Decadent December!!
December 9, 2018
Razor - 1918 Gillette Old Type
Blade -
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Soap - Arko
Brush - Wolf Whiskers Custom Silvertip
Post - Alum
All day I planned on changing the blade out before tonight's shave. After the rough treatment last night I figured it was the smart thing to do. See anything wrong with that sentence? Me....thinking something is the "smart" thing then doing it. We know how often that happens. By the time I got off the road for the night I had decided that it would simply be cowardly, unfair and quite illogical to change that blade. Does technique work or not? I still got a DFS last night even with some roughness and a couple of small nicks....is that not success?
So, staying with the "Old Timey Decadence" mini-theme, I kept the razor with the 3 day old Dura Sharp blade. For the classic soap - Arko. The classic brush? A badger. There you go. Then it occurred to me - if I'm going to use the old timey gear, then let's do an old timey shave. One pass, touch ups, splash and off we go. But....to be successful....it had to be at least DFS. No pressure.
So, one pass. I did my dead level best to keep the razor light on my face, the angle on the cap and let it work. It felt a bit smoother than last night but still wasn't quite as good as the first night. I got the pass done, then went for touch ups on my neck. That raised three nicks that were obvious. So I rinsed and checked. It's DFS. Barely, but it's good enough to leave alone. Now, the splash. The Veg for the old timey and, may I say, quite classy and elegant touch. And the quite classy and elegant burn. Man it was hot, but that's ok. It was an old-timey shave with an old-timey burn and my ability to laugh in the face of fire makes me old-timey tough. So there!
Enjoy your Monday fellow denizens!!
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