Excellent photo and recap Perry. Happy Monday.


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Thank you Perry. The soap is near the end but manages to hang on despite me loading like it owes me money.


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Ah, compared to the Tiger or Flying Eagle, the Durasharp is a top end blade.

Excellent photo Amigo


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Thank you Mark. I have already been more productive than I was on Friday.


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Looking good Charlie.

You've been chosen!

Wishing Stephanie a speedy recovery Jason. Have a safe trip also.

Arko is good any day Aaron.

Baaaaaaaaaaa, that's good soap!

You did not just say "bloomed" did you? Duck, here comes Fuzzy!

Thanks Andrew. Aluminum and not a mark on it.

So does the wife know how much Stirling you bought yet?

Wonderful photo and lineup, Andrew! I think that scent is already sold out. Deep Blue Sea and Haverford are gone from the website.

Thank you, Clint!

ARKO will do that. Best to remove all other brushes from the room to avoid spontaneous lather bursting out later. Hair brushes, tooth brushes, toilet brushes...
If you have another soap that is difficult to lather, mixing in a little ARKO can fix it right up.

The handle looks just like a bar handle on my NEW LC. I'm guessing the Tuck Away is shorter?

Thank you guys. I’ve been trying to step up my photo taking skills.

Thank you, I figured it was a good way to start with Stirling products.

Good looking set there Clint.

Very nice shave Perry.

He was ahead of his time.

No, the Tian Li are definitely worse. Honestly, I may just be prejudiced by having used some really good blades lately. I'm thinking of sending some of the Gillettes to Neal in the hope that he will GBT them.

I am definitely struggling keeping up with the thread this month. Some great shaves, gentlemen!

Jason, I'll be praying for your wife.

I was a little on the fence with it on the first try, added a little more water and it worked great. I was told it smelled like powder and dirt mixed, can’t smell dirt but definitely smell the powder scent.

That's a bit like saying "Compared to tissue paper or cardboard, straw is a good material for build a wolf-resistant house for a pig."

Thank you, Paul and Jim!

December 10 SOTD:

Razor: Gillette Diplomat
Blade: Rapira Swedish Super Steel
Brush: PAA The Green Ray
Lather: Grooming Dept Chypre Conifere
Aftershave: Clubman Reserve Whiskey Woods

I won't be heading to the gym this week, so I get a few extra shaves at home, which works out to try a few more new soaps. This is the free tub I received by mistake from Grooming Dept, which is good as I never would have tried this scent in my own. This one is a non tallow base but with donkey milk. Too me, it isn't quite the post shave feel of the tallow/duck fat base the other tub has, but still. Wry good. The scent is definitely piney, but a hint of citrus and an almost sweetness behind it. I do like, but it isn't necessarily my favorite either. It did set up another great shave with the Diplomat, which was a nice start to my Monday. I hope everyone has a great day.

Thank you Andrew, the Stirling did live up to its reputation.