May 2022 30 Day Rule/Focus and Discussion. All Are Welcome! | Page 8

Primotenore · May 1, 2022

Paul Turner said: ↑

Back again for another month...course this one begins with my birthday, and I had a fine birthday shave (I'll list it in a different post). One thing I miss about Mayhem is the daughters of @BaylorGator , helping their old man with his presentations(and sometimes we'd hear the girls themselves). Hope they're doing fine. @Trigger is right, the warm weather is coming! I'm still moving my warm-weather shave paraphernalia to the front of my "den". Tough project!! With the presence of two unscented soaps, I hope to be able to do more soap shaves. this spring/summer. Here's to another month of fun, good chat, and great shaves!!
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Happy Birthday, Paul.

Trigger · May 1, 2022

JACarbone said: ↑

Fabulous introductory post for this month’s 30DC Joe, @Trigger. Thank you for shout the out as well.
I have been bouncing around my plan for the month in my head for the past several days. My ideas have been extremely fluid. There will be one constant in relation to the past 6 months.
1. Every Monday will remain MICROMATIC-DARKFALL MONDAY.
The remaining shaves will be as follows:
Weekdays - Straight razors
Weekends - DE’s in honor of our DE aficionado, Gary, @brit. His knowledge and willingness to share the history of his various DE’s are greatly appreciated.

As for the software, I plan on using a brand of soap a week during the weekdays.
Week 1 - May 2 - 6 - Declaration Grooming
Week 2 - May 10 - 13 - Stirling
Week 3 - May 17 - 20 - Lakewood Soap Co
Week 4. - May 23 - 27 - PAA

Weekends - 1508.5 Project - Ginger’s Garden Snow Bliss

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SRS #580 -Barbershop SOTD

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: Martens HDW Co. 11/16” Kingwood scales
Brush: Big Cyprass 24mm Silver Tip
Lather: WTF Vintage Barbershop
Aftershave: WTF Vintage Barbershop
Additional Care:
Stirling Alum Block
Stirling Unscented Glacial Balm
Thayer’s Witch Hazel - Original

The software selection for today’s shave should have been used yesterday as part of the Barbershop Day shave in a FB group that I belong to. Unfortunately, I got my days mixed up.

I do enjoy both the scent and lather of the WTF Vintage Barbershop. A small pea size scoop of the soap, approximately one gram, produce enough later for 4 - 5 passes. I know this because in my standard three pass shave, I lather my face 4 times. Three for the pass and one post shave to condition the face a little while I clean up my razor and brush. I still had enough for another pass left in the bowl.

The Martens HDW razor deliver an extremely close shave. My face felt smooth and refreshed with a minimal alum report.

I hope we all have great shave this month. It doesn’t matter whether they are OTWE, SDE or JE to use Paul’s coding, @Paul Turner . Let’s enjoy each other’s presentations.
Speaking of Paul, tick tock on the SOTD picture.

Hope you all have a great day gentlemen.
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Great shave and thanks for the compliment! It looks to me you definitely mapped out your May shaves. Enjoy the rest of the evening.

MrDaniel's · May 1, 2022

JACarbone said: ↑

Fabulous introductory post for this month’s 30DC Joe, @Trigger. Thank you for shout the out as well.
I have been bouncing around my plan for the month in my head for the past several days. My ideas have been extremely fluid. There will be one constant in relation to the past 6 months.
1. Every Monday will remain MICROMATIC-DARKFALL MONDAY.
The remaining shaves will be as follows:
Weekdays - Straight razors
Weekends - DE’s in honor of our DE aficionado, Gary, @brit. His knowledge and willingness to share the history of his various DE’s are greatly appreciated.

As for the software, I plan on using a brand of soap a week during the weekdays.
Week 1 - May 2 - 6 - Declaration Grooming
Week 2 - May 10 - 13 - Stirling
Week 3 - May 17 - 20 - Lakewood Soap Co
Week 4. - May 23 - 27 - PAA

Weekends - 1508.5 Project - Ginger’s Garden Snow Bliss

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SRS #580 -Barbershop SOTD

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: Martens HDW Co. 11/16” Kingwood scales
Brush: Big Cyprass 24mm Silver Tip
Lather: WTF Vintage Barbershop
Aftershave: WTF Vintage Barbershop
Additional Care:
Stirling Alum Block
Stirling Unscented Glacial Balm
Thayer’s Witch Hazel - Original

The software selection for today’s shave should have been used yesterday as part of the Barbershop Day shave in a FB group that I belong to. Unfortunately, I got my days mixed up.

I do enjoy both the scent and lather of the WTF Vintage Barbershop. A small pea size scoop of the soap, approximately one gram, produce enough later for 4 - 5 passes. I know this because in my standard three pass shave, I lather my face 4 times. Three for the pass and one post shave to condition the face a little while I clean up my razor and brush. I still had enough for another pass left in the bowl.

The Martens HDW razor deliver an extremely close shave. My face felt smooth and refreshed with a minimal alum report.

I hope we all have great shave this month. It doesn’t matter whether they are OTWE, SDE or JE to use Paul’s coding, @Paul Turner . Let’s enjoy each other’s presentations.
Speaking of Paul, tick tock on the SOTD picture.

Hope you all have a great day gentlemen.
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Excellent shave, Joe!

blondblue · May 1, 2022

Primotenore said: ↑

Happy Birthday, Paul.
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Thanks Joseph, how are you????

blondblue · May 1, 2022

JACarbone said: ↑

Fabulous introductory post for this month’s 30DC Joe, @Trigger. Thank you for shout the out as well.
I have been bouncing around my plan for the month in my head for the past several days. My ideas have been extremely fluid. There will be one constant in relation to the past 6 months.
1. Every Monday will remain MICROMATIC-DARKFALL MONDAY.
The remaining shaves will be as follows:
Weekdays - Straight razors
Weekends - DE’s in honor of our DE aficionado, Gary, @brit. His knowledge and willingness to share the history of his various DE’s are greatly appreciated.

As for the software, I plan on using a brand of soap a week during the weekdays.
Week 1 - May 2 - 6 - Declaration Grooming
Week 2 - May 10 - 13 - Stirling
Week 3 - May 17 - 20 - Lakewood Soap Co
Week 4. - May 23 - 27 - PAA

Weekends - 1508.5 Project - Ginger’s Garden Snow Bliss

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SRS #580 -Barbershop SOTD

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: Martens HDW Co. 11/16” Kingwood scales
Brush: Big Cyprass 24mm Silver Tip
Lather: WTF Vintage Barbershop
Aftershave: WTF Vintage Barbershop
Additional Care:
Stirling Alum Block
Stirling Unscented Glacial Balm
Thayer’s Witch Hazel - Original

The software selection for today’s shave should have been used yesterday as part of the Barbershop Day shave in a FB group that I belong to. Unfortunately, I got my days mixed up.

I do enjoy both the scent and lather of the WTF Vintage Barbershop. A small pea size scoop of the soap, approximately one gram, produce enough later for 4 - 5 passes. I know this because in my standard three pass shave, I lather my face 4 times. Three for the pass and one post shave to condition the face a little while I clean up my razor and brush. I still had enough for another pass left in the bowl.

The Martens HDW razor deliver an extremely close shave. My face felt smooth and refreshed with a minimal alum report.

I hope we all have great shave this month. It doesn’t matter whether they are OTWE, SDE or JE to use Paul’s coding, @Paul Turner . Let’s enjoy each other’s presentations.
Speaking of Paul, tick tock on the SOTD picture.

Hope you all have a great day gentlemen.
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aaaaahhhh, ya just hadda get that in, dincha? I'm interested in WTF.

Trigger · May 1, 2022

Paul Turner said: ↑

aaaaahhhh, ya just hadda get that in, dincha? I'm interested in WTF.
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If he didn't, then I was going to poke you about it.

blondblue · May 1, 2022

MrDaniel's said: ↑

A bit of offtopic, but I actually saw McCartney perform in Helsinki 2011.
Out of curiosity, I had to look up if anyone had uploaded videos, and found this among others

And yes, the bang at the end was loud.
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I'd love to see Mac in action-I watch a lot of his videos from recent concerts. I love the crowd varieties there

blondblue · May 1, 2022

Trigger said: ↑

If he didn't, then I was going to poke you about it.
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YYYEEEAH I KNOW(long lung breath)

Trigger said: ↑

???
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I don't have enough work quarters to have it mailed for free..

JACarbone · May 1, 2022

brit said: ↑

well good morning gents.after this mornings fine shave i have decided to spend a few days doing a menthol mixer May theme.i have a few frankensoaps that need the dust removed and are really outstanding in performance,scents aren't bad either...most are infused with menthol crystals also,just for that cooling punch.my trusty weapon of choice for this week will be my new/tech hybrid,nacet blade,and various brushes...for monday.

gillette new/tech hybrid-french tech handle
nacet
simpson synthetic
frankencream-leah,pacific,proraso red
twisted thayers lemon

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have a great sunday everyone,

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Outstanding Gary.

JACarbone · May 1, 2022

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SOTD SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 2022

Just a great shave for the first day of May. The Genco 35 5/8 was the first straight razor I ever acquired after 5 years of Dovo Special ownership. I traded a couple of beat up Gillette old types to one of my former hunting buddies for it. It was his grandfather’s. It had been well maintained as the sole straight razor in his knife collection, but never used. I learned one basic lesson from this razor. There's a reason new straight shavers are encouraged to start with a round Dutch point.

The racing stripe I experienced on my first down stroke taught me to routinely blunt the blade tip on my square points. Of course, my technique has greatly improved since those days, and I suppose I could get away with no longer doing so, but my Parkinson’s coupled with the women in my family looking for any excuse to pry this old man away from his few remaining pleasures argues otherwise. In any case two and a half mug passes left me oh-so-smooth!

I own many vintage and a few modern artisan safety razors, but as time has passed find myself shaving with mostly my vintage ones. Many in this hobby collect widely produced Gillette or Schick models, at least when getting started. I did as well, but being more of a user than a collector, never worried too much about cased models. Do I have a few? Of course, but most of my safety razors are uncased. One of my absolute favorite vintage SE’s is the Mk1 Bakelite handled G.E. Jones Shake Sharp.

Shake Sharp razors were initially developed at the end of 1930’s to provide the thrifty souls of that era with a tool that would dramatically extend the blade life of the carbon steel DE blades then prevalent. However, WWII delayed their introduction until the mid 1940’s. There are three models, the original Bakelite handle, and two cased metal handles - one gold and the other nickel plated. Both Bakelite and metal handles shine with two stacked DE blades.

And no, I’m not senile yet! I did describe these razors as SE’s. They are quite unique in that this is the only SE that I’m aware of that was designed to use DE blades. Since one only uses one edge at a time, the benefits are obvious, but really only for single blades, and not for stacked doubles. But at this point in my life I don’t really worry about economy. All I know is that Shake Sharps are my best noggin shavers followed closely by my Speed Shavers. Two ATG passes left me glassine smooth from noggin to neck.

RAZOR: Genco 35 5/8 (Mug), Shake Sharp Mk1 (Dome)
BLADE: 2 Stacked Feather DE
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a heavy scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: Alpha Shaving T400 Rubberset Homage w/ 26mm Silvertip Badger Ferrule
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by a rinse with Humphreys WH. Finished with Chiseled Face Natural AS Splash.
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Excellent shave and picture Jeff. Time to get the pool ready.

JACarbone · May 1, 2022

Paul Turner said: ↑

Back again for another month...course this one begins with my birthday, and I had a fine birthday shave (I'll list it in a different post). One thing I miss about Mayhem is the daughters of @BaylorGator , helping their old man with his presentations(and sometimes we'd hear the girls themselves). Hope they're doing fine. @Trigger is right, the warm weather is coming! I'm still moving my warm-weather shave paraphernalia to the front of my "den". Tough project!! With the presence of two unscented soaps, I hope to be able to do more soap shaves. this spring/summer. Here's to another month of fun, good chat, and great shaves!!
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Happy Birthday Paul.

JACarbone · May 1, 2022

Hogie said: ↑

How's this for my avatar? My Gillette Slim is my favorite adjustable. I shave with it on 7 or 9.
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Excellent

JACarbone · May 1, 2022

Hogie said: ↑

This is the razor I used this morning for a closer looksee.
This Parker 87R is another of my favorite razors. I may use this one for a few days. Nice weight and feel in the hand. Nice to look at too! The Parker blades work well with this razor. Platinum Stainless blades came with it.
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Beautiful craftsmanship

JACarbone · May 1, 2022

Paul Turner said: ↑

I opened my May shaves(and the 65th year of my life) with:

Dial 4 Men Bodywash(RECHARGE-Cedar and Leaf)in shower
shave-Central Texas Soaps'(Down At The River)
brush-Crown King(Duro Spindle Tali)
razor-Gillette Sensor Deuce Pivot DisposeABLE
A.S.-Aqua Velva Classic Ice Blue)

Very pleased with the shave. I was reminded that this Central Texas Soaps is showing a part of the field, whereas there remain some fans in the stands.I might move the fans out of the stands and onto the field(@Trigger's "Chemical Experiment"), to help hasten the exit of this(don't get me wrong-I love Central Texas Soaps). Solid paint job of the soap across my face and neck. The razor glided (is it GLID, GLODE?)over the soap in good comfortable fashion). No cuts, 2 Knicks, No polka-dots. The Knicks were harmless. Good work down at Cactus-usual story, that being I left Ingrown Swamp alone. Porcupine came out great. Let's call this one Outta This World Excellent(yeah I know-the Knicks were there, but as I say, no harm was done).
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Very nice Paul. I guess somebody forgot to tell the Knicks their season is over.

JACarbone · May 1, 2022

Trigger said: ↑

May 1 SOTD

Good afternoon!

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Shavette Shave #360
Dovo Shavette
Personna Hairshaper Blade (3)
Barbury Synthetic Brush
Gentlemen's Nod Zaharoff Signature Series SS and AS
Maggard's Alum Block
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Beard Growth: 27 hrs

I wanted to start the month with the razor that started my straight razor journey. This much maligned shavette has been a great shaver to me because I have always gotten consistent great shaves with it. Today was no exception. Two passes without touchups gave me a very nice shave.
Unfortunately, the GN Zaharoff Signature Series soap leaves much to be desired.As I have previously mentioned, I bought the hype on this soap and I was disappointed with it. The soap's scent is very faint and it produces a non-voluminous and very low structure lather. I will say that it is very slick so that I can get a nice shave. I bought this soap for 29 dollars and to me, it is a bust. It's probably more now with inflation. Fortunately, it has a large donut hole so I will be using it more frequently until it is gone. I guess you would say it is another Edmund Fitzgerald project.
I got very little feedback from the alum and finished with the witch hazel and the matching aftershave. Oh yes, the matching aftershave is also a disappointment for me also. Have a great day!
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Well at least you Dovo performs as expected. Very nice shave despite the underperforming soap.

JACarbone · May 1, 2022

myles wilson said: ↑

SOTD Sunday might have to splurge a little on one of my shaves for my birthday this month. Can’t believe I’ll be 20 started here on the shave den at 17

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Very nice shave Myles. Yes time flies. I remember when you came aboard.

JACarbone · May 1, 2022

Trigger said: ↑

Great shave and thanks for the compliment! It looks to me you definitely mapped out your May shaves. Enjoy the rest of the evening.
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Thank you Joe.

JACarbone · May 1, 2022

MrDaniel's said: ↑

Excellent shave, Joe!
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Thank you Daniel.

JACarbone · May 1, 2022

Paul Turner said: ↑

aaaaahhhh, ya just hadda get that in, dincha? I'm interested in WTF.
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I could not help myself Paul. The WTF soap is very nice. It is the only one I have. I may pick up another eventually. It is always nice to support a local artisan who lives in the school district I used to teach in. No, I did not have any of his children.

Trigger · May 2, 2022

JACarbone said: ↑

Well at least you Dovo performs as expected. Very nice shave despite the underperforming soap.
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Thanks Joe.