Shaving notes of the MaineYooper

Let me first say that it was Dave in KY post the other day that led me to take a picture this morning. Seems we are both working on eliminating a tub. I want to use up old stuff before getting into newer purchases. For me, an interesting consequence of record keeping is that I can see how long ago I bought something! 

Thursday Fluffy Shave



Ken Fluffy made some great brush handles, very unique, and this is one of the latter bunch that have his ingenious magnetic base, that when used with a metal bar mounted on the underside of your countertop, allows the brush to hang upside down to dry! 

The ring of soap is smaller, but still loading well. Someday it'll give out, but I am thinking this will be one of the longest-lived tubs I have ever used!! According to my Google Forms document, it's given 61 shaves just this year! Props to Stirling ezlovan for making a product that never quits and is as good now as when I bought it in August of 2021!

The razor is my Type G Schick injector, and may look familiar to you. 

(Me shaving in my bathrobe, pretending to be Cary Grant   ) Most likely the Schick used in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House was a Type E, given the move was made in the late '40s.

Great pic Eric! I may be further along than you since mine is the 3 oz tub of the Smoky Grapefruit but you are well on your way to Knocking that one out. Well done!

The 999th shave!



Tatara Masamune top cap and Nodachi base plate, 
Tatara Platinum blade on the 7th use, restored Chalco brush by Freddiep318ti with a Maggard 20mm SHD badger, and Stirling Sheep. A very nice shave.

1,000 consecutive shaves!



Stainless steel Overlander 
Israeli Red blade 
Wald Calyx 
Zingari Man unscented 

A very nice shave was had.

Outstandingly Well Done Eric !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea! Congrats Eric! (And wonderful choice of gear too)

Great Millennial setup!

Many thanks to Mike dtownvino for lending me the Yaqi Ghost. I am finding it a very nice razor, mild yet efficient. It is the titanium version and I found it easy to use, no problem finding the right angle.

Wednesday morning set up below



Ethos Clean 
Trotter Quasar with APSCo 24mm Independent UHD synthetic knot, original Israeli Red blade.

Finished up the Stirling Sheep and I took a few days to use whatever soap I wanted to, taking a break from using up the oldest tubs first. Today was Canada Shaving Soap and what a great lather it made! Tomorrow, the next tub in line to be used up is Zingari Man's Unscented. It is under half full, so I don't anticipate it taking too long to finish it. I did find that the Stirling Sheep took a very long time to use up and that was due to two factors. First, Rod sells tubs that are 5.8 oz, if I remember, and second, I had a placed a sample of Sheep into the tub early on, so I probably had 7 or 8 oz of soap! According to my shave notes, that made 121 shaves! I think I may be loading lighter than I used to, as now I kind of stop when the lather looks good, rather than loading for a set amount of time.

For the weekend, I used Ethos Saturday with a Push Button GEM and the Canada soap today with a '79 black handle Super Speed. The SOC Taj boar was used both times.

Been a while since I updated here. Getting to be a bad habit!

Basically, I have been enjoying my shaves, mainly using Zingari Man as I work my way through too many purchases of soap in the past couple of years. I am making progress and have it down to eight soaps, which is still a lot as I have 3 I want to purchase again. But I will try and finish up 3 more soaps before I start buying more. 

Being easily influenced, or being to suggestable, I made an offer on a pair of the Gillette Super Speed color tips. Both are from 1959, a light and a heavy, as Gillette called them. We know them as the Blue Tip and Red tip, respectively. In the 50s, they were displayed in stores as parts of the Gillette Super Speed Trio, with a normal flare tip as the middle razor. 



The Blue Tip has an aluminum handle, and the Red Tip has a heavier nickel-plated brass handle, that has more girth. This morning I used a new Personna Comfort Coated blade, and used the Red on the right and the Blue on the left, chin, and under my nose. Six hours later, I did feel stubble on the Blue side. Both shaved very nice, and I liked the extra heft of the Red tip.