30 Day Rule/Focus; December 2023. All Are Welcome!

fine friday affairs gents.

 

-Fat-Friday-
e-4 fatboy
rubberset-400-3
mwf
epsilon #01



good morning gents,
fabulous fat friday shave
will use this brush for a few more shaves then give it a rest
breaking in nicely.
smooth 2 passer with the fatboy on 4
binned the blade after it's 5th session.
epsilon blue to finish.
awesome
have a fab friday everyone


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DE Shave # 498 -DEcember Shave 7 of 15

Rating: 5 / 5

Razor: Assured (Dollar Tree)
Blade: Gillette Silver Blue (3)
Brush: Semogue Torga C5
Pre-Shave: Pears Soap - Mint Extract
Lather: Proraso White
Aftershave: Aqua Velva Classic Ice Blue
Additional Care:
Maggards Alum
Nivea Sensitive Balm
Thayer’s Witch Hazel - Original

Fantastic basic shave, low budget, this morning. The Proraso soap never fails to give a great lather . The Assured DE, PIF’d by Joe, @Trigger, delivered an error free close shave. Finally, the AV finished this shave of nicely.

Hope you all have a great day gentlemen.

 

Outstanding Fat Friday shave Gary.

 

Excellent shave Chris.

 

My setup for before bed after my shower.

Vintage Gillette open comb with the Shark blade (1)
Captian's Choice "Venture" whisked with Classic Shaving synthetic brush (soft)
Post-shave - Thayers Toner "Rose Petal" and Captian's Choice "Venture" balm
Pinaud Clubman after-shave lotion

I am doing really well with the SE & DE razors. I do need to work more with the Feather DX and the kamasuri razor too. They are the only razors that bite me now. Not bad but, I don't like cuts! Shaving is very pleasant with the DE & SE razors. I LOVE my vintage razors!

 

Thanks Gary.

 

Awesome shave Gary. I am glad you are ĺiking the Fatboy and the brush is really nice. Enjoy your Friday.

 

Great low budget shave Joe. Just to give you a word of caution on that razor. It sometimes gets loose so check it after every pass.

 

Nice setup Hogie.

 

Dec 15 SOTA

Good afternoon.

Rockwell 6C (setting 4)
Gillette Wilkinson Sword DE Blade (4)
MrEE Tuxedo Brush
Captain's Choice 45th Parallel SC and AS
Stirling Alum Block
Modessa Witch Hazel
Beard Growth: 28 hrs



My Captain's Choice 45th Parallel shave cream was delivered today so I thought I try it and compare it to the 45th Parallel soap from yesterday's shave. I could have placed the cream in my shave bowl, but I decided to put the cream directly on my damp brush and bring it to my wet face to face lather. Therefore, there's no lather pic. I must say that the cream lathered easily and it was very slick. The scent is more cherry forward unlike the soap. However, it is still mild, but I am OK with it. You really don't need much to get a nice lather, but it was much lighter on my second and third pass. I attribute it to my lack of experience on how much cream is needed for this product. However, I still was able to get a BBS pass without any incidents.
The alum gave me some feedback, but it wasn't a big deal. Did the witch hazel and matching aftershave application to end this session. Overall, I prefer the cream over the soap for the scent, but they both perform well. Take care.

 

wish I could say mine was, but, as I said in another post it was "very average". I'll do better tomorrow. We say "Technique Trumps Tools," but mine was a "MIND trumps Technique".

 

Outstanding shave Hogie. How do you like the Venture soap?

 

Wonderful shave Joe.

 

Thank you Joe. I will take it under advisement. No issues with it today. Tomorrow will be a straight shave with the Genco.

 

Thanks Joe.

 

thank you Joe..love having a brush from the same era as my oc aristocrat.

 

thank you Joe.fatboy is ok.prefer the slim and super 84 but the fatboy is iconic cool.

 

fabulous friday affairs gents..have a fine weekend.

 

Thanks Gary.