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

Thanks Joe. I am not familiar with that road. Lol!

 

Excellent shave Joe.

 

Thanks Gary.

 

Wonderful shave Gary.

 

thank you Joe.it a nice set that Jason made.

 

26th September 2024.



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Shaving Recipe for today.

Prep: Warm shower:/Bulldog Peppermint & Eucalyptus Shower Gel.

Pre:
Cien PURE Fragrance Free Sensitive Bar Soap.
Brush: Frank Shaving 22mm Synthetic.
Bowl Lather.
Bowl: Tesco's Ceramic 'Cosmo' Side Bowl.
Lather: Nivea Men Sensitive Pro Ultra-Calming Liquid Shaving Cream.
Blade: Treet Platinum. (D2)
Razor: Ming Shi 2000s Futur clone. (Settings) 3-wtg,4-atg,+pick ups.

Post:
Cold Water Face Rinse./Cold water face wash with brush squeezing's,/Alum Rub./Cold Water Rinse./Nivea Refreshing Toner./Nivea Men Replenishing PSB.

Greetings,

Early morning shave,

A wonderful shave from the efficient Ming Shi 2000S to finish my shaving week off on a high note.

Finishing the shave off with a few small dollops of Nivea Men Replenishing PSB.

My face is feeling cool smooth & smelling divine.

Keep safe, and enjoy your day ladies & gentlemen.

 

26 Sep 2024

Sample Sterling Satsuma soap, Slant razor = Lo Storto, Schick Blade, Pura Setola



1 Days growth

Usual Hot water Prep and Preshave = Faulding’s shave cream
Cream/Soap = Sterling Satsuma
Brush = Pura Setola
Bowl = Timeless
Razor = Slant: Fatip Lo Storto
Blade = Vintage Schick (1)
Passes = 2 ++
Post = Usual CWR, Alum, rinse, pat dry, Thayers rose petal
ASL = PR Barbe Dure with Oud Oil
Scent = Wood Essence
Score = 9.8 / 10
Damage = Minor weeper left top lip in the first pass, disappeared by the end of the shave

The Schick blade is nice and smooth, a good option to tone down the Fatip OC Slant
The Lo Storto has a reputation of not being able to align the blade equally on both sides, despite some fiddling with the blade tabs. Oh well, not bothering with that, leave it as is and Carry on Regardless
Lovely smooth shave, the alum was a bit zingy but that’s a good sign meaning I got nice and close. DFS and some BBS

One more shave left with the Satsuma, whew what a schlepp sticking with one soap for all this time
Not sure what I will do with it tomorrow...

Have a great Thursday ladies and gentlemen

 

Lovely shave Barry, what a neat looking brush too

 

Real good Throwback shave this morning. A minute at the Loading Dock for the first pass, but then I went back for a little more before the second. Oro Valley's main feature scent is leather.It's a nice smooth leather, similar to what you find in Fine Latigo. Clean, clears shave all over. No cuts, Knicks, Polka-dots. Two passes(as earlier indicated). Clubman Special Reserve is a great match for Oro Valley(course I don't have the Oro Valley A.S.). I call Clubman Reserve "Doc Pinaud Goes West". As Outstanding As It Gets for this one.

 

fine thursday affairs gents.

 

-Thursday-
1921 english bostonian
semogue
shave shop
fine



good morning gents
absolutely fabulous tobs shave
lovely shave shop lather built with the semogue boar
smooth 2 passer with the brit bostonian
fine splash to finish
awesome
have a fine day everyone
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Terrific shaves and setups Barry and Chris.

 

Thank you, Chris. The FS synthetic was one of my first proper synthetic shaving brushes. It's great for both bowl and face lathering.

 

Thank you, Joe.

 

Beautiful shave set up & photo Gary.

 

Thank you, Gary.

 

That's a beautiful Bostonian set, Gary!

 

Super Sandalwood Shave Gary.

 

Thursday Sept 26 (morning) - SE, Synthetic, Stirling September

Prep: Hot shower with Aleppo olive oil soap w/ 20% bay laurel oil (traditional anti-acne)

Razor: Parker Adjustable (SE) injector on setting 3 / Supply white label (made by Personna)(1)

Soap: Stirling Vanilla Bean Espresso

Brush: APShave Co w/ 24mm SynBad synthetic fan

Lather Bowl: None

Post: rinse, alum, rinse, Stirling Vanilla Bean Espresso splash

Last shave: Monday morning - 3 days

The setup:



And Now For Something Completely Different: Different razor, different brush, different soap and splash than what I used previously this month.

The result: excellent overall

I bought the Parker Adjustable injector a couple years ago and hated it. I simply could not get a decent shave with it. This time I did. I think the issue last time was that I tried the Parker immediately after a long stretch shaving with vintage Schick injectors. The Parker is more like the old PAL injectors than the Schicks -- it has a fairly narrow shaving sweet spot that you access by holding it at a shallower angle than you hold a Schick. If you hold the Parker at the same angle as a Schick, it "chatters" over the whiskers rather than slicing through them and ends up feeling too light and completely ineffective. That's what happened two years ago.

This time, I concentrated on my shaving angle and was rewarded with two clean passes, one WTG and the second XTG. After the second pass, I was cleanshaven to a DFS standard with no blood and no razorburn. Alum was silent.

I had been planning to dump the Parker Adjustable but after using it for "one last try", I now feel that it is a worthwhile addition to my rotation.

 

Great shave and setup John. Glad you figured out the solution on getting a better shave with the Parker Adjustable Injector. It's been said many times in this forum to put away a razor when one gets subpar results and come back to it some other time. Usually, a shaver gets a better result by doing so. Glad it worked out for you John.