I have a few straights that I shaves with for a while.. not high quality but ok. They need honing and one of them has a small nick in it. I was using a Dovo Shavette until I got heavy into the SE's.. Now it gathers dust. Got really good shaves from it when I was using it. Maybe some day I will try the honing thing.
Being in an apartment on the second floor, that might be a bit challenging. I also think it would be a bad idea to shave at work, being a middle school... But hey, I do have a car port. All I have to do is figure out how to enclose part of it and rig up running and hot water.
I did that too the first time I used it! I spent a long time that night honing it and figured "What the hell, might as well try it out" at 4 AM. The GF was not pleased happy102
Actually, with the concept that you are making concentrated coffee that you add water to in order to consume this isn't such a bad idea. Unless our resident coffee house insiders can say otherwise, I am going to assume that the normal cold coffees that are hot brewed were not the best coffees to start with... Anyway, I don't waste any coffee myself. I make one french press of coffee when I get to work in the morning that is then poured into a carafe to keep warm without burning the coffee. It keeps it warm until well past lunch time; however, it is usually empty by 9 AM. If I decide I want to make some more in the afternoon and it isn't finished yet before work is done, I just take the carafe home.
I usually use a stove top percolator or a old alum drip o lator. makes it easy to warm up the coffee if it gets cold. can drink it till it is gone.
Wait...what? :think002 I don't think I've had enough hot brewed coffee yet this morning to process that. eeww.. rewarming... You know, speaking of which, my grandfather will make a pot of coffee of an afternoon. He will pour it directly into an insulated cup, MICROWAVE it to darn near boiling, and then go sit down to drink it happy as you please. I'm not sure if this is a legacy behavior from having grown up with percolator coffee, because I've known other old guys to do that as well. I just find it odd because he and my grandmother have used autodrip coffee makers most of my life and, as far as I know, he only started microwaving it hotter a few years ago. I do like my hot coffee hot, but I just can't get over the microwaving thing. It never tastes right afterwords. Oh, and I love that sig quote, Fuzzy.
Happy Birthday to Me! I haven't been on in a while, but yesterday my wife, son, sister-n-law and brother-n-law went to Canton, TX for Trade Days. I picked up a straight (my first, a Hilger & sons 81, and I have no idea what that means), and a '76 Gillette 3-piece w/plastic handle. Oh, and today is my 111th birthday!!! Oh, wait. That was Bilbo Baggins. I'm only 31.
Thanks. I will rewarm coffee several times a day. If i drip a pot I put it into a stove top tea pot. or if it is perked on the stove it stays there to be rewarmed. Well Happy Birthday to the you from the me.
Happy Birthday Doug!! If you want to make it look more impressive... in binary that is your 11111th birthday! In Hobbit speak, would that be eleventy eleventy first?
Morning, all. Happy birthday, Doug. Heading over to the girlfriend's place for brunch with her nieces. Have a good Sunday everyone.
It went ok WTG and XTG, wouldn't cut it ATG. Suboptimal hone + my suboptimal straight technique + OS A/S = I'll get it right, or bleed out trying :happy102
On the positive note, while I was honing and stropping the 2nd RR yesterday, my wife showed interest in what I was doing, asked questions, and admitted it was interesting, even if it did wake her up. Just don't wake her up again....
I was wondering if you were going for Teddy or just Robin Williams. Good to know if was Teddy - BULLY!
