Thank you Keith.

Thank you Jason. She was indeed as loyal as they come.

Thanks, Gary. We had a lot of fun today, and I felt like sharing.

sharing is good..

Second shave of the focus. Spent some time with the Couticle on soapy water and touched up the edge. Improved a lot. It has a softer feel now, but is sharper. Peppercorn Lime is an awesome scent. Decided to ignore my focus and grab my 30DC 2019 Meetup brush with the synthetic knot. It’s easier to fit in the smaller tubs. Did three passes, and have a DFS plus shave. Set it down a little too hard on the neck on the first pass and irritated a strip. Oh well. Going to keep working on dialing in the edge.

Looks like it will be a great combination Gary.

Nice shave, Adam!

The Shavette Showdown
Round 2

*Feather DX - Feather Professional Super
*Focus R21 Evolution plastic doodad barbering tool - 1/2 Feather DE
*Focus R28 Slim Al - 1/2 Gillette Silver Blue DE

I had to look back in the archives to see when I started this throwdown. It has been a month. Well I think I'll try to finish up this month.

Finished up my first tub of BoS 2019 (Tsuka). Glad I got backups of the #1 slot holder on The Max Headroom List of Most Glorious Stanks. Stirling still has Tsuka left. Max Headroom says don't whine to him if you miss out again.

The Exalted Blue Ming was on hand to oversee the supreme lather controls for the competition.

The only blood on steel showing up was the soap. 3 excellent shaves with a jostle in the works.

I have not experienced any shave at the level of the Feather DX - ProSuper combo on shave 1. Shave #2 still has the DX on top.

My next shave was the all aluminum Focus R28 Slim Al with my pre-AC shavette fave, the GSB. End result was as good as the DX even though it did not sever hair with the same ease. It would be hard to tell the difference between shaves 1 and 2.

Third shave was using my first shavette, the Focus R21 Evolution loaded with a Feather. I'm curious about how Feather AC vs Feather DE would work out. The shave was better than #1 because it seemed to smooth out (not unlike this blade for me elsewhere). Most of the time, the R28 outshaves the R21 just a bit with the same blade. The Feather on (2) makes this one up over for a #2 finish.



Well folks, happy shaves.

Really great to hear from the folks not seen in a while. Happy New Year to you!

And...... for the newcomers...... you are getting a good glimpse of our great friend, the sometimes incendiary..... 'danger' Charlie........who as a young slide-stick carrying chemical engineering prodigy, was able to "cherry bomb" the High School commode and successfully pin it on his buddies.

So much this. A brisket that melts in your mouth, with a good dry rub and kept moist is amazing. I was in Dallas a few weeks ago for work, and had amazing brisket. There are a couple of good places for brisket in KC, but they rely more on the sauce for flavor than the rub, and in an ideal world it should be both.

fine shave and pic Adam..

thank you Paul,looking forward to it..

cool shave showdown Bill..

Great shaves and post, Bill!

I am one of them. Lol!

i understand.i must admit i say "great shave bob" and "cool pick jack" alot and my post /like count has grown substantially.but i haven't put a lot of great articles or meaningful info out there.thanks for sharing Ryan.your fine articles always grab peoples attention.

Man, I was really tempted to try out the Black Pepper Lime when I first saw it (super intrigued about how the pepper plays with the lime), but I was feeling responsible when the itch hit. Seeing your shave makes me regret that moment of sanity.

Sweet! Much respect with the shavette, btw. My (admittedly limited) experience has been that shavettes are a lot more temperamental than straights for me. Oddly enough, I do well with a shavette if I've got a ton of hair to remove, but if I've shaved the day before or am trying to clean up--forgeddaboudit.

Good looking shave, Adam!

Great report, Bill!
Nice job capturing the empty soap tub for the rest of us to see.

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Again, those are tough to find done right, but when they are, I also prefer them to pork ribs.