OCT 30 Day Rule/Focus Pic & Discussion Thread

These guys are still going...they played in a celebrity hockey this summer in my town. Oh and some guy named Bobby Orr was here too.

 

After a year of wet shaving, I find I still have some streaks of bad shaves. When it happens, I always try to go back to basics and slow down. It seems it usually comes down to me rushing something a bit. So, I take my time building my lather and get it just right; I like to use a razor and blade combination I have used with success in the past, then I work it slow, watching the angle with lots of care. I focus on no pressure, and short strokes, still maintaining the same angle through the whole stroke.

It will often take me twice as long to shave, but it seems to work for me and get me over the hump. It also seems to be when I make a noticeable improvement in my technique over all. Those shaves are also the ones where everything else kinds of waits in the background, and it is just me at the sink enjoying the time that was granted to me.

 

The new Braves stadium is being built 5 miles from my house in Smyrna, right on my way to work. Not happy with that. Traffic was bad before they started construction, now its worse. I like baseball, I just don't want the stadium traffic to keep me from getting home after work.

 

10/14/2015
Razor – Wolfman OC with Triad Helix SS
Blade – Feather (2)
Brush – Romera Olivewood Synthetic
Lather – Haslinger Sandalwood
Post - Witch Hazel & Captain’s Choice Sandalwood



I went with a traditional 3 pass shave this morning and without really trying, I caught the baby which doesn't happen many work mornings. I received this puck of Haslinger Sandalwood as a thank you for a recent purchase. With the synthetic brush, I had no trouble getting a very good slick lather. While it is a sandalwood soap, the scent is so faint it's almost unscented. Finished off with a splash of CC Sandalwood with menthol added. Hope everyone has a great Wednesday.

 

10/14/15

Gillette Old Type
Vulfix Super Badger (660)
Proraso Sandalwood cream
Aqua Velva Ice Blue

Shave #1 with the Rapira Swedish Supersteel in my Old Type.



Did face lather again today and got too much water in the brush so the lather was more watery than usual. Should probably have started over again, but I was rushed so I pressed on instead. Did 2 full passes: Pass 1 XTG. Not nearly as good reduction as I've had the last few days. Pass 2: ATG. This left me just SAS at this point. A cold water rinse followed by a large amount of touch up left me with a BBS shave. The Aqua Velva really yelled a lot today, showing me that I might pay for the BBS with some irritation.

Not as comfortable a shave as I've come to expect from the Rapira Swedish Supersteel. It was its first time in the Old Type, I was rushed, and the lather was a little more watery than usual. These things could have contributed to a lesser quality shave. Still it’s a BBS, but with slight irritation. Slight because there were no weepers and no irritated spots at the moment. Hopefully I’ll have more time tomorrow and will end up with a better shave.

Everyone have a nice Hump Day! …Hey Mike! What day is it?

 

When I said Kennesaw in my post I meant to say Marietta (lack of sleep kicking in), but now that you mention it I guess it is in Smyrna. Either way, being outside the perimeter makes it much easier for us folks in North Georgia. Up here we say Atlanta is where they send you when you screw up in hell.

 

30 day focus - Day 14
Fat Boy set to 8
Rapira Swedish Blade
MDC Face Lathered
3 passes

 

That would be a fair assessment of Atlanta especially where traffic is concerned. I can only imagine how much the new stadium will negatively impact traffic along the I75&I285 corridor.

 

Well, how was the FB on 8? I found that 7 was out for me. 8 and 9 were too aggressive. What do you think?

 

He was a cheerleader for hire, he got his start as a student at San Jose State in the late 60's.

 

I used to love going to the Phoenix Roadrunner minor leage hockey games. Those dudes would fight over anything. One time, me an my brother had seats over the entrance to the visiting team's locker room. We heckled a guy from the Peoria Rivermen so badly he threw his stick at us. I ducked, my brother didn't. I let him keep the stick. Good times.

 

I just read his story last night after your post. And all they years I thought he was a home grown hero..... I saw him live a couple times and many times on TV. What always amazed me was how he got around the stadium so quickly. One minute he was down in front of you banging his drum and shazam, he was across the stadium starting the wave.

 

Fun stadium, great team!

 

I found very little, if any difference between 7 and 8. I am planning on moving it to 9 tomorrow in order to see if that changes anything. If there is no perceptible difference, I will end up moving it back down to 7 because I am less likely to make a mistake at the lower setting.

 

SOTD
October 14, 2015
Prep: Hot Shower. Axe Energizing Face Wash Boost
Razor: Gillette Aristocrat
Blade: Personna Lab Blue
Lather: Gingers Garden Vetiver (Tallow)
Brush: RazoRock Plissoft
Post: Thayers Cucumber WH. Gold Bond Ultimate
Aftershave: Gingers Garden OakMoss
Fantastic shave. This setup is the Plissoft is becoming a nice brush.
Never let the things you WANT
Make you forget the things you HAVE

 

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

B-3 Mongoose with Triad Ti Helix Hex
Feather Pro #2
Varlet Mega White Badger
TSD 2X Iced Barber Shoppe
Witch Hazel +++Menthol, Cucumber Melon Whipped Shea Butter
Chilled Floid Blue Aftershave​

Two passes plus clean up left me with a super close BBS shave this morning. We are moving slow after a Birthday Party for one of the local expatriots at Southside Jill's. A popular retreat for vacationing Amercanos. That'd be us. Finished with a good spritz of Cold Floid Blue. Viva Mexico!

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Another great photo. Sounds like you are having a great time. By the way, I like the razor case. How does it work with the Mongoose.

 

I'm thinking about shaving my first pass today with a straight and starting my tech blade hunt for my 2nd and 3rd passes for the next few days.

 

October 14th SOTD (7th shave of this focus)
Two and a half days’ growth
Preshave: Hot Shower
Razor: Dubl Duck Satinwedge with Obnoxious Orange scales
Strop: Drygulch Leatherworks Oiled Latigo
Brush: Handturned Tulip Poplar Badger
Soap: Barrister & Mann Bay Lavender, Lime, & Cedarwood with M-bomb
Postshave: Cold Water Rinse, Alum Block, Thayer’s Witch Hazel
Aftershave: O Man, O Man, It’s Mandom!

Didn’t have time to work on the Spike Wedge, so took the duck to the Chromium Oxide strop for 10 laps, and then did 120 laps on the leather. Ended up with a great shave! Did my normal N/S and S/N passes, and did a half pass just on the neck. DFS plus shave. Didn’t get the pressure quite right to make the wedge suck into the skin and slice the whiskers perfectly, but got pretty close. Lather was good, and I love the smell of this aftershave.

 

October 14

20's Old Type
Astra SP (4)

Not a lot really to say about this shave; just the usual one-pass CCS that I'd expect with this combo. I think I'm zeroing in, though, on the best way (i.e., direction) to shave my chin.

JR