Shaving notes of the MaineYooper

Happy Birthday Eric!

Thanks Tim!

Eric, I don't celebrate those sun trips for personal reasons but you and I are the same age..........well I have a couple months on you but close enough. Great looking setup especially the razor. That's why I keep a couple J3 Gillette's. Love that brush too !!

Yeah, I don't know if celebrate is the correct term, as it is more of an excuse to have cake!!

Pink Floyd, in their song Time, had the following lines, which I suppose were funny to young men but now, not so much!

The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Morbid? Maybe. But I enjoy the song anyway and now take it to mean do the best you can with the time you have!

Happy Birthday Eric!

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Happy Birthday Eric 

Happy Birthday Eric!

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I apologize for being so slow! Paul, this really makes me smile!

Happy Birthday Eric 

Thanks for the kind wishes!

It's been a busy week and working short-staffed made it all the harder. But on to the next week! 



The open comb hybrid plate will make an appearance or 2 as well, since it's OCtober.

Well, I guess I need to up my dose of memory pills! I sold the hybrid plate earlier this year as I wasn't using it as much! 

So, the Supply SE jumped in for an easy shave very late in the morning.


[climbs up on his soapbox]
The shaves are so easy and carefree with this open comb injector! Granted, they are not ending up where I'd like them as far as closeness, unless I do many passes. But I'd made up my mind to do only WTG and XTG in both directions (mainly for the joy of lathering!) and no ATG as it was a late morning shave and tomorrow's shave will be earlier. And this is the point I wanted to make. I gave up rating my shaves by the standards most often used, as what my primary goal is comfort. Closeness is a close second (no pun or whatever meant, but it does make me smile!). And today was one of those days where the shave was wonderful, relaxing, and blood free, leaving my face at the cold-water rinse feeling refreshed. Sure, I can feel stubble ATG, but that doesn't make this a bad shave in my book. My rating or goal is RCS, Really Comfortable Shave, and closeness is icing on the cake. But I'll take today's shave as a DFS- or CCS+ any day over a BBS that leaves me raw or stinging!

A Soap Box Worthy Thought Eric. Everyone should feel. It's my shave, I may as well enjoy it the way I want. Have a great day !

Well, I guess I need to up my dose of memory pills! I sold the hybrid plate earlier this year as I wasn't using it as much! 

So, the Supply SE jumped in for an easy shave very late in the morning.


[climbs up on his soapbox]
The shaves are so easy and carefree with this open comb injector! Granted, they are not ending up where I'd like them as far as closeness, unless I do many passes. But I'd made up my mind to do only WTG and XTG in both directions (mainly for the joy of lathering!) and no ATG as it was a late morning shave and tomorrow's shave will be earlier. And this is the point I wanted to make. I gave up rating my shaves by the standards most often used, as what my primary goal is comfort. Closeness is a close second (no pun or whatever meant, but it does make me smile!). And today was one of those days where the shave was wonderful, relaxing, and blood free, leaving my face at the cold-water rinse feeling refreshed. Sure, I can feel stubble ATG, but that doesn't make this a bad shave in my book. My rating or goal is RCS, Really Comfortable Shave, and closeness is icing on the cake. But I'll take today's shave as a DFS- or CCS+ any day over a BBS that leaves me raw or stinging!

I really appreciated your post Eric.  I'm teaching myself to straight razor shave, which is known to involve a long and steep learning curve.  My choices seem to be a) very tediously chase the ideal (and with uncertain results), b) manage my expectations, or c) truly embrace the situation.  Your example is a good reminder that there is an option c), and to embrace the situation with as much joy and contentment as possible.  Things are what they are, and life is what we make it.  Thank you for that.

A Soap Box Worthy Thought Eric. Everyone should feel. It's my shave, I may as well enjoy it the way I want. Have a great day !

...  and your encouraging words, though directed towards Eric, also encourage me.  Thank you Dave.