March 2019 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

This month I will continue to focus on reducing soaps, I am still working on a tub of Crowne and Crane but despite my efforts in Feb I have not even reached the donut of death stage. Secondary focus is using big and/or scary lucking razors from my den, no not crazy things made while drinking just real razors.

Kicking off the month is the huge smiling razor, Mike Martinez Karasu, a full 9/8 in width.

Irritation A+ Closeness A+ Smoothness A+ Sharpness A+

Razor: M Martinez 9/8, 3/4 hollow
Strop: Roo
Brush: Romero
Pre: Nivea
Soap: Blood on Steel
AS: Blood on Steel AS, L’Ocittane ASB
Scent: by Killian A Taste of Heaven

 

Way to start us off, Keith! That's a mean looking razor!

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Welcome back, Ben!

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Beautiful brush and razor, Keith!

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This month will be a focus month for me.
I will be focusing on adjustable razors.
I will use them Monday through Saturday, but Sunday will still be Single Edge.
I have a black beauty, a slim adjustable, and a Fatboy, so I will be focusing on getting them to perform!

 

will be a late night friday morning shave .starting the month will be the #77 rfb ,wn neumann soap,simpson commodore ,and acqua di gio a/s and edt..family traveling and arriving tomorrow.should be a great time..will edit the results in later..but i am sure it will be a great shave..happy march 1st everyone..

 

If we are don't wake him up!

 

Just remember the number nine.

Or is it goose goose duck?

 

Just wow... I haven't closed the file on Feb '19 and March is already on page 4?
Way to keep it rolling 30DC!

I don't have anything in particular to Focus, no Rule pops to mind. Call it the ole Unfocused Focus until clarity comes. Keeping my eye out for Inspired Shaves netted a great Arbac & Veg combo, and I've got a hankering for Barbershop.

 

I'm sensing a recurring theme with you.

 

I like where your month is going. Anytime "interesting Chinese razor" is used in a sentence it perks my ears up.

 

You clearly missed the concession the Cartel made in trying to bring the rebels back to the bargaining table. Instead of voting for ice cream this month we simply included it with the Macadamia cookies and Mocha Mint Ice Cream. We believe that sometimes a benevolent dictatorship is preferable to a random vote of the masses........but you didn't hear me say that.

 

Indeed it is! AND a special CT enabling award to @wristwatchb . Talk about social engineering to get a guy to fall into a CT trap!

 

That is one of the coolest razors you have, in my opinion. Awesome start to the month. Only you could feature scary looking razors that have nothing to do with MAYhem.

 

Adjustables are so much fun to learn and use. You have the "big three" there. All great shavers.

 

Welcome back Ben. You’ll be happy to know the maturity level hasn’t improved around here.

 

It's almost midnight which means it's almost actually, really, finally, March 1st. Nice start to the month so far. I decided to follow the March Madness theme with one additional "M" involed. "Mild March Madness". I truly love aggressive razors. Fatip, Old Style, Muhle R41, Pain sticks, you know, those kinds of things. So, since I just spent some time with those favorites in February, I'm going to do something that seems quite "mad" for me and use only my mildest razors for the month. But, you say, is that really as mad as I can make it? Nope. I also used my three favorite soaps in February. Stirling, Mitchell's Wool Fat, Tabac. So, I'll leave those on the sidelines for the entire month as well. Also, I'm leaving Arko out of the game because Arko April is just 31 days away. So, that means Wheat State, Jeeves, D.R. Harris, Truefitt & Hill 1805, Proraso, Soap Commander and Oleo El Caballero along with maybe one or two oddballs. (I still have a puck of a goat milk/oatmeal based soap I found on ebay at some point. Might use that. Maybe even Marvy or Williams if I get crazy.) Mad enough for you yet? Nothing aggressive, none of my three top soaps. No? Ok, then, no synthetic brushes. Only the boars and badgers. Satisfied? No?? Ok then, let's leave the Russian blades on the shelf too. No Russian steel will be loaded. And if THAT isn't MAD I don't know what is around here.

Should be a fun month and as for our main purpose of learning and improving shaves? Using all of these mild razors with non-Russian steel should be a good illustration of the truth we hold dear. Technique Trumps Tools! Mild March Madness it is!

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I think I’ll focus on travel shaves this month...

 

Welcome home! Great to see you again.