SoD: 'A' is for Adjustable!

Kicking off a dedicated thread for shaves of the day using an adjustable razor!

Feel free to post your adjustable shaves of the day here as well! Whether it is a Gillette Fat Boy, a Rex Ambassador, a Schick or PAL or Parker adjustable injector, a Gibbs... any and all adjustables*!

*(for purposes of this thread, this does not include "adjustable" razors like Gillette Old Type, Famex, etc. that are adjustable just by loosening the knob. )

Today's moment of adjustable zen featured:

• Pearl Flexi adjustable DE razor
• NOS vintage Schick Super Stainless Steel Krona Comfort Edge DE blade
• Art of Shaving Bergamot & Neroli Essential Oils Shaving Cream
• 1930s Rubberset 400-4 "adjustable" brush restored with a TGN Silvertip Grade A badger knot

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Being honest, this is probably the best and most efficient razor in my whole rotation. At least until my 1936 Gillette open-comb Aristocrat returns back to me after it is revamped and replated in rhodium.

Today's Pearl Flexi adjustment was at №. 4 for the full head, face and neck shave. It slalomed wonderfully and Olympic-aly through the fine lather and lubrication provided by the AoS bergamot & neroli essential oils shaving cream.

Not much to expound on in regards to the Schick Super Stainless Steel Krona Comfort Edge blade as IMHO, it's the best DE - and injector - blade ever manufactured.

The Rubberset 400-4 brush head restored with a silvertip grade A badger knot is an amazing, fluffy pillow of perfect softness that wicks and holds lather über efficiently.

A BBS finish all over, including the head, was obtained. A superb moment of zen today!

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Where'd you source the knot? I've got a boar knot for my Tom's B400 but I'm thinking it could use a High Mountain Badger playmate.

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It's from TGN - The Golden Nib. Always have gotten great knots from them over the years. I believe @Enrico is using them now as well.

 

And a correction: the Rubberset brush was restored with a silvertip grade A badger knot from TGN, not a high mountain silvertip badger knot from TGN.

I forgot I wanted the high mountain silver tip but they were out of stock so I went with the grade A silver tip. Reckon I have just had the high mountain on my mind ever since receiving my Yaqi Aqua high mountain silvertip badger brush.

 

I do have 12 adjustables...

 

About 15 and still Fatboy free

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Well when you do shave with one, be sure to post your shave of the day with it here!

 

Wow, I didn't expect to find someone who had more.

 

Especially without any Fatboys

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I thought they prefer to be called "proportionally disadvantaged" these days.

 

Yeah, you should remedy that. It's still my favorite of the bunch. I like mine so much it's being replated in Rhodium right now. You probably have the Toggle I'm missing though...

 

Haha nah. Just not that big a fan of the Gillette adjustables. I did have a Fatboy but sold it and not missed. If I acquire another it will be inadvertent (which is how I acquired my other Gillette adjustables). In part I'm intent on resisting the "you have to have a Fatboy" fanboyism.

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I stand corrected.

 

Who is doing the rhodium replate for you?

 

I think you might have a problem.

 

Not enough?

 

Razor Emporium

 

Exactly. It's not a problem until you start going to meetings.

 

I figured. Seems they are the only ones left doing rhodium right now. Reckon they have $20,000 laying around. lol