March 2020 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix and Discussion

@Primotenore
Joseph, I got around to weighing the .68 Jaws with the Halo handle. 109 g with a blade in it. Right on the 108 they said it would be.

I believe you mentioned the Floating Head for a comparison. The Barbasol is a lightweight in comparison at 84 g

A few others for reference. I focussed on a few that I remember being hefty. The Occams is 104 g

and the New Improved (fairly heavy for a Gillette, imho) is a featherly 75 g. I don't have a TTO OC 'Crat. That might be the heaviest Gillette, iwt.

 

Excellent recap, Joe!

 

Fine looking shave, Danny! That Yaqui head looks awesome. Love everything I've ever heard about L'Orange Noir.

 

Thanks Jim! I know that I didn't cover everything, but I tried my best to give an overall synopsis of the last few month on this thread.

 

Hey! That Sandalwood is starting to look like the Death Star--eminent ring of death.

Fantastic set of shaves, Joe! Head shaves are like New York City--if you can make it there you'll make it anywhere. Sounds like you've got another shave platform mastered

 

Thank you Tim! I have only shave 2 more times with this razor to finish this mini focus. I can't wait to rejoin you, Patrick and Charlie with shavette shaves next week that will be sprinkled with traditional straights.

 

That's the way it works with me.

 

You can make soap last. I don't get much more than 40 shaves out of a new Stirling soap.

 

Very cool Jason. I thought the Jaws and Occam's were close to the same weight.

 

@jtspartan You asked earlier today what soaps I would get as a replacement. I just snagged a MdC Argumes on the Nook BST for a good price. I couldn't help myself. I bought a group package from The Shave Cadre supporting the forum and we will get one each from Stirling, CBL and Lisa's Natural in addition to some other goodies.

 

Kind of a weird thing. I was talking to my mom and mentioned I was shaving with a shavette. She got all excited, started rummaging through her closet for a minute or two, and retuned with this...







Turns out, about 4 or 5 years ago she found out that I was wet shaving and assumed I was using a straight. I told her I was planning to one day try straight shaving, but currently shaved with a DE.

Well, she ordered one from Whipped Dog for my birthday--6 months before my birthday. I guess you can figure out what happened; she forgot about it.

She was also curious and tried shaving with it a couple times before putting it away (for 4 years). It's not sharp. It'll shave hair, but it ain't easy, so I'll eventually have to look into honing, stropping, and refreshing options at some point in time, but still... I woke up today not even thinking about straights, and now I've got one--life is wonderfully weird.

 

Very cool. That's great that your mom was thinking of you.

 

That's very cool, Tim. For a guy trying to minimize his Den...how is the room addition coming along?

My Bride's aunt is moving to an independent living facility, so she is downsizing. She has a straight razor, strop, and brush that belonged to her husband's grandfather for me. I'll post some photos once I get everything.

 

Thanks, Clint! My mom has always liked getting unique things for us. When I was 9 or 10 she bought me a nose flute. Yup, a nose flute...

...because, why not?

 

Yeah, I've got some decision making to do in the upcoming months.

Can't wait to see the straight and accompanying paraphernalia--an heirloom shave set up is super cool! Congrats

 

I love pork rinds, don't get me wrong.
But I'll sit and watch with some fresh buttered popcorn.

tp

 

Marvelous shave Keith!
tp

 

How cool is that!

 

Now, I know your mileage may vary buy I think the average # of shaves for a 4 oz puck is 100. So, a 5.8oz Stirling should give about 145 shaves. So, if you shave every day, then it would be about 5 months to finish the soap. You have soap destroyers so I can see that you use more soap than I do.

 

Do you still play?