May 2019 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

MAYhem!!! 2019

May 9

Razor - Muhle R41
Blade - (1)
Soap - Stirling Ozark Mountain
Brush - The Canuck
Post - Alum

After an early night last night (for me) I felt much better this morning. Kind of a different day as I spent the bulk of it with my head down working on licensing study. Too many facts, figures, numbers, and my head hurt so I took off and made some actual money this afternoon. Home tonight to jump back into the shaving game. Head shave followed by a very nice shave with the Muhle R41 and Sharp Star. I grabbed the Canuck brush with the SynBad Flat Top synthetic knot. Fantastic brush that makes a ton of lather and applies it instantly and evenly. The Stirling Ozark Mountain was awesome. Still one of my favorite scents. And...to finish off in the shower with the Heisenberg pass on the head shave, I used a new bath soap from Stirling.

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The scent is Ozark Mountain. The main difference? Look at the first ingredient. No beef or mutton tallow in this one. Lard baby. Pig fat. And it lathers wonderfully as a bath soap and provides a great after shower feel. I like it. A lot. Plus, it just kept the Ozark Mountain scent going.

As for the shave - three full passes because I was having fun and it gets no smoother than that. The Muhle handled two days growth like it wasn't even there. Alum was quiet, and all's well in the land of the swollen rivers. Hope you have a great Friday and start to your weekend!

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very cool..

 

nice shave sir..

 

Mmm, lard! Great shave Neal!

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very cool sir, nice work..

 

This works! Something I'm also working through currently while learning the straight razor shave process. My DE world over the past few months has been, I thought, making pretty good lather. It's nice and smooth, works well enough to shave, but hard to rinse. Watched a lather video or 3 of wet shavers showing how to make super lathers, one with just Stirling (20 minutes showing practice lathering your hand). My lathers got better across several brands. 6 days ago....I found that my lathering still wasn't as great as I thought when it comes to SR shaves. I'm going slower....it dries out....gets 'less slick'....and all that. So, lathers started 'mediocre' and got 'bad'.

Rick and Joseph's tips I'll be remembering every day until it becomes 2nd nature. Definitely made things slicker. Who knows, maybe I'll join the 'no PreShave' crowd when I get tired of buying Proraso. One other tidbit that videos mentioned. Big bubbles in most lathers, too much water. None of 'em mentioned the nugget about a lather needing to be easy to rinse.

 

Thank you Danny. It's a balance between the grand kids keeping me young, and them wearing me out. It's never dull.

Andrew - all three products are fairly light on the cooling. They were appreciated with today's weather. We're hitting the 80's and high humidity. Well, we call it that. Else where it might have been referred to as three passing thunderstorms with drizzle in between.

 

hello fello shavers, thursday night shave, picked a favorite set up tonight.. flat bottom new ,nacet blade, omega 10005 boar brush and stirling's deep blue sea set..you know the story, fantastic shave of what was left from the sheraton, not much..dfs+ and smelling great.. happy friday folks..

 

Thank you! I really did!

 

Drop dead gorgeous razor Keith. Visited his site. Wow...just wow. Bookmarked.

253rd lesson learned from TSD. Don't read Danny's posts when you have a mouth full of soda!

 

That truly is great craftsmanship, Danny!

 

Great shave and pig is good!

 

Great setup Gary!

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That's a nice old-fashioned shave, Rick!

 

Thanks Gary.

 

I use Stirling Mentholated Pre-Shave Soap every shave. It seems to me that it helps soften up the whiskers and add a bit of slickness, and the subtle cooling effect is quite nice too. To me large bubbles in the lather means you added too much water too quickly, not necessarily too much water as a whole. You would be surprised at how much water most soaps can hold when you add it a little at a time.

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Safe flight and great shaves to you, Jim!