My grandmother would bake cakes at thanksgiving time and keep them wrapped in a tea towel and stored in a tin. Every few days she would open the top and use a spray bottle full of bourbon to soak it. This went on till Christmas, at which time a lighted match would have set off a flare that would have burned till New Years Eve. We kids were only allowed a small slice of course.
OCtober Every other day shave Geo F Trumper Rose cream B-400 Tuxedo synth brush Ceramic Suribachi bowl Gillette NEW LC OC 3pc IsoPlus Black Magic AS lotion Poked into dusty corners looking for something different & came up with a sample of Rose scented cream. I'm guessing it's softer when fresh as my little sample tub has dehydrated into a waxy stiff consistency. Scraped a bit too much out and pressed it into the textured bowl bottom. Moist Tuxedo action whipped up way more lather than I needed. Thick creamy non-dissapating rose with great residual slickness. Not counting blade uses has the advantage of getting full use, and the Personna Lab Blue wasn't done yet. Skipped the alum as it's still packed in my travel kit, with no nicks I didn't need it. The AS lotion is an alcohol free scented witch hazel and the only scent that I have that seemed to go with the GFT. If asked I might have said I prefer a TTO or injector, but I've spent nearly all month enjoying both the three piece NEW LC & Fatip. No idea what I'll use next month, but if I followed a "regular" rotation these two deserve their face time. Good Shaves Y'all!
If I'm understanding this right...in a way, fruitcake is like Williams? You have to add a bunch of something else to make it usable?
OCtober 25 SOTD: Razorock Plissoft Brush TSD Lanolin Barber Shoppe 1936 Gillette Aristocrat Stirling Unscented PSB TSD Floid Blue Type AS
First class lineup. The brush just looks great. Great photo. The Tuxedo knot really looks nice in the brush. Great lineup Charlie. Hope you have a wonderful day. The Aristocrat is a real beauty Jim. I know you are happy to have snagged it.
Gillette Sheraton Feather (2) Semogue 2000 Stirling Gentleman Superior 70 Another nice comfortable shave.
OCtober 25, 2017 Wolfman OC Ti (0.74mm) Personna 74 (10) Simpson Chubby 2 Synthetic Reef Point Test Depth Folsom & Co Capri I had a rough night so I am moving a little slow this morning. At least I was able to get in a very nice shave. No drama or surprises, everything just worked great together. The "Soap Destroyer" did its job and reduced the Test Depth to a small sliver. I just mashed it on top of Jeff's Soap so it won't go to waste. A splash of Capri was a great end to a wonderful shave. I hope everyone has a great Wednesday.
Wednesday October 25 - supergooping the frankensoap Delta Echo Gillette Slim on 4 / Topaz Platinum ( 2 ) Semogue Owners Club cherrywood boar brush My Red Green Duct Tape Special frankensoap Alum and Thayers Witch Hazel Original Rose Petal I think the true benefit of trying the "super goop" method of lathering - at least for me - is that it has forced me to spend extra time loading the brush. I have come to realize that the single biggest weakness of my lathers has always been a tendency to thinness or skimpiness and that the cause has been miserly use of product. This weakness really became obvious when I started to use a new boar brush instead of my usual synthetic or dense badger. And I have been blaming the most recent thin lathers on the SOC boar brush "not being broken in yet", when the true issue all along has been "John doesn't load enough soap". Today I loaded enough soap. The boar brush looked like it had been soaked to the base of the knot in a can of white oil paint. In fact, because my big tub of soft Italian almond soap was filled almost to the brim with soap, there was thick creamy lather oozing everywhere. I finished my two pass shave and the brush was still full of lather. I had enough left over to shave a passing Sasquatch. I think it's fair to say my boar brush is broken in. Any future problems with it will have to be attributed to operator error.
I think you have hit on 1 of the 2 biggest issues with substandard lather. I have found it usually comes down to 1) not enough product or 2) not enough water added slowly. I load soaps like the owe me money and are 30 days past due. I don't time how long I load a brush or count swirls but I do watch the soap as it moves up into the brush. Overtime I have a mental picture of where the soap needs to be in each brush to have enough soap for a great lather. I am glad you got it all sorted out.
25 OCtober 2017 Wool Fat Wednesday Shave Pre: Hot water, soap from the container and a hot towel Razor: Gillette 1911 OLD Single Ring Blade: Shark Super Chrome Brush: JR#231 Synthetic Soap: Mitchell's Wool Fat Post: Hot/Cold water rinse, alum block, cold towelx2, Dominello Vitali Calming Post Shave Moisturizer After Shave: Herself's favorite, Aramis So for the last three days, I've been using my newest brush, JR#231. It's my first synthetic and I'm very impressed. You just let it sniff some water and it lathers like a beast! Broke out the OLD for this week. With a Shark Super Chrome locked and loaded I was BBS after 2.5 passes of shaving excellence. Finished off with some Aramis and Hump Day was off and running. Have a great day my fellow Denizens!
October 25, 2017 Razor: English Four-Piece Flat Bottom Tech Blade: GSB Brush: Razorock Plissoft 22 Cream: KMF fragrance-free Post: Alum, Listerine, WH Another crackin' good shave from this razor, BBS or close enough. If I were to have a complaint, it would be the two-piece handle. Mostly a nitpick, but when I go to loosen the top, I end up unscrewing the bottom instead. I think I may try it tomorrow with a more conventional Tech handle, just to see how it performs.
OCtober 25th Gillette NEW LC w Polsilver (4) TSE Beach Bum TGN Synthetic Chatillon Lux Gratiot League Sq AS 3rd use of the Beach bum in the past 10 days or so. I'm getting really nice lathers with this soap and a synthetic. It is easier with a synthetic in this small container. Needs a longer load- not sure if that is just because of the size of the container or that it is a little harder soap. I did my usual 3 passes, with only a minimal amount of jawline touch up and am totally smooth. I was bummed as I had planned on ordering some Floid and Myrsol AS s from Europe yesterday but can't due to their recently changed shipping of alcohol regs. I splashed on some Chatillon Lux and immediately thought 'who cares?'. Good stuff. Have a great day all!
