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What's your MAYhem look like?

  1. Gonna use some brand new gear that I've never tried and just have FUN with it!

    7 vote(s)
    20.0%
  2. I'm thinking of pairing some gear together I've never paired before.

    7 vote(s)
    20.0%
  3. Time to go full dark side and learn straights - this is the month to bleed after all.

    2 vote(s)
    5.7%
  4. A total bloody mess may be in my future - stand by!

    9 vote(s)
    25.7%
  5. I'm playing it safe and eating as many cookies as I can.

    19 vote(s)
    54.3%
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    - Stirling Menthol PreShave Soap
    - Frederick Reynolds NW
    - DeRuitem Shaving Finest
    - Captains Choice North Shaving Soap
    - Stirling Gin and Tonic

    Couple of new things tried out today. I ordered some more Stirling bath soaps this week, and threw in a bar of the mentholated pre shave. I was honestly hoping for a bit more of a chill. I smeared up my face real well, then left it on while I built my lather. It was crisp, maybe, but I was hoping for a bit more.

    The Captain’s sample was tossed in with my bowl I bought a couple of weeks ago. It’s a VERY soft soap. More like a cream, or like the V1 Dr Jon’s. The scent of North is sort of juniper woods. It has a good strength, and is nice. It makes a lot of lather. When I try a new soap, I often like to start it in a bowl, then finish it on my face. I worked it in the bowl until the peaks were softening, and it started to shine. Went to my face with it, and slowly worked in a few dribbles. It gets where it needs to be, and makes a really slick, if maybe not the stable-est of lathers. Residual slickness is good, and the post shave feel was good. It deserves another run.
  2. Wonderful photo Jared. Both the razor and brush look fantastic. I don’t recall seeing the brush before.


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  3. I had seen some at cvs and wondered how they were. I do prefer to buy from places I can walk into, but so many places have stopped selling se and de blades around me.
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  4. They will have 009 on the spine of the blade. They solved my issue when i used the MMOC.

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  5. It looks like the President’s mansion at UA.
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  6. I knew I was gonna catch it for that. I find the short strokes work best there.

    Nope. That is the good thing about being King. I will just throw a brick at anyone who mentions it. Meh it should read I love safety razor shaving to much to go open blade all the time.
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  7. Beautiful picture, Clint!
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  8. Thank you, Clint. It was the first DeRuitem brush I bought. It has a 22mm TGN set at 44. I got very lucky with the knot, it is one of the better TGN’s I’ve had in terms of soft, and with the set, it is probably the stoutest badger I own.
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  9. Excellent picture, Jim!
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  10. Great picture, Jared!
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    May 6 SOTD:

    Razor: Gillette Aristocrat Jr
    Blade: Rapira Swedish Super Steel
    Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts Aurora
    Lather: Stirling Electric Sheep
    Aftershave: Aramis
    Additional Care:
    Stirling Unscented PSB
  12. Thank you Jim.


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  13. It’s a great looking brush. The color of the handle is really impressive.


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  14. Thanks Jim!

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  15. Killer photo and brush Jim.


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  16. Thank you, Clint!
  17. Don't get nuts with it.
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  18. :signs011:
    BTW, that's also called "Blooming" (did you see that Fuzzy?) :happy036:
  19. Unnecessary, but:

  20. Aramis is a winner
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