April 2017 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Smart. That was an offer for service. 18% juice on merchandise, plus annual fees, is usually how these things work.

 

It would, of course, be a Russian novel. Something like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest if it had been written by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Our hero tells the exact truth and winds up immured in a psychiatric gulag for 20 years. Then, when it's finally discovered that he wasn't crazy all along, he's immured there for another 20 years to cover it up. When he's eventually released as an old man, he really is crazy, and he needs psychiatric help... And the true deep horror of it - and the true reason he finally snapped and really did go insane - all those years while he was institutionalized, he was forced to shave with carts and goo...

 

That is because compared to those really big, razor sharp, samurai Bowie knife contraptions that you deftly shave with on a regular basis, this thing looks like a peashooter. For some of the rest of us it appears more like an instrument of bloodletting. (And I mean this in the most humble "I want to be like you when I grow up" way possible!)

 

Last couple of days....



-C. Lutters 5/8
-Kent BK12
-Stirling Lime
-Stirling Black Pepper Lime



-Boker King Cutter 5/8
-Simpson Classic 2
-Stirling Glacial Lemony Orange
-Stirling Orange Chill

A couple of nice cool shaves at the end of some long days. Have been busy enough I can barely keep up with you guys. You all talk a lot.

 

Thank you Sir! I will jump on that party, wanted to let you do the honors.

 

In the end, our hero joins a shave forum, makes other deviant friends, and posts regularly about his shaving experiences with them...

 

Is there still time to triple my guess?

 

No. Notice what I guessed? I win. Confession, I've finished an Arko stick before.

 

Now that you're retired you have all kinds of time to practice.

 

Can I put in an order for the T-shirt now?

 

WHAT IF all of that really happened and we are experiencing this version of him NOW.

Sequel by Douglas Adamstoyevski.

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This could work.

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The real question is "what is his screen name?". Any guesses?

 

Plenty of time to heal as well. Win/win

 

@NCoxSTL

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Now that I think about it, one could overhear a lot of high level Russian blade information in the gulag. In fact, after a few decades of using this knowledge and honing one's skill, one might even be considered a Russian blade Czar. Hmm. Maybe I've thought out loud a bit too much. They don't get internet service in the Russian gulags do they?

 

April 20 (Thursday) - perfectly sane non- carts and goo shave

Rockwell 6s on plate #3 / Topaz Platinum ( 1 )
Alluminati Envy White brush
Supply Provision tallow soap Juniper
Alum and Supply Provision Juniper Post Shave Balm

I skipped the next cream tonight to pull out the older formula Supply Provision soap in the 4" wide x 2" deep plastic tub to compare using it with the newer SP cream/croap in the 2" wide x 3" deep packed-full glass jar.

I had no trouble brush loading from the tub and then working up a good lather in my bowl. I rather prefer this to the newer approach of scooping cream out of the jar and either rubbing it into my face or onto the surface of the lather bowl and then using the brush. Now that I have tried both approaches, however, I can certainly make both work.

The shave tonight was an easy 2 pass near BBS with no irritation. Quiet alum and the matching Juniper balm makes for a refreshing finish. (The scent is now called Sierra Ridge).

I actually messaged Patrick on the Supply Provision website to ask for the reason for the change, because the scents are the same and the consistency of the soft soap is only a very little bit softer in the new version. He said there were two reasons to go to the narrower jar that requires the cream to be scooped out rather than brush loaded:

1. A primary target market for them is convincing guys to switch over from carts and goo. They found that a usage model where the product was worked onto the face with the fingers and then worked with a brush seemed to be more familiar and easier to switch to for guys who had always spread on canned goo with the fingers and never used the traditional brush and soap in a shaving mug method before.

2. The glass jar is a better size and shape for travel and fits more easily in a dopp kit. (And SP is shortly bringing out a nice leather dopp kit sized to hold their stuff.)

He did point out that people who strongly preferred the older tub approach could always also repack the cream into an old tub. The cream is easily scooped and shaped. I also got the impression that Patrick is probably flexible on the issue - if enough people expressed a preference, he might either move back to tubs or offer both options (the amount of cream or soap and the price was the same either way.)

 

Bleeding a little never really hurt anyone....much.

 

I'm not sure this is very accurate, but I will blindly accept your hollow encouragement and charge towards the edge of the cliff with reckless abandon along with the rest of the well shaven lemmings! We can't all be wrong... right???

 

Head up...quick march!!! Stay with the group.