Shaving notes of the MaineYooper

This evening, I took some time with the Stirling handle and removal of the flat top (scratch top) boar!



^^ Cashmere
SynBad


Mixed badger and boar 


I like the look of them all. Decisions, decisions!

This evening, I took some time with the Stirling handle and removal of the flat top (scratch top) boar!



^^ Cashmere
SynBad


Mixed badger and boar 


I like the look of them all. Decisions, decisions!

I like the look of the Synbad the least, honestly. The mixed has the natural hair look, but the Cashmere looks really nice imo. Tough choice Eric.

This evening, I took some time with the Stirling handle and removal of the flat top (scratch top) boar!



^^ Cashmere
SynBad


Mixed badger and boar 


I like the look of them all. Decisions, decisions!

I like the look of the Synbad the least, honestly. The mixed has the natural hair look, but the Cashmere looks really nice imo. Tough choice Eric.

I remember thinking Wow when the Cashmere was in. And I agree with you on the SynBad. It was my favorite for so long, then the 2BED came on the scene, followed by boars. I feel like I have enough SynBad brushes!

This evening, I took some time with the Stirling handle and removal of the flat top (scratch top) boar!



^^ Cashmere
SynBad


Mixed badger and boar 


I like the look of them all. Decisions, decisions!

I like the look of the Synbad the least, honestly. The mixed has the natural hair look, but the Cashmere looks really nice imo. Tough choice Eric.

I remember thinking Wow when the Cashmere was in. And I agree with you on the SynBad. It was my favorite for so long, then the 2BED came on the scene, followed by boars. I feel like I have enough SynBad brushes!

I wasn't particularly disparaging the Synbad... Just that it doesn't have the aesthetic look (to my eyes) in this particular handle. It's absolutely a fine performer. In fact, the Synbad and the cashmere are quite similar to my face, with the Synbad feeling a bit more 'silky' and luxurious.

Let me ask you... Have you used this particular brand / type of badger-boar mix? If you know it to be a good performer, that might be a good choice. It has a classic look that no synth will give you. If not, you risk having to pull another knot down the road. lol.

You could also go the route of 'most needed'... How many of each do you have? What about in the smaller sizes (22-24)?

I know I'm not giving you any real advice... Hopefully I provide some food for thought so you can come to a conclusion you like, though.

Hey Paul mrdoug, I really do appreciate you taking the time to talk this out! The mixed knot is an APSCo knot. I bought one for a Fluffy Industries handle and liked it so much that I bought 2 more! I am leaning towards that knot.

Hey Paul mrdoug, I really do appreciate you taking the time to talk this out! The mixed knot is an APSCo knot. I bought one for a Fluffy Industries handle and liked it so much that I bought 2 more! I am leaning towards that knot.

I think you are on the right track then. Seems like you only have one working mixed right now. I'd say add another, for sure.

Good luck Eric.  I hope you pick a winner.

Let's talk about double dipping. Specifically, having to go back to the puck to reload the brush midway through the shave. As an aside, I don't mind double dipping with chips and wings as long as you are clear of diseases! 

In the last few months, I have only had to reload new boar brushes. But yesterday and today I had to reload. The brushes were both used all this week, but the soap was different. This makes me think that the soap can be the culprit, as much as a new boar!

For the upcoming week, the planned setup is 3 vintage GEMs and some older Trotter Handcrafts handles, and the Hub City Birthday Suit soap. 


Looking closely you can see the tiny hole starting in the center of the soap. Left to right, Laminar Flow (Cashmere), Peerless Clog Pruf, The Old Forest (2BED), and GEM Jr. The Damaskeene GEM may make an appearance, as I really like this one! 

Hope your weekend is going well!

Maize and Blue!! Go Flivvers!

So what is a Filivver? Glad you asked! From the Merriam-Webster website: 
In 1908, Henry Ford changed the world with the Model T, the first affordable automobile. English speakers quickly coined an array of colorful terms for the Model T and the other relatively inexpensive cars that followed it. No one is sure why cheap cars came to be called "flivvers," but we do know that in the early 1900s that colorful term was also used as a slang verb meaning "to fail," as in "If this film flivvers, I'll be in trouble." In Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang, author Tom Dalzell lists "flivver" (which made its print debut in 1910, just two years after the Model T hit the streets) among a number of terms applied to "the humble Ford." Others included "bone crusher," "bouncing Betty," "Henry's go-cart," "puddle jumper," "Spirit of Detroit," and "Tin Lizzie."

Also, Ford made an "everyman's" aircraft, popularly know as Ford's Flying Car

This was also called a Flivver.

My hometown high school's mascot is the Flivver car. 

Maize and Blue!!

And today, my high school colors where seen in the Triceratops a 3D printed razor by SlimGem and gifted to me by Dave in KY!


I was worried at first, shaving with something that looked and felt like a toy that should be in a play set for one of nephews when they were little boys. And having that sharp GEM blade so prominently "sticking out" seemed worrisome, as well. But my fears were unfounded! What a wonderful shave! Smooth, drama-free, and only my troubled acne prone mouth corners acted up at the end! This little Flivver Triceratops is the real deal. If 3D razors perform like this, I can see travel razor taking on a new meaning!

That is an interesting choice of mascot for a school to adopt.

From the Oxford English Dictionary:

flivver, n.
slang (originally U.S.).
1. A cheap motor car or aeroplane. Also, ‘a destroyer of 750 tons or less’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1928).
1910  W. A. Fraser Red Meekins (1921) 22  You stick to me an' you'll be travellin' 'round the country in a flivver.
1919  F. Hurst Humoresque 296  Was his little Sid fool enough to beat it all the way over here in a flivver for eight bucks the round trip?
1920  Glasgow Herald 21 July 9  May be I will disguise the Shamrock as a ‘flivver’ (as the Ford car is known here).
1924  ‘Digit’ Confessions 20th Cent. Hobo 11  Flivver, Ford automobile.
1924  W. M. Raine Troubled Waters vi. 58  Rowan McCoy drove his new car—it was a flivver, though they did not call it that in those days.
1926  Ladies' Home Jrnl. Apr. 39  Won't it be amusing when we can..step into our little up-shooting flivvers at the back door?
1927  Punch 2 Feb. 135/1  He has successfully fought the villain Trust; his workmen all own ‘flivvers’; there has never been a strike.
1936  Beaver Mar. 9/1  So-called ‘flea’ or ‘flivver’ types [of aeroplanes].
1956  S. Bellow Seize the Day (1957) i. 22  He had driven a painted flivver.

2. A person or thing that has a damaging or deleterious influence; a failure.
1915  H. L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) xiii. 230  That Jackson lad has offered me about ten thousand of them vegetable cigarettes, but I'll have to throw him down. He's the human flivver. Put him in a car of dressed beef and he'd freeze it between here and Spokane.
1915  Dial. Notes 4 233  Flivver, a hoax; also, a failure.