Friday 7 Feb 2025 no shave day
Saturday 8 Feb 2025
Setup
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Usual hot water prep and T&H No 10 as preshave
Soap = back to MWF for a 2 day stubble
Brush = Omega Boar 10049
Bowl = white plastic
Razor = Gillette No 66
Blade = Personna Platinum Chrome (4) Made in Germany
Passes = 3
Post = Usual CWR, Alum, rinse, pat dry, Thayer’s Rose Petal, dry time, Nivea Balm
ASL = Imperial leather
Scent = TBS Black Musk
Score = 9.7 / 10
Damage = none
MWF 0 + 0 + 1 + 0.5
Sterling 1 + 1 + 1
The Fat was better today, so I gave it 0.5 score
Lightly bloomed the puck
Soaked the brush in tap water that I had standing overnight to allow chlorine to evaporate (Perth WA water can be randomly chlorinated at undeclared times)
Shook brush dry. Squeezed dry even more
To the MWF puck for 100 swirls
Removed the facial prep: reapplied water to the face
Today I tried bowl lathering the MWF again, only added 1 ml of water and it quickly turned bubbly
Loaded more MWF from the puck, back to the face, slowly adding water. This improved things to get a nice shiny slick lather
Hardly felt the blade at all during the shave, actually I didn’t which is a credit to the MWF
Super clean removal of 2 days growth
Really good feel during and after the shave
The Personna was still great on day 4 but I binned it anyway, no point in tempting fate
So I gave the MWF a score of 0.5 only because it took more time and effort to get a good lather, and still turned out less than expected, but it did its job wonderfully well
As
@Trigger says, here's my lather
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Next time I will go back to face lathering with the MWF, using reverse osmosis water, and starting an almost dry brush. The fun continues. I know this had been tackled ad nauseum on a number of forums with many differing opinions, so I will have to figure this one out for myself which is half (if not more) the fun
Have a great Saturday one and all
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