May 2022

That’s a lot of kokum butter. What do you do with it?

I couldn’t not buy this soap for my son.  Pinnacle Grooming.  I have no idea if the soap base is any good or what it smells like. It’s all about the label baby 

Marko i use it on my skin for moisturizer. I can use it as preshave or post shave or just in general if my skin if dry, I may use it on my scalp or on my body. This is the most I’ve bought in one go so if this lasts that long, then I’ll probably have enough to throw in a batch of soap later this year.

Picked up a pair of APSC 26mm G5C knots. One is already drying in its new home.

Picked up a pair of APSC 26mm G5C knots. One is already drying in its new home.

And what is that new home? It looks spectacular! Nice work, Paul!

Picked up a pair of APSC 26mm G5C knots. One is already drying in its new home.

And what is that new home? It looks spectacular! Nice work, Paul!

It's a Trotter Handcrafts 'Ember of Tobacco'. Not a new handle, just a new knot.

Picked up a pair of APSC 26mm G5C knots. One is already drying in its new home.

And what is that new home? It looks spectacular! Nice work, Paul!

It's a Trotter Handcrafts 'Ember of Tobacco'. Not a new handle, just a new knot.

I don't recall seeing it before. It was kind of crazy there for a few months as I was multiplying my brushes so fast and it seemed like a a few of us were working to corner the market on Trotter handles!

And what is that new home? It looks spectacular! Nice work, Paul!

It's a Trotter Handcrafts 'Ember of Tobacco'. Not a new handle, just a new knot.

I don't recall seeing it before. It was kind of crazy there for a few months as I was multiplying my brushes so fast and it seemed like a a few of us were working to corner the market on Trotter handles!

Lol, I hear ya. I too went a bit crazy on brush collecting. Hey, at least we can think of ourselves as trendsetters... Now everyone is trying to corner the market on Trotter handles.

I think I slipped this one in during NovemBoar. Not being a Boar, it was probably a bit off topic for the time. I had moved a 2BED to it, but I must have been too forceful in the extraction. It kept losing hair. I also set it too low and so it was really game over for the knot. That really sucks.

So glad AP came out with the G5C. It makes up for the loss of the 2BED.

Handle - Titan . Knot - 27 Oumo SHD Lotus Manchurian Ultimate 

I LOVE my Shake Sharps having a Bakelite handle MK1 and Gold MK2 but the Nickel MK2 has eluded me. Saw these 2 for sale and the seller wasn't willing to split them up. Put in my watch and he eventually sent a reduced offer so I bought and will sell off the Gold duplicate since I already have one. Happy to land another NOS but in my preferred Nickel.