March 2019 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Thanks, Charlie!

 

Thank you Clint.

 

Nice report, Luke! With the Reserve base I always start off with a wetter than usual brush and only a fifteen to twenty second load. If the brush was wet enough no need to add more water but I usually end up having to dip the tips of the brush once or twice to create the lather I'm after. Top tier soap once you get it dialed in. Good luck!

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March Madness!!

March 12

Razor - RazoRock Wunderbar Slant
Blade - (2)
Soap - Moon Old School
Brush - Stirling 24mm Badger Fan
Post - Alum

Let's drive this slant again just for fun, shall we? Still the Wilkie blade and I've chosen the Moon Old School for that uber-tallow lather along with the Stirling badger. Took about 30 minutes to load and an easy face lather was the reward. Nice! I was instantly pleased again with the smoothness of the shave tonight. Between the razor and the nice German blade it's tough to know there's a blade on your face. You can hear it cutting, but you don't feel it. I stayed with just two passes tonight, partly to test the razor and partly because I'm off tomorrow so who really cares anyway, right? My Doctor won't care and the lunch with the Spectrum guys is a reward for me so I don't care if I look that good or not. Besides - I'm not trying to date them, which is quite good news for my wife.

Two passes and I believe the mythical baby is in the house again. Easy shave, pleasant shave, and maybe a slant is a gimmick - but if it is - it appears to have some real world application. I'm liking everything about this razor. Hope your Wednesday is a good one!

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Thanks Joe!

 

Weber grills are the only way to cook. Never tried a Weber razor though so I'll take your word on that one. Anyone who grills on Weber is trustworthy in my book.

 

I do get good lathers from Reserve, but it is its own beast for sure. Loading less product (15 sec load or so) and then water added slowly, in a bowl, works for me.
IIRC, there is no menthol in the soap, only in the splash.

 

Delta Echo is no more? Wow. Things move fast in this biz don't they. Well, my Delta Echo New LC just became a collector's item. I was considering finding another Fatboy to have them do their magic on so I'd have one "authentic" and one "super charged". Guess not.

 

That is his job.....that is why we keep him around. Every court has to have a jester!

 

I do love seeing the old gear perform like it was designed to. It's hard to find that kind of quality anymore in most things.

 

Interesting. Over the years Charlie has lost weight then gained weight then lost weight then gained weight then..............

 

hello fello shavers, tuesday night off focus shave..haven'driven a u.s crat in a while so i blew the dust off the 50,loaded the spoiler for a 6th time, so far so good,loaded the sc endurance soap and built a captain's bowlful of nice lather ,and got a fabulous 2 combo pass dfs+, no drama..and my first splash into shulton old spice a/s to finish.. a 90s vintage full bottle just arrived today..nice stuff..awesome, have a great evening, gary

 

Within the next year there will be plenty of grass year round in Missouri as we voted to legal...........oh.......wait.........not THAT kind of grass.



Never mind.

 

Charlie has a dictionary!

 

For a high quality modern gun coatings on your razor, there's still North Shore Razors in Hawaii which has an excellent reputation for that work. Looks like I will be sending my Old Type, NEW LC and Fathandled Pre-War Tech to them at some point... (all definitely non-minty user grade btw).

 

That is why I wear shorts when I shave.

 

200 posts behind, I will have to catch up later. Also nic today.

The shave gods took umbrage with my arrogance, today the lather was a struggle and the edge was not smooth and sharp as usual. After the 3rd pass I remembered the advice I give, I put down the straight and picked my R41 which fortunately was loaded and did the 4th pass.

Irritation B Closeness A- Smoothness B Sharpness A-

Razor: Koraat Splash
Strop: Mastro Livi
Brush: 30DC LE with Tuxedo knot
Pre: Proraso
Soap: Crowne and Crane
AS: Speick AS, Speick ASB

 

Thank you. I've been a little overwhelmed lately with work. I haven't had as much time to check in. Then I find that I'm like 600 posts behind

 

I did have a good day on the road