Twenty-fourth Day of TabOKtoberfest
- Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts Tabak Oridjinal
- Razor: Union Cutlery Spike (5/8", wedge, square point, carbon steel)
- Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
- Post Shave: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
- Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
The little Spike is an oddly pleasant razor. Smooth, silent, nimble, and the design is the Лада of straight razors.
Stank ++;
Side note: Uploading pictures is so much faster since the migration. It's almost like having pictures didn't have to be a PITA 🤔
Side note: Uploading pictures is so much faster since the migration. It’s almost like having pictures didn’t have to be a PITA 🤔
Heh, welllll.... I just tried to upload one. I get an HTTP 400 from the post to the /pictrs/image endpoint and the response body is
Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image): operation timed out. I thought maybe because I was pasting a largish image so I tried a 350kb or so JPG and clicked the upload button ...nope, same deal. Oh, and the UI tries to parse the body of the error response as JSON so it pops up a red box withSyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data.I'll take a look later at why this might be. There are some limits in place to prevent huge files but I'm sure that wasn't it.
Edit: it was pict-rs crashing on account of me uploading a new icon for the instance. Seriously, what the heck.
Oct 24, 2023 - Tusk Tuesday: Almond Leather
- Prep: Klar - Activated Charcoal - Face Soap
- Brush: Highlander Brushes Jade 26mm Cashmere Knot
- Razor: Aylsworth Razors Drakkant Plus
- Blade: Gillette Platinum [9]
- Lather: House of Mammoth - Almond Leather - Soap
- Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Almond Leather - Splash
The Aylsworth handled three days of growth like it was nothing and left me BBS.
I needed a scent that is clean, unobtrusive, and refreshing this morning, and Almond Leather did the job beautifully.
Rating: 4.5/5
Almond Leather++
clean, unobtrusive, and refreshing
Good description
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
- Prep: hot shower
- Brush: Unknown Travel Brush, Reknotted w/ Maggard Razors Shaving Brush Knot 20mm Timberwolf Grey Synthetic
- Razor: Gillette Ball-end Tech K4 (1965)
- Blade: Lord Super Chrome (2)
- Lather: Zingari Man - The Watchman - Sego Shaving Soap
- Post Shave: Zingari Man - The Watchman - After Shave Balm
Pleasant shaves to you all.
Oct. 24, 2023
- Brush: Yaqi 26mm Synthetic
- Razor: Karve Overlander
- Blade: Personna Platinum
- Lather: House Of Mammoth - Sonder - Soap
- Post Shave: House Of Mammoth - Sonder - Aftershave
Good shave. Couple nicks on my neck honestly not sure how.
October 24, 2023
- Brush: Maggard 24mm 2 Band Badger
- Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
- Blade: Personna Platinum Chrome (2)
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Piacenza - Soap
- Post Shave: Florida Water - Cologne
- Post Shave: Eufros - Dama Noche - Balm
I really like this knot. Overall this was a great shave. I'm starting to pick up a little bit of "Executive Man" in "Piacenza", but I think it's just the citrus in it that might be similar. I definitely like Piacenza better overall. To keep the citrus going, I went with Florida Water as an aftershave. Florida Water is an EdC, so using it as an aftershave requires me to add water, unless I want my face to turn red with alcohol burn. I do this by getting my face good and wet before applying it.
Piacenza++;
I have not tried Acqua Di Parma Colonia but Piacenza always makes me want to.
October 24, 2023
- Brush: Truefitt & Hill Wellington 24mm Silvertip
- Razor: Wolfman Razors WR4/WRH3
- Blade: Feather Artist Club Professional (4)
- Lather: Mäurer and Wirtz - Tabac - Soap
- Post Shave: Mäurer & Wirtz - Tabac - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Thayers - Lemon - Toner
- Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz - Tabac - Eau de Toilette
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
This was a closer shave with the WR4 than yesterday's was with the Vector. Same blade. Same shaver. Yesterday's shave was excellent for a 2-pass shave. Today's is excellent for a 3-pass shave, and it occurs to me that I have not done a 3-pass shave with this razor yet. Why? I think it comes down to design differences. I'm very impressed with the cleverness of the Vector, and it provides, good feedback from the edge. It's really a great razor. I think, perhaps, that the WR4 gives me more edge angle latitude control and that suits my style of shaving. Back to straights tomorrow.
Stank++;
Which gap do you have for the WR4?
I have 0.70mm. The standard choices were 0.70 and 0.80, but you can custom order.
The prototype I used was 0.77mm.
- Razor: Kai Excelia
- Blade: Kai Mild (4)
- Brush: Omega 10015 22mm boar
- Lather: Mitchell's Wool Fat (tallow)
- Post: aloe
Been messing around with some honing experiments on troublesome razors and wanted to give my face a break so last shave I used my Fili as that's usually a nice vacation. It was almost but I'm not sure if it was the state of my face, not having used that blade in a while or maybe I really do have a bit of a reaction to Darkfall so I figured let's eliminate some variables and find out about the soap, I'd been meaning to get to know this new Kismet blade a bit better and compare to AC so I'm going to stick to unscentedish soaps and one pass shavette shaves with quality blades for a bit. That's almost a theme thingy, One'n'done'tober 11vember ...something. But I'm not quite that organised and will start messing with it soon enough by seeing how Darkfall goes once I do a few of these then maybe digging out some paste edges to compare to the shavettes.
I like Kai AC blades. This was nice, been a while. Feels a bit sharper than the Kismet yet less stressful as this setup seems less pointy (even though the corners are muted on the Kismet) plus the extra weight lends stability. I guess AC is the wedge shavette and Weck the hollow.
Oh, and this inspired me to order the Canada Shaving Soap I'd been vaguely interested in for a while (as it's rumoured to be comparable to MdC). So far I'd resisted as why would I use that much unscented? But it does have a place and maybe it's SV-ish too, was really enjoying SV lately so here's hoping. Looks promising anyhow: https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/canada-shaving-soap-review.614669/
October 24, 2023
- Preshave: Proraso Green Preshave
- Brush: Semogue C3 Galahad Horse 🐎
- Razor: Star 1912 Type Razor
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (9)
- Lather: Zingari Man Mousse Illuminée
- Post Shave: Mennen Skin Bracer
- Post Shave: Nivea After Shave Balm
I don't remember when I last shaved with a GEM razor, but it must have been before July. It was a very smooth shave, and an effortless BBS.
Have a good night!
