30 Day Rule/Focus; February 2025. All Are Welcome.

6th February 2025.



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Shaving Recipe for today.

Prep: Warm shower:/Cien Men Energize Shower Gel.

Pre:
Cold wet flannel to my face.
Wrights Coal Tar bar Soap.
Brush: Wilkinson Sword Synthetic.
Bowl Lather.
Bowl: Ikea Kalas Side Bowl.
Lather: Real Shaving Company Age Defence Traditional Shave Cream.
Blade: Wilkinson Sword Classic. (D2)
Razor: Wilkinson Sword Classic.

Post:
Cold Water Face Rinse./Cold water face wash with brush squeezing's,/Alum Rub./Cold Water Rinse./Homemade (~Autumn/Winter mix~) peppermint lavender, eucalyptus, + Tea Tree essential Oils Mixed Together With Care+Witch Hazel./Cien Men Aqua ASL. + Sensitive ASB.

Greetings,

Early morning shave,

Everything in my shave set up worked together excellently this morning to end my first shaving week of February wonderfully.

A close comfortable 2 pass + pick ups silky smooth shave with no errors to report.

Finishing the shave off with a few small dollops of Cien Men Sensitive ASB.

My face is feeling smooth, & smelling divine.

Keep safe, and enjoy your day ladies & gentlemen.

 

6 Feb 2025

1 Days growth

Soap = Sterling Bergamot and lavender, somehow losts its scent
Brush = Omega 10049
Bowl = white plastic
Razor = 1958 No 66
Blade = Personna Platinum Chrome (3) Made in Germany
Passes = 2 and pick ups
Post = Usual CWR, Alum, rinse, pat dry, Thayers rose petal, Nivea Balm
ASL = Imperial Leather
Scent = The Body Shop Black Musk
Score = 9.8 / 10
Damage = minor weeper left lower chin, trying a new Gillette slide angle, felt the nick. Cleared after the cold water and Alum
Good overall Alum feedback
100% DFS and 90% BBS

Surprised at how well the blade did on day 3. I have put it aside for another outing

Used the same lathering technique from yesterday’s MWF setup. Pre-soaked, but a near dry brush. 100 swirls on the puck and much less water than I usually use, feeding this in slowly. Super glossy shiny slick lather resulted, which meant better glide and therefore temptation to use a bit more pressure. MWF has taught me something!

MWF 0+0+1
Sterling 1+1+1

Back to the MWF next time around

Hope you all have a terrific Thursday

 

fabulous thursday affairs gents.

 

Thanks again Gary.

 

A great Throwback shave with the Gillette dupe Pivot razor being the star of the show, no doubt. There are some slight differences between the real and the dupe, but I can manage with them all right. The main one being I have to spend a little more time rinsing out the soap from the Blades, than with the real brand. Huge improvement at both ends of Porcupine. The Mike's Natural soap is a great one, all right. I won't mention @wristwatchb's name, but I agree with him that Mike's is a class soap. (Actually, I was the one who said "class soap", but I'm sure he'd agree). I should have added more of the Bill Neumann 1911 A.S. onto my face and neck. Will do next time. I'm sure I got enough to make it work its "skin-food" magic, though. No cuts, Knicks, Red-Ball Sunsets....good sign. 2 passes. Back with same tomorrow. Most Outstanding.

 

February 6, 2025

Freedom February

Razor - Fatip Piccolo
Blade - (1)
Soap - Stirling Black Ice
Brush - Jayaruh JR#312

Well, it's Freedom February so I have the freedom to choose a favorite modern DE razor. The Fatip Piccolo. This smallish razor packs a huge punch. It weighs 73.1 ounces and the blade gap is a tiny 0.055 inches. However, the blade exposure and angle are both on the aggressive side. This makes it a very efficient razor. I consider it to be "aggressive", but not like the Muhle R41 or the Gillette Old Style. I paired it up with a Sharp Star blade for a sharp and smooth shave. Used up the last of my Stirling Black Ice sample puck. The first soap I've finished completely in....well maybe ever. I now have an empty container begging to be filled up. I'm trying to ignore that. The JR#312 faux horse brush killed the soap off and provided three passes of lather plus plenty of extra.

Three passes today to get the full effect of this razor. It's a beauty and fun to shave with. Could be a daily driver if I wasn't so interested in every other razor made. Finished with a perfect finish and another day is done! Well, night. My day, your night. Something like that. Have a great Thursday!

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Well done gentlemen.

 

-Thursday-
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good evening gents,
late post ,early shave,no words needed..
awesome
have a fine evening everyone
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SRS # 1233

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: AJ Jordan Old Faithful Cocolobo scales
Brush: Sawdust Creation Studio “Inferno” Silver Fox Synthetic
Lather: Wholly Kaw King of Oud
Aftershave: Wholly Kaw King of Oud
Additional Care:
Omega Alum
Dickenson’s Original Witch Hazel
Stirling Unscented Glacial Balm

Wonderful straight shave this morning. The Edmund Fitzgerald is on the distant horizon for this soap. Three passes to super smoothness. I did manage a couple of weepers which were easily taken care of by the post shave routine.

Hope you all had a great day.

 

Wonderful scent of that soap. Great shave Chris.

 

Wonderful shave Neal. I hope all is well with Keith. He had some great looking shaves.

 

Excellent Fst shave. Glad to see some improvements with the lather.

 

Thank you Gary.

 

One fine looking shave Gary.

 

Thank you Gary.

 

thank you Joe

fine King of Oud shave Joe.

 

Thursday February 06 (evening) - Fine-tuning Favourites February

Prep: Hot face wash with Martin de Candre handsoap

Razor: Matte black stainless steel Supply 2.0 injector with "nick-proof" SE comb plate / Personna blade (1)

Soap: Stirling Scots Pine Sheep

Brush: Jason's cypress badger (Maggard's 24mm 2-band badger knot)

Lather Bowl: None

Post: rinse, alum, rinse, Stirling Scots Pine splash

Last shave: Saturday January 11 - 26 days ago

Today's setup:




My last shave was almost a month ago. I now have a full beard and moustache set. I decided today that it was time for a trim - get rid of the neckbeard part and clean up the middle of the cheeks to leave a crisply defined jaw outline.

I went with some of my favourites: a brush with a beautiful wood handle turned by Jason @jtspartan paired with an excellent badger knot, my pet modern injector which combines solid mass with a nearly foolproof plate of mid-grade aggressiveness, and a very very slick and protective Stirling mutton tallow (and lanolin) soap. They were a great combo!

Due to the length and density of the whiskers I had to remove, I shaved in two stages: first the neck and then the more minor cleanup on the cheeks.

The neck took about four passes to go from beard to DFS with re-lathering after each pass and reloading the brush from the puck at least once. The first pass was ATG to get rid of the bulk of the whiskers. The second pass was WTG to catch the remaining visible clumps of whiskers. The third was diagonally XTG and then the fourth and final pass was ATG again to get to near BBS.

It was a very slow process, because for the first pass I couldn't just rinse the cut whiskers out of the razor; instead I had to unscrew the plate and remove the blade to unclog the razor - after every single stroke. I had to do the same thing twice during the second pass. For the last two passes, I was back to my normal practice of just rinsing the razor clean under the tap every few strokes.

I then did the cheeks which were much easier because I was just trimming down the sparser uneven upper edges of my beard area. Three passes did that: XTG , the WTG, then XTG again. No need to disassemble the razor to unclog it.

No nicks, blood spots or razorburn and the alum was totally silent. Honestly that surprised me on the neck after the two ATG passes there.

The splash was a good finish. The Scots Pine has a pleasant fir forest scent that goes well with winter weather.

Hope everyone is keeping well.

 

Great Thurday shaves, gents!

Barry, nice to see that you are using soap from The Real Shaving Company instead of one of the many many fake shaving companies out there...

 

awesome John. is the scot's pine sheep soap base any slicker/better than the regular stirling soaps?