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SOTD THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 2021
Jim Roe (
@Jayaruh) has provided me with 4 brushes, a beautiful Red Oak 15 Safety Razor stand as well as a straight razor stand. His work is much appreciated in the community, and particularly by me. Of the four brushes he’s produced for me, my favorite by far is this wonderful boar brush, #372. It‘s reached the point that boars do where they’re broken in perfectly. It’s a great little lather machine, and it certainly performed this morning, generating the two types of lather I enjoy for my shaves. And what a grand shave it was!
My new Tedalus Barber’s razor has delivered two great mug shaves with a Proguard blade, but for today’s shave, I selected a Feather Super, and boy am I glad I did. The Tedalus loaded with the latter blade is truly indistinguishable from any of the well-honed straights I own. It was one of those awesome shaves where it felt like I was just sweeping away the lather. I could easily have quit after the first two passes, but the shave was so enjoyable that I finished my regular three passes. As Keith (
@Keithmax) is won’t to say, truly an epic mug shave. I’ve found my regular blade for this great razor!
Given that it’s Adjustable August, I grabbed one of my two Famex razors, the one I call the FrankenFamex. It has a Rockwell cap and an ATT Atlas handle that both mate beautifully with the adjustable Famex cagehead baseplate. When I purchased my original Famex, the seller threw in an additional cagehead baseplate. After a bit of research I discovered the current matchup, and haven’t looked back. In fact I prefer it to the original Famex. After adjusting the combined head, I proceeded to enjoy my usual two pass ATG dome shave which completed my morning ablutions, and left me with the kind of epic shave I’ll find myself touching throughout the day. In fact, it was so close, I may not need to shave tomorrow!
RAZOR: Tedalus Essence (Mug), FrankenFamex (Dome)
BLADE: Feather Super (Mug), Feather DE (Dome)
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: JR Boar #372
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by a rinse with Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with Krampert’s Frostbite.
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