


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Thanks Jim, the most interesting part of my shave!

 

That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me.

 

I have always been curious how the Red Tip compared to other SS razors. Thanks for doing the test. Great picture as well.


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Thank you, Clint!