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The end of Sir Irisch Moos is near. I can see what serves as stick holder...
Unless you are mblakele that looks like you have one more shave left (in the shave stick pass around thread he once melted the remaining soap from the holding bracket to make a mini-puck of shave soap and got two more shaves from it).
I wonder what is next on the Luc cavalcade of shave sticks.
How many shaves did you get out of it? Is the Tabac shave stick just as good as the SIM shave stick?
Well done, Luc!
I'm taking an hiatus from shaving sticks in order to use up all my other soaps and creams, but I've got the Irish Moos lined up once autumn rolls around here.
Looking forward to the next one!
Luc already knows this but for the general audience since Brendan is in Australia it is Spring there. Australian (and S. Hemisphere) seasons run opposite of Canada or the US (and N. Hemisphere). Brendan has a long way to go before Autumn rolls around in Australia.
While I am thinking of it, I hope you enjoy your Spring and Summer, Brendan. If you happen to shoot a wallaby or kangaroo please cold-ship me part of the meat. I haven't had the opportunity to eat any wallaby or kangaroo but I bet they taste good!
Kangaroo is comparable to horse meat, it's lean and gamey. It's not the same but it's similar.
While I am thinking of it, I hope you enjoy your Spring and Summer, Brendan. If you happen to shoot a wallaby or kangaroo please cold-ship me part of the meat. I haven't had the opportunity to eat any wallaby or kangaroo but I bet they taste good!
Certainly will! if you ever are in Australia, let me know and I'll buy some tasty kangaroo from my butcher!
I've always used SIM around spring or autumn, it just fits the seasons so well then. Being in Australia though, menthol soaps are compulsory in Summer
Luc, there was was discussion of "when is a puck done?" on the 3017 thread. For me the best answer was that it is done when it becomes too inconvenient to use. Of course that is a subjective measure, depending on taste and circumstances.
As mentioned above I have a high threshold for this kind of inconvenience. So I might set it aside to dry while I used another stick. Then a couple days later I might extract the soap from the bottom holder and make a 28-mm mini stick using an old film canister. Those mini sticks are a bit fiddly to use by themselves, so they generally go on top of another soap in a full-length holder: D.R. Harris works well, for example.
If you have access to a good scale, could you weigh the empty container? Lately I have been adding a few of those empty container weights to the wiki, so folks can get an idea of how much soap they have left.