Thank you Jason. It was really hilarious watching the girls pick out their designs and paint the pumpkins. I had the best time just being a spectator.
Nice statue! I hope the hospital trip goes well, Charlie. Nice Menthol Monday set ups, Gentlemen! Nice set up, Perry. The Palmolive is just a no-frills, reliable and productive soap. Great looking gear, Brian!
First, I'm glad to hear Maya is doing well and sorry to hear you are not. As for stropping the blade, because it is in a Valet Autostrop, I strop the blade as the razor was designed with the blade in the razor. I will take some pics and post them here tomorrow of how I strop the blade.
SOTN OCtober 29th Gillette New Short Comb Treet New Steel Stirling Boar Brush Stirling Baker Street soap Stirling Mountain Man AS With use the Stirling boar continues to fan out as the tips split making it feel like a very large brush. It took a little longer for the Boar knot to get filled with lather as I "Super Gooped" some Stirling Baker Street out of my VDH bowl. The lather was thick, slick, dense, and shiny and made the perfect foundation for the New SC and the Treet New Steel to glide across my face wiping away whiskers as they went. Super comfortable shave and very impressed with the Treet considering some of the negative reviews that are floating around out there. Splashed on a bit of Mountain Man and was smooth, relaxed, and smelling great. Have a great day my friends!
Thank you, Clint. I think my pictures seem to have a similar look because I take them at night. Usually before I lay the gear out for an early morning shave. I often enhance the colour when I edit them on my iPad, though.
Incandescent light bulbs? They give off a yellow light instead of the harsh florescent. Everyone now using CFL or the newer LED. The old fashion Edison type are near impossible to find here in CONUS land. Post capture editing helps, too. Great feel to the warm wood tones in your shots!
October 30 - Mineral Spa Monday Schick E2 / Personna ( 3 or 4) Semogue Owners Club cherrywood boar brush La Toja shave cream After the talk about La Toja earlier, I hauled mine out for a refresher today. It has a good, clean mineral salts smell, makes excellent protective lather and has a bracing postshave feeling. I quite enjoyed it and may make it a regular Monday morning experience.
/Enable mode ON Absolutely! I've probably used it less then a dozen times total but it is already very soft. Mine has stopped shedding (though others report that theirs are chronic shedders). The handle is comfortable in use and had a nice heft to that speaks quality. And at less then $10 its hard not to justify adding one to your next Stirling order. /Enable mode OFF
A few lamps in the house still have an incandescent. The one on the wardrobe does. 'Warm' LED's, especially if they are dimmable, seem to be the closest to incandescents. Florescents, even those supposedly labeled as 'soft white' remind me of Room 101 from Orwell's 1984. I think what is really irreplaceable in some of the photos, though, is the patina of the wood. That just comes from age. I used to make quite a bit of furniture as a hobby. Walnut furniture for the living room. Cherry accent pieces that are now in the bedroom and dining room. 1/4 sawn oak stuff to match the antique dressers, etc. Then kids came along, and the time to do that went 'poof'. I have focused more on house renovations for the past several years after we moved into a turn of the century home. As you know, I returned to my lathe this past year, and have really enjoyed it. It is quite relaxing to me. Lathework is much more conducive to being a husband/father as I can whip downstairs for an hour or two here or there. I don't really have a full shop anymore, anyway.
