January 2020 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

January 2020

January 17

Razor - Gillette 1918 Old Type
Blade - (1)
Soap - Soap Commander Courage
Brush - Semogue 620
Post - Alum

Well, things didn't get quite as bad weatherwise as they thought, but bad enough. I cut the day short when the freezing rain started. Never did get much snow here, if any, but did put down a little ice and now the monsoons are moving back in with rising temps, so we'll be ice free by midnight. Flood watches and warnings out again. Meh - life in the Lou. Hold your breath, the weather will change.

I rotated razors around to the Gillette 1918 Old Type tonight. Appropriate, since this is the first razor I started my first rule with in the inaugural January 2015 30DC. It only lasted 5 days as I just couldn't take the aggression back then and switched to the Aristocrat to finish the month. Now, five years and a whole lot of perfection of technique later, I put the Rapira Super Stainless blade in it and had an absolutely smooth and comfortable 3 pass shave leading to a BBS and quiet alum. Quite a change from five years ago when this razor and a Voskhod set me on fire for five days! For the newer members - hang in there - you do learn and get better.

Lather was again Soap Commander as I motor through that tub. The small Semogue 620 boar took about 3.4 seconds to produce a mountain of lather. Great shave all the way around.

Hope your weekend is dryer than ours! Have a great one!!

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Do you put in glass containers Gary? I have two hot sauce bottles that work great.

 

Oh yeah...the nectar of gods!

 

Beautiful fat shave Evan. I see you are a MWF fan boy now.

 

If you find a lady that likes the Clubman then you know she is a keeper!

 

Good stuff all the way around Neal!

 

Yep, my wife won't let me wear Clubman. She also won't let me wear a dress. The fact that I don't want to do either of those things only comes up when I am talking to men that don't like wearing Clubman or a dress.

 

awesome report.shave and pic Neal..

 

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Ditto!!! Always reading all/everyone’s fragrance descriptions (and not just PAA).

Today’s shave was Copalli for me also. Used the Vector again. Long crazy day, dealing 2 things going on with elderly father.....and had to travel to Houston. No time for posting.

Ordered a sample first time I saw Jim’s description of Copalli, maybe Nov or Dec. Samples I remember are everything Jim describes. It’s awesome. Wifey said Love It, get the set (yeah, she’s incredible). Got around to ordering last weekend, you know, waiting for enough to hit the free shipping. New shipment yesterday, Copalli soap and as/c. Today’s use was very rushed, mid afternoon hasty get out the door for travel. I will hold full judgement (and compare to the samples next week).....but I felt this set was a bit woodier first, not completely the sweeter resin woody like I remembered. Follow up needed.

Following along as I can. Hopelessly behind!

 

yes sir..good for fuel stabilizer in a pinch as well..

 

Yes, I like it a lot. Certainly has a spot in my regular rotation. Thanks for sharing it with me!

 

Gary @brit & Paul @Paul Turner this one for y'all. I have not transfered the new labels onto the bottles.

 

You are more than welcome. Hard to beat the MWF and a nice plated razor!

 

i have a glass bottle i refill when it gets low.while in the plastic ones it doesn't get worse the longer its stored..always looking for a vintage glass clubman bottle..

 

looks good..i have a hotsauce bottle it could try that with..

 

Have not tried that. I wonder if it can keep diesel fuel from jelling in the winter?

 

The one on the left is a 12 ounce Tabasco bottle and the one on the right is a 12 ounce Louisiana hot sauce bottle.

 

i will use the bombay sapphire for the lime sec maybe.the glass bottle is my clubman .not bothered about labels..

 

if not it will at least smell better..