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

could be.,haven't seen a newer looking one to be honest..

 

Actually, you're right....it IS the same. I just looked at mine.

 

Thanks Gary.

 

Very nice shave and setup Gary. Seaforth is a great soap.

 

thank you Joe.this was my first but least used..very pwdery scent wise..

 

Grazie Joe

 

cool blue multinational shave

 

thank you Chris..

 

13th 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 Boar.
Bowl Lather.
Bowl: Ikea Kalas Side Bowl.
Lather: Erasmic Shaving Soap Bowl.
Blade: King C Gillette. (D2)
Razor: King C Gillette.

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./Superdrug Sierran Breeze ASL./Nivea Men Creme.

Greetings,

Early morning shave,

Everything in my shave set up worked together excellently, resulting in a wonderfully smooth comfortable shave with no errors to report...A great shave to finish my shaving week off on a high. The Erasmic Shaving soap & cream have been the star lather performers of my shaving week.

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

My face is feeling smooth, & smelling divine.

Keep safe, and enjoy your day ladies & gentlemen.

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Thursday 13 Feb 2025
Late post, 2 family hospital visits today

1 Days growth

Soap = MWF today scored only a 0.5
Brush = Pura Setola
Bowl = face first >>>>> then white plastic bowl
Razor = Gillette Slim set to 4
Blade = Personna (2)
Post = Usual CWR, Alum, rinse, pat dry, Thayer’s rose petal, Nivea Balm
ASL = Imperial Leather
Scent = English Leather
Score = decent shave but the Fat put up a brave fight today
Damage = minor nick over left sideburn skin lesion

After some recent successes with the Fat, today I decided to try a different brush. The Pura Setola is also a boar brush but unlike the 10049 (which is 28 mm knot and 65 mm loft) has a knot of only 24mm and loft of 55 mm. Lightly bloomed the MWF, soaked the brush in warm water for around 5 minutes, shook dry, squeezed dry, dried it in the towel and set to the Fat for 100 swirls. To the wet face and the initial lather started off OK, but then started thinning out and drying out halfway through the first pass. Hmmm....what gives?

Back to the puck to load more MWF, seemed OK initially, but more bubbly than I would like. Can’t be too much water because I hardly added any. So: maybe too little water, right? Therefore: back to the Puck, in for a penny in for a pound, then into the shaving bowl and brutalized the fat while slowly adding up to 20 mls water. Fairly filled the bathroom with a miserably bubbly mess of Mitchell’s Wool Fat and kept on going for a total of 4 passes. The Alum stung, the shave was outstanding, the Fat provided good protection despite embarrassing itself by not being able to hold itself together and behave like a decent shaving soap should. So overall I can’t call the shave a total failure, but I could hear the other soaps in my Den having a bit of giggle

The Mystery of the MWF continues
Could it be that brush-dependent?
Could the water I soaked it in have been too warm?
Or am I just expecting too much from it?

Tomorrow: same setup and brush but back to the reliable Stirling

After that I will try the MWF again but with a synthetic brush, since others have claimed some success with this

MWF 0 + 0 + 1 +0.5 + 1 +1 + 0.5
Sterling 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1

I guess this is turning out to be a Mini-Mitchell focus of sorts

Not one to complain but it's getting close Lol!

 

cool shave Chris. is the brush new? i use 24mm boar with my mwf,but boars can be lather hogs as the hair absorbs water,badger and synthetic do not.i tend to treat my boars with hair conditioner and they absorb less product..

 

fabulous thursday shaves gents.

 

-Thursday-
no.58
yaqi ruby
the royal



good morning gents
fabulous royal lather built with the yaqi ruby badger
ultra smooth 2 passer with the 1954 Australian market Aristocrat Jr.minor pick ups
matching splash to finish
awesome
have a fine day everyone
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Fine Throwback shave today. I'm bginning to get tired of the "Blade" razor's even though they are Pivot DisposeABLES. Maybe that's because I was able to buy a bag of the regular Gillette's the other day, which made me happy. Yeah, they contribute to a nice shave, but they're good for the time being onl. The Clubman dupe soap jumped onto the Stoylin brush with ease, to set me up for what was a nice paint job. Clean and cleasr all over, including a better job up at N.Porcupine, in that right corner area that has been giving me fits of late. 2 passes. No damage anywhere. Great close with Clubman A.S. Super Duper Outstanding.

 

February 13, 2025

Freedom February

Razor - Micromatic Open Comb
Blade - Gem SE Blade (2)
Soap - El Caballero
Brush - Omega 10061 Boar

Second day on the MMOC and I do believe it was even smoother than yesterday. If memory serves, the single edge blades tend to be better on day two. Or else I just did a better job and my memory isn't serving at all. Still, absolutely no complaints. I do remember (and I know I really do) that I once thought that the MMOC would be a very fine daily driver. Yes, I love my vintage Gillettes, but if I were to choose a single edge razor as my one and only, this one would be a top choice.

The El Caballero is beginning to show a ring of death. Just starting out. I'd say I'll have this tub empty within a couple of weeks and be ready to move on to something else. Maybe some time with my mutton tallows from Stirling. Time will tell. I do know that this small Omega boar is a gem. I call this my BoS (Brush of Shame). I broke a no-buy streak to get this brush but it was well worth it. One of my favorites.

Hope you have a good Valentine's Day Eve. For those of you with wives, girlfriends, significant others, etc.......don't forget the flowers, candy, and dinner. Nobody should go into the weekend in the doghouse!

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SRS # 1237

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: ERN 1820 5/8”
Brush: JTSpartan Boar 24 mm
Lather: Bufflehead Small Batch Nashville MFP
Aftershave: Sailor Jerry Spiced Navy
Additional Care:
Omega Alum
Dickenson’s Original Witch Hazel
Stirling Unscented Glacial Balm



SRS # 1238

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: C-Mon Special 6/8”
Brush: Jayaruh 329 Boar
Lather: Declaration Grooming/Chatillon Lux Nefertiti
Aftershave: Chatillon Lux Nerfertiti
Additional Care:
Omega Alum
Dickenson’s Original Witch Hazel
Stirling Unscented Glacial Balm

Two super shaves the past two morning. Thursday’s shave featured a soap I have not pull out from the depths of the den in over a year. Additionally, the newly acquired brush scuttle, Caribbean Turquoise, from an artisan on Etsy works perfectly. I use it for iced water shaves with the scuttle chilling the lather on the brush.

This morning’s shave featured the C-Mon straight paired with the DG/CL software collaboration.
The scent profile is:



Both shaves resulted in an exceptionally close and smooth facial finish.
Hope you all have a great day

 

Awesome MMOC shave Neal.

 

Thank you Chris

 

Wonderful Stirling shave Chris.

 

Excellent Seaforth shave Gary.