October 2018 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Sounds like a great shave, Andrew! Nice picture!

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Thanks Jim!

 

For those of you interested Darksiders interested, my next two restoration projects arrived from USPS today. Both W&B 7/8. One wedge, one 1/4 hollow.

 

In the spirit of Odds and Ends October, here is my tally on soaps finished off this year. At the end of the year, I am planning on doing a random drawing for a new tub of soap. To count, the tub or sample had to be at least one ounce, and combining several smaller samples to count as one is acceptable. I'm guessing we will get a few more entries this month. If I have missed anyone, please send me a pm.
@mrchick - 2 total: 1/8 Maca Body Shop for Men, 9/27 The Shave Den Barber Shoppe
@PLAla - 7 total: 1/1 Stirling Scots Pine Sheep, 2/15 Wholly Kaw Jamestown Gentleman, 3/4/18 Jeeves Turkish Bath, 6/9 Jeeves Bay Rum, 6/28 Stirling Lemon Chill, 7/18 Stirling Iced Pineapple, 8/2 Stirling Iced Great Fruit
@Norcalnewb - 9 total: 1/16 Mitchell's Wool Fat, 1/24 Stirling Frozen Tundra, 2/8 Stirling Port-au-Prince, 3/6 The Shave Den Pumpkin Spice, 4/4 Arko Cool, 4/6 Stirling San Antonio, 5/4 Jeeves Bay Rum, 6/30 Stirling Electric Sheep, 7/23 Barbon SC
@Keithmax - 11 total: 1/21 Route 66 Cavendish, 2/1 Haslinger, 3/1 L'Occitane Cade, 3/21 Castle Forbes Cedarwood and Sandalwood, 4/9 Tabac (apparently it can be done), 5/4 Art of Shaving Tallow, 5/17 Acqua Di Parma, 6/14 Arko, 6/23 Razorock P.160, 8/6 Stirling Clubman, 9/12 Dr. Harris Cream
@Drygulch - 5 total: 1/26 Jeeves Scraps Sample, 2/2 Van Yulay Kansas City Meet Up 2016, 5/1 Beaver Woodwright (Black Ship Grooming Co) Queen Anne's Revenge, 7/20 Barrister & Mann 42, 9/20 The Shave Den Purple Rain
@clint64 - 10 total: 1/30 Cold River Jeff's Soap, 2/16 Fine Platinum, 3/11 Nuavia Rossa, 3/22 Jeeves Bay Rum, 4/16 CO Bigelow Cream, 5/18 Art of Shaving Peppermint Cream, 7/21 Crabtree & Evelyn West Indian Lime, 7/26 Fine Italian Citrus, 8/26 Nuavia Blu, 9/3 Art of Shaving Ocean Kelp Cream
@wristwatchb - 4 total: 1/26 CO Bigalow, Honorary Mention in January for eating a fruitcake (harder to finish than a soap, tastes worse too,) 6/12 Trumpers' Sandalwood Skin Food, 7/1 Mike's Natural Unscented
@Linuxguile - 3 total: 2/12 Stirling Mountain Man, Stirling Baker Street, 7/1 Razorock Amici
@Paul Turner - 1 total: 3/10 Route 66 (Not sure of scent)
@Screwtape - 4 total: 3/23 four samples (Salter Indian Sandalwood 3/11, Trumper Sandalwood 3/16, B&M Latha Sandalwood 3/21, Trumper GFT 3/23); 3/28 four samples (3/25 B&M Latha Oceana, 3/26 B&M Latha Limon, 3/27 B&M Taiga, 3/28 B&M Lavanda); 4/9 six small samples (4/1 B&M Glissant Bay Rum, 4/3 B&M Glissant Seville, 4/5 B&M Reserve Cool, 4/7 Frist Canadian Maximo Gomez, 4/8 Soapy Bathman Desparado, 4/9 Soapy Bathman Fall at the Cabin); 6/4 Vitos Eucalyptus Cream
@PickledNorthern - 1 total: 5/2 Stirling Black Ice
@9nein9 - 1 total: April The Copper Hat
@jtspartan -1 total: 5/17 Stirling Baker Street
@Boojum1 - 1 total: 7/13 Cold River Soapworks Juniper
@Primotenore - 1 total: 7/25 Williams (mostly unmolested)
@FaceScraper - 1 total: 7/27 VDH Soap
Keeping track of this has been fun so far, but I know I am missing stuff.

 

The show will be called "Paul's Got Talent".

 

Cool Adam, thanks.

 

Can't wait...

 

Thank you, Randy!

 

Hmm, I don't recall getting that Rte 66 soap(.3). Only Rte 66 I had was a full puck of Cavendish that I ordered from Kathleen at the company.

 

Thank you, Perry!

 

Terrific picture, Jason!

 

Thank you, John!

 

Wow. It looks like I need to step up my focus.

 

Thank you, Jason!

 

Thanks, Adam! This has been a fun year-long focus. I'm hoping to add some more soaps to my list.

 

I'm in though I'll be delayed a bit as I'm travelling for work this week. I'll probably use the same setup as that's all I have at the moment. The only thing I might change is the blade. I did have a few different blades that I have not tried yet.

 

Fantastic shave report, Joseph!

 

What are you going to do with that weapon-smash two cymbals if I win?(That is......WHEN I win).

 

In case you are on the fence...

Before:

After:


Send your razors to Delta Echo for a spa treatment right away and you, too, can have the ultimate shaving experience. Don't deny yourself!

Seriously, DE does a great job. The finish is tough as nails, and it cleans up easily. They even fixed a crack in the handle. This is now my favorite DE razor.

 

This list is soaps finished this year, so sometime in March you posted that you finished your Route 66.