But does it smell the same?
That's a difficult one 😰
A lot of languages have Friday starting with a 'P' (e.g., Hungarian 'Péntek'), but that's unfortunately the best I have.
Thanks, I'll try this!
Maybe with a synthetic? What was your trick?
They seem to have 2 bases, and you can get the stag in both (just avoid the tallow base)
Saturday, July 6, 2024: Shit Stag
- Brush: Muninn Woodworks Gloire de France with Zenith 505BC Boar 🐗
- Razor: River Razors Kamisori
- Lather: Chiseled Face Midnight Stag
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Chiseled Face Midnight Stag Aftershave
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
It's hard to overstate just how shit the tallow-based Midnight Stag soap is. I took thrice as much as I would with a normal soap, and still got a foamy, airy "lather". It is slick, though. If it weren't such a meme scent...
Have a good day!
Thursday, July 4, 2024: Random Tuesday
- Preshave: Proraso Green Preshave
- Brush: Zenith 506U XS Horse 🐎
- Razor: Parker Straight Razor
- Lather: Le Père Lucien Narcisse
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Floid The Genuine
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
I didn't feel very inspired today, so I went for safe choices.
Have a good night!
Most straight razors rust
In rust we trust
Wednesday, July 3, 2024: Megalodon Mittwoch
- Preshave: Proraso Green Preshave
- Brush: Zenith 506U XS Horse 🐎
- Razor: Thiers-Issard 188 7/8 'Coq et Renard'
- Lather: HAGS Megalodon
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Pitralon Classic After Shave
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
A quick shave with the TI.
Have a good night!
It's the only month of frequent travel (going to visit different branches of the family with young children and worried mothers). Bringing along an open knife and a honing stone is a no-go 😭
That sounds fun, but August is for me the worst month for this 🤷
Feather Artist Club folding razor
👍
bon
Nasal vowels are hard if you aren't use to them
Monsieur
Normally, French spelling is transparent - but not here. That probably doesn't help, either 😱
Tuesday, July 2, 2024: Zingari Zischtig
- Preshave: Proraso Green Preshave
- Brush: Chisel & Hound Blaireau de la République with 24mm G5 Synthetic
- Razor: River Razors Kamisori
- Lather: Zingari Man Bon Monsieur
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Zingari Man Bon Monsieur Recovery Splash
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
Bon Monsieur is a great scent, and I somehow prefer it in the soap version (I have the perfume and the recovery splash). Also always fun to use the River kamisori.
Have a good night!
Monday, July 1, 2024: Les lundis de l'entropie
- Preshave: Proraso Green Preshave
- Brush: Muninn Woodworks Gloire de France with Zenith 505BC Boar 🐗
- Razor: Feather Artist Club SS Kamisori
- Blade: Feather Pro Guard (5)
- Lather: Wholly Kaw Entropy Man
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Floid The Genuine
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
It's too late for a straight - thus the shavette. And I'm getting used to Entropy Man!
Have a good night!
I don't think you'll regret it!
Yes, I definitely don't regret having bought it! It's vers different from the Koraats or the TI thoughs
Beautiful photo!
Saturday, June 29, 2024: Et Ego in Arcadia
- Preshave: Proraso Green Preshave
- Brush: Semogue C3 Galahad Horse 🐎
- Razor: Ertan Süer L'Ours Russe (7/8th)
- Lather: Stirling Arcadia
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Terre d'Hermès After Shave Lotion
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
After a long time, good-bye stubble! Very nice shave, with a satisfyingly creamy lather (much better than the Cella I used while traveling).
Have a good night!
Happy to see that you were satisfied with the pushosity!
You have spoken: the community shave will take place on July 17th (the 3rd Wednesday of July)!
But we still have to pick to soap. Every soap will get their own comment, and if you want to vote for this soap, please comment below the soap nomination with something indicating your approbation. You can vote for several soaps; in case of a tie, we will figure something out.
Hi everybody,
so we are planning to do a (monthly, but pausing in August) community shave! We collectively choose a soap, and on D-day, everybody uses the same soap for their SOTD.
We need to know several things:
- Who would be interested in participating? If you would like to join, respond to this message by including "I'm in!"
- When will we do it? It would be best to choose a Wednesday, Saturday, or Sunday, to avoid clashing with the reddit theme days, and it would be easier to organize if we could avoid the beginning of July. Furthermore, it would be probably best to fix it once and for all (something like third Wednesday or last Sunday of the month). Opinions?
- Finally, we need to agree on a soap. I don't know how to poll this (I know you can do a poll on Mastodon, not sure about lemmy). The idea would be: everybody who participates nominates a soap, and if that soap is picked, that person agrees to send out smushes to everyone who doesn't have the soap. In order to be on the safe side, we probably would want to have the soap picked three weeks before the chosen date.
There are surely things that I have forgotten. Any ideas, questions?
Ertan Süer L'Ours Russe Straight Razor. So sharp, you can cut yourself by merely looking at it.
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Inspired by the acquisitive prowess of our @whosgotthepudding@sub.wetshaving.social, I also helped myself to a new straight razor. It arrived today: an Ertan Süer L'Ours Russe (Russian Bear), which is a 7/8th full hollow carbon steel razor with a barber's notch, and scales made out of black horn. The razor came with leather sleave, and the packaging looks very classy.
!Photo of Ertan Süer straight razor
!Photo of Ertan Süer straight razor
First impressions: shave-ready as announced, and gives a good shave. It is not as massive as the Koraat, but still well-sized.
So, I got excited, and didn't anticipate well how profound the knot would sit in the handle. The knot is glued in with silicone (maybe a little bit too much), and I would like to rescue both knot and handle without damage.
The general advice is: You can just pull it, but Nature has gifted me with the grip strength of a 5 year old child. I have tried it. It simply doesn't move. Since there are a few chemically and physically knowledgeable people here, my question is: how do I get the knot out, when (my) brute force just does not cut it?
Share your SOTD!
The bot is down, and everything is allowed.
I believe that it is more or less 2 years ago that I bought my first horse brush – encouraged by the advice of @sgrdddy. This is a Semogue C3 Galahad premium horse brush.
Now, at least at reddit, horse brushes suffer from a bad reputation. Stinky, scratchy, a tangled mess of bristles – the antihype is strong. I must say that I rather like my horse brushes (in the meantime, I purchased another one, a Zenith XS [Xtra-Soft] horse brush), and I consider the Semogue my primary brush. I cannot really count anymore how many uses I have, but I would guess that this brush has seen between 100 and 150 uses (yes, I know, @djundjila gets 100 shaves in less than a month, but for me, that's rather respectable.
So, here come my experiences with this horse brush.
General description
The handle is "imperial red", which looks brownish to me. The bristles were initially dark brown, but they are getting clearer with use (and splitting).
The Semogue C3 Galahad, slightly underfocused
The smell
The Semogue (just like the Zenith horse after it) came without any smell. I am strongly allergic to horses, which was the main reason why I hesitated to buy a horse hair brush in the first place, but I didn't feel anything with these brushes. Semogue (and Zenith) do a good job desinfecting and desodorizing their hair, and I never had the impression to wipe a horses ass over my face (as someone over at reddit described his experience).
Breaking in
The last brush I had bought before acquiring the Galahad was a SOC boar – a great brush, but a real pain to break in. Fortunately, I didn't experience any breaking in effect with this one. I could use it confortably out of the box, and I didn't have the impression that there was a noticeable break-in process. That being said, I would assume that there was a break in period, even though a very long and progressive one. After a year or so, some bristles started to split, and this is still an ongoing process (my macro photography skills are bad, but you can see the change in color on the photos: unsplit bristles are much darker than splitting bristles, which are light brown).
I don't really remember anymore whether there was any loss of hair; I would assume that I might have lost the occasional hair, but not more.
Tangling of the bristles
I've heard that there are issues with the bristles tangling in horse brushes. To be fair, there is some slight tangling, but at the same level I also get with a Yaqi synthetic knot. (On the other hand, I haven't seen any tangling on my Zenith XS horse, so this cannot be related to horse hair as such).
Overall evaluation
The Semogue C3 Galahad Premium Horse is a great little brush. I would recommend trying a horse brush to anybody, and this one is excellent.