Fatboy February

[gwsmallwood]

I saw that some MWF lovers might be doing a Fat February. While I haven't used that particular soap yet, I thought I would steal the idea and do a Fatboy February (although I may cheat a little on SE Sundays).

Feel free to post if you want to join me. I hope you all will include three things in your initial post.

1. Date Code of your Fatboy you plan to use
2. Setting(s) Most commonly used
3. Picture of the Fatboy you plan to use
4. Has Captain Murphy serviced your Fatboy directly or helped you to do it yourself?

I'll try to log everyone's entries. If you want to post SOTD info here, I'll try to keep a running tally of everyone's shaves for the month. If you want to add a tagline to your signature to indicate participation, let's use FBF15.


Here are our entries so far

Member	Year / Date Code	Setting(s)	Captain Murphy Treatment	# Shaves
gwsmallwood	1960 F2	10/11	Yes
zed117	1959 / 1961	7 - 7 - 5	Yes
skypsyd	1961 G1	7/8	Planned
TADIII	1958 D3
panther308	1960 F3	7 - 7 - 5/6	No
Vespasian	1960 F4
Rasputin	1960 F4	5/6	Yes
jedimojeaux	1959 E1	6/7
nomex	1958 D3	9
89err	1960 F4	6	Yes
rsitnick	1961 G3	4/5	No
Joe_Karp	1961 G1	9 - 7
Rai Tech	1959 E4	7	No
JimmyTheChooch	1960 F2	5	Yes
aspirin54	1960 F1	5	Yes
Nick 55	1961 G1		No
Penknight	1958 / 1959
Inari7	1960 F3	5/6	Yes
forrestgump	1958 D4		No
phillysco	1961 G2	6 - 8	No

 

[gwsmallwood]

I'll start.

1960 F2 Fatboy aka The Jolly Green Giant

This one has had the Captain Murphy treatment. Lazy door repair, complete cleaning and polishing, custom blade gaps so mine are 2 levels higher than normal, and a touch of HUD Green paint.

 

[Dools]

gws, this thread me laugh out loud (in real life, not internet life )

I applaud you, And, can't believe this hasn't been proposed, already!!

Enjoy the month that is hard for me to spell, still!!

 

[gwsmallwood]

gws, this thread me laugh out loud (in real life, not internet life )

I applaud you, And, can't believe this hasn't been proposed, already!!

Enjoy the month that is hard for me to spell, still!!

Not nearly as bad as Zed's thread a while back.

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showth...about-Black-Fatboys-thinking-about-doing-mine

 

[Dools]

i have been using Straight Razors, for the last month and a half, But, I miss this kind of stuff!! (The DE section, IMO, is Very Friendly)

The last cased FB that I bought, is a graduation gift. Haven't given it to him yet, but, I am pretty Satisfied with it......And, looking forward to it.

FBF Sounds right to me.

 

[zed117]

Not nearly as bad as Zed's thread a while back.

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showth...about-Black-Fatboys-thinking-about-doing-mine

Oh Dear god! I never noticed that and no one ever pointed it out .


I shave with my Fatboys 4 or 5 days out of the week, I plan to have a Shearton Saturday, Single Edge sunday, and Red tip Thursday.

No custom work, just a tune up, polish and repaint!
Here is my 59 and 61!

 

[Guestabc]

OK, Garrett I'm in for Fatboy February

1961 (G1) aka : "Cecil's Tribute"

When I re-entered back into wet shaving after a 25 yr journey to the dark side of goop and cartridge shaving, I had inquired to my SWMBO if her father who had passed away in 1989, had wet shaved. After about a month of persistence she finally went and looked through some of her fathers items, and much to my dismay all she found was a nice old can of Brut 33 shave foam, and a Track II handle.

but just being who she is about an hour later she asked me to look under the sink of my shave den, and low and behold was this. In the shape that you see now, plus an old Vintage Made-Rite brush, a full bottle of Brut 33 AS, two un opened pucks of Old Spice shave soap ( still in packaging today), and two unopened and boxed glass bottles of Old Spice. It had not been touched since it was bought in New York in 1961. He had shaved with it a few times and moved on to the modern conveniences, all of this told to us by my MIL, as she had bought it for him as a birthday present.

have been planning to send it to the Capt, but now I will send it to him in March for a General check-up

So, I would be honored to shave with it for a whole month as a tribute to Cecil.

 

[gwsmallwood]

Oh Dear god! I never noticed that and no one ever pointed it out :lol

Once you read the post, it makes complete sense, which is why nobody bothered.

 

[gwsmallwood]

OK, Garrett I'm in for Fatboy February

1961 (G1) aka : "Cecil's Tribute"

When I re-entered back into wet shaving after a 25 yr journey to the dark side of goop and cartridge shaving, I had inquired to my SWMBO if her father who had passed away in 1989, had wet shaved. After about a month of persistence she finally went and looked through some of her fathers items, and much to my dismay all she found was a nice old can of Brut 33 shave foam, and a Track II handle.

but just being who she is about an hour later she asked me to look under the sink of my shave den, and low and behold was this. In the shape that you see now, plus an old Vintage Made-Rite brush, a full bottle of Brut 33 AS, two un opened pucks of Old Spice shave soap ( still in packaging today), and two unopened and boxed glass bottles of Old Spice. It had not been touched since it was bought in New York in 1961. He had shaved with it a few times and moved on to the modern conveniences, all of this told to us by my MIL, as she had bought it for him as a birthday present.

have been planning to send it to the Capt, but now I will send it to him in March for a General check-up

So, I would be honored to shave with it for a whole month as a tribute to Cecil.
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Awesome. That's the type if stuff I was hoping to hear about. I keep hoping a relative will stumble upon some hidden treasure now that they know I'm looking for them, but no luck so far.

 

[TADIII]

Hmmm...This could be a combination "Fatboy February" and "One Blade February." Mine is a D3, and I have a Personna 74* looking for a job.

 

[TheVez2]

Hmmm...This could be a combination "Fatboy February" and "One Blade February." Mine is a D3, and I have a Personna 74* looking for a job.

I concur! Combine this with one-blade February and use a single blade in your Fatboy all month!

 

[Herm2502]

Neat idea, sort of like OC-tober.

 

[Jnatcat]

I to have been using straights for the past several months and have this Bad Boy in the drawer feeling lonely so I'm in

Gillette F-3 and the Captain has not touched this one as I was lucky enough to find one in decent shape.

 

[Vespasian]

My F-4 Fatboy is the only razor I use, so I'm in by default. No picture handy right now. I've been using this one for a year now; I bought it unrestored but in very nice condition on-line.

When I was 14, I was given a new Gillette 195 by the stewardess on a United flight; all the men got one, women perfume. I tried to teach myself to shave - ouch - and I finally figured it out. I used that razor for 20+ years until I stupidly lost it.

Then I fell into the Dark Years - blue Bics, Mach 3s - until I saw the light a year ago and bought my "new" F-4. I love it. Great shaves from one of the high points of American consumer engineering.

 

[gwsmallwood]

We had a request for some additional information, which I liked. I updated the OP, but please add your most commonly used settings to the list. For instance, I pretty much always use mine at 8 or 9, however my Fatboy has custom blade gaps that are 2 levels higher than most, so my most common settings would be 10 or 11.

I have also added a table to the OP of the current entries and I will try to keep it update as we go.

 

[zed117]

We had a request for some additional information, which I liked. I updated the OP, but please add your most commonly used settings to the list. For instance, I pretty much always use mine at 8 or 9, however my Fatboy has custom blade gaps that are 2 levels higher than most, so my most common settings would be 10 or 11.

I have also added a table to the OP of the current entries and I will try to keep it update as we go.

Holy cow! that is Aggressive! I like mine on a 7 WTG, 7 ATG, 5 ATG

 

[gwsmallwood]

Holy cow! that is Aggressive! I like mine on a 7 WTG, 7 ATG, 5 ATG

You have to keep it in perspective. If you believe the wiki entries, then the Gillette Adjustables at 9 are in between a Futur 1 and 2, so I'm probably shaving with something similar to a Futur around 3 (which incidentally makes me want to try a Futur on 5 or 6 just to feel the difference).

 

[Guestabc]

7 and 8 here

 

[gwsmallwood]

Another good suggestion for those of us participating. If you would like to use a signature tag to indicate your participation, let's use FBF15.

 

[Rasputin]

Ok, I'm in. This seems like a great opportunity to try out my re-plated F4 Fatboy that was a joint effort by CAP, and Chris at Razorplate. For grins and giggles, I'll stick with one type of soap.