August 2019 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

August 10, 2019
Gillette Slim J3
Feather
Thäter Olive Wood Synthetic
Savonniere du Moulin
Fine Italian Citrus

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I decided to pull out my birth year Slim for Adjustable August and play along a couple of days. After wetting my face, I rubbed the Savonniere du Moulin shave stick over my face getting and started to lather with the Thater synthetic. The brush had a good bit of scrub and scritch as I started to lather feeling much like a very dense 2 band finest badger brush. Three passes and touch ups ended in a near perfect shave. As usual my lower right neck aided in the baby's escape. A splash of Fine Italian Citrus and I am off to run some errands this morning. I hope everyone has a great Saturday.

 

Very nice black and white photo, Clint! Hope you have a great day.

 

Nice shave, Clint. That new Thäter is lookin' good.

 

Aug 10th

Proraso PS Red
Semogue OC Boar
Central Texas Soaps SC - Grandpa’s Barbershop
Gillette FB
Gillette WS
Central Texas Soaps AS - Grandpa’s Barbershop

Very early shave (4am) and work weekend. 2.5 pass DFS+. Gillette predictability, nothing to report.

Semogue OC Boar and a delivery from USPS yesterday, Central Texas Soaps. Gotta support a local! Very nice quick lathering, creamy and smooth, great traditional aroma.

Everyone have a great weekend....will be reading. Probably catch up shaving again Monday.

 

Razor: Gillette Adjustable 1961
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue (2)
Brush: Jayaruh Brushes JR#45 w/ Ace Synthetic
Soap: Jeeves Soaps Private Study
Cologne: Floid Aftershave
Bowl: Boise Mud Works Bowl

Going to stay with synthetic knots this month. A great shave today.



These are some of the soaps in my focus this month.

 

August Focus

Seaforth!~~Rubberset 400/3~~Boker~~Ogallala Special Reserve
Hard to believe another week has flown by. It's a beautiful Saturday in the Heartland and Primo's
got to paint his man-cave. Moved everything out and have begun wall repair (plaster...)
I looked underneath the carpet to discover that sometime in the past 140 years, the wood floors were painted white.

We have no plans to refinish those floors as this is unlikely our last house.
I will focus on the walls and trim and eventually re-carpet.
The Seaforth! was calling and I answered said call. The lovely shaving mug is smallish, so there's
no better brush than the Rubberset.
Took things a bit out of order. Lathered the face and then stropped the Boker.
Back to the lather and added some more H2O. The Seaforth! needs the sea.
Except for the loose pins, this Boker still has a pretty good edge.
Two passes and I called it quits.
Cracked Alum was silent.
Thayer's mum
First time using the Ogallala Special Reserve.
Verdict is still out on the scent. Extreme clove. (Dr. Mrs. Primo 's clove)
Figures.
Big-time sting (which I kind of enjoy).
Scent either recedes quickly, or the olfactory sense numbs to it.
Hope you all have a great weekend.​

 

Great soap stash, Marine.

 

Mos def© yesterday was better than the previous day. Thanks, Chris.

 

Wonderful photo and shave, Blair!

Wow - terrific collection of soap, Doug. Wonderful photo!

Excellent photo and post, Joseph! The Seaforth mug is particularly cool.

 

SOTD August 10, 2019

Prep: Cold water and Stirling mentholated pre-shave soap
Blade: vintage Schick Plus Platinum
Razor: Schick G5
Brush: Ever Ready 100T badger
Soap: Soap Commander 13A▲
Post: Witch hazel, Speick aftershave

This will be my shave in a little while. Posting now before the day gets busy. Should be a good one. I'm faithfully pursuing this soap to the end. It won't give up. Hopefully it's done in two or three more shaves. Guess I should load more....

Some terrific photos and shaves and commentary here as usual. Hope everyone has a great day!

 

Aug 10
Good morning guys!
Straight razor shave # 98
Dovo Special
Stirling Boar Brush
Stirling Sandalwood SS and AS.
Bloomed the soap over night and used the soapy water as a preshave. Made one of my best lathers. It was slick, shiny and plenty of cushion. The Dovo Special has a special (pun intended) significance for me because it was my very first traditional straight. Anyway, this is my 2nd shave after honing this razor and it shaved like a dream. I did my first pass (WTG) and it really knocked down my 36 hour stubble that I could have stopped the shave right there for a DFS. The 2nd pass (ATG) made it IBSS+ so that I really didn't need the 1/2 pass, but decided to do it anyway. This was a comfortable, smooth BBS without any nicks, cuts or irritation. Sorry Paul, under my old grading system, this was a 99 = A+ shave. Finished the shave by applying the Sandalwood aftershave with very little feeeback. Have a great Saturday fellas!

 

Awesome shave and setup, Terry! It's good to see you shaving with your shavette.

 

Charlie, I can smell that sumptuous food. Glad you had a great cookout.

 

Thank you, Clint! Seville is a good one! I gave myself a couple of spritz of the EDT as well. I'm feeling pretty dapper.

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Charlie, whatever works for you to keep you at a healthy wait is always good.

 

The app looks awesome and very informative, Charlie. Congrats again on what you are doing, it is an inspiration to many.

 

Excellent shave and pic, Jim!

 

Nice gear and pic, Mark!

 

Super picture, Clint!
Your description of the brush being like a two band badger has sparked my interest. Fine job of enabling my friend.

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