30 Day Rule/Focus; August 2024. All Are Welcome!

A late post:

Monday Aug 12 (morning) - Anything Goes August & Menthol Monday

Prep: Hot shower with Aleppo olive oil soap w/ 20% bay laurel oil

Razor: Supply 2.0 matte black stainless steel injector w/ SE "nickproof" comb plate / vintage American-made Schick Plus Platinum(?) (11)

Soap: Stirling Iced Pineapple

Brush: Simpson's Chubby 2 Synthetic Bristle

Lather Bowl: None

Post: rinse, alum, rinse, Stirling Iced Pineapple splash

Last shave: Wednesday noon - 4.75 days

The setup (identical to last two shaves):




The result: identical to last two shaves, which I described as Absolutely Awesome...

I did two passes, one WTG and the second more or less XTG. The second pass was XTG on my face, but more diagonal on my neck since that gets into the hollows better. Alum was a bit warm overall but didn't spark anywhere and I had no blood spots or razorburn.

I think the injector blade is getting near the point I would bin it and move on. Still smooth but not as sharp as when fresh, so it doesn't remove all the stubble with one quick "wipe" anymore.

Actually, I have lots of blades -- I just stopped into the bathroom now and binned it.

 

fine iced stirling shave and pic John.

 

Thank you, Joe.

 

Nice shave John.

 

Thank you Joe.

 

SRS # 1148

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: J R Torrey The Artist
Brush: Hembree Derlin Paragon Boar 25 mm
Pre-Shave: Pears Transparent Soap
Lather: PAA Atomic Age Bay Rum
Aftershave: WTF Vintage Barbershop
Additional Care:
Omega Alum
Dickenson’s Original Witch Hazel
Stirling Unscented Glacial Balm

Fabulous shave this morning. This razor represents my first totally restored razor, honed and new scales. This morning’s shave was the best to date that I had with the razor. Super smooth and close without any incidents.

The boar brush, handle courtesy of a past 30DC member, easily whipped up a nice and slick PAA lather. Three passes did the trick.

I finished off the shave with the WTF Vintage Barbershop aftershave. Excellent all around.

Hope you all had an enjoyable day.

 

Wonderful shave Joe.

 

Nice looking shave Gary.

 

Outstanding shave John

 

Thanks Joe.

 

Great shave and restoration Joe.

 

thank you Joe.

 

fine tuesday shave Joe.cool razor.

 

Thx Gary

Thanks Gary

Crisp and luxurious shave
Beautiful brush, love the shape and color of the handle

Fine sounding shave John. 11 days on one blade, pretty good I reckon

 

14 Aug 2024
Another fine Adjustable Travel shave, doesn't get much better than this

Warm water prep
Pre: palmolive men lather cream regular with coconut extract
Soap: Pinaud-Clubman
Razor: Slim @5
Blade: Shark super stainless (2), smooth
Passes: 2+extras as needed, all directions
Damage: none!
Post: Thayers, PR Rinfrescante

Rating: super smooth, wish every shave was like this. It's the combination of palmolive and clubman, I guess, or maybe its the local water, who knows?Tropical downpour outside, good thing we went out in the morning

Have a great day wherever you are!

 

Thank you Joe.

 

Awesome shave Chris.

 

Thank you Gary.

 

Classic setup and shave Chris. Although I have the matching aftershave, I have never used the soap. I have heard that it has a great post shave feel and lathers well.

 

Thank you Joe, one of my better ones

Great post shave feel, but I must add that the local humidity probably helps.