Looks like a great travel set up.

All of you who travel with straights are impressive.

That’s a great travel set Paul.


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Excellent picture, Perry!

Standard Razor, Bigelow, RR Plissoft. DFS every time.

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Great Fat Friday shave Perry. Happy Friday


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Great lineup Troy. Good to see you posting. I hope you’re doing well.


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Thank you, Jim and Clint!

Nice set up, Troy! It's hard to beat CO Bigelow.

Nice photo and setup, Troy!

Friday morning November 9 - Substitute Fat Friday



Gillette Fatboy on #4 / Rapira Swedish Supersteel (2)
Jason's non-30DC cypress badger brush
Renaissance Faire style horn quaich lather bowl
TSD Sandalwood lanolin soap
Alum and TSD Sandalwood milk aftershave

This was the best I could do for Fat Friday while staying true to my No Repeat focus. The soap isn't The Fat but it does have a lanolin base. I chose sandalwood as the scent. I couldn't find my tub of TSD Sandalwood and thought I might have included it in a PIF of some other sandalwood creams. However I found it this morning; when I took my box of soaps out from my bathroom sink cupboard a couple days ago, this tub had fallen out and rolled across the floor until it was half hidden behind the unit.

Good creamy lather with that fine lanolin skin feeling cushioned two easy passes from the bog-standard Fatboy and I am BBS again. The sandalwood milk balm completed the morning ritual. Not my usual Fat Friday but a pretty good imitation...

Nice photo of a good setup. Also, great to hear from you, Troy!

Very nice!

Great picture and shave, John!
After reading your post I checked under the bed and between the couch cushions looking for some lost and forgotten gear. No luck.

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Nice setups Paul!

Excellent setup and nice BB, Neal!

Happy Fat Friday! As soon as I clear out a soap tin I will be able to give The Fat a go!

Nice shot Troy and cool bowl!

Very Nice John! what will you do for the remaining 3 Fridays this month ?

If the number of unused DE & SE blades of all types could be counted it wouldn't be an accurate representation of actual hobby shavers. Too many Blade Hoarders. I've not read about cartridges being stock piled.

That's what we like to hear!

November 9th
Razor: Blackland Vector
Blade: Feather Professional (2)
Brush: PAA Switchback/TGN boar
Pre-shave: Stirling Mentholated
Soap: Stirling Port AU Prince
Stirling Bergamot Lavender witch hazel
AS: Stirling Port AU Prince

Good morning!

Back on focus with the software, continuing with the Vector.

Another Stirling lather and I can see the bottom of the bowl. Still a ways to go.

Plenty of time for this morning's shave so I went with a traditional three pass shave. BBS result and silent alum. Wonderfully smooth razor. I'm still experimenting with the angle. For me, not quite riding the cap but close. Only my second shave with this razor, but wow! Form and function. My wife was asking what I thought of my new razor, I told her it's the sports car of my collection. Early impressions of this beautiful razor.

Happy Friday!


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Great shave and photo John. Happy Friday


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Fantastic photo and shave Jim. I love artist club razors. The blades are just so efficient.


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Thank you, Clint.

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SOTD NOvember 9th


Stirling Mentholated Pre-Shave Soap
Blackland Dart
Muhle R41
Rapira Platinum Lux(4)
Ever-Ready 200T (22mm, Corvette Class)
Mickey Lee Soapworks "Pantie Dropper"
Country Club Sweet Water AS

Round two of the showdown between the Blackland Dart and the Muhle R41. I gave the R41 a little bit of a steeper angle and it was able to match the Dart in efficiency today. Blade feel was very similar. I think once you get to a certain point with positive blade exposure all you feel is the naked unguarded edge of the blade on your skin. This is a great reminder to keep the pressure off and just let the sharpness of the blade do the work. When you are truly able to shave with no pressure both razors feel less harsh. Three passes was overkill but I did them anyway because I was enjoying the scent and slickness of MLSW Pantie Dropper so much. I finished with a splash of Country Club Sweet Water that was so kindly sent to me by Perry @PLAla . What a great AS, its too bad that Country Club has closed its doors. Have a great weekend my friends!

TGIF!!