DEC 30 Day Rule/Focus Pic & Discussion Thread

Great photo again. Please post up your thoughts on the KC with a Super Pro vs the Mongoose with a Super Pro.

 

Great shave today. Am now sitting in a theater waiting for Star Wars to start. It's a good day.

 

Rock the 89!

 

Doug showed me a new favorite too. It's as good or better than any soap I've tried.

 

Indeed.

 

I do not remember a shave closer than today's shave with King Cobra. My face and neck are still tingling. I'm going to withhold judgement for now since I plan a 30-day focus, Show Down/Throw Down featuring Cobra vs Mongoose.

 

May The Force be with you!

 

I switched to my third birth year razor today. I dialed my Fatboy to 6 and loaded a new Shark blade that I found floating around the medicine cabinet, lathered up some Route 66 and shaved away. The Fatboy works very well for me on six or higher and I got a very nice two pass BBS with very little cleanup. Some witch hazel and Déjà Fougère AS and I was ready for the day.
SOTD
Route 66 Sweeney Todd
Omega boar brush
Gillette Fatboy (G3)
Shark blade (1)
Witch Hazel
Déjà Fougère AS
Happy Friday!

 

18 DEcember 2015

Planned Shave



Feather Popular TTO
Feather Hi-Stainless (2)
L'Occitane Plisson Synthetic
Soap Review Test Sample B
Alum
Osage Rub (Just a splash, don't get nuts!)

Have a great Friday evening!

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Razor: Gillette Milord 1946
Blade: Astra Superior Platinum (5)
Brush: Omega Professional 10049 Boar Red Handle
Soap: Route 66 Lumberjack
A/S Myrsol F./Extra

Everything working together. Starting to better handle boar brushes, which is part of my focus this month. I'm getting very good shaves as a result of playing around with razor angles and pressure.
Have a great Friday night and outstanding weekend.

 

Great pic again Doug!

 

Thanks very much @Salty Belle.

 

It was so nice, she quoted it twice! All kidding aside, sublime soap!

 

Sometimes I do that, and I don't know how it happens.

 

I know, I don't even know how that happened!

 

I shaved my head earlier with my new soap Monsavon Bol à Raser, fantastic post shave, this soap is very slick!! The one area it does lack in is scent, which is fine with me. It's not strong I'd say a 3 out of 10, a fresh citrus-y.
My face is well moisturized from my shave this morning, for $8.50 this soap is a big winner. No frills packaging works cool with this shaver.
I'll use it again tomorrow with my Oscar11 brush and my Flare Tip.
Silky smooth.

 

The Twelve Ten Blades of December!

Hard to believe we've almost put this year to bed. Wow. Where did the time go? But, here we are and as a gift to everyone here I'm offering up my shaves with twelve ten blades that have never touched my face, randomly paired with twelve ten of my DE razors. Two shaves with each setup to finish on Xmas Eve December 20th.. So, sit back, get the fire burning and enjoy what I hope is an enjoyable month of further proof Technique Trumps Tools. I hope for that....my expectations aren't as optimistic.

December 18

Razor - Gillette New LC
Blade - (2)
Brush - Wolf Whiskers Silvertip
Soap - Tabac
Post - Cold water, Alum, Nivea

It's FRIDAY!!! For those of you that have the weekend off anyway. Day two of the Baili Super Platinum. Not sure what to think of the Baili line given the inconsistent performance between the blue and green blades at this point. Further testing will be required.

Soap today is Tabac using the Wolf Whiskers custom silvertip. What a great brush. Loaded with almost no effort and produced a great aromatic lather. I'm getting to the point that if I have Tabac and MWF in the den I'm perfectly happy. Went to work with the New LC and the feel was a bit smoother than yesterday, though yesterday wasn't horrible. I got a DFS yesterday on two passes and a touch up. Went WTG and ATG for the second pass and yep, there it is. Very nice DFS, maybe even BBS or borderline in two passes, no touch up. Either this blade is far better than its blue cousin or the New just makes it that good. Impressive finish for this Chinese entry.

Tomorrow we go to the last blade in the month. Skipping both of the Dorcos and going straight for the final Chinese entry this month. The razor is the el-cheapo Long Feng, chosen by random.org to pair with the MEM blade. This could be a finish to remember, one way or another. Hope you had a great Friday!

 

+1

 

+1

 

Too funny.