... to highball for the PIF DE razor to get me started! I also made a stand today, its the simple coat hanger one but I used Plasti Dip on the sharp ends and it turned out pretty nice. I am on Day 2 of DE and am having decent success so far
I just wanted to say thanks...
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Congrats and enjoy!
Very generous of Highball. Enjoy your PIF.
excellence.
Congrats on the success.
I think your stand is great. It's a good design, and good use of materials.
I hope it works out for you. I think you will find the Gillette New/Tech and the GEM I threw in are the better shavers.
Enjoy
Enjoy
Congrats and kudos to Highball!
I recieved a pif of some Astra blades from BrianW when I joined up. They were such an improvement over the drugstore blades I was using. Those Astras really motivated me to keep at it. This site and it's members are a great community. I need to pay something forward soon.
Dude, that's an awesome stand you made. What did you use to melt the plastic onto the hanger?
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I didn't melt anything, I just used this stuff called Plasti Dip, the stuff is easy to use and works great for just about anything. I used it to fix my Bose headphones because they were getting loose at the bottom so I dipped it in there and its worked perfect ever since
I was going to dip the whole thing in there but I didn't have enough dip to do it so I just did the sharp spots.
Nice! And nice mug!
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Thanks, are there any Michigan State fans down in Australia?!?
Very nice - and congrats.
That is a very cool stand!
Love the cigar box, too! Anything good inside?! What are you using for lather?
Well Done!
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Inside, I have a bunch of other PIF razors and blades that highball sent me
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as far as the lather goes, long story...sorta short - I had a straight that I bought back in January off BST and a strop from ebay, I was fairly good at straights, but wasn't quick enough for an everyday shaver and had never tried a DE, so I contacted a member called h2oman about a possible trade, in the meantime highball sent me a pm about my straight but ultimately didn't want it, but was gracious enough to PIF me some stuff, after highball sent me the PIF stuff I ended up trading my straight with h2oman, for some soaps, blades, and a Merkur 12c
soooo to answer your question, I received a creamsicle soap and a mint soap from h2oman today that he got from Ironbrewer, and those are the first soaps that I've ever had aside from the stuff in a can, tomorrow will be the first time I lather up with something other than a can of goop!!
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I didn't know it was a Michigan State cup...
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haha, I assumed you didn't, I was going to be pleasantly surprised if you did
