May 2020 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

I'm not Bill.

 

Sorry about the cuts Paul. It may be that you used a little too much pressure, the blades were not sharp or the beard prep was not up to snuff.

 

You are right Paul! I am still half asleep. I am thinking of Mr. Carter and his voice that I heard on the conference.

 

I think it was too much pressure. Since I do the 2 passes, I always pull out a fresh disposeABLE for each soap shave. The prep part is a possibility. In tomorrow's shower, I'll make sure the Stoylin gets to those vulnerable areas.

 

Man, I would like to have heard the voice of Mr. Cawtuh..... hopefully someday.

 

Awesome report and gear, Jeff! Ever Ready made some fantastic shavers.

I'm wondering if the stropping tool is effective in restoring modern blades?I'm that guy who would try to push a blade's life to half a month or so--I probably would have stuck with the GEM platform if I could have.

 

Absolutely beautiful shave. Look the EverReady razor.

 

Fantastic gear, and wonderful software line up--sounds like an amazing shave

 

May-hem 2020

Klar Kabinett~~Simpson CH2 Synthetic~~Feather AC/Feather~~DRH Pink
This past week, I have been enjoying using Tom's latest creation. I have extolled it's virtues
and made comparisons to the shavette. With that in mind, I chose to move to a shavette
in order to more thoroughly support OR refute it.
Here we go...
Lather choice was inspired by @AlfredoT Klar Kabinett.
Hands down, my favorite rose-scented soap and one of the few soaps, imo, that
have deservedly earned unicorn-status.
Take a gander at this fantastic, shiny lather:

There aren't many non-tallow soaps in my den, because, frankly, I prefer a tallow-based soap,
but KK remains and considering I have a backup stash of almost 1000g, I should be covered for a while.
Inserted a new Feather Professional Super blade into my AC razor and was off.
Right away, I had a sense of a better blade angle. The Feather sheared off all stubble effortlessly.
One stupid set-down on my lower neck was the only mishap of the shave.
Three passes today left me quite smooth.
Post-shave, sadly, is not Kalr Kabinett's forté, but a splash of DRH Pink solved that issue.
In conclusion, I found that there is a reason that DE razors angle the blade.
To facilitate achieving a good slicing angle. The DE-Vette has the blade exposed at a perfect,
parallel to the baseplate and top cap. If, however, the blade was curved, as in a typical DE razor,
I believe that the perfect shaving angle would be a cinch to find.
I still am convinced that a safety bar is completely unnecessary.
That's my story and I am sticking to it.​

 

May 17th
MAYhem

Blade: 12 inch Schrade Old Timer
Brush: MrEE Aluminum #1
PS: Proraso Red
SS: MLS Colonia Di Agrumi
AS: Alum, Proraso White, Afta, Aloe, and Ibuprofen.

I'm sure shaving with a hunting knife has been done but call me a sheep or a lamb to the slaughter, but I had to.

I generally sharpen my knives to the point where they will scrape the hair off my arm. That's what I thought razor sharp was a couple years ago. So I started there and did 30 strokes on chromium oxide and 30 strokes on a .5 micron diamond strop. It's sharp for a hunting knife, but not really shave ready. Don't worry, I made up for lack of sharpness with pressure just the way you're suppose to.

I would say 2.5 passed, but some areas could only be shaved safely in one direction, but I did go over them multiple times. I'm calling this CCS with a fare amount of irritation, but no nicks or cuts.



I couldn't rinse in my sink easily, so I wiped the knife on a towel between strokes. The towel is covered in stubble so it was shaving. I also lost my left sideburn during my first XTG pass from ear to nose. I almost posted a picture of that towel, but it seems a little gross like posting a picture of a used tissue.

I hate to admit it, but I shaved with straight razors that were not any sharper than this knife for weeks before I got the proper tools and learned what I was doing. This time last year I would have said this was a good shave.

 

Imagine wiping off the lather, rather than shaving off the stubble. Stubble-reduction, not stubble removal.

 

Better than losing your left ear! You have some stones, my friend.

 

Great report, Paul! Sorry to hear the trouble spots are still trouble.

If you opt for sweeping motions ATG on the trouble spots, I'd keep a very light touch on the razor--ATG is always where I run into issues, and unless I've done a thorough job reducing my beard to that point, sweeping ATG strokes (for me) are often bloody ones

 

Thanks, Joe! I don’t use it as much as I would like.

 

Wonderful shave recap and photo Joseph.


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Just freaking wow.


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Wow...
Now that's Mayhem!

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May 17 SOTD
Good morning fellas!
It's Sandalwood and Shavette Sunday!

Shavette Shave #158
Parker SRB
Rockwell 1/2 Blade (1)
Stirling Boar Brush
Stirling Sandalwood SS and AS
Modessa WitchHazel
Nivea ASB

Used the wet method to facelather and I have to say it is a quick lather method. I use the brush to wet my face so it replaced the squeeze the brush to remove excess water, however, the brush still has more than enough water to load the soap without it being pasty. The Sandalwood is a real nice, clean mild scent. Although it is a "cold season" soap, I don't get locked into conventional fragrance rules. The Parker SRB is a very easy razor to use compared to the Dovo shavette. I really don't have to concentrate as much with the Parker. On a 40 + hr lawn, two and a half passes and minor touchups gave me a BBS without any blood trails or irritation. I decided to use the WitchHazel because I haven't done so in awhile and it couldn't hurt the shave to do so. Splashed on the matching aftershave that really brings out the Sandalwood scent more than the soap. Finished the shave with the Nivea balm and I am good to go. The skin on my face really looks good. Using my old rating system, I would say the shave would be a 99 = A+. Have an awesome Sunday guys!

 

Tim, I’ve never used the stropper, so I don’t know. I do know that some of my FB razor buds do strop their Gems, and claim to do so successfully. This stropper did come out during the SS blade era.