July 2021 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion. All are welcome!

Fabulous shave, Terry, and I'm sure those Kevlar whiskers of yours appreciated the Orange Chill this morning! Enjoy your day!

 

Great R41 shave, Clint! Enjoy your day!

 

Thanks Jeff but hey wait a minute now! How come you keep telling me that razors I'm getting great shaves from, you didn't enjoy and got rid of? I thought that technique trumped tools around here?

 

It does, Dave, but at my age with my various geriatric maladies too much technique hurts! So I keep the ones that don’t make me ache!

 

Sorry about that Jeff, I was just playing with you and did not give any thought to that variable for you. Have a great day!

 

July 22nd
Razor: S•H Apollo Light Aggressive
Blade: Gillette Platinum (3)
Brush: Grizzly Bay Biblical/TnS gelled boar
Pre-shave: PAA Cube
Soap: A&E Summer Fig
PAA Galactic Witch Hazel
PAA Star Jelly
AS: A&E Summer Fig


Good morning!

Fantastic shave to start the day! Three passes for near BBS. Light tickle from the alum.

I spoke to Milton shortly after acquiring the gelled boar knot and he told me that once broken in it would be a lather monster. Not sure exactly what it was that had to break in as the brush was super soft from day one but it has been improving with each use. This morning's lather just jumped to life after just a few swirls. Luxurious face lather with one of my favorite artisan soaps.

Have a great day!



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Very cool Jim! Glad you're getting what you expected out of the knot !!

 

Thanks, Dave!
The knot acted weird when I first got it. It just didn't want to load. Swirl and swirl and it would just make an airy froth. If I pressed soap into the bottom of a bowl it would build a lather and that's how I was using it to break it in.

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Thank you Jeff.


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Awesome shave there Clint and I absolutely love that Triad handle!

 

Thank you Jeff..I'm having wonderful time being away from the mill for a while...The UK is having a mini heatwave at the moment, which is far hot for me..I've been in the shade with my sun hat on..with factor 50+ on my arms & most importantly the back of my neck.

 

Wait a minute now, Bill said Southern gentleman are hard to rile! Trust me the razor is coming home to Dave you will always have right of first refusal buddy!

 

Excellent shave, post and setup like always Barry!
Personally, I keep my adjustable shavers at the most aggressive setting throughout my shaves. Enjoy your day!

 

Great shave Dave! Thayer's makes a cucumber melon witch hazel. Chris Bailey sometimes uses it on his channel. Have a great day!

 

Yep, I've had it before. A soap in this scent is what would be nice. Ethos Greenfresh will fill it's hole. Have a great day!

 

You have frenemies? I am surprised, Bill.

 

Two cool consecutive shaves. Have a fine day, Terry!

 

Fine shave, pic and setup Clint. Have a good day.

 

SOTD THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 22, 2021

This morning was my first shave with the slickly marketed Tedalus shavette. It arrived this past Tuesday, six days after I ordered it. The fit, finish, and packaging is what one would expect given its price. I do admit to having a devil of a time loading the dang thing. The magnetic closure is innovative, but quite fiddly to operate for this old geezer the first time. For whatever reason, when I tried to swap the Feather Super from my Colonial General V2 into the Tedalus, it refused to close easily and wasn’t sitting evenly, possibly because of soap scum residue. I remembered that my friend, Bill, who’s a big fan of Tedalus, and has made a few videos featuring this razor really liked a Feather Proguard in his. My oldest grandson had left a Proguard magazine here from his last visit. So I grabbed one, and after a few tries managed to get it to sit evenly.

After building my preferred MWF mug lather with the Viking Silvertip Badger, I grabbed the Tedalus and had at it. The razor is nicely balanced in the hand and shaves as advertised. It felt very much like I was shaving with one of my regular straight razors. That first WTG mug pass went smoothly and was followed by uneventful ATG and XTG shaves. The tail is a bit longer than I’m used too, but the jimping is well done both above and below the pivot pin promoting a solid non-slip hold. The scale and blade design is clearly not traditional vintage, but contemporary without going to the artistic curlicue extremes of some of the younger modern makers, but then again, as a retired engineer I prefer form to fit function. And this razor met those prerequisites, and left my mug porcelain smooth.

After observing a few friends on the 30DC shaving with their French Famex adjustable Cagehead safety razors, I grabbed mine for this morning’s noggin shave. Famex made both safety and straight razors. LeCoq’s Cagehead design in the twenties set it apart from Gillette, but was clearly influenced by the Damaskeene razor head. The problem was that LeCoq’s Cagehead was fixed. Famex set out to remedy this by inverting the cage, thus allowing blade angle to be shifted simply by twisting the razor handle. I’ll admit that I enjoy both designs, but Cagehead safety razors do require very consistent hold technique. The second thicker MWF dome lather I generated for the second shave of the morning provided the perfect protective carpet for my noggin. The Famex dome shave went swimmingly after two ATG passes, leaving me cool, clean and velveteen!

RAZOR: Tedalus Shavette (Mug), Famex (Dome)
BLADE: Feather Proguard AC
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil
BRUSH: Viking Silvertip Badger
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by a rinse with Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with Cremo Cooling Post Shave Balm.