September 2019 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion | Page 54

9nein9 · Sep 3, 2019

wristwatchb said: ↑

@jtspartan, @brit, @9nein9 are on the CT watchlist. Mos def©!

By the way, the sales numbers are final, and August exceeded plan. Thank you @Keithmax.
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Oh yeah eh! Pick on the Canadians eh!

clint64 · Sep 3, 2019

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Bye bye, Dorian! We will not miss you. Thank God the eye stayed offshore (only 70 miles away from us). Pictures coming from the Bahamas are unbelievable. After almost 4 days inside, waiting for the storm to head north, I now need to do a complete adrenaline flush. On the bright side, I did finally have time to play with my new JNAT.
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I am glad you weren't impacted by the storm.

clint64 · Sep 3, 2019

Norcalnewb said: ↑

Beautiful picture, Clint!
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Thank you Jim.

clint64 · Sep 3, 2019

Trigger said: ↑

Sept 3
Good afternoon guys!
Rockwell Model T (6)
Rockwell Blade (3)
Stirling Boar Brush
Fine Italian Citrus SS
Stirling Satsuma AS
Nivea Balm
First, I want to say thanks to Danny for sending me this soap. It was totally unexpected and greatly appreciated. Now, it's on with my shave report! Fine is a real hard soap so I used my Stirling boar brush to lather my face. I didn't bloom the soap. I used the paste/ painting and slowly add increments of water method to get a decent lather. I smelled the puck and their was a slight pleasant orangey scent that wasn't overbearing. My disappointment was the scent wasn't present while lathering my face. The lather was decent, but it took me a minute or 2 longer to get it just right. I guess Stirling spoiled me. However, I attribute all this to the fact that I have not use this soap before and have to get the water/soap ratio dialed in for this soap. Also, my sniffer is sometimes blocked so I don't get the full scent exposure. The most important thing about the Fine soap is that it was slick and gave some cushion. Now, I need to improve on using this soap like I did with Razorock to straight razor shave with it. Presently, if Stirling is an A, then Fine would be a solid B. I believe that the more I get acquanted with this soap the higher the grade just like my Razorock soap experience. I did 3 full passes and got an excellent BBS shave. Now, I know why I like straight shaving. It's because the time between shaves is much longer than when I use a safety. Applied the orange scented Satsuma followed by the Nivea balm. Guys, have a great day! View attachment 204009 View attachment 204009
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Excellent shave report and photo Joe.

9nein9 · Sep 3, 2019

b1hart said: ↑

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Sept 3rd

Proraso PS Red
WWB 2 band badger
PAA Supreme Sandalwood Science SC
Hoshi Tombo 8000 Kamisori
PAA Supreme Sandalwood Science AS
AoS Cedar and Sandalwood Cologne

3 Pass DFS today. Much the usual from this setup...used a few days in a row now.....only changed the razor and brush. I believe I'm now understanding and experiencing the term 'lather hog'....this knot seems to keep its lather contained, both in the shaving bowl, but also unless there is serious face lathering. It doesn't like face 'paint' strokes (which I prefer) as most of my boar brushes. I work my face prep in the shower immediately before the shave with a very vigorous face soap/scrub, so a face lather to get the growth 'prepped' isn't my routine. Immediately out of the shower to the sink to apply the pre-shave, and it sits while I concoct the lather for the day. Anyhoo....fantastic slick yogurty bliss was made, and the HT 8000 being super sharp, but just a little edgy, not really smooth. Still working on that with various methods of hone 'finishing'. No nicks or much to report.

Hope everyone has a terrific Tuesday!

And yeah......300 posts behind since Sunday evening. You chatty guys......
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View attachment 203994 SOTD 9/3/19
Razor: Karve w/ E Plate
Blade: Voskhod
Preshave: Cold water rinse followed by Cinder Preshave Oil
Brush: Jayaruh Custom
Shaving Cream: Kapo
Postshave: Pre De Provence Balm followed by Clubman Lime Sec
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Trigger said: ↑

Sept 3
Good afternoon guys!
Rockwell Model T (6)
Rockwell Blade (3)
Stirling Boar Brush
Fine Italian Citrus SS
Stirling Satsuma AS
Nivea Balm
First, I want to say thanks to Danny for sending me this soap. It was totally unexpected and greatly appreciated. Now, it's on with my shave report! Fine is a real hard soap so I used my Stirling boar brush to lather my face. I didn't bloom the soap. I used the paste/ painting and slowly add increments of water method to get a decent lather. I smelled the puck and their was a slight pleasant orangey scent that wasn't overbearing. My disappointment was the scent wasn't present while lathering my face. The lather was decent, but it took me a minute or 2 longer to get it just right. I guess Stirling spoiled me. However, I attribute all this to the fact that I have not use this soap before and have to get the water/soap ratio dialed in for this soap. Also, my sniffer is sometimes blocked so I don't get the full scent exposure. The most important thing about the Fine soap is that it was slick and gave some cushion. Now, I need to improve on using this soap like I did with Razorock to straight razor shave with it. Presently, if Stirling is an A, then Fine would be a solid B. I believe that the more I get acquanted with this soap the higher the grade just like my Razorock soap experience. I did 3 full passes and got an excellent BBS shave. Now, I know why I like straight shaving. It's because the time between shaves is much longer than when I use a safety. Applied the orange scented Satsuma followed by the Nivea balm. Guys, have a great day! View attachment 204009 View attachment 204009
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Linuxguile said: ↑

Here is a shave catch-up post

SOTD August 30th

Stirling Mentholated Pre-Shave Soap
Rex Ambassador (4)
Gillette Winner

Satin Tip The Purest (22mm, Corvette Class)
Arko
Barbasol Pacific Rush ASB

SOTD Stirling September

Stirling Mentholated Pre-Shave Soap
Timeless Bronze CC
Gillette Winner (2)
DSC Sunrise (26mm Elite Razors Manchurian White, Frigate Class)
Stirling Iced Pineapple soap and AS

Where's the SE's you may ask. Well Jim @jluc threw a wrench in my SEptember plans by sending me his Timeless Bronze, with both the safety bar and open comb baseplates, to try out. I decided to start work the mild safety bar base plate. Wow is this thing smooth! This razor has hardly any blade feel and no real sense that the blade is cutting the whiskers but sure enough, after the shaving stroke they are gone. It's not the most efficient razor, it took a little bit of extra touch-up in a few places to get me mostly BBS but the shave was super comfortable! After one shave in really thinking about keeping my eyes open for one of these. Spotted the Gillette Winner blades on eBay a few weeks ago and for $8/100 decided to give them a go. They are a very smooth blade but not quite as sharp as say the 7 O'Clock Permasharp Stainless or any of the Russian Gillettes. They are probably in the same league as the Gillette Wilkinson Sword blades. Last but not least, iced Pineapple! Could there be a better way to to start if a month of Stirling?

Have a great day my friends!

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85 posts behind in a few hours. Wow.
Spectacular shaves guys !

clint64 · Sep 3, 2019

jtspartan said: ↑

Great photo, Clint! You didn't buy ANYTHING? I'd bug you a bit about it, but alas I do have Cubebe and a few other goodies inbound, so I'll just lay low on this one...
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Thank you Jason. I surprised myself with not buying anything over the weekend.

Keithmax · Sep 3, 2019

jluc said: ↑

Pretty picture and nice shave, Jason. Shame your wife is anti Gentleman.

"Loonie sized hole in the bottom" is definitely CT worthy.

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I second that @Queen of Blades

b1hart said: ↑

Interesting post (and timing)....

I'm going through a similar experiment now. Glen just did his hone services in addition to replacing the scales on my Henkels. The Henkels is by far the smoothest shaver of ANY straight razor I've shaved with to date. It's made me ponder metallurgy (materials) vs. sharpness vs. smoothness, and then how to combine those for smooth shaving edges for the straight razors I own.

I've honed 6 of my 8 straight razors, and all 6 of my kamisori razors (3 western grind and 3 traditional grind) from bevel set to 'shave ready'. I can create hair popping shaveable edges from toe to heel. A couple of my kamisoris and Japanese straights get scary sharp after linen/leather stropping (some of them even before the 12k hone). Same for a couple of my straight razors. But....some (straight or kami) don't always shave smooth though. In my mind...this is a combination of pressure (hone and/or strop technique) and blade materials (metallurgy) of my razor collection.

My 'shave ready' is a test that Glen shows in some of his videos, and it works very well guiding me to judge my honing and process. It's the tree topping arm hair test coming off a 12k hone (no stropping involved at that point). Some say, even Glen I believe, you can get results on that test on much coarser stones. I've been quietly lurking and researching A LOT of threads on 'finishing'. I haven't officially put anything on paper on my process vs. which straight or kami I've honed, it's kind of just in my head and flying blind, getting razors to shaveable sharp, but it is repeatable and works so far. Time is slowly becoming more available for me to work on a method or process to get to 'smooth' for each of my razors. Could be a long journey.....

Haven't jumped completely into rabbit hole of the 1% of final finishing. That can get pricey. However, I recently stepped up to the edge, peered over, chose to add balsa pasted stropping to my process.....results coming in the next few weeks.
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Some of my razors take sharper edges and others hold there edges longer, so metallurgy plays a part. Straight razors are great for people with OCD.

clint64 · Sep 3, 2019

Linuxguile said: ↑

Excellent shave reports and photos gentlemen. I'm still trying to catch up from being gone for five days, it isn't going very well.
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Thank you Andrew.

Linuxguile · Sep 3, 2019

9nein9 said: ↑

85 posts behind in a few hours. Wow.
Spectacular shaves guys !
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Thanks Patrick!

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Trigger · Sep 3, 2019

clint64 said: ↑

Excellent shave report and photo Joe.
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Thank you, Clint!

clint64 · Sep 3, 2019

Linuxguile said: ↑

Here is a shave catch-up post

SOTD August 30th

Stirling Mentholated Pre-Shave Soap
Rex Ambassador (4)
Gillette Winner

Satin Tip The Purest (22mm, Corvette Class)
Arko
Barbasol Pacific Rush ASB

SOTD Stirling September

Stirling Mentholated Pre-Shave Soap
Timeless Bronze CC
Gillette Winner (2)
DSC Sunrise (26mm Elite Razors Manchurian White, Frigate Class)
Stirling Iced Pineapple soap and AS

Where's the SE's you may ask. Well Jim @jluc threw a wrench in my SEptember plans by sending me his Timeless Bronze, with both the safety bar and open comb baseplates, to try out. I decided to start work the mild safety bar base plate. Wow is this thing smooth! This razor has hardly any blade feel and no real sense that the blade is cutting the whiskers but sure enough, after the shaving stroke they are gone. It's not the most efficient razor, it took a little bit of extra touch-up in a few places to get me mostly BBS but the shave was super comfortable! After one shave in really thinking about keeping my eyes open for one of these. Spotted the Gillette Winner blades on eBay a few weeks ago and for $8/100 decided to give them a go. They are a very smooth blade but not quite as sharp as say the 7 O'Clock Permasharp Stainless or any of the Russian Gillettes. They are probably in the same league as the Gillette Wilkinson Sword blades. Last but not least, iced Pineapple! Could there be a better way to to start if a month of Stirling?

Have a great day my friends!

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Great photos and shave report Andrew. I hope you had a great holiday weekend.

clint64 · Sep 3, 2019

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Starting experimenting with one if the junk razors I got on the cheap. This is a 1953 (y4) Super Speed. This is one of the dirtiest, nastiest razors I have ever messed with or seen. This thing was coated with a tar like substance that had to soak for about an hour in mineral spirits. Washed and dried and then bead blasted. This razor was rough and even shows in the final results. I was afraid to blast it anymore because of the pitting. The red spots you see on the razor I believe is copper. I did not disassemble the razor but finally worked the grit out. The best way to do this would be to take the razor apart. So what did I learn from this? A good solid SS with a bad finish would look great with a blasted finish and some patina. View attachment 204014 View attachment 204015 View attachment 204016
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Great work on getting that one cleaned up.

Hembree · Sep 3, 2019

Razor number 2 out of the junk lot. I am really pleased with this one. Straightened one tooth and bead blasted it. Hardest part it getting the grit out. Cleaned her up and added a little grease. She is smooth. May have to shave with this one soon!

Linuxguile · Sep 3, 2019

clint64 said: ↑

Great photos and shave report Andrew. I hope you had a great holiday weekend.
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Thanks Clint! It was a busy weekend, but we had a great time too!

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Terry · Sep 3, 2019

PLAla said: ↑

SOTD September 3, 2019
A Stirling SEptember

Prep: Cold water and Stirling mentholated pre-shave soap
Blade: vintage Personna Ultra Chrome
Razor: Schick L5 'Revere'
Brush: Ever Ready 100T restored badger
Soap: Stirling Green
Post: Witch hazel, Stirling Green aftershave

Nice and easy shave with Stirling Green and the Revere injector. Creamy, slick Stirling lather as expected with usual top-notch post shave feel. Going to be a good month of shaves.

Have a great day!

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That's a great looking Schick, shame they didn't make more of them Perry.
Nice shavr all around.
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Terry · Sep 3, 2019

clint64 said: ↑

SEptember 3, 2019
O.R.E.N. with 2 Dot Plate
Feather Pro
30 DC LE with Tuxedo
Speick Shave Cream
Myrsol Agua Balsamica

Whew the weekend is over. Sad but true. On the good news, despite having too many adult beverages I made no internet purchase. I even surprised myself. Another uneventful drama free shave. Three passes and touch ups caught the baby. The OREN razor is a very forgiving razor to use. A splash of Agua Balsamica and I am ready for the day. I hope everyone has a great Tuesday.
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That's a neat razor, always catches the eyes Clint.
Sorry to hear about the no net goodies, better luck next time.

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jgreenepa · Sep 3, 2019

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Very neat focus this month, Keith. I'm following along with interest for sure. A great set up as always as well, with a very cool watch. Looks like Patina'ed Brass.

I say the same thing all the time myself, Jim.

Great basics (for software, anyway) shave, Jim!

Great pic as always. You posted well before 5 am, Jim. Still working those 12s I suppose.

You've reminded me that I still have some Stirling Barbershop somewhere, Terry, and I need to pull it out. Great Combo.

Is it too easy to say that any single guy who uses Clubman has just explained the reason why they are single? Paul is too nice of a guy to bug, though.

Yup, I bet you love SEptember, Perry! Sounds like the band is doing great as well.

Love, love, love the L'Orange Noir, Danny. You've just inspired me to bring it out tomorrow.

Great photo, Clint! You didn't buy ANYTHING? I'd bug you a bit about it, but alas I do have Cubebe and a few other goodies inbound, so I'll just lay low on this one...

Truly a magnificent photo, Mark. One of the best.

Sounds like a great shave, Gary!

I'm jealous on those old bottles for sure, Joseph. Between those, your Yardley and your various Old Spice ones, you've got some great vintage juice and holders.

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You chatty guys? You ain't kidding, Blair. I got caught up last night... 41 pages in 48 hours, yeesh!

Love the combo, Jeff. How may plates do you have with the Karve?

What a great gift on the soap, Joe. I love Fine soaps, but they did take a bit for me to get them really dialed in. Load like heck, use lots of water added very incrementally, and forget a bowl with them, imho.
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I have B, C, and E bar plates and B and C OC plates.

Terry · Sep 3, 2019

Boojum1 said: ↑

September 3, 2019

Wolfman WR1-OC Darwin Titanium
Polsilver Super Iridium
El Druida Chubby Two Band
Saponificio Varesino Opuntia
Fine Italian Citrus

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You always have wonderful stuff, great pictures too.
Nice Mark
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Edison Carter · Sep 3, 2019

gssixgun said: ↑

Here are the only "Facts" I have ever read on actual sharpness tests being done on DE vs SR

The Voerhaven paper states that the "Sharpest" edge they measured on a DE was .31~ microns
The sharpest edge they measured on a SR which THEY honed and stropped was .32 ~microns

If you don't believe it, his contact info is at the bottom of the report

As to angles,
Most DE blade have a Double bevel Tim Zowada at one time had some great Micro Graphs of them on his website, one of the Feather blade had a Tripel bevel
This is done to create a stronger more concave edge, much like how we work a SR edge on the hones and strops.
The final angles are in the 20° range on the DE blades, I am pretty sure I am remembering that correctly

Smoothness

On a SR we use our strops to tweak in the edge for the most comfort possible from the straightest edge on what is commonly called the "Fin" or very apex of the edge.
On a DE they machine grind the edge and then apply Coatings to smooth it out after the grinding, what I remember reading was that Feather used the highest grinding wheel at 3000 grit I would be hard-pressed to find that again but you might be able to sniff out more info now ..

That is all I can tell ya
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Thanks for that info Glen

9nein9 · Sep 3, 2019

Hembree said: ↑

Razor number 2 out of the junk lot. I am really pleased with this one. Straightened one tooth and bead blasted it. Hardest part it getting the grit out. Cleaned her up and added a little grease. She is smooth. May have to shave with this one soon!
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I like it . Looks great!

It's Stirling SEptember. Whatcha got planned??

Gonna use some great vintage single edge gear and lots and lots of Stirling. Duh!!

Gonna use a modern single edge or two and lots and lots of Stirling. Duh!!

Gonna mix it up with all kinds of single edges and lots and lots of Stirling. Duh!!

Gonna use whatever I feel like because hey, it's my shave so I'll enjoy it my way!! Duh!!

Straights baby, because I'm just that doggone good. Duh!!

Some SE's, some DE's, some other stuff, maybe Stirling, maybe not. Who knows?! Duh!!

Cookies and ice cream. That's all I'm here for. Stop hounding me to shave!!!!! Duh!!