March 29
Shavette Shave #26--
”Chasing the Lion”
Gear
- Razor: The Max Headroom Focus R21 shavette
- Blade: Feather Hi Steel--used the 2nd half of a blade I used a couple weeks ago… because I can!
- Brush: Semogue Boar--I love this brush, but it shed 2 more bristles today.
- Soap: Soap Commander “Drive”... is on it’s last few breaths, but it’s fighting the good fight.
- Menthol: Stirling Frost Drops
- AS: Avon Wild Country (with a half drop of Frost Drops to make it feel special)
- Balm: Stirling Glacial Unscented
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The Shave...
Sunday. Chase Day. I decided to go full out by grabbing the 2nd half of a Feather, loading up the Max Headroom Focus R21 shavette and embarking on a mission to catch the baby. The game plan was a 3 pass shave utilizing a standard WTG for the 1st pass, Blair’s (
@b1hart ) “skinny X” WTG for a 2nd, and going ATG for the 3rd.
The first two passes went wonderfully and gradually reduced the growth with no irritation. Or blood. Could this be the day I don’t get a weeper when using a shavette? *Spoiler alert! No.*
3rd pass went very smoothly as well, but as expected, required a bit of chasing. The chin especially likes to play hard to get, but I did reasonably well. Could have continued scraping away, but I was happy with the results, and worrying the area was just going to cause greater irritation for diminished closeness returns--not worth it. About 2 minutes away from the finishing, I set the blade down poorly (using my left hand). There’s that compulsory blood! How could it be a shavette shave otherwise? It went on its merry way after the cold water rinse, and the styptic was able to accumulate a little more dust.
Got myself a BBS/DFS with very little irritation--almost none--a rare occurrence for me. I was feeling so good that I decided to try out a new tie knot I ran across last week--sort of a variation of the Trinity knot. It’s technical name is The Bermuda Triangle knot, but for some stupid reason I’ve been calling it ‘Google Drive’ in my head...
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Probably only have 2 or 3 shaves left from the Soap Commander. You can see the black through the soap down to the bicycle inner tube I use to keep the soap from pushing through the grid on the bottom. It’s hard to see in the photo though…
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Hope everybody enjoys this wonderful Sunday in the best way you know how. Be safe!
27 down, 73 to go!
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