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Monday, January 20, 2025
- Brush: Omega - 10048 boar
- Razor: RazoRock - Game Changer .76
- Blade: Gillette - 7 O’Clock SharpEdge (1)
- Lather: Chiseled Face - Ghost Town Barber
- Post Shave: Talent Soap Factory - Wallflower Aftershave splash
- Post Shave: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
- Fragrance: Stirling - Stirling Gentleman EdT
Another GTB shave. I’ll probably switch it up tomorrow.
Loving the smell of Wallflower. If ever available, I’d love to pick this up in soap form. The notes: Lemon, Orange, Verbena, Juniper Berry, Hay, Labdanum, Veviter & Tobacco.
Good stuff.
January 21, 2025
- Brush: Stirling 24mm Synthetic
- Blade: Dorco SD507 disposable (4)
- Lather: Chicago Grooming Co. - Caoba - Soap
- Post Shave: Pinaud - Clubman - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral
Apparently you can’t copy from a Nextcloud Office spreadsheet in iOS… Android to the rescue!
I shaved late today because I ended up working until 5am after being up for 21 hours. So, I slept in as much as I could today.
Tomorrow is my last day of work this month, and then I’ll be on a combination of vacation and regular days off for 18 days! Granted I’ll probably pick up some sort of work before that’s over, but the fact that I don’t have to work if I don’t want to is incredible.
20.01.2025 - Boozy SOTN
- Brush: AP Shave Co. Snakeskin handle w/ 26 mm Silksmoke Flattop/Fan hybrid knot
- Razor: RazoRock Cyber Medium
- Blade: Rapira Platinum Lux
- Lather: A&E - Peach & Cognac
- Post-Shave: Southern Witchcrafts - Samhain AS toner
-> 1 pass on the head plus a bit cleanup. Quick and easy.
Today I was longing for something fruity so Peach & Cognac it is. It was the first A&E soap I ever got, so it’s still in the OG Kaizen base (meanwhile, they came out with K2, K2E and Ultima bases). I must say it smells delicious - like some kind of nice liquor would. Bonus point is that it also is very easy to load and lather up.
I thought Samhain might be a good companion due to the shared boozy notes, but overall it’s too overpowering. The peach however kinda smooths it out a bit, but it’s definitely not the season for it anymore. I guess Pomona would’ve been the better combo companion, but at least I tried.
Peach & Cognac was the last A&E soap I ever bought (so far?) and I love this boozy gourmand. It’s just so comforting.
I definitely agree. It’s sweet but not cloying, boozy but not overpowering and the added tobacco, leather and spices give it a solid backdrop with a sophisticated feeling. A really great scent for all seasons. 👍🏻
Primidi 1 Pluviôse an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Lauréole
- Preshave: Proraso White Preshave
- Brush: Zenith 506U XS Horse 🐎
- Razor: Feather Artist Club SS Kamisori
- Blade: Feather Pro Guard (9)
- Lather: Le Père Lucien Bay Rum
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Pitralon Classic After Shave
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
I used the kamisori shavette today – no slippage. The shave with the shavette is quicker, but less close. Also, this blade starts tugging, so I may get rid of it soon.
@gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social: I screwed up and responded to myself, rather than to you, but here are the photos. I don’t know if you see anything.
At this time I’m wondering whether putting the lower part of the kamisori blade into a (padded) vice might be able to straighten the thing back?
Anyways, have a good evening!
I forgot you already own a kamisori-style shavette in my recommendation yesterday. Oops.
Personally I feel like Feather AC blades are not really comparable to their DEs, at least for me. The ProGuard are the only usable ones, but they are harsh despite the guard comb. I feel way more at ease with KAI ACs, either the “Captain Pink mild” or the guarded “Protouch MG” are very nice and comfortable blades.I also generally prefer the Kai’s, but I had this one in the shavette, so I’m using it 🤷
Understandable, I wouldn’t want to waste it either!
At this time I’m wondering whether putting the lower part of the kamisori blade into a (padded) vice might be able to straighten the thing back?
Unfortunately it’s not that simple. You have to overcome elasticity, which means that in needs to be bent back more than just straight, so that in plastically deforms in the precise way that makes it straight again after unloading. Predicting the right deformation (i.e., this exact problem) is a difficult computational dark art in deep drawing. Also, you only get a few chances, because plastic deformation leads to work hardening (it’s like you’re forging the steel locally where it deforms).
To illustrate the problem, you can bend a straight piece of hardened wire like a bicycle spoke and try to straighten it again. It’s almost impossible, because the exact location of your original bend has work-hardened and when you try to revert it, typically a part next to the original bend will bend instead.
Well, I never knew I wanted to understand why that happened, but apparently I did. Fascinating.
Not looking good, I see 😩
Oh, and for the record, I would definitely try, if it were my razor, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out good enough
I willdefinitely give it a try, but I’m wondering if reaching out to the head of River Razors is the best option 🤔
Maybe that’s a good option, yes.
You can still try to fix it, I’m just saying that simply putting it in a vise won’t straighten it. You need to bend it further than straight, but not too far because it gets more difficult to straighten the more load cycles you put on it
Mon 20 Jan 2025
- Brush: Zenith r/Wetshaving exclusive MOAR BOAR (31 mm × 57 mm bleached boar)
- Razor: Zwilling J. A. Henckels Friodur 17 (NOS, 7/8", hollow ground, stainless steel)
- Lather: House of Mammoth – Shire
- Post Shave: Catie’s Bubbles – DFTR
- Fragrance: Chatillon Lux – Gratiot League Square
A nice Mammoth Monday tobacco declension. All of these scents are somewhat rugged tobacco scents, but with completely different characters. We’re going from fresh outdoorsy happy tobacco in Shire, to bright green strong tobacco in DFTR, to smooth swee-leathery tobacco in Gration League Square. A nice Mammoth Monday start into the week.
