Good to see the T is such a great razor after all the time they took perfecting it . Have a wonderful day Joe!

Mmmm. Very nice Danny! Enjoy your Friday!

That gave me flashbacks Terry. Its back to therapy I go! The pulled hairs, the swearing, the clogged blade , did I mention the swearing?

Very good! I like that one. .

SOTD January 31, 2020
Fat Friday!

Prep: Cold water and PAA Cube pre-shave soap
Blade: Feather
Razor: Gillette Fatboy
Brush: Omega 10049
Soap: Mitchell's Wool Fat
Post: Witch hazel, Fine American Blend aftershave

Wonderful Fat Friday shave. Mounds and mounds of slick, shiny lather. Easy and smooth shaving with the Feather blade and Fatboy on 9. Terrific all around.

The plumbing world failed us. Three people contacted to fix the water heater and all three fell through. Backed out or didn't show up. We would try to fix it ourselves but the nearby Lowe's and Home Depot both didn't have the correct part (thermocoupler). We're trying more people today.

Enjoy your Friday!

Thats the most common part to fail on water heaters . I cant believe they don't stock them. I can believe the plumbers not showing up though. I know arond here alot don't carry a gas ticket to work on that stuff . Hope you get it fixed for the weekend. Awesome shave Perry!

Thanks, Patrick! I think those stores do stock the part but were both conveniently out of stock. We can check inventory online.

Aaaand, it's that time of the week again-here are your FRRRIIIIDAY FILES:

- Lazy Susan: I have this feeling that I am the last human being on this planet to know that these exist. Back in the late 1950's, my Mom used one for our dining room table. Being real young as I was, I probably figured "Ahhhh, she's just CALLING it that". A circular wooden thingy that spins around to the person who has just asked for a food item, thus it can be right in front of said person. And now I give my "Upper Shave Den" over my bathroom sink the same name, the difference being it doesn't spin around, but I can fit 3 soaps/foams, and aftershaves, in there. Once done with one, I put it in the "lower den", pull up another, and bring down the one to the farthest right. Course with our family Lazy Susan, once done with a food item, I put it back on the Susan, I didn't bring it back to the kitchen(lol). Now that I know my mom didn't fake the name of our old LS, I wonder if she had it in her family growing up(would be the 1930's).

-I'm glad to be back in the habit of holding my Gillette Foamy under the hot tap water. I wonder if anyone here holds their SOAPS under it, to give the soap that "added" hot water(along with wetting the brush). That is, keeping the soaps in the pucks, not holding the soaps THEMSEVES under the tap.
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Wonderful picture and great recap, Clint!

Terrific Fat Friday shave, Perry! Good luck with the hot water heater.

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My shave this morning was Most Excellent. . I was afraid at the beginning that I didn't shake off the brush enough,. but I saw that I did. This led to about 0:35 of loading time and the brush appeared ready for liftoff. Two fine passes, no cuts. I did indeed try less of the aftershave than yesterday, and there was less roughness overall. Still some, but I'll live with it. By the way, the Weekend-Rodeo aftershave is the only one I have that says right on the bottle to shake it well. Naturally, I obliged. A great shave to begin a busy morning of errands.

Didnt those cans have a warning against heating them ? Something like can may explode if heated?

Very nice shave Paul!

SOTD 01/31/20

This morning I woke up to a relatively gray day. One of the issues with having a collection of utility objects is that as it grows, certain early favorites are pushed aside in favor of the newer arrivals. What razor should I select to shave with and close out the month? I looked at my rack of 16 daily drivers And noticed that I had been neglecting one of my stalwarts, the Muhle R41 (2011) on its RazoRock SS Barber Pole handle. In addition, my shaving creams have been have seeing little use. So I selected my Kapo fresh. I like to bowl lather my shaving creams, so I also grabbed my ceramic shaving scuttle. Jayaruh’s Custom Rosewood Silvertip Badger was my choice of brush. I cold rinsed with water and applied my regular PAA Preshave soap to head and face. My shave gang over at TSD have been on a hot lather kick with a variety of shaving soaps. So I had boiled some water, and added it to my usual smidge of Kapo Fresh with 5 drops of M-Bomb. The result was a thin, white, disappointing bubbly result. So I added a bit more cream and proceeded to lather without much change. As soon as I began transferring this seemingly nothing lather to my face and noggin, however, voila, thick, luxurious, hot lather. So this is what they’re talking about! Now the thing I know about the R41 is that besides being a highly efficient shaver, it demands concentration and focus.

My first WTG pass on my face went beautifully as I rode the cap carefully throughout. Short careful strokes cleared the whiskers right down to the skin line on my face, leaving me with an incredibly close bloodless first pass even around the troublesome Adam’s apple with only three rough spots. Now it was time for the head. I usually use long sweeping ATG strokes on the dome with my trusty Silversmith, Vector or Shake Sharp, but remembered that this never worked well with this razor. So I proceeded to use the same cap-riding short stroke technique on the gourd, with WTG short strokes, and experienced the same whisker clearing result as on the face, although it took me far longer than my usual head shave. There remained only two rough spots in the usual places, for that second pass. Usually I go ATG, but with this razor and my arthritis would be bitten. So instead I elected to go XTG, and for the first time ended up with probably one of the closest head shaves I’ve ever experienced. Returning to my face, I experienced another extremely close shave. A check with the alum block revealed heat around each of the trouble spots. Given that, I guess I would have to term the result a near BBS all around. What a great shave to end the month on. I feel clean, smoooth, coool and refreshed

RAZOR: Muhle R41 (2011) on RR Barber Pole SS Handle
BLADE: Wizamet Super Iridium
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with PAA’s Preshave Cube
BRUSH: Jayaruh Custom Rosewood Silvertip Badger
CREAM: Kapo Fresh
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with Glyce Glycerin soap followed by Thayers Lavender WH and finished with Fine Accoutrements Snake Bite AS Splash

Thanks Patrick,.....it helps having the Bentonite Clay removed(as Greg did before I bought this one.....the Grandpa's Barbershop I have still has the clay in).

Most excellent, Paul!

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What cans? Never mind, I just realized what you meant. Well, it does say don't put it under hot water, but I wonder if they mean BOILING hot. I've never discovered an issue with warm/hot tap water.

Thank you Patrick.

Thanks Jim,.....let's see if I can get a "Most Excellent" streak going .

Glad you found something that works for you, Terry. Happy Friday

Friday
January 31, 2020

Blackland Blackbird
Wizamet Super Iridium
Doug Korn Taca
Panna Crema Nuavia Rossa
Fine Platinum
Creed Aventus

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Great shave, Jeff!

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