March 2019 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Great report and love the Willy!

 

It happens. She will cherish the memories you are making now.

 

thank you Danny..one of my favs..

 

Green looks great on that car.

 

Thanks! I'm enjoying it.

 

yes sir , was/is a drag racers favorite in its day, suits many colors and liveries.

 

March Madness!!

March 20 - Wednesday Williams Shave

Razor -Kampfe Star Lather Catcher
Blade - CVS Carbon SE (1)
Soap - Williams. Yeah, I know, not what anyone expects from me.
Brush - Semogue 620
Post - Alum

Well, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen and all the ships at sea - here is your Wednesday Williams shave that I promised last Wednesday when @wchnu Fuzzy Wuzzy asked about it. Since it's March Madness - why not go madder and grab my rarely used puck of Williams that for so long baffled me and put together a shave for the day. The Fuzzman was kind enough to post a picture of what a Wednesday Williams shave is, and it clearly featured a Lather Catcher, Semogue boar brush, Williams, of course, and a pinkish mug (though he denies it's pink). And, knowing the Fuzzter I'm sure that LC has a carbon blade in it. So, having all of the required gear except a pink mug - I ordered a pink flowery girly thing from ebay (sorry not sure who made it but I'll try to find out) and broke out the rest of my gear. I have the Kampfe Star, which gained me membership in TCOC (The Clan of Catchers) and I had 20 Treet Carbon blades. Remember the last time I tried this razor? Remember the pack of 5 that were all damaged beyond use by rust? I bought a total of 25, so surely some of them are good. Nope. All rusted beyond use. I'll look up that seller and make sure I never buy anything from him again, but for now I do have my trusty CVS carbon blades that work just fine. The Semogue 620 is a fine example of a boar brush so all is in place. Point of order - I didn't actually use the scuttle I bought - but I felt it had to be included or this wasn't truly a Wednesday Williams shave.

Ok, time to lather. I didn't molest the Williams. I did add some water last night to my very, very, as in very dry puck just to bring it back from the dead. I soaked the brush for about 10 minutes and went to work. After a minute or so - this is what I had.

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Still some bigger bubbles but a very nice lather was actually forming underneath. Wow. I guess my previous efforts to try and get this soap going for me held. I kept working it up and finally decided after another minute I was ready. I went to my face, lathering as I went, and grabbed the razor. Everything looked good and the first strokes with the Star were NOISY and quite smooth and nice. Went to the left side and.......there was my nemisis......dissipating Williams. Hmmmmmmm. I looked in the bowl. Still lots of lather. Let's try something. No face lathering. I loaded the brush with lather and just painted and dabbed it on. Seemed to like that. Stayed with me and was quite slick. So, for the second pass I didn't lather on my face at all. Just painted, dabbed, covered, and went for the full pass. XTG pass was still NOISY and smooth and fun. And.....I had enough lather through the whole thing to keep filling up the "catcher" part of the LC razor. Now THAT was fun. I decided why not do a third pass, eh? Applied the already made lather on again and had a very fine ATG pass with only a couple of little dings on my neck. Otherwise quite smooth and nice, and the alum only pinged me on those spots I knew I had gotten myself roughed up a bit. (too much pressure).

One more surprise to this shave, besides finally after four years figuring out to stop face lathering with Williams - if you have an older puck that really doesn't have any odor left - once you lather it you get a very light Williams scent that is not at all obnoxious like the full blown version with its bug repellent tendencies. Even now I am barely detecting what is actually just a clean soapy scent off of the shave.

I have to say, that was quite enjoyable. I felt like an old timer with that great vintage razor and a carbon blade, and using a soap with the history of Williams and getting a far better performance than I ever have with it was a great way to settle in for the evening. Mission accomplished. The Fuzz Monster vindicated. All's well in the land of the three rivers. Have a great Thursday!

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What they meant by that was that your plane is a 737 Max - so yes, they're holding it - until further notice. Enjoy the bus back to Idaho.

 

You know.....there are a few ex-wife jokes in there that........no. Just no. I'll be good.

 

LOL. I just ran my out of shape self 16 gates in Denver. Barely made it.

 

March; Doing the Williams Wednesday Thing

Modern Williams infused with AV AS
Semogue 1305 boar brush
Schick Type M, Chick blade
Aqua Velva Ice Blue AS
Can't see the Williams soap, but it's there in that very faded Old Spice mug. About a month ago I mulched it and mixed in the Williams Approved Aqua Velva aftershave. It's settled, dried, and shows blue veins of menthol goodness. I only used my shave bowl to give the boar knot a short soak, went to the mug 'o soap, and loaded in that whipped mule style. Much as Neal described, the lather tried to pull a getaway. Through independent experimentation my paint brush strokes achieved a visually appealing lather. I've been doing the DE's for months so an outing with a SE needed to be a full throttle experience. Since this was a @wchnu Fuzzy Inspired shave I cranked the adjuster up to 8/8. Thankfully the blade of unknown uses was sharp and clean. Three and 1/2 passes later I knew I was shaved. Even got a close finish on some places a DE struggles to reduce. The Ice Blue AS was hot then cool, and settled nicely. I'm curious how long this shave will last as it feels quite close.
Good Shaves Y'all!

 

March 20

Merx & Co 9/16
Henry Cavendish pure badger
Linea Intenso crazy sandalwood
Myrsol emulsion



Great shave this evening from this little razor. The Henry Cavendish lathered up the soap with ease, I’m really surprised with how well this brush performs for a $15 badger, in a little over two years is has barely shed and does a good job lathering any of my soaps after a few minutes soak. The Merx & Co holds a rediculously sharp edge that delivered a near perfect shave in two passes, so I called it good and didn’t try to chase the baby. And thanks to the app suggestion of Rick @RyX im making some progress with my photo editing.

 

Congrats on passing 10,000! This place wouldn't be this place without you. Good luck with the house and enjoy Spring Break when you get there!

 

Awesome shave. I have been known to paint some with the modern Williams too. I think I mention that in a few videos maybe. Thanks for playing along!!

Turn it up.. leave it up .. and turn it loose. See the ole Fuzzy one knows these things. I like the idea of the AV infused Williams, Fully approved. I jest might steal that idea.

I also broke out the scuttle with my vintage Williams in it this morning. Or rather late at night. I am headed out in a bit for a all day road trip to Mississippi. I packed the shotgun and plenty of cigars. But first was a great Williams shave. I chose the VC1 because someone on my youtube asked to see it. The Veg was awesome too.

 

Stop egging on the shavette fu multi quotes... sheesh.

Love that cup soap too. Just a great old soap all the way around.

 

I think the level is sinking faster than if I used a different brush.

 

Awesome thanks for playing along. Beautiful set up there.

 

418 posts behind, not sure if I can catch up. What did I miss?

Back home shave:

Irritation A+ Closeness A- Smoothness A Sharpness A-

Razor: Vorpal (Gold Dollar)
Strop: Roo
Brush: Shavemac
Pre: Nivea
Soap: Crowne and Crane
AS: Fine Vetiver AS, Speick ASB
Scent: Chanel Egoïst
Seiko Astron

 

Great shaves so far fellas!
Going to Miami today, 3 hrs+ each way... I am going to try to get the wife to stop at a beauty supply shop, want to see if I can find some clubman, the drug stores down here never have any. I really am curious about the Veg.