February 2020 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

jluc · Feb 1, 2020

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Welcome to Mitchell’s Wool Fat February. This month I’ll be using my favorite shaving soap for every shave. I’ll be kicking off with my FrankenFamex which consists of a French Famex Cage baseplate, a Rockwell Gunmetal cap, and an ATT Atlas handle. The Famex is a cage head razor which is adjustable. The tighter one compresses the Cage baseplate by tightening the handle, the milder the shave. For all my shaves, I’ll be lightly connecting the handle to the baseplate as I prefer an efficient shaver.

After my shower, I began my shave with a cold water rinse and then scrubbed both face and head with the PAA’s Menthol Preshave Cube Soap, a regular part of my shave routine. Soap preparation began by salting the soap with 6 drops of M-Bomb before adding some boiling water to the Wool Fat mentholated concoction. Whipping up the result for about 30 seconds with the Viking Silvertip Badger brush yielded a very thin, bubbly, glistening brush topping which, when transferred to face and dome, blossomed into a nice, warm, thick, yogurty lather. In keeping with the successful R41 shave that ended January, I began my first WTG pass by riding the cap and using short even strokes until the razor began to sing. The Famex is one of my favorite razors because of this vibratory quality. It sang as it very efficiently sheared my whiskers off at the skin line on both face and dome.

After relathering, I confined my second pass to very light XTG buffing which had worked so well on the R41 yesterday , and discovered Madame Famex only wished to sing around my regular rough spots. These are the Adams Apple and jawline on the face and the sides and center of the back of my head. That first very careful, slow pass apparently really cleaned things up. I checked my watch and learned that I’d spent almost eight minutes on that first pass, almost double the time I usually spend. My second pass lasted three minutes and ended with an alum block check revealing no heat. I finished this exemplary, bloodless BBS shave with Thayers Lavender WH and PAA’s Mentholated Mysterium Serum. I feel clean, coool, very smoooth, and refreshed.

RAZOR: FrankenFamex
BLADE: Wizamet Super Iridium
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with PAA’s Preshave Cube Soap
BRUSH: Viking Silvertip Badger
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Thayers Lavender WH and finished with PAA’s Unscented Mentholated Mysterium Serum
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Terrific shave to start the month, Jeff!

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9nein9 · Feb 1, 2020

jgreenepa said: ↑

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SOTD 02/01/20

Welcome to Mitchell’s Wool Fat February. This month I’ll be using my favorite shaving soap for every shave. I’ll be kicking off with my FrankenFamex which consists of a French Famex Cage baseplate, a Rockwell Gunmetal cap, and an ATT Atlas handle. The Famex is a cage head razor which is adjustable. The tighter one compresses the Cage baseplate by tightening the handle, the milder the shave. For all my shaves, I’ll be lightly connecting the handle to the baseplate as I prefer an efficient shaver.

After my shower, I began my shave with a cold water rinse and then scrubbed both face and head with the PAA’s Menthol Preshave Cube Soap, a regular part of my shave routine. Soap preparation began by salting the soap with 6 drops of M-Bomb before adding some boiling water to the Wool Fat mentholated concoction. Whipping up the result for about 30 seconds with the Viking Silvertip Badger brush yielded a very thin, bubbly, glistening brush topping which, when transferred to face and dome, blossomed into a nice, warm, thick, yogurty lather. In keeping with the successful R41 shave that ended January, I began my first WTG pass by riding the cap and using short even strokes until the razor began to sing. The Famex is one of my favorite razors because of this vibratory quality. It sang as it very efficiently sheared my whiskers off at the skin line on both face and dome.

After relathering, I confined my second pass to very light XTG buffing which had worked so well on the R41 yesterday , and discovered Madame Famex only wished to sing around my regular rough spots. These are the Adams Apple and jawline on the face and the sides and center of the back of my head. That first very careful, slow pass apparently really cleaned things up. I checked my watch and learned that I’d spent almost eight minutes on that first pass, almost double the time I usually spend. My second pass lasted three minutes and ended with an alum block check revealing no heat. I finished this exemplary, bloodless BBS shave with Thayers Lavender WH and PAA’s Mentholated Mysterium Serum. I feel clean, coool, very smoooth, and refreshed.

RAZOR: FrankenFamex
BLADE: Wizamet Super Iridium
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with PAA’s Preshave Cube Soap
BRUSH: Viking Silvertip Badger
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Thayers Lavender WH and finished with PAA’s Unscented Mentholated Mysterium Serum
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Great start to the new month " nasal barbarian " !

jgreenepa · Feb 1, 2020

9nein9 said: ↑

Great start to the new month " nasal barbarian " !
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Thank you, El Scratcho!

jgreenepa · Feb 1, 2020

jluc said: ↑

Terrific shave to start the month, Jeff!

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Thanks, Jim!

b1hart · Feb 1, 2020

jgreenepa said: ↑

View attachment 216587 View attachment 216588
SOTD 02/01/20

Welcome to Mitchell’s Wool Fat February. This month I’ll be using my favorite shaving soap for every shave. I’ll be kicking off with my FrankenFamex which consists of a French Famex Cage baseplate, a Rockwell Gunmetal cap, and an ATT Atlas handle. The Famex is a cage head razor which is adjustable. The tighter one compresses the Cage baseplate by tightening the handle, the milder the shave. For all my shaves, I’ll be lightly connecting the handle to the baseplate as I prefer an efficient shaver.

After my shower, I began my shave with a cold water rinse and then scrubbed both face and head with the PAA’s Menthol Preshave Cube Soap, a regular part of my shave routine. Soap preparation began by salting the soap with 6 drops of M-Bomb before adding some boiling water to the Wool Fat mentholated concoction. Whipping up the result for about 30 seconds with the Viking Silvertip Badger brush yielded a very thin, bubbly, glistening brush topping which, when transferred to face and dome, blossomed into a nice, warm, thick, yogurty lather. In keeping with the successful R41 shave that ended January, I began my first WTG pass by riding the cap and using short even strokes until the razor began to sing. The Famex is one of my favorite razors because of this vibratory quality. It sang as it very efficiently sheared my whiskers off at the skin line on both face and dome.

After relathering, I confined my second pass to very light XTG buffing which had worked so well on the R41 yesterday , and discovered Madame Famex only wished to sing around my regular rough spots. These are the Adams Apple and jawline on the face and the sides and center of the back of my head. That first very careful, slow pass apparently really cleaned things up. I checked my watch and learned that I’d spent almost eight minutes on that first pass, almost double the time I usually spend. My second pass lasted three minutes and ended with an alum block check revealing no heat. I finished this exemplary, bloodless BBS shave with Thayers Lavender WH and PAA’s Mentholated Mysterium Serum. I feel clean, coool, very smoooth, and refreshed.

RAZOR: FrankenFamex
BLADE: Wizamet Super Iridium
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with PAA’s Preshave Cube Soap
BRUSH: Viking Silvertip Badger
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Thayers Lavender WH and finished with PAA’s Unscented Mentholated Mysterium Serum
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Neat razor, great shave & report Jeff!

jgreenepa · Feb 1, 2020

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Neat razor, great shave & report Jeff!
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Thanks, Blair!

Keithmax · Feb 1, 2020

The first soap to come out of the 'bid of disappointment' is Barrister and Man Reserve Spice. Since I adopted the same approach to shave as our famous tenor, @Primotenore , do not accept any soap that is less than excellent, I put the less the excellent in a drawer waiting for a second chance. This soap smells great but the performance was less than top notch. I worked like it owed me money and was avoiding my calls. The adage, it does not work load more.... worked! I got an excellent later today.

My Suzuki Niles was the third JWest in a row, no idea why the blade looks that way in the pic, it is shiny in beautiful in real life. It has a sharp smooth edge and the shave today was excellent.

brit · Feb 1, 2020

jgreenepa said: ↑

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SOTD 02/01/20

Welcome to Mitchell’s Wool Fat February. This month I’ll be using my favorite shaving soap for every shave. I’ll be kicking off with my FrankenFamex which consists of a French Famex Cage baseplate, a Rockwell Gunmetal cap, and an ATT Atlas handle. The Famex is a cage head razor which is adjustable. The tighter one compresses the Cage baseplate by tightening the handle, the milder the shave. For all my shaves, I’ll be lightly connecting the handle to the baseplate as I prefer an efficient shaver.

After my shower, I began my shave with a cold water rinse and then scrubbed both face and head with the PAA’s Menthol Preshave Cube Soap, a regular part of my shave routine. Soap preparation began by salting the soap with 6 drops of M-Bomb before adding some boiling water to the Wool Fat mentholated concoction. Whipping up the result for about 30 seconds with the Viking Silvertip Badger brush yielded a very thin, bubbly, glistening brush topping which, when transferred to face and dome, blossomed into a nice, warm, thick, yogurty lather. In keeping with the successful R41 shave that ended January, I began my first WTG pass by riding the cap and using short even strokes until the razor began to sing. The Famex is one of my favorite razors because of this vibratory quality. It sang as it very efficiently sheared my whiskers off at the skin line on both face and dome.

After relathering, I confined my second pass to very light XTG buffing which had worked so well on the R41 yesterday , and discovered Madame Famex only wished to sing around my regular rough spots. These are the Adams Apple and jawline on the face and the sides and center of the back of my head. That first very careful, slow pass apparently really cleaned things up. I checked my watch and learned that I’d spent almost eight minutes on that first pass, almost double the time I usually spend. My second pass lasted three minutes and ended with an alum block check revealing no heat. I finished this exemplary, bloodless BBS shave with Thayers Lavender WH and PAA’s Mentholated Mysterium Serum. I feel clean, coool, very smoooth, and refreshed.

RAZOR: FrankenFamex
BLADE: Wizamet Super Iridium
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with PAA’s Preshave Cube Soap
BRUSH: Viking Silvertip Badger
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Thayers Lavender WH and finished with PAA’s Unscented Mentholated Mysterium Serum
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fine fat february frankenfamex shave Jeff..

brit · Feb 1, 2020

Keithmax said: ↑

The first soap to come out of the 'bid of disappointment' is Barrister and Man Reserve Spice. Since I adopted the same approach to shave as our famous tenor, @Primotenore , do not accept any soap that is less than excellent, I put the less the excellent in a drawer waiting for a second chance. This soap smells great but the performance was less than top notch. I worked like it owed me money and was avoiding my calls. The adage, it does not work load more.... worked! I got an excellent later today.

My Suzuki Niles was the third JWest in a row, no idea why the blade looks that way in the pic, it is shiny in beautiful in real life. It has a sharp smooth edge and the shave today was excellent.

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fine shave and pic Keith..

jgreenepa · Feb 1, 2020

Keithmax said: ↑

The first soap to come out of the 'bid of disappointment' is Barrister and Man Reserve Spice. Since I adopted the same approach to shave as our famous tenor, @Primotenore , do not accept any soap that is less than excellent, I put the less the excellent in a drawer waiting for a second chance. This soap smells great but the performance was less than top notch. I worked like it owed me money and was avoiding my calls. The adage, it does not work load more.... worked! I got an excellent later today.

My Suzuki Niles was the third JWest in a row, no idea why the blade looks that way in the pic, it is shiny in beautiful in real life. It has a sharp smooth edge and the shave today was excellent.

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Great shave summary, Keith! Love that brush!

jgreenepa · Feb 1, 2020

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fine fat february frankenfamex shave Jeff..
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Thank you, and good gregarious morning, Gary!

brit · Feb 1, 2020

good morning gents..first flare tip february shave..the 1959 brit presentation set..loaded a fresh permasharp,lathered the figaro oud soap in the copper bowl with the opal 200 badger,and got a fabulous2+ pass near bbs shave.figaro splash to finish with a shot of armani oud edt..will post a family pic of the flare tips later..have a great day everyone..

jgreenepa · Feb 1, 2020

brit said: ↑

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good morning gents..first flare tip february shave..the 1959 brit presentation set..loaded a fresh permasharp,lathered the figaro oud soap in the copper bowl with the opal 200 badger,and got a fabulous2+ pass near bbs shave.figaro splash to finish with a shot of armani oud edt..will post a family pic of the flare tips later..have a great day everyone..
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Fabulous, fine, flare tip February with a brilliant Figaro finish!!

PLAla · Feb 1, 2020

jgreenepa said: ↑

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SOTD 02/01/20

Welcome to Mitchell’s Wool Fat February. This month I’ll be using my favorite shaving soap for every shave. I’ll be kicking off with my FrankenFamex which consists of a French Famex Cage baseplate, a Rockwell Gunmetal cap, and an ATT Atlas handle. The Famex is a cage head razor which is adjustable. The tighter one compresses the Cage baseplate by tightening the handle, the milder the shave. For all my shaves, I’ll be lightly connecting the handle to the baseplate as I prefer an efficient shaver.

After my shower, I began my shave with a cold water rinse and then scrubbed both face and head with the PAA’s Menthol Preshave Cube Soap, a regular part of my shave routine. Soap preparation began by salting the soap with 6 drops of M-Bomb before adding some boiling water to the Wool Fat mentholated concoction. Whipping up the result for about 30 seconds with the Viking Silvertip Badger brush yielded a very thin, bubbly, glistening brush topping which, when transferred to face and dome, blossomed into a nice, warm, thick, yogurty lather. In keeping with the successful R41 shave that ended January, I began my first WTG pass by riding the cap and using short even strokes until the razor began to sing. The Famex is one of my favorite razors because of this vibratory quality. It sang as it very efficiently sheared my whiskers off at the skin line on both face and dome.

After relathering, I confined my second pass to very light XTG buffing which had worked so well on the R41 yesterday , and discovered Madame Famex only wished to sing around my regular rough spots. These are the Adams Apple and jawline on the face and the sides and center of the back of my head. That first very careful, slow pass apparently really cleaned things up. I checked my watch and learned that I’d spent almost eight minutes on that first pass, almost double the time I usually spend. My second pass lasted three minutes and ended with an alum block check revealing no heat. I finished this exemplary, bloodless BBS shave with Thayers Lavender WH and PAA’s Mentholated Mysterium Serum. I feel clean, coool, very smoooth, and refreshed.

RAZOR: FrankenFamex
BLADE: Wizamet Super Iridium
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with PAA’s Preshave Cube Soap
BRUSH: Viking Silvertip Badger
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by Thayers Lavender WH and finished with PAA’s Unscented Mentholated Mysterium Serum
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Nice shave to start off Fat February!

PLAla · Feb 1, 2020

brit said: ↑

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good morning gents..first flare tip february shave..the 1959 brit presentation set..loaded a fresh permasharp,lathered the figaro oud soap in the copper bowl with the opal 200 badger,and got a fabulous2+ pass near bbs shave.figaro splash to finish with a shot of armani oud edt..will post a family pic of the flare tips later..have a great day everyone..
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Great shave, Gary! Good morning.

PLAla · Feb 1, 2020

Keithmax said: ↑

The first soap to come out of the 'bid of disappointment' is Barrister and Man Reserve Spice. Since I adopted the same approach to shave as our famous tenor, @Primotenore , do not accept any soap that is less than excellent, I put the less the excellent in a drawer waiting for a second chance. This soap smells great but the performance was less than top notch. I worked like it owed me money and was avoiding my calls. The adage, it does not work load more.... worked! I got an excellent later today.

My Suzuki Niles was the third JWest in a row, no idea why the blade looks that way in the pic, it is shiny in beautiful in real life. It has a sharp smooth edge and the shave today was excellent.

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Terrific shave, Keith!

Terry · Feb 1, 2020

Good mornin' everyone, seems I've made a new handle wit' a wee bit o' fussin'. I had an ole Bic tossin razor that I hacked it off o' 'n attached it t' me Schick B8 shavin' tool. Some scallywags reckon that's a bit t' far, me, I reckon it works great. Me beauty thought 'twas a good way t' make me's a handle.
Some proper slath 'n a cheap swaber, leads me t' belive-in I'll keep it, jus' as ot be!
I named it, me scalawag handle, for good form.

2 passes on th' face wit' some touch'en up, 2 passes on th' head some mer touch'en up, I be swab 'n ready fer th' day. No cut'n er fussin, no, not at all.
Gettin' t' potr t' sail t' me next adventure.
All
Enjoy
Good feb 2020!

tp
If you didn't figure it out.
This posts is best when read out loud, in a pirates voice

b1hart · Feb 1, 2020

Keithmax said: ↑

The first soap to come out of the 'bid of disappointment' is Barrister and Man Reserve Spice. Since I adopted the same approach to shave as our famous tenor, @Primotenore , do not accept any soap that is less than excellent, I put the less the excellent in a drawer waiting for a second chance. This soap smells great but the performance was less than top notch. I worked like it owed me money and was avoiding my calls. The adage, it does not work load more.... worked! I got an excellent later today.

My Suzuki Niles was the third JWest in a row, no idea why the blade looks that way in the pic, it is shiny in beautiful in real life. It has a sharp smooth edge and the shave today was excellent.

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Very cool setup Keith. Love the JWest and that brush.

brit said: ↑

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good morning gents..first flare tip february shave..the 1959 brit presentation set..loaded a fresh permasharp,lathered the figaro oud soap in the copper bowl with the opal 200 badger,and got a fabulous2+ pass near bbs shave.figaro splash to finish with a shot of armani oud edt..will post a family pic of the flare tips later..have a great day everyone..
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That is a great image Gary! Elegant looking everything.

brit · Feb 1, 2020

february's fine flare tip folly .the family..all are brit rocket style except the one red tip and black handle. left to right..gold rocket,rhodium rocket,regular rocket,slim head rocket,brit superspeed flare tip,red tip rocket,u.s red tip,black handle flare tip..i gave my u.s tv and regular flare tips to a friend..

Boojum1 · Feb 1, 2020

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