Shaving notes of the MaineYooper

Steampunk Birthday! 
My J4 Slim, the massively cool Fluffy Industries Copper handle brush, and all the other stuff!

Woohoo, happy birthday! Hope you have a wonderfully fun, and relaxing day.

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Steampunk Birthday! 
My J4 Slim, the massively cool Fluffy Industries Copper handle brush, and all the other stuff!

Woohoo, happy birthday! Hope you have a wonderfully fun, and relaxing day.

Sent from my Speak and Spell using Tapatalk.

I wish I could! But, as Murphy had it, I am working. and not just working, but working short-handed! But I have great help for the 2 that are working, and they are giving extra time to cover the missing tech. I'll being buying lunch or treats, for sure!

Chin up, stay calm, and carry on!

Happy Birthday!

If it helps, think of "salon" as just one letter away from "saloon". 

Until recently, there used to be a cigar lounge near me that operated a one-chair barbershop on the premises.  They had fancy products on offer (just as we do!), and they used currently hip buzzwords, like "edging", "layering", and whatnot.  But you could have a smoke, shave, and haircut at the same time, and then join the mostly male clientele for some relaxing, uncensored conversation.  It was the best ventilated cigar lounge I've ever been in too.

A little late myself, sometimes I think it is my new MO (I hope not!), but I wanted to echo Dave's comment in his thread, it's great to hear from you! I like the idea of the place you mention, sounds like a nice time, even if I don't smoke (always enjoyed the smell of pipe tobacco, and some cigars. I remember seeing guys smoking both at the parades when I was a kid). I have a cousin, who back in the 80s taught on a reservation in New Mexico. Somewhere out there he found a barber shop that did the whole straight razor, hot towel, lay back in the chair thing, and swore by it. Steve to this day says those were some of the best things to have experienced in life, no gum-chewing, barely out of high school, kid who is really more interested in the conversation one chair over or distracted by her phone chiming away with "likes"!!! (I just renewed my grumpy old man card, lol)

Many thanks Eric.  I enjoy the crew too - very much - and even when I'm spread thin, I try to stay at least tuned in enough to keep up.  This is one of the few anchors in my life, definitely the most man-friendly one, and I am grateful to be a part of it.

Oh, and Happy Birthday young man!

Happy birthday Eric. Enjoy. 

I read these barbershop/cigar lounge descriptions with a touch of sadness. My barber passed away unexpectedly last November and the #2 guy he’d been grooming to eventually take over has left the country and might not come back. My barbers widow has sold the business to strangers and there seems to be a different guy there every time I look in. I’m completely lost. I’ve only had two barbers my whole life since my first pro haircut at 5 and I’m 61 now. I’m considering cutting my own hair or shaving my head. I miss the “uncensored “ conversation. I’ll probably look around and see if I can find a barbershop with the right atmosphere. Life is a journey. 

Have a great day

Happy Birthday!

A little late myself, sometimes I think it is my new MO (I hope not!), but I wanted to echo Dave's comment in his thread, it's great to hear from you! I like the idea of the place you mention, sounds like a nice time, even if I don't smoke (always enjoyed the smell of pipe tobacco, and some cigars. I remember seeing guys smoking both at the parades when I was a kid). I have a cousin, who back in the 80s taught on a reservation in New Mexico. Somewhere out there he found a barber shop that did the whole straight razor, hot towel, lay back in the chair thing, and swore by it. Steve to this day says those were some of the best things to have experienced in life, no gum-chewing, barely out of high school, kid who is really more interested in the conversation one chair over or distracted by her phone chiming away with "likes"!!! (I just renewed my grumpy old man card, lol)

Many thanks Eric.  I enjoy the crew too - very much - and even when I'm spread thin, I try to stay at least tuned in enough to keep up.  This is one of the few anchors in my life, definitely the most man-friendly one, and I am grateful to be a part of it.

Oh, and Happy Birthday young man!

Happy birthday Eric. Enjoy. 

I read these barbershop/cigar lounge descriptions with a touch of sadness. My barber passed away unexpectedly last November and the #2 guy he’d been grooming to eventually take over has left the country and might not come back. My barbers widow has sold the business to strangers and there seems to be a different guy there every time I look in. I’m completely lost. I’ve only had two barbers my whole life since my first pro haircut at 5 and I’m 61 now. I’m considering cutting my own hair or shaving my head. I miss the “uncensored “ conversation. I’ll probably look around and see if I can find a barbershop with the right atmosphere. Life is a journey. 

Have a great day

Thanks, guys!

Happy Birthday. 
Sorry you had to work. 
Hang in there buddy

Fluffy

Happy Birthday. 
Sorry you had to work. 
Hang in there buddy

Fluffy

Thanks!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Thanks!

Dave mentioned, in his video today, There Are No Rules. I believe it was about using Aqua Velva that may not have been manufactured in the same time period as the vintage Williams Shave Cream that was used earlier. That statement resonated with me. Now this may be silly, but it is what is going through my cognitive gray matter right now. Well, that and I wonder if cake is good for supper?

Anyway, for some years now I have sort of been using a set up for 7-10 days, varying maybe brushes as the days went on, but keeping razor, blade, and soap the same. The idea was to learn your kit by using it consistently for a week. I stretched to 10, as my DE blades could easily do that, especially if I skipped a day shaving on occasion. 

But lately, I have been feeling sort of confined, and, in the words of Freddy Mercury and Queen, I wan to break free!

So this birthday week was to be Razors from the 60s, of which I have a small number of DE and SE options, and seemed kind of fun. Two years ago in July, I did something similar to celebrate 50 years since Apollo 11 went and landed on the Moon, enjoying the idea of using razors that the folks involved in getting to that goal might have been using.

And yesterday I received to packages, a new Semogue SOC boar in cherry wood, gifted to me by a kind gent in another neighborhood, and a Gem Micromatic open comb. The Micromatic is in really nice shape, and after a quick dishsoap scrub with a soft tooth brush, was all shiny. It got a Barbicide dip, and was good to go. I had already planned to do an early afternoon shave with a Type M injector, but now I had this new MMOC (at least I think it is) winking at me.

I switched it up, feeling a bit twitchy somewhere in the back of my mind, but enjoyed the shave. This is the second razor that is an open comb that the teeth of the comb don't bother me at all! The first was the NEW LC that Paul mrdoug gifted me (which is also on deck this week, even though it isn't a 60s era, but I wanted to use it again!). Just a bit ago, I watched Dave's video, and near the end that statement I opened with was said. The clouds parted, angels sang, and I screwed my head on a little tighter! There are no rules, just shaving and enjoying this one-time chore!  Thanks Dave in KY for that wisdom!

Edit: forgot the shave details!
GEM Micromatic, most likely from the mid-30s, as it is shiny silver, not gold
Personna GEM (3)
House of Mammoth Z
28mm 2BED in Aurora Borealis (a Trotter Handcrafts handle)