Very cool!
I love the handle, makes sense that you'd want to do a transplant.
Friday, November 15, 2024: SLS - The Halfway Point
- Brush: Omega - 10048 boar
- Razor: Gillette - Super Speed Black Tip
- Blade: Gilette - 7 O'Clock SharpEdge (4)
- Lather: Barrister and Mann - Cologne Russe
- Post: Stirling - Oro Valley Aftershave splash
- Post: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
- Frag: Stirling - Oro Valley EdT
A comfortable and close shave was a great way to finish out a difficult week.
Oro Valley and Cologne Russe are, perhaps unsurprisingly, a great combination and quite complementary.
We're halfway through BBS November and I have to say: a man could get used to shaving twice a day. It's really remarkable -- I've gone from dreading a shave to deliberately making time in my day to shave. Funny how life works like that sometimes.
Off to the weekend!
I agree. It starts off so intensely but then dries down into such lovely smokey leather.
I just wish my wife enjoyed it as much as I do! :)
Friday, November 15, 2024: FLS - Fougère Meets Stag Friday
- Brush: Omega - 10048 boar
- Razor: Gillette - Super Speed Black Tip
- Blade: Gilette - 7 O'Clock SharpEdge (3)
- Lather: Barrister and Mann - Fougère Angelique
- Post: Barrister and Mann - Fougère Angelique Aftershave Splash
- Post: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
- Frag: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag EdP
Angelique is a lovely scent that highlights citrus and florals. In the end, I felt like a contrast, so I went with Midnigh Stag for the frag. It was an interesting contrast, for sure, but the strength of Stag completely overpowered the scent of the soap and splash.
No complaints.
The Super Speed gave excellent results this morning. This razor is a real winner as long as I remember to use a very light touch.
TFIF!
Tbh it almost seems extra insulting to put a bad knot in such a pretty handle…
Yeah, this is certainly geared more toward folks who are already using/familiar with neovim.
If what you're doing ain't broke, don't fix it! :)
Thursday, November 14, 2024: SLS - Nocturnal
- Brush: Yaqi - Mysterious Space 24mm 2-band Badger
- Razor: Rockwell - 6C
- Blade: Bic - Chrome Platinum (2)
- Lather: Barrister and Mann - Nocturne
- Post: Stetson - Cooling Moisture Aftershave splash
- Post: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
- Frag: Stirling - Stirling Gentleman EdT
Tonight I used the Yaqi badger to compare it with the v24 Fanchurian I've been testing out over the last few days. The Fanchurian is certainly softer and denser, but the Yaqi honestly still made a great lather. It does do a worse job holding the lather in the knot (a lot falls through to the bottom) but still performed admirably.
Nocturne is a great scent. Unfortunately my wife doesn't love it, so I probably will stop with just the sample.
Praise Friday.
Nice, I’m glad you enjoyed it! It’s a very simple scent, but it really feels great on the skin.
Thursday, November 14, 2024: FLS - Mango Mammoth
- Brush: Grizzly Bay - v24 Fanchurian 26mm badger
- Razor: Rockwell - 6C
- Blade: Bic - Chrome Platinum (1)
- Lather: House of Mammoth - Voices
- Post: Mennen - Skin Bracer Aftershave splash
- Post: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
- Frag: Barrister and Mann - Fougère Aromatique EdT
On theme this morning with a mango sticky rice lather. I think this is my first time using the HoM base, and it gave me a stellar lather.
I'm not the biggest fan of sweet scents, but this wasn't cloying at all. I doubt I'd buy a full tub, but it's nice to have a sample kicking around.
Almost to the weekend y'all!
I'm also vaguely considering a refactor to use a sqlite file instead of json. I think that would be a better experience, even though the file format is more opaque.
Plus then I could in theory track my shaves in the database and do my own analytics!
Something like this might work (caveat that I haven’t tried it)
You’d lose the blade count tracking though unless you tossed the json back into csv format after each shave.
I wonder how difficult it would be to support csv as a format. Would that meet your needs, or would .xlsx be necessary?
Wednesday, November 13, 2024: SLS
- Brush: Grizzly Bay - v24 Fanchurian 26mm badger
- Razor: Gillette - Super Speed Black Tip
- Blade: Gilette - 7 O'Clock SharpEdge (3)
- Lather: Stirling - Haverford
- Post: Stirling - Haverford Aftershave splash
- Post: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
- Frag: Stirling - Haverford EdT
An easy two pass shave tonight. Haverford just felt right for a chilly, dark, autumn evening.
I'm running low on the Haverford EdT and AS samples. I might need to get another Stirling order in the mail...
I haven't, but the description sounds right up my alley. I love a good tobacco scent.
Razorock - Puros - Aftershave
Oro Valley + Puros sounds like a winning combination.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024: FLS
- Brush: Zenith - B21 boar
- Razor: Rockwell - 6C
- Blade: Bolzano - Superinox (5)
- Lather: Stirling - Sandpiper
- Post: Stirling - Ramblin' Man Aftershave splash
- Post: Ginger's Garden - Unscented AS balm (+ menthol)
- Frag: Stirling - Ramblin' Man EdT
Easy luxury (™️) shave this morning. The Bolzano blade is still performing well, and Sandpiper is a lovely scent for a sunny day. No notes.
This is my first time hearing about the Stando Perun, looks like a nice razor! How does it shave?
Chesire++;
Of course, the head should pivot, and it should accept 5 blades
😂
I had the day off today, so I hacked together a port of the SOTD emacs plugin that @PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social uses.
It's still a pretty rough implementation, but I wanted to share the repository here in case others who use Neovim might want to help me kick the tires. I'm fully aware that this is a niche within a niche, but you miss 100% of the shots you don't take!
I know there's some cleanup that needs to happen, and the config file format could use a bit more thought, but it works well enough for now. If anyone feels compelled to use it I'd welcome any feedback either here or on the repo itself.
The code is hosted on GitHub here.
I usually face lather and get consistently good results at this point.
However, when I get a .5 oz. or less sample I'll smush the soap down into a thin, even layer using one of those collapsible slow-feed pet bowls. Every time I get a foamy bullshit lather.
I'm unsure how to get an equally wet and slick lather with the bowl. Do I just need to keep adding water? Move to the face sooner? Give up and grow a beard?
