- Brush: Zenith B21 (XL chrome-plated copper handle, 28 mm knot with 50 mm loft)
- Razor: GEM Micromatic Clog Pruf, first generation, NOS
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE
- Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz Tabac Original
- Aftershave: Mäurer & Wirtz Tabac Original
Repeated yesterday's shave.
This Iberia looks fantastic. How did it compare to its Fili cousin?
There's a Swiss collector who has started dissolving their collection on a local eBay competitor. I'm hoping to get my hands on the TI Fox and Rooster and the Frio Kullenrücken in the bottom right corner
All this stuff seems mint or at least well cared for
I got... lucky?
"Just" the pharyngitis and weird tongue, no rashes.
Stropping coated blades like these FHS-10 doesn't make too much sense IMO. These have a platinum coating to help with edge retention and a PTFE coating to reduce friction. Best case scenario, the strop just strips the PTFE and the blade becomes less comfortable.
- Brush: Zenith B21 (XL chrome-plated copper handle, 28 mm knot with 50 mm loft)
- Razor: GEM Micromatic Clog Pruf, first generation, NOS
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE
- Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz Tabac Original
- Aftershave: Mäurer & Wirtz Tabac Original
Following u/EldrormR in his shiny hardware SOTD with chrome plated brush and razor.
Fairly new, that was my second use. Nice find, a local razor maker who had his work shop a short walk from my apartment, and his retail shop even closer. Started in the late 1800s, closed in the 1930s.
The razor is polished, including the hollow ground area, and the text is etched very deeply. Weirdly high quality finish. Makes me think the the scales are new.
The thing is in mint condition, too, and I got it for about USD 50 shipped.
- Brush: Boti Sunrise
- Razor: Merkur 34c
- Blade: Derby Extra
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co Haverford
- Aftershave: Declaration Grooming Massacre of the Innocent liniment
Comfort scents and a razor with training wheels today, I'm sick as a dog. Djunior brought scarlet fever from daycare, and I followed him. Ugh
Sunday
- Brush: Dogclaration LG 2022 Mystery Brush (B16)
- Razor: F. Rolli Rolli's Hollow Ground 5/8" (carbon steel, barber's notch)
- Lather: Barrister and Mann – Roam
- Aftershave: House of Mammoth – Shire 2
- Fragrance: Southern Witchcraft – Autumn Ash
any ideas how we could promote our little instance here?
That's a good question.
It seems to me that the posts that get the most outside interaction from the wider fediverse are the question posts and the show and tell posts. I.e., the non-scheduled things. Posting more things like that might help. It also takes a lot of time😅
Essentially, we'd need to put in more effort (and consistently so) to produce interesting content, and advertise the posts on other platforms. Personnally, I get tired just thinking about that.
I really like our cozy instance. Sure, sometimes I'd like to have more friends, more discussion, and more excitement here, but, I'd like people here to be here because they like our boring style of doing things, not because of a show we put up for them. So I don't have a good answer.
Zimora and InfernalInternal also have frios. I might choose my dovo stainless.
Local Razor
- Brush: Dogclaration LG 2022 Mystery Brush (B16)
- Razor: F. Rolli Rolli's Hollow Ground 5/8" (carbon steel, barber's notch)
- Lather: Barrister and Mann – Leviathan
- Aftershave: Barrister and Mann – Lavanille
- Fragrance: Chatillon Lux – Gratiot League Square
This little Rolli came up for auction on a local eBay competitor a while back. It was made right here in Lausanne so I couldn't resist. I couldn't find out anything about this razor maker, so it's a bit of a mystery. I didn't expect much, but it turned out to be a really nice little straight.
It's the first straight razor I have with a polished blade. Shiny!
Fougère Bouquet is nice. Have you also tried Fougère Mania? I like it even more, though it is too close to Varen toi justify a full tub for me.
Is this the tallow Siero base?
This comment reminds me of something: on the discord chat, I've started floating the idea of a #HeadlessHorsemen side challenge for this year's AA: #FriodomRiders, where we use a stainless straight. What do you think?
This is when the lack of a diminutive in English makes itself felt.😅
Thrillchen of the killchen!
I love that a shave with fancy soap and a brush counts as a basic shave around here. 😊
My reshipper just delivered a combined Stirling/DG mailcall with a set of Stirling Friends to the End soap, splash, and solid cologne, and Cerberus splash and edp.
Baccarat Rouge is one of my wife's favourite fragrances (for herself) and I really like it on her. I already gave it a spin and wrote it up here.
I got the Cerberus soap when it was first released, and not having gotten the splash and frag was a big regret of mine, so I jumped on the opportunity of this re-release
I finally got my bottle of 3 Scots and a Valet Autostrop. I've been meaning to try an Autostrop razor for a while now, but there was always some other razor higher on my priority list. I'm happy I finally pulled the trigger, and this set arrived in almost pristine condition. It was either expertly cleaned or used very little. I'm excited to try it tomorrow.
My first impression of 3 Scots is a cooler Spiced, or Spiced is 3 Scots with Vanilla. I'm looking forward to experiencing the scent in more contexts over the coming days and weeks.
Today, Oct 22, 22:00 CEST, 16:00 EST, we'll be doing maintenance on this instance for about one hour. Posts made during that time might get lost
The Lemmy is now hosted on a machine we can administrate fully, and it seems like the migration went well.
If you find anything amiss, please let us know!
Pleaso don't upload any new posts until further notice. Anything posted before might not end up persisted
All good again
The Days of Weckoning have concluded; August brought 31 days of danger, blood, bitching and moaning, optimism, and an overwhelming sense of accomplishment (typically in that order) and we are delighted to announce the results, but first, a few impressions:
Learning the Ways of the Weck is challenging:
> Learning the weck is a challenge u/Priusaurus
> this thing fucking SUCKS. It just skips all over my face. A+ lather for my vector and this thing just doesn’t work. Worst shave of my life. u/souleater7173
it is a test of will
> Already hating this razor and we’ve barely started. Was really hoping it would take a week or two before despair, but alas. u/souleater7173*
> Only 5 more scrapes to go. u/OnionMiasma
it is dangerous:
> I swear the Weck is just a medieval torture device. u/OnionMiasma
> Cuts: 3 (Running total: 31) u/OnionMiasma
it is unforgiving:
> Day 2 and I’m my face is absolutely on fire from the second day with the Sextoblade. u/jwoods23
> Wow, what happened to your face!? u/putneycj's offspring
> Corner bit me hard on my first pass. So much blood. u/putneycj
and it is satisfying:
> As much as I’ve bitched this month about the Weck I’ve really enjoyed having the challenge of it! u/jwoods23
> Surprisingly decent shave today u/souleater7173
> Insert section here about learning a lot, blah blah. u/putneycj
The Results
14 daring souls embarked on the adventure of Austere Weckoning and 12 brave competitors made it through the ordeal with all 31 days djudged as valid by the GEM Djustice Eld, Semaj "the Gavel" 3000, or myself.
The distinguished new members of the Weckonista faction are:
- u/jwoods23
- u/putneycj
- u/Absenth
- u/Environmental-Gap380
- u/Eructate
- u/gcgallant
- u/Old_Hiker
- u/OnionMiasma
- u/Priusaurus
- u/souleater7173
- u/EldrormR (not eligible for GC)
- u/djundjila (not eligible for GC)
All these Masters of the Weck are now eligible to proudly display the 🎩Weckonista🧐 flair, but there can only be one winner of the main prize in this Weckstravaganza, and the lucky individual is 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 u/OnionMiasma!
To assuage conspiracy-minded folks; the random drawing was done using the fair and reproducible PIF winner evaluation script I wrote during LatherBot's sabbatical to choose among candidates in a non-sus manner.
Here's the invocation. Verify it 😉
