I made lathers with too little soap for the amount of water used my last two shaves (getting familiar with a boar brush) and the runny, SV-scented water was much, much slicker than the same mess with Wickham’s.
What did you learn from your last shave?
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Broken lather is when you keep adding water until there is no more lather, just soup. @thombrogan prefers the poison water of broken SV.
~doug~
Chan Eil Whiskers
Fumbling about.
I learned I wasn't stupid to buy this huge brush.
The knot is a Mozingo ZT4 which is either 29 mm or 28 mm XD, or both, depending on how one thinks about it. The handle by Rudy Vey is a huge, 77 mm in height, Polo 12 size. It is the largest of my knots, I think, and the largest of my handles, for sure, and the tallest of my brushes.
Happy shaves,
Jim
The knot is a Mozingo ZT4 which is either 29 mm or 28 mm XD, or both, depending on how one thinks about it. The handle by Rudy Vey is a huge, 77 mm in height, Polo 12 size. It is the largest of my knots, I think, and the largest of my handles, for sure, and the tallest of my brushes.
Happy shaves,
Jim
I need to appreciate what I have or find a solution that I can appreciate and just have that thing.
I need to stop buying for the sake of the dopamine hit and then reselling.
I need to shave with the same stuff over a longer period of time to really get to know the idiosyncrasies of the stuff before selling.
I don't need more.
I need to stop buying for the sake of the dopamine hit and then reselling.
I need to shave with the same stuff over a longer period of time to really get to know the idiosyncrasies of the stuff before selling.
I don't need more.
This is true. Stop reselling.
Messygoon
Abandoned By Gypsies.
Behold. A boar beats a badger. Every time.
I do love badger brushes, for their softness coupled with a backbone. But there is something special about the "scritch" of a top-notch boar brush and the lather bombs they create.
Woooooooo. Pig. Sooie!
I do love badger brushes, for their softness coupled with a backbone. But there is something special about the "scritch" of a top-notch boar brush and the lather bombs they create.
Woooooooo. Pig. Sooie!
I learned that I have yet to find a suitable blade/technique combo that makes the Merkur 42C work for my face, as much as I like it in my hand. I also learned that a 40's style Super Speed with a Treet Platinum can rescue the disaster that the 42C was making of this shave.
I had a, um, run, like that not too long ago. A few shaves in a row where I just didn't get enough soap. I hear guys talking about loading for 20 seconds and I just have to ignore that stuff. I don't care if I have to keep twenty soaps around, which I probably do anyway, I'll load for five minutes if I have to.
I have transitioned from ordering blades in order to see what's out there to only ordering "10s" off my spreadsheet
They’re my second favorite after feather.
Learned I needed to load a lot more soap to face lather with a boar brush. At least I learned thanks to some helpful gentleman on this site.
Learned the satisfying feeling of putting the razor giving me a hard time to hone to the back of the line and the next one winds up honing like was sent from heaven.
Perspective. Some blades want to teach me a lesson, some just want to be my friend
Perspective. Some blades want to teach me a lesson, some just want to be my friend
I’m not bright enough to get consistently good results with a boar brush. At least not yet.
You sell your self short
Haven’t. At 14 brushes, I had too many ten brushes ago.
Made sure to add the caveat “at least not yet” as I might figure it out over the next 86 shaves.
After being away for twelve days on a cruise and city touring at both ends in Barcelona and Rome with an airplane shave on the way over I learned how satisfied I am with my home kit but also how changes are easily doable.
On the airplane I used a Bic Sensitive, a razor that will work but only when I can’t use a DE.
To save time in the morning on early excursion days on the ship I showered and shaved in the fitness center changing room. This necessitated cold water shaves. I prefer hot water.
Other than on the airplane, I used Tabac (tallow). I much prefer MdC my daily soap or Haslinger, the soap left at a friend’s house.
I used two brushes, a Simpson Major which mysteriously stopped shedding profusely after about a 2 year hiatus on days where there was sufficient drying time and a Muhle STF Turnback brush when less drying time was available. Both worked well.
My SS Blackbird was superb throughout but lacks the nimbleness of the Ti Bird.
It is good to be home.
On the airplane I used a Bic Sensitive, a razor that will work but only when I can’t use a DE.
To save time in the morning on early excursion days on the ship I showered and shaved in the fitness center changing room. This necessitated cold water shaves. I prefer hot water.
Other than on the airplane, I used Tabac (tallow). I much prefer MdC my daily soap or Haslinger, the soap left at a friend’s house.
I used two brushes, a Simpson Major which mysteriously stopped shedding profusely after about a 2 year hiatus on days where there was sufficient drying time and a Muhle STF Turnback brush when less drying time was available. Both worked well.
My SS Blackbird was superb throughout but lacks the nimbleness of the Ti Bird.
It is good to be home.
The 80B XSE is only $7.95 at Your Shaving, and fifteen just sounds better than 14.
~doug~
If you’re worried your shave was so gentle that you’ll miss that sting from the aftershave, just make sure you have a hangnail and problem solved.
A sting is a sting, lol
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