Thank you, Danny. AoS stores have such amazing potential...sadly, they are run by people who have NO clue about our hobby.
Only 99 post at the moment to catch up! Good to see you Randy @BaylorGator. Patrick @9nein9 was here earlier, too. Glad y'all had a free moment to stop in. Don't worry about catching up. We're just glad you remembered about The 30 Day Crew! In case you missed it, the latest Enabling Craze is wrist watches. Bet you can't guess who's leading the offensive. I like it Clint! Can't see the whole band in your photo. Is it a NATO style like in Charlie's video? Many of the watches I'm looking at are vintage Russian so a new band will be part of the purchase. I find NATO styles up to 24mm in a few brands but 22mm seems to be more common with better color or style choices. It's now a factor in my shopping. I'm leaning to a neutral colored face like Clint's with a choice of band colors. I may go high on the watch quality & supplement the style by getting several bands.
The band in the photo is a blue NATO strap. I have a bunch in various colors and materials that lets me change up things. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Aug 20 Good evening gents Shavette shave #96 Dovo Shavette Rockwell Blade (3) Omega 49 Boar Stirling Bay Rum SS and AS I am going to make this short and sweet. Everything came together for a wonderful, smooth, BBS shave without any mishaps or irritation. Finished this shave with the awesome Bay Rum aftershave. Have a nice evening guys!
+1! Good info and the photos really show the difference in density. I may be late to the inquisition since I'm still in Catch Up Mode. Paul I might have missed it but tell me how you differentiate a cake from a puck? As to strengths of menthol, that's up to the person making the product. I also hear that new artificial cooling agent has less or no scent, but a cooling action that sneaks up on you. Could be the weak lather is caused by residual animal oils in the new brush. The soap has to defeat the "dirt" in the brush before it can lather your face. Don't want you to damage your new brush, but a harsh strong soap like ARKO is great for the first couple lathers. It'll clean and defunk. I couldn't read the writing on the brush handle - horse hair?
I always felt a "cake" is something like Williams, with some height to go with its circumference..whereas a puck is something from, say, Stoylin, shorter and rounder.
