30 Day Rule/Focus, May 2025. All Are Welcome!

Very nice shave Barry.

 

Excellent looking shave!

 

Awesome Stirling shave Joe

 

Excellent MR shave Gary.

 

Beautiful looking razor Gary

 

SRS # 1299

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: J R Torrey The Artist
Brush: Epsilon Horse Hair
Lather: Ach. Brito Mogno
Aftershave: Denim Original
Additional Care:
Omega Alum
Dickenson’s Original Witch Hazel
Stirling Unscented Glacial Balm

Sunday’s are usually reserved for Sample Soap Sunday. However, today I feel like doing something different by using a soap I have not used in a while. The horse hair brush whipped up a nice lather. The straight, my first restoration including scales, easily removed this morning’s stubble. Super smooth and error free. No PTisms in this shave.


Hope you all have had a great Sunday.

 

Sunday May 18 (morning) - Monotonous May

I am sticking with my declared plan of a Rule this month using this setup for every shave (hence "Monotonous May"):

Prep: Hot shower or face wash with Aleppo olive oil and 20% bay laurel oil soap (traditional anti-acne)

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

Soap: Stirling Scots Pine Sheep

Brush: Semogue SOC cherrywood fitted w/ APShaveCo 24mm Tuxedo synthetic knot

Lather Bowl: None

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

Last shave: Monday May 5 - about 13 days ago



As planned, I started with a fresh blade today. The last shave with a fresh injector blade had a problem actually clearing whiskers, so I binned that blade and used a fresh one today, placing it manually onto the plate.

So how was the shave? Excellent! The last blade clearly was defective; this time, two passes cleared off nearly two weeks worth of stubble with no need for extra passes or cleanups.

For the first pass, I went WTG on the face, but then went ATG on the neck. I had to unscrew and remove the base plate three times to rinse out clogged whiskers.

By the second pass, the visible whiskers were gone, leaving only "sandpaper stubble". The second pass was XTG everywhere, with no need to unclog the razor by opening it.

Alum was a bit warm in spots - especially on the neck - but nothing too major. I usually don't go ATG on the neck anymore because it is sensitive, but ATG is an efficient way to cut through heavy stubble there. There were no visible nicks, blood spots or razorburn.

The splash provided a pleasant finish.

Hope everyone has a good week!

 

Great shave, Joe! I have never tried a horsehair brush.

 

Nice acquisition, Gary!

 

Great weekend shaves, gents!

 

thank you John.2 super close shaves with it so far,both with mid sharp blades,german wilkinson and 7 oclock green.i'e since swapped these blades into other razors.good sting with the aftershave,very efficient,gummy face shaves.will see what it's like with a gillette blue tuck platinum next..

 

thank you John

 

1935 (no serial number)canadian new deluxe norfolk,chromium plated..



thank you so much gents.

 

thank you Joe.

 

splendid sunday shaves,gear and pics gentlemen

 

Thanks Gary

Sounds like more than acceptable, good going with the Wilkinson trio

Another neat Lavender shave.

Thank you Joe

Great post pic and shave Joe.

Great comeback shave John

Thanks John.

 

19 May 2025

1 Days growth

Hot Water Prep and Preshave = Palmolive Shave cream
Cream/Soap = Stirling Bergamot and Lavender, 2 or 3 days left
Brush = Omega boar 10049
Bowl = White plastic
Razor = No 66
Blade = Super Iridium day 5. Going strong, but dulling slightly. Needing more strokes per area to get the desired result. I will give this blade another outing with a backup blade at the ready
Passes = 2 only needed
Post = Usual CWR, Alum, rinse, pat dry, Thayer’s rose petal
ASL = Old Spice
Scent = Prada Ocean Luna Rossa

Super shave to start an early 5 am day

Still no damage for the month, not pushing the envelope

 

Thanks again Chris. The Wilkinson trio done a commendable service.

 

Superb Photo & razor Gary.

 

Very nice Stirling shave John.