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  • Sun 10 Nov 2024

    • Brush: Mühle Purist (21 mm silvertip badger, ebonite handle)
    • Razor: Schick Repeating Razor Type C
    • Blade: Schick Injector Blade
    • Lather: Spearhead Shaving Company Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime
    • Post Shave: Spearhead Shaving Company Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime
    • Fragrance: Spearhead Shaving Company Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime

    ❤Sea❤Spice❤Lime❤

    I used this two AAs in a row until my wife asked me to cool it with "the lemony one". Such a treat to use.

    This is my first time using the tiny Mühle (they call 21mm "medium" for some reason) with the pretty handle and it's a real adjustment coming from bigger, denser knots. This thing has basically no back bone and feels empty. On the other hand, even on this first use, it lathered surprisingly well and had zero badger funk. I'm curious whether I will appreciate this style of brush after a few days of using it, or whether this was just a pricey mistake. Currently leaning mistake, but open to be convinced, since objectively, it didn't make a bad lather at all.

    • The only badger knot I have that size I now use for talc. I was pretty set on 24mm as my max until I bought my 29mm Thäter. After that and the Wald 27mm I was spoiled.

      • I know what you mean. My other badgers are 27mm (Zenith), 28mm (dogclaration) and 30mm (Moar Badger) and it's a different story.

        I have a 24mm Dec B3 waiting for me at Eldrormr's, and I'm curious about that. I think I would like a small denser knot like a B3 or a Maggards silvertip, but this sparse tiny knot is a not yet acquired taste 😅

    • Ah man, that's too bad. The handle is so pretty!

      Worse come to worst I suppose you can always try to pull the knot and replace it with something better?

      • Yeah, maybe! But in the meanwhile, I'll give it a good chance. Wouldn't be the first time I come around on something like this.

    • SSL++

  • Nov 10, 2024 - Travel Shave Day 2

    • Brush: Stirling Soap Co. Green & Ivory 24mm Synthetic 2-Band Synthentic Knot
    • Razor: Karve Shaving Co. Overlander
    • Blade: Gillette 7 O’Clock Super Stainless (Green) [6]
    • Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Autumn Glory - Soap
    • Post Shave: Southern Witchcrafts - Incorporeal - Aftershave (Alcohol Free)
    • Fragrance: Gentleman’s Nod - Cosecha Catalana - Extrait de Parfum

    Enjoy your Sunday!

  • November 10, 2024

    • Brush: Zenith B40 28mm Boar
    • Razor: Böker 14er 8/8" Full Hollow
    • Lather: The Cajun Blade - Wild Oud - Soap
    • Aftershave: Wholly Kaw - King of Oud - Aftershave

    2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.

    This was a shave test of my Böker 14er that I honed yesterday. The shave result was excellent, but the square point poked me a couple of times. It was the point and could not possibly have been my technique. ;-) That kind of behavior results in the death of pointy points. It will be muted and will speak no more.

  • Sunday, November 10, 2024: SLS

    • Brush: Omega - 10048 boar
    • Razor: Rockwell - 6C
    • Blade: Bolazano - Superinox (2)
    • Lather: Stirling - Black Ice
    • Post: Stirling - Deep Blue Sea Aftershave splash (+ menthol)
    • Post: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
    • Frag: Stirling - Deep Blue Sea EdT

    Easy shave tonight. The Omega whipped up an excellent lather as always.

    I ordered the Stirling 31mm boar brush last week and am really looking forward to getting my hands on an even thicker boar brush.

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    • You won’t be disappointed with that brush. Just use it for one month straight. The Stirling 31mm is the same model as the Moar Boar. Once broken in, you won’t want to stop using it. Nice SLS! Enjoying BBS November?

      • Yeah, I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would. It's good practice and gives me a chance to use all this soap I have lying around. :)

        I'm very much looking forward to breaking that brush in. It seems to be the largest diameter boar brush offered currently, do you know of any that are larger?

  • Sun 10 Nov 2024

    • Brush: Mühle Purist (21 mm silvertip badger, ebonite handle)
    • Razor: Schick Repeating Razor Type C
    • Blade: Schick Injector Blade
    • Lather: Saponificio Varesino - Desert Vetiver
    • Post Shave: Saponificio Varesino - Desert Vetiver

    Again, this tiny empty brush lathered ok, but sparked very little joy.

    Desert Vetiver ++;

  • November 10, 2024

    • Brush: AP Shave Co Strawberry Cream 26mm G5A
    • Blade Holder: Karve Christopher Bradley Aluminum (setting: C Plate)
    • Blade: Personna Lab Blue (6)
    • Lather: Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Spiced - Soap
    • Toner: Thayers - Rose - Toner
    • Aftershave: Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Spiced - Aftershave

    2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.

    A tentative, but close comfortable shave. The areas I poked with the Böker this morning are healing very nicely.

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