Greater Pacific Northwest meet **Sat. Sept 13th in Seattle**

Next up is very nice donation from Straight Razor Designs. SRD was kind enough to donate 4 tubs of their SRD brand soap (Opus X, Blood Orange, Lime, and Unscented), a stick of CrOx, and a 3” Premium 4 English Bridle strop with poly webbing.

 

The next donation is brought to us by Barrister & Mann with a selection of eight different shaving soap samples. I have to say that when I opened the package to take pictures, the smell was like opening a bag of saltwater taffy for the first time. Simply put, it smelled delicious! Scents included are Bay Rum, Adagio, Roam, Solstice, Lime/Lavender/Cedarwood, Seville, Cheshire, Vetiver/Heather/Clary Sage.

 

Last but not least is the generous donation from Ogallala Bay Rum. Ogallala was kind enough to donate the following: Ogallala Bay Rum Cologne, Ogallala Bay Rum Aftershave, Ogallala Bay Rum, Sage & Cedar Aftershave, Ogallala Bay Rum & Sandalwood Aftershave, Ogallala Bay Rum, Limes & Peppercorns Aftershave, 2 Ogallala Bay Rum Bonanza Packs (5 - 2oz bottles...one of each of the above.), Ogallala Bay Rum Air Freshener, Ogallala Bay Rum Shaving Soap, and Ogallala Bay Rum & Sweet Orange Bath Soap. Needless to say, but wow!

 

Makes me wish I didn't live on the East Coast. I hope you guys have a good time.

 

Thanks. We will be sure and post some pics

 

Matt,

Maybe next time you can host in Bellevue? Much easier to park! I would attend, however, my daughter brought home a cold from Kindergarten that I do not wish to spread around. Have fun.

 

Next years location is open for discussion...... just give me a month or two to recuperate

 

Too bad it is too far for me (The Netherlands...). I would love to join ya'll tomorrow. Have a great time, guys 'n' gals!

 

Too early to put in a bid for Northern California?

Okay, Mike, you have a good excuse for not being there. I feel bad missing the event as I'm only an 12-hour drive away.
But I am booked for Sunday so I'm staying local this weekend.

 

Sorry you can't make it HollyRollah. One of the reason I booked on Saturday was for people to have a day to drive / recover. Hopefully it will work out next year As you can see I am loaded and ready to go.


My collection of reference materials


My Loot to share, show, trade..


Packed and ready!

 

BTW, the raffle will beheld about 2pm. This will allow people more time to be present for the goodies.

 

Talked with Gerritt just now, and loaded up examples of all the Vintage scale materials as requested, so the new guys can see, hold, and smell, them all for future ID... They are all from the bench box so there is no issue with doing testing on them

 

Nice!

 

Had a great meet with a great turnout. Had 19 people show up and we stayed for about 7 hours. Lots of great instruction from Glen and a lot of jabbering from me Will try to post some pictures tomorrow, I'm exhausted and going to crash.

 

Pictures would be great.
Sounds like you had a swell time!

 

Pics incoming once I get the kiddos to bed.

 

Well I have to say this was a successful meet. Even with a few last minute cancellations, we had a total of 19 people show up. It was great to see old friends, put faces to forums monikers, and meet a lot of new people as well. I was very pleased to see 4 women show up as well. With the exception of Wanda they all accompanied their friends or significant others for the sake of their male counterparts. However, a few of them were very interested and asked some great questions. I even gave away a Gillette Slim and some blades to a young woman who seemed fascinated with it (and she listened to me drone on and had a nice smile. J)

The meet ended up being a little lopsided toward the straight razor side of the hobby, but I had the opportunity to trade for an Aristocrat, brought a bunch of Super Speeds, F.B.s, and Slims to show people the differences, and I heard but did not have the chance to see, that someone brought a Toggle.

As far as the straight razor part, it was wonderful! There must have been 25 to 30 hones available to look at, touch, smell, and get a chance to try. I want to thank Garret (deighaingeal), Glen (Gssixgun), and Mariusz (Proximus26) for all of their help in showing people the how and the why of honing. Each person has a distinct method and it was great to see the different paths to the same goal.

One special thanks to Glen. Not only is he willing to show and teach but he is GOOD at it and enjoys doing it. It really shows in the presentation and is highly appreciated. If you are interested in straights and get a chance to talk with Glen, don’t pass it up.

Before I end up hitting everyone with a giant wall of text I wanted to say thank you to our Canadian brethren who made it down. Ryan (Lexthedestroyer) and his lovely wife and Wayne (Rocketman). Not only did you have a heck of a travel day, but you got to explain all of the sharp objects to the border patrolmen

BTW, Cy (SkyBlazer) good job on bringing 3 people along. Way to spread the word!




I really want to thank everyone who donated to the raffle. EVERYONE got at least one item, if not more. It was a huge success! I want to especially thank the vendors who were willing to give their product to someone they had never heard of just because he said he was going to set up a meet. It was a very classy move on their part and shows what a great community this truly is.

 

*NOTE* This picture was after J. Mercer and Murray (CMUR12) had left. Need to be quicker with the camera! I am doctoring up a copy of this pic with names and will be up soon(ish).

 

That looks like a LOT of fun!
Thanks for posting photos and the writeup!

 

I keep coming back to some of the scents I was able to test at the meet. I had never had the opportunity to try any Bay Rum before. I must say I REALLY like it! The SRD "Blood Orange" soap was also very nice! Anyone else get a whiff of something they really liked? Imake my soap at home and am looking at trying to scent it, so scents have been on my mind a lot lately