February 2020 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

9nein9 · Feb 4, 2020

b1hart said: ↑

Looks like you found some great blades Patrick! Very neat setups for your shaving!

Awesome looking choices Neal! Great Menthol Monday shave.

Very cool Tommy!
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Thanks Blair!

timabababaluka · Feb 4, 2020

Keithmax said: ↑

OK, once again hopelessly behind. Here is my catch up post.

Monday: The next candidate from the test again bin is Noble Otter. I think it just went in the bin because it was summer, I remember it was a good performer, just a notch below top tier. This shave confirmed my recollection, good performance just a shade below my top tier soaps. This is the second shave with the Enoch, this time I tried to ride the safety bar more and the shave improved. It does have as wide a range of angles for the blade as a Cobra and not as aggressive as the Cobra either. I am on the fence on this razor, I think I still prefer my Cobra Classic, but when in a hurry and want to make sure my rushing does not draw blood it is a good choice.

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Tuesday: I think I will call February a month of redemption. I am using products that were placed in the not wonderful category but waiting for another chance. Today's redemption opportunity is for this Wade and Butcher, for some reason I get the edge smooth and sharp..... but not as sharp as I like it. It was popping arm hair after it saw some laps on the pasted strop so I was hoping for the best. Unfortunately once again smooth but not super sharp, sharp enough to get a good shave but that is it, just good. I think this will be hitting the BST soon.

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Wonderful shave theme for February: Redemption Month. It's beautiful (and brave) idea to give the software and hardware that time forgot that one last chance. Sorry the soap and straight didn't quite make the cut. Still, at least it sounds like the Enoch still has it's uses, no?

timabababaluka · Feb 4, 2020

jgreenepa said: ↑

In 20 minutes I’ll be 73! Unbelievable the way time seems to move faster and faster. I have a pregnant granddaughter due in August! Can’t believe it!
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Trigger · Feb 4, 2020

S Barnhardt said: ↑

Ah! Now I understand! Plus coffee has been added!

I have always gone by "Barney." It's an old family nickname for men in the family.
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Well, it is better than hartburn! Lol! Welcome, Barney!

9nein9 · Feb 4, 2020

Boojum1 said: ↑

Tuesday
February 4, 2020

Colonial Silversmith
Wizamet Super Iridium
Dorian Crafts Two Band
Ariana & Evans So Cal Hipster Soap and Aftershave
Pino Silvestri

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Great setup Mark!

jgreenepa said: ↑

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Birthday SOTD 02/04/20

Wonderful celebration of SWMBO’s birthday last night. Great workout shave this morning with my new SS Synthetic brush birthday present from Classic Shaving. It weighs 15.8 oz which doesn’t sound like much until you start waving it around during the lathering process. One of the pleasures of this month’s focus is the continuing use of MWF, just an incredible soap. I don’t know if it’s the regular post shave wash with brush squeezings or just the daily lathering process itself, but my skin on both noggin and face feel great after four days use. I wonder how I’ll feel at the end of 29 days continuous use?

In any case, a stellar shave for my birthday with one of my favorite razors - the GE Jones Shake Sharp Mark 2.0 in nickel. After stacking two original Polish Wizamet Super Iridium blades, I lathered up with my M-Bomb salted MWF, following my regular scrub with PAA’s Preshave Cube of my dome and face. My Shake Sharp sang as it mowed down the whiskers right to the skin line on that first WTG pass. I sometimes wonder if it’s possible to cut oneself with this razor. It hasn’t happened yet. The second ATG pass really only consisted of some scattered buffing cleanup! The Shake Sharp is highly efficient with these sharp blades, but not to the point of irritation as my alum block revealed. The only time I experienced any irritation with this razor was when I used stacked Feather blades. In any case, a stellar one and a half pass DFS shave for my birthday with one of my favorite razors! I feel clean, smooooth and refreshed.

RAZOR: GE Jones Nickel Plated Shake Sharp Mark 2.0
BLADE: 2 Stacked Wizamet Super Iridium
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with PAA’s Cube Preshave Soap
BRUSH: Rearden Razor 316L SS Synthetic
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Thayers Lavender WH and finished with Fine Accoutrements Snake Bite AS Splash
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Awesome Birthday gift and shave Jeff. It's my youngest daughter's birthday tomorrow . Alot of good people born this week !

Trigger · Feb 4, 2020

Hembree said: ↑

Alabama awesome shave this morning. Broke out the FuzzTech with a fresh Feather. The brush is one of my $2.50 brushes I picked up in Pennsylvania. I thought about re-knotting it but I will probably just leave it alone. Take care gentlemen. View attachment 216933 View attachment 216934
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That's a great shave, Danny! Have a wonderful day!

Norcalnewb · Feb 4, 2020

Screwtape said: ↑

Monday February 3 - MWF and Menthol Monday

Supply v2 matte black injector on 2-dot plate / Personna (unknown #)
Simpson's Chubby CH2 Synthetic
MWF
Alum
Osage Rub and Clubman VIBR

Nice shave today. I used The Fat even though it's not Friday, because Mitchell's starts with M and that rhymes with Monday. (Hmmm... MWF... Monday Wednesday Friday for Mitchell's Wool Fat? That would be one way to kill off this eternal puck of mine in more of a hurry...). It always gives a nice-feeling lather. Which the Chubby whips up in no time flat.

I think the Supply is my favourite injector, although Schick E and G and the PAL Adjustable are nice too. Two passes to an error-free DFS+. Forgot to use the alum, but I don't think it would have had anything to say anyway.

Osage Rub for that Menthol Monday chill, topped off with Clubman VIBR for that alcohol bite on top of it with a tropical scent finish to combat the -18C temp outside today.

Btw, Supply looks like a razor company that's going to be around for awhile: Patrick and Jennifer were always keen on quality and careful in their expansion while it was a Mom and Pop operation. But in August or thereabouts, they won the opportunity to go on the "Shark Tank", and ended up cutting a deal with Rob Herjevac for a share of the company for $300,000. So they are now well-financed with major business connections and know-how behind them...
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Nice shave, John. Good to see you back on the thread!

PLAla · Feb 4, 2020

Boojum1 said: ↑

Tuesday
February 4, 2020

Colonial Silversmith
Wizamet Super Iridium
Dorian Crafts Two Band
Ariana & Evans So Cal Hipster Soap and Aftershave
Pino Silvestri

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Just wonderful, Mark!

Trigger · Feb 4, 2020

brit said: ↑

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good morning gents,tuesday shave.up early watching the weather forecast.big snow to hit today.day off .loaded a new platinum in the brit 1965 slim head flare tip,lather up the proraso blue cream with the wcs synthetic,and got a lovely 2+ pass near bbs.awesomely rich slick lather.razorock blue caps it off..love this razor,enough to own 2 of them.is my most used and efficient flare tip with this slim head.these "rockets"have regular style flare tip end caps.rather abundant here and quite a few in the wild still.unfortunately production ceased in 66 and the black handle came along after.the "all brass" days of the flare tip were over..have a fine day gents..
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Terrific shave, post, and gear, Gary!

PLAla · Feb 4, 2020

jgreenepa said: ↑

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Birthday SOTD 02/04/20

Wonderful celebration of SWMBO’s birthday last night. Great workout shave this morning with my new SS Synthetic brush birthday present from Classic Shaving. It weighs 15.8 oz which doesn’t sound like much until you start waving it around during the lathering process. One of the pleasures of this month’s focus is the continuing use of MWF, just an incredible soap. I don’t know if it’s the regular post shave wash with brush squeezings or just the daily lathering process itself, but my skin on both noggin and face feel great after four days use. I wonder how I’ll feel at the end of 29 days continuous use?

In any case, a stellar shave for my birthday with one of my favorite razors - the GE Jones Shake Sharp Mark 2.0 in nickel. After stacking two original Polish Wizamet Super Iridium blades, I lathered up with my M-Bomb salted MWF, following my regular scrub with PAA’s Preshave Cube of my dome and face. My Shake Sharp sang as it mowed down the whiskers right to the skin line on that first WTG pass. I sometimes wonder if it’s possible to cut oneself with this razor. It hasn’t happened yet. The second ATG pass really only consisted of some scattered buffing cleanup! The Shake Sharp is highly efficient with these sharp blades, but not to the point of irritation as my alum block revealed. The only time I experienced any irritation with this razor was when I used stacked Feather blades. In any case, a stellar one and a half pass DFS shave for my birthday with one of my favorite razors! I feel clean, smooooth and refreshed.

RAZOR: GE Jones Nickel Plated Shake Sharp Mark 2.0
BLADE: 2 Stacked Wizamet Super Iridium
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with PAA’s Cube Preshave Soap
BRUSH: Rearden Razor 316L SS Synthetic
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Thayers Lavender WH and finished with Fine Accoutrements Snake Bite AS Splash
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Happy birthday, Jeff! Terrific shave and hope you have a wonderful day!

Norcalnewb · Feb 4, 2020

Bama Samurai said: ↑

Talking to you and hoping some read....

What's going on? Newbies still dropping by to chat?

(Intro for newer guys. ..my marriage broke up in September 2019. I moved home to Alabama. I haven't lived here since 1998. Nothing in the world is by accident. No hard feelings.. Just the facts of the case)

So I'm doing two jobs. One is for a franchise group of CBD/Nutrition stores and distributors points. Been fun, it's five days a week. They're in way over their heads and it's not what I'm paid to solve. I'm the fixer. One morning dealing with vendor and contractor issues, afternoon covering for an employee who called sick. It's primarily at one office and two stores but my weeks have no boundary as to where I go. I'm employee number seven of they make it, but they won't.

Since I have the time, I manage another related store one day per week as manager and inventory bookkeeper. One day job merely four minutes from home and slow-paced, just staying busy. It's good for my soul. Looking for new jobs already.

Occasionally people get to place where it's time to retreat and regroup. Tht was me. I'm good enough at swagger to by, but I underestimated what I was going through. Coming back and being new here again is really cool. I'm so glad all of you still gather here to write stuff like this.

You'll see my hnd made brushes again soon.

I trust from reading here that you are well.

Sent from my moto z4 using Tapatalk
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Glad things are going well for you, Chris. It's always great to have you around here.

Norcalnewb · Feb 4, 2020

PanChango said: ↑

ER Streamline
Gem PTFE 2
Vulfix 404 Mixed
Williams Mug Soap
Superior 70

Used my dad's brush and mug soap on the 7th anniversary of his passing. Unfortunately the knot is falling apart and this will be the last use of the brush unless reknotted. Very nice 2 pass shave. Enjoy your day.
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Nice shave and tribute to your dad, Dale.

Norcalnewb · Feb 4, 2020

jluc said: ↑

February 4th
Razor: Razorock Wunderbar Slant
Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Platinum (3)
Brush: 30DC LE V2/Maggards SHD
Pre-shave: PAA The Cube
Soap: B&M Reserve Fern
PAA Galactic witch hazel
PAA unscented Star Jelly
AS: B&M Reserve Fern

Good morning

Terrific shave to start the day! Three passes for near BBS. Light tickle from the alum.

B&M Reserve Fern and the 30DC meet up brush from the randomizer. Hot water from the kettle in my dipping bowl and brush scuttle. Built an excellent lather for pass one. Rested the brush in the HOT scuttle. Reserve does not like the heat. The lather on the brush had almost completely disappeared. I tried working it back up on my face, nothing doing, had to go back to the puck and start over. Same for pass three. Reserve works well enough with hot tap water in the scuttle, not so much with boiling water from the scuttle.

Have a great day!
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Beautiful picture, Jim!

Norcalnewb · Feb 4, 2020

PLAla said: ↑

SOTD February 4, 2020

Prep: Cold water and PAA Cube pre-shave soap
Blade: Personna
Razor: Schick B1 repeater
Brush: JR #377 badger
Soap: Stirling Gentleman
Post: Witch hazel, Speick aftershave

Another one pass this morning with some major clean-up on my neck. So maybe a 1.5 pass shave. Pretty good overall. Outstanding lather from Gentleman and the JR brush. I'll be using this Speick aftershave a few more times to finish off the bottle. It's almost gone.

I have a field trip today with some of my juniors. We're going to the middle school to spend the day with the band students there. Building relationships and recruiting. Believe it or not but 8th graders in our area are already filling out course selection sheets for their freshman year, so we're getting in front of them to encourage them to continue with band.

Enjoy your day!

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Excellent picture, Perry!

Norcalnewb · Feb 4, 2020

Hembree said: ↑

Alabama awesome shave this morning. Broke out the FuzzTech with a fresh Feather. The brush is one of my $2.50 brushes I picked up in Pennsylvania. I thought about re-knotting it but I will probably just leave it alone. Take care gentlemen. View attachment 216933 View attachment 216934
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Great picture, Danny!

Norcalnewb · Feb 4, 2020

brit said: ↑

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good morning gents,tuesday shave.up early watching the weather forecast.big snow to hit today.day off .loaded a new platinum in the brit 1965 slim head flare tip,lather up the proraso blue cream with the wcs synthetic,and got a lovely 2+ pass near bbs.awesomely rich slick lather.razorock blue caps it off..love this razor,enough to own 2 of them.is my most used and efficient flare tip with this slim head.these "rockets"have regular style flare tip end caps.rather abundant here and quite a few in the wild still.unfortunately production ceased in 66 and the black handle came along after.the "all brass" days of the flare tip were over..have a fine day gents..
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Terrific picture, Gary!

Norcalnewb · Feb 4, 2020

clint64 said: ↑

February 4, 2020
Rex Ambassador
Feather
Simpson CH2 Synthetic
A&E Frozen Mojitos
Myrsol Agua de Limon

Between the CH2 Synthetic, aka "The Soap Destroyer" and the Mondial boar, the A&E Frozen Mojitos soap is disappearing at a rapid rate. I am not sure the soap will make it through the week. I may have taken to many pictures this weekend. On to the shave which was much better today, I did open up the cut again today but nothing new. I decided to leave well enough alone and not chase the baby. While not totally blood free, I am pleased with the improvement over yesterday. I hope everyone has a great Tuesday.
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Wonderful picture, Clint!

Norcalnewb · Feb 4, 2020

jgreenepa said: ↑

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Birthday SOTD 02/04/20

Wonderful celebration of SWMBO’s birthday last night. Great workout shave this morning with my new SS Synthetic brush birthday present from Classic Shaving. It weighs 15.8 oz which doesn’t sound like much until you start waving it around during the lathering process. One of the pleasures of this month’s focus is the continuing use of MWF, just an incredible soap. I don’t know if it’s the regular post shave wash with brush squeezings or just the daily lathering process itself, but my skin on both noggin and face feel great after four days use. I wonder how I’ll feel at the end of 29 days continuous use?

In any case, a stellar shave for my birthday with one of my favorite razors - the GE Jones Shake Sharp Mark 2.0 in nickel. After stacking two original Polish Wizamet Super Iridium blades, I lathered up with my M-Bomb salted MWF, following my regular scrub with PAA’s Preshave Cube of my dome and face. My Shake Sharp sang as it mowed down the whiskers right to the skin line on that first WTG pass. I sometimes wonder if it’s possible to cut oneself with this razor. It hasn’t happened yet. The second ATG pass really only consisted of some scattered buffing cleanup! The Shake Sharp is highly efficient with these sharp blades, but not to the point of irritation as my alum block revealed. The only time I experienced any irritation with this razor was when I used stacked Feather blades. In any case, a stellar one and a half pass DFS shave for my birthday with one of my favorite razors! I feel clean, smooooth and refreshed.

RAZOR: GE Jones Nickel Plated Shake Sharp Mark 2.0
BLADE: 2 Stacked Wizamet Super Iridium
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with PAA’s Cube Preshave Soap
BRUSH: Rearden Razor 316L SS Synthetic
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Thayers Lavender WH and finished with Fine Accoutrements Snake Bite AS Splash
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Awesome picture, Jeff! Happy birthday!

jluc · Feb 4, 2020

jgreenepa said: ↑

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Birthday SOTD 02/04/20

Wonderful celebration of SWMBO’s birthday last night. Great workout shave this morning with my new SS Synthetic brush birthday present from Classic Shaving. It weighs 15.8 oz which doesn’t sound like much until you start waving it around during the lathering process. One of the pleasures of this month’s focus is the continuing use of MWF, just an incredible soap. I don’t know if it’s the regular post shave wash with brush squeezings or just the daily lathering process itself, but my skin on both noggin and face feel great after four days use. I wonder how I’ll feel at the end of 29 days continuous use?

In any case, a stellar shave for my birthday with one of my favorite razors - the GE Jones Shake Sharp Mark 2.0 in nickel. After stacking two original Polish Wizamet Super Iridium blades, I lathered up with my M-Bomb salted MWF, following my regular scrub with PAA’s Preshave Cube of my dome and face. My Shake Sharp sang as it mowed down the whiskers right to the skin line on that first WTG pass. I sometimes wonder if it’s possible to cut oneself with this razor. It hasn’t happened yet. The second ATG pass really only consisted of some scattered buffing cleanup! The Shake Sharp is highly efficient with these sharp blades, but not to the point of irritation as my alum block revealed. The only time I experienced any irritation with this razor was when I used stacked Feather blades. In any case, a stellar one and a half pass DFS shave for my birthday with one of my favorite razors! I feel clean, smooooth and refreshed.

RAZOR: GE Jones Nickel Plated Shake Sharp Mark 2.0
BLADE: 2 Stacked Wizamet Super Iridium
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with PAA’s Cube Preshave Soap
BRUSH: Rearden Razor 316L SS Synthetic
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Thayers Lavender WH and finished with Fine Accoutrements Snake Bite AS Splash
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Stellar birthday shave, Jeff! Love the new brush! Congrats!

Norcalnewb · Feb 4, 2020

Boojum1 said: ↑

Tuesday
February 4, 2020

Colonial Silversmith
Wizamet Super Iridium
Dorian Crafts Two Band
Ariana & Evans So Cal Hipster Soap and Aftershave
Pino Silvestri

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Outstanding picture, Mark!

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