May 2020 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Love that SS Hawk, Venkat!

 

Beautiful gear and terrific shave Jim!

 

Fantastic report, Paul, though I'm sorry to hear about the cut. The Stirling body washes sound awesome!

 

Thank you, Joe!

 

Beautiful set up and shave, Mark! I didn't realize they made the General in black--very sleek!

And are those flecks of gold in that brush handle, because... awesome!

 

fine shave Paul,good morning..

 

Beautiful photo and awesome report, Joseph!

Sounds like the DE-vette is becoming old hat now. I've only smelled Floid Blue dupes, but they were awesome--I'll probably be picking one of the dupes up once I polish off one of my AS. I'd never really picked up on it before, but that CH3 is enormous!

 

awesome shave and pic Jim,good morning..

 

Thank you Gary.....worked out well in the end. I like the Stoylin bodywash .

 

awesome shave and pic Joseph..

 

It is....nice change from the others.

 

Well, that tears it. I'm raiding my sons' shave drawer and borrowing their stick of Pharaoh's Dreamsicle today. What an orangey, chilly shave--Beautiful photo and line up, Jim!

 

awesome shave and pic Mark,good morning..

 

Simply beautiful Amigo.

wonderful shave recap and photo Primo.

Gorgeous photo Jim. Did you see the new Heritage collection release ?

 

Thank you, Gary!
Good morning..

Thanks, Tim!

 

saturday french shave
1957 #55 french monobloc
7 oclock yellow
opal f200 best badger
mdc agrumes le
pinaud lime sec

good morning gents,took advantage of a sunny day on friday to photo todays shave.clouds today so far.loaded the french monobloc with a new 7 oclock yellow blade.built a lovely citrus lather with the new to the den mdc using the opal badger,and got a fabulous bbs in 2+ smooth passes.lovely scent.decanted pinaud lime sec caps it off.spritz of crabtree and evelyn west indian limes edt for good measure.awesome.have a great weekend everyone..

 

Thank you, Clint!
I'll have to go look. I ordered a brush handle from Elite Razor yesterday. The plan is to install the knot from my Simpson T3. Here's a picture of the handle I ordered.

 

Wow, Gary! Beautiful!

 

Oh it truly is wonderful - significantly adds slickness to the shave. TBH, if I'm at home, I never shave without it. This specific cube is actually a brand new pre-shave soap from razorock. They kinda copied off PAA a little bit I think. It seems to work as well. As I liked PAA's so much, I added it to an order I had from razorock for cheap .

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May 16th
Straight Razor Saturday

Razor: Scrap steel and electrical tape
Brush: DSCosmetic Galaxy Silvertip
PS: Proraso Red
SS: Stirling Deep Blue Sea
AS: Proraso Green

Second shave with my MAYhem creation. Shaving with a homemade blade which started the month as a piece of hot rolled steel is a 30DC first. Correct? Either way this project has triggered my OCD. I've learned a ton in the last 2 weeks. It's been extremely enjoyable.

Obviously you can grind a blade on a CNC, but it's challenging. I use a 60 grit 2"x1/2"x1/4" wheel. If I try to remove more than 1/1000" of material in a pass the heat builds up and starts to temper the steel. The wheel wears out quickly and is good for about 1 hour of grinding after that it puts deep gouges in the surface. So between the rough-in and the finishing pass I need to dress and measure the wheel. This requires recalculating the gcode with the new tool diameter. In total grinding the hollow takes about 2 hours on the machine plus setup and coding time. I'm waiting on tools right now. Which is good because I needed a break.

I'm determined to make 1 high quality razor, but there are reasons people hand grind on special belt sanders. It's faster. I can also see why custom blades cost $1000+. I won't be making many of these.

I got an easy 3 pass shave to BBS. The razor is heavy but the thick handle makes it easy to control. I can tell it's stiffer than my full hollow blades, which I like. Now I need a full wedge in my collection.