March 2019 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Thank you, Clint!

 

Outstanding picture, Perry!

 

That's awesome, Andrew! I'll continue praying for you!

 

Great shave, Rick! Glad you had a fun time at Mardi Gras Festival.

 

Excellent picture and report, Jim! The soap and aftershave sound nice. You have quite the collection of PAA products.

When someone says aggressive razor my mind thinks a lot of blade feel. I don't equate aggressive with efficiency.

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Terry, super shave! Glad you found a real DE keeper!

 

A little late start to this month, only 2 shaves so far, been real busy.
My focus this month will be on my flare tip.
Brush should be the same all month, Perfecto pure badger.
Blade will be parker.
Soaps will be what ever I use.
I just want to get to know this razor.
So far all the shaves with it have been incredibly awesome.
On the second shave I had a weeper, no problem just a little slip around the adams apple. It is a big change from the teck heads I used last month.

Also 6 days and over 1500 posts... Wow

 

Good post, Jim.
To me, when speaking of aggressiveness, with a DE razor, it refers to the gap between the blade and the safety bar (or OC), combined with the angle in which the blade is presented, or held. Clearly with an open-blade razor, the user determines the level of aggressiveness. When I first switched to straights, I found that my shallow angle, one that I practiced with the DE razor, would not achieve the results I wanted. Not to mention, I find it quite awkward to lay the straight so flat against my skin to shave. I now use about a 25-30˚ angle and am getting better results.

 

Thanks Jim.
tp

 

Fantastic shave report. The soap sounds like something my wife would like. In answer to your question, I think of aggressiveness in terms of how likely I am to get cut. Efficiency to me means the ability to achieve results. For example a R41 is an aggressive razor that is also efficient. A Gillette New LC or SC is not an aggressive razor but is very efficient.

 

March Focus

Vintage Tallow Williams~~SOC Boar~~Wade & Butcher~~Clubman VIBR
SR #36
Seems like more than 36 SR shaves, but I think that's the correct count. I am not writing it down anywhere and
sometimes I am not so sure...
Thought about tradition today and broke out the Williams. This is the first SR shave with this soap and I was
a bit curious as to how it would compliment the shave.
M-Bombed and Bloomed it today. 4 drops of the menthol juice on top of the moistened puck.
Results were more than satisfactory regarding the menthol level. As to the lather...
well, Tallow Williams is a Primo Soap (pun intended). Very slick, incredibly dense,
able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, (who's paying attention?) and even the
SOC Boar, which doesn't hold nearly the amount of lather as some of my other brushes, really got its load on.
The Wade & Butcher is not my best edge. It's a simple as that. It needs help and when I get some time
I am going to work on improving it.
Nevertheless, I was able through persistence, to achieve my usual BBS from the jawline up
and DFS everywhere else. My neck hair grows in such a pattern, that I have been mostly
unsuccessful finding the proper grip and direction to completely remove it.
Finished with the Clubman. I have to say this about it...Meh.
There are so many better Bay Rum aftershaves, I am not sure why I bother with this one.

Addendum: I pick up my first client this morning. He gets on the transit and says:
"It smells like mothballs in here" VERBATIM.
Clubman VIBR has just been added to my TSD Raffle Donation #2.​

 

March 6, 2019
Brass General
Feather Pro
DK7 with Druida Manchurian
Stirling R4L Shave Soap
And Aftershave

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I am moving a little slow this morning. It is cold here and I just didn't want to get out of bed. I had planned to use my Delta Echo New SC razor this morning. However, I listed it on Monday night and it sold within the hour. Currently it is on the way to rainy Seattle. So a quick change of plans to use the brass General this morning. Two passes and touch ups just missed the baby. A splash of mentholated witch hazel followed by Stirling R4L aftershave and I am ready to conquer month end accounting duties. I hope everyone has a great Wednesday.

 

Excellent post and photo Joseph. Bravo.

 

Beautiful picture, Clint! Have a great day!

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Thanks Jim
tp

 

Thanks Joe
This razor took over 100 years to find me, I'll treat it well.
tp

 

Thank you, Jim!

 

Wonderful photo and shave, Clint!

 

Good read Joseph.
Great shave
tp

 

Excellent post and photo, Joseph!