November 2, 2015

No Variation NoVember

The No Variation theme month comes at a great time for me having acquired some new equipment.
I've had only two shaves with this razor in order to choose a blade to use exclusively this month. Also about half a dozen shaves with the soap and brush. So this will be a great month of learning.

Razor: Mongoose B3
Blades: Feather Artist Club Professional
Soap: Saponificio Varesino Manna
Brush: Omega 31025 Scarlatti Boar



Three-day growth, three-pass shave (WTG,XTH,ATG)
If first impressions mean anything, 30-days with just this gear will go by quickly.

Cheers!
RT

Baseball Postscript
Thanks to all TSDenizens for tolerating me this month and one of my other passions. Being part of this site, we all share the passion of shaving. You’ve made me comfortable enough here to share another one. I believe passions are that which make life most enjoyable. I wish you all the delight of life through yours.

“Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.”

- A. Bartlett Giamatti, (Former Yale University President and professor of literature and MLB Commissioner)
Take Time For Paradise: Americans and Their Games​

They all know it's a shaving injury and question my sanity. They also seem happy to tell me why "safety" razors were invented

Sorry they weren't amazin'. Here's to passions. ON!

I just snorted coffee through my nose.

I respectfully disagree with this statement. I was very careful last night with angles, and had no cuts or slices. I quit counting the weepers after 25, because there were more showing up. I used a little bit too much pressure on chin and just under it, and my pain stick turned into a weeper machine.

Well I did qualify by saying MOST bloody episodes. Maybe it's only the pain stick experts who get weeps instead of cuts. You're just that good!

shaved last night with my months setup. Y2 Gillette Super Speed, GSB, 20mm WD synthetic, Proraso white.

having only used this razor a handful of times I expected it to be rough for the first few shaves until I was comfortable with it. I was not disappointed. 3 passes to a DFS in closeness but also to a weeper above my lip on the right side and a half dozen more on my neck along with one nick where a tricky spot on my neck is. This tiny spot smaller then a pea has hair that grows opposite the red so it got an early ATG and hung up the blade just long enough to catch skin. The clubman stung some but quieted down before I started cussing. Nivia sensitive to help it heal.

Today is a lazy rainy day so I'm going to spend my birthday reading inside with multiple pots of earl grey. It's colder here now so inbetween chapters I'll try to finish the blanket I've been crocheting for the last 10 months.

You tell me what it looks like

you aren't that far off with the candles. I'm only 28.

It looks like you tried to shave with a very, very upset cat.

On the plus side, if it was a Tom cat and you got him to spray you, you won't need to use any Veg.

Congrats to Seth!

Mo Variation November! Love it!

Resting the skin may be a good idea! You're right about lather building, you will just need to keep trying different water-soap ratios until it suits your needs.

My turn to spray coffee

P-O'd Feline 1, Mr. Chick 0, end of first (0:00).

I'll join you in that time honored cry. "Wait till next year!"

Or in my case as a Braves fan, "Wait till 2017 and we have to justify that new Stadium!"

After reading all these horror stories about using the Feather SS, I have to wonder why people use them as a gateway to a straight razor. I have never had anything more than a slight weeper with a straight razor due, I'm sure, to the size and stability of the blade. Now having said that I'll probably do a Van Gogh on myself the next time I use one.

Mark,

I hope you have a great Birthday and that the day brings you enjoyment!

Happy birthday!