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April 2020 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix and Discussion
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Is Arko the greatest value in all of shaving?

Poll closed Apr 30, 2020.

  1. Yes

    16 vote(s)
    72.7%

  2. Yes

    6 vote(s)
    27.3%
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  1. jgreenepa
    Hey, has anyone heard anything from @RyX? He’d mentioned a trip down under some months ago, but I haven’t seen him for awhile?
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  2. jgreenepa
    Stainless Steel Hawks now available at IB for only $59.95!

    By the way, this is not an enabling post, merely informative! :angelic007:
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  3. Terry
    Nice Toggle shave Neil!
    Things around here are quite still, well near the cities.
    The woods are normal, nothing changed other than I'm here, and others, all day.
    I'm curious about the cities.
    If no one is moving about there, is the wildlife moving in?
    That is what I would think will happen.
    tp
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  4. Terry
    Very nice shavette round Tim!
    I find the harder the water, the less the lather.
    I have insanely hard water, so some soaps and creams hardly lather at all.
    Some lather but fail to stay, even through the pass.
    Good luck finding out what's going on.
    tp
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  5. Terry
    YES!
    Simple pleasures!
    I noticed the small fish or minnows are in the creek (crick) now.
    My grandson is excited about catching crawdad, he already captured a salamander last week.
    Nice!

    Life should be so simple.

    tp
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  6. clint64
    Way to go Tim.


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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  7. jtface
    Heck of a price that!
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  8. blondblue
    Surprisingly fine shave this morning from the Burma Shave cakesoap. I say so because it's a pleasant surprise to see the cake gradually sink as more bubbles are showing. But for a couple weepers around the jaw(the usual place), everything went real well. 2 good passes-solid neck work using that "Y" formation. I actually "bloomed" the soap as I was preparing my face and neck with warm water pre-shave. How so. Well, some drops of the water ended up on top of the cake. That saved me a few seconds of work :). I think I might continue working on this cake soap in the summer. It'll be a warm/hot shave of course, but I'll cool things off with AV or Skin-Bracer. That'd be a great "Throwback" choice. And speaking of aftershaves, the AV Musk finished me off this morning. The 2 weepers reduce the grade to Most Excellent( yes there are higher marks than "Most").
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  9. jluc
    April 5th
    Razor: Charcoal Goods LvL3
    Blade: Astra SP (1)
    Brush: Grizzly Bay MaxFury
    Pre-shave: PAA The Cube
    Soap: A&E L'Orange Verte
    Lucky Tiger face tonic
    PAA unscented Star Jelly
    AS: L'Orange Verte

    Good morning

    Fantastic shave to start the day! Three passes for near BBS. A little warmth from the alum along the jawline.

    I started off with the steep angle I finished with yesterday. Yeah, no. Back up to the cap then just off. Best shave so far. Now to be clear I haven't had a bad shave from this razor. No razor burn, no irritation. I'm basing my reports on the way the razor feels on my face during the shave and the feedback from the alum after the shave, which is nothing like how it would set my face on fire when I first started. Basically I'm nitpicking.

    Have a great day!
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  10. Trigger
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  11. blondblue
    Everything was orange in THAT shave. :).
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  12. Trigger
    He signed on a few weeks ago. He was still in the states, and never left. He is still planning to go, but the pandemic may have stalled his plans until later this year.
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  13. Trigger
    Nicely done Paul!
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  14. Trigger
    I would say that is a presidential shave Jim! Love the color and that razor looks grand!
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  15. jluc
    Thank you, Joe!
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  16. McCrae
    Nice, Jim! I'm liking the matching colors.
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  17. jluc
    Thanks, Dan!

    Matching colors? I didn't notice.

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  18. blondblue
    Thanks Joe....funny thing about these "cakes"....they work too, presuming you do it right. Back in my Williams days, I wasn't quite sure of what I was doing.
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  19. blondblue
    He had just come back from a trip or something when he recently signed on....maybe he's off on another one.
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  20. jgreenepa
    Thanks, Paul!
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