Very decadent setup today Doug! The Milord and the Simpson are both stunners. I really like the patina on the razor. I’m guessing that it’s all brass? Was it plated at one time, and the plating wore off?

Well done John! Great photo and lineup!

Your frankensoap, was that just leftovers from full pucks, or an experiment to see how they’d be combined?

For starters, how about sending each one of us one of your Dad's custom brush handles? We're all still stinging from the news that @jtspartan ain't gonna make us any shave stands. Randy, you could ease our pain!

Either Mar-a-Lago or your place. Just put away the breakables, and we'll keep the damage to a minimum. We'll all wear tights instead of Kilts, so we can have a group Prancercize. Then we can all head out to the front lawn together and take our SOTD photos.

Toggle? What Toggle?

Thanks to smoke and mirrors...and maybe a sheet of strategically placed scrap booking paper.

Seriously, Randy (and I know that's frowned upon here), I'm glad you're part of the 30DC, my friend. Send me the cocobolo brush handle please.

Congrats on catching the baby, John! Nice to see The Soap Destroyer in Action.

That is a really fantastic photo, Charlie.

Great post. You have been such a great asset to the thread.

Thank you, Jared. I appreciate the kind words and the double unicorn!

That is such a first class, pic.

Really great shot. Winter is settled in now.

You Sir, are really knocking the pics out of the park with the Christmas theme. Really, really great.

Thank you, Jason!

I hope you are able to get it out. I did that once, and it is a crappy feeling. It was just a tiny tiny little knurl, but I was BRAND new at honing, and there was no way I was gonna try to get it out of a brand new razor.

Nice set up, John! What is more decadent than Duct Tape Special?

Love Friday’s!

Thank you, Jared! Two unicorns? I feel so honored!

I have a tub of Frankensoap, that is all my bits and pieces. For what a mishmash it is, it smells really good. I have used it a couple times. Good soap.

Randy, glad you are part of the madness. I wish I had more time to do more thoughtful responses on more posts, but I never do. If anyone is passing through the Kansas City area, I would be happy to meet up for coffee or something.

I move that no events or meet ups by this group include the phrase “Kilts optional.” Is there a second?

Those seem like good ground rules.

It was an experiment that got out of hand.

I had been trying them back to back and couldn't tell them apart, so first I decided to put the two almost identical Vitos products together in a TOBS tub that was bigger than the puny tubs the 100ml cakes had come in. The Vitos soap has a consistency of silly putty, so kneading the two together went well.

Then I looked at the Valobra, which was the size and shape of a bar of hand soap and came in a cardboard box with no container at all. It needed a home and was also squishable, so into the Vitos it went -- and it all moved into a larger empty Vaseline jar as shown in the photo. I had a bit of a sample of 3P cream, I so just dumped it in.

Then I got stupid and tried to add the Cella - not the puttylike soap in the "barber size" bricks, the stuff in the round red tub. Which, when you read the label closely, is shaving cream not soap. Not only did adding it require me to re-house the soap in both the Vaseline tub and the TOBS tub together, it turns out that trying to knead shaving cream into a block of puttylike soap gets .... messy. And once I cleaned everything up, I was left with a frankensoap that is more like chunks of soap streaked through a similar amount of shaving cream. If I did it again, I would read the label and avoid trying to mix cream in with soap.

It all works well together though. Which is good because I have at least a pound of the stuff...

There’s a Bright-eyes!

So funny story tonight. I got a surprise gift from @Douglas Carey, a full sized tub of El Caballero from Oleo Soapworks. Earlier this week I had gotten a gift of samples from them, and this was the scent I liked the most. Really excited to add this to the Den.

The scent is described as a mix of Bay Rum and a gentlemen’s cologne. I had Mrs. Drygulch smell it, and she said it was not bad and kind of “perfumey.” I told her what the scent was, emphasizing the word “gentlemen.” She looks me right in the eyes and deadpans, “Well then you better send it back, shouldn’t you?”