Friday April 27 - ever onward with the eucalyptus!
Supply Co V.2 SE matte black injector on two - dot plate / Personna ( 13)
JR #276 white ash and boar brush
The Dry Dock shave bowl
Vitos Eucalyptus shaving cream
Alum and Osage Rub
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Usual good shave today with this setup. I whipped the cream in the shave bowl rather than face lathering for a change but other than that, just the same as usual. Two and a half passes (an extra touchup XTG pass along the underside of my jaw) brought me an irritation-free BBS today.
However, I made a horrifying discovery recently -- my beautiful mint matte black Supply Provision injector is no longer mint. I have a pottery brush-and-soap holder that I bought from a potter in Halifax NS 30 years ago. A cake of Williams or similar puck fits in the soapholder perfectly and when I am using a small puck without a proper tub for it, I normally slip it in here. Ordinarily, however, I simply use the brush side of the holder as a place to store my in-use razors loaded with blades. (In the picture above, it has a leather-covered English Aristocrat Jr., a Pal adjustable, a Schick E2 and my Supply Provision injector sitting in it.) Apparently, the glazed edge of the holder is slightly abrasive -- it has worn off the black finish on my SP injector at the height of the edge, leaving the razor with a shiny bright ring around the handle. I have never noticed any marring on other razors before, so it may be a combination of a very smooth squarish handle and a slightly delicate finish, but it definitely is marking up this razor.
Fortunately, I have found a solution. I traded with Jim
@Jayaruh for a couple brushes in trade for some razors, including my original version SP. Jim made himself a beautiful wooden case that holds his new SP and its spare heads safely snuggled into a nice felt lining. And he is now making me one. My SP will shortly have a solid new home that both holds it safely secured from further scuffs and scratches and also keeps its two spare plates with it so they don't get misplaced in the future.
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