DEC 30 Day Rule/Focus Pic & Discussion Thread

Thanks for your kinds words. I appreciate it.

 

Congratulations on your 1 year anniversary! You add a lot to the 30 day family.

 

Yikes! I just realized that when the tour box was here, I shaved with the straight razor bare footed. I never gave it a thought. I always shave bare foot. Something to consider in the future.

 

Thanks! Cake for everyone!

 

Congrats on the one year anniversary. Looking forward to the next year.

 

Another great photo Doug. You my friend are on a roll.

 

Congrats on your first TSR shave.

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Beautiful picture Doug.

 

Congrats on a year!

I am finding the same thing on the angles as you. With the Pain Stick, I could go almost flat against the skin, and since the razor was thick at the spine and tapered down to the blade, it seemed like the angle was almost perfect with just a slight tilt from there. The straight seems to need a bit more of an angle to it. I had a slightly larger angle today as compared to yesterday, and this seems to have helped improve the shave a bit.

 

That is my all time favorite movie. I am trying to get my kids introduced to it properly.

 

I"m not sure if it's a greater angle than the pain stick or just appears that way due to the difference in head shape. But, I was getting best results at about 25-30 degrees until the lather dried up on me today. On the pain stick I was keeping it closer to 15-20 percent, or it looked/felt that way.

 

Hmmmmm. Maybe we should be charging for this information since it's predicated on our flesh and blood at the moment. Yuri and Igor will drop by to collect. :ahem:

 

I love getting ideas that are worth their price!!! We may have the next million dollar idea on our hands my friend!

 

I move a bit slower when using a straight, at least I have the past couple of shaves, so my lather has been drying out on me as well. I have adjusted by not lathering my whole face at once, at least not on my ATG/XTG pass.

You may be right about the angle just being perception, but it sure felt very shallow with the Pain Stick when compared to what seems to work with the straight.

 

Dec 21 Shave 2.13

Second chance for Cyril Salter Rose, the first shave was with a straight and it was a failure. Today the bar is lowered and I am using my Cobra Classic. I also added some lanolin to improve the aftershave feel. Four passes with the Cobra and no blood, it still felt a little rough so I was surprised.

The irritation is a big improvement from last time, despite the rough feeling when I applied the alum it was just a light tickle. But... the closeness was a huge disappointment, just a B-. This cream will put away for 6 months and tested again. Well at least I smell good, it Guerlain Derby today.

Irritation A Closeness B-

Cyril Salter Rose cream
Vie Long silver tip
Cobra Classic (day 2 Feather Pro)
Derby AS (vintage)
L'Occitanee ASB
Guerlain Derby

 

Congrats on the year and finishing with straights.

As you gain confidence handling the steel you shaves will improve.

The dark side is growing in numbers!

 

I thought about that and tried the blade the next day with AoS tallow soap and had a great shave. Today I tried the cream with my Cobra and substandard shave. It's strange because I remember having good shave with a DE and this cream.

 

I shave in bare feet, a deep cut my foot or toe I can live with but..... well I do wear shorts or have towel rapped around me.

 

I shave tested my unmarked Straight today after my honing attempt.

Kiss My Face unscented
20mm WD synthetic
??? Straight
FatBoy GSB(1)
Alum
Pinaud Clubman

I decided to use the Kiss my face cream My fiance got at the store today. I have lathered KMF in a bowl before for her to use several times but I have never tried it myself. I made it the same way I do for her but I face lathered the last bit of water into it for an amazing smooth wet lather. I had been honing the last few days but I had never gotten my Arkansas stone where I wanted it to finish the razor so I set the bevel on a King 1k then worked on it a bit on the King 6k. I then went to the pasted strop for 50 laps CroOx and 50 Iron Oxide. I then did 100 laps rough side and 100 laps smooth side on the leather and set it in the bathroom for today. I wasn't hopeful so I also loaded up the FatBoy and set it in there too.

I had the cream perfect and coating my face, I picked up the straight, I set it to face and. . .

It wasn't bad. Better then it was but still not what I would call shave ready. I finished the first pass and could have quit with a CCS. I laid it down picked up the FatBoy and did an ATG pass to clean up to a DFS+ and called it a day. I checked myself with the Alum, not even a tingle, and splashed on some clubman for the finish.

It looks like I need a finer stone then the 6k so when I have some cash I'll be picking up an 8k and maybe a 10 or 12k. I impressed myself with what I got out of the 6k stone. It was just shy of shave ready. I'm sure the 300 laps on pasted and unpasted strops helped me.

I was very impressed with the Kiss My Face cream. I'll have to look into the different sccents since all we have at the house now is unscented and pomagranite. Not really my cup of tea. I feel the same way about these scents as I do the Mama Bears stargazer Lily. Just not for me although they are fine scents.

Tomorrow I'll try out the french faux frameback and see if I have improved the edge on it as well.