SOTD 11-17 April 2021

SOTD MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 2021

Up early again, this time with a feline emergency. One of my wife’s three cats was attacked by a coyote and needed to be rushed to the local Veterinary Emergency service by yours truly. He’s in pretty bad shape. The coyote was sent to join his ancestors, and yours truly has a township gun ordinance violation to deal with thanks to my coyote-loving new neighbor! Mitten’s a good cat, but it doesn’t look good! After returning home, I needed a pick-me-up. So I grabbed my 160 year old Boker French Point and my Christopher Bradley safety razor from Karve. 

This old Boker just feels so good in hand, and despite the softer English cast steel needing more frequent touch ups than some of my other straights, the edge always feels buttery smooth on my mug. The regular three pass mug shave checked all the boxes as did the two pass ATG dome shave with the Karve. I’d stopped using the Karve because of my tendency to nip my ear with the exposed tabs, but since getting the wide body top cap it’s no longer a concern. I feel a bit pissed off, but otherwise clean, refreshed and dolphin smooth!

RAZOR: H. Boker & Co. French Point (Mug), Karve Safety Razor with D_OC Plate (Dome)
BLADE: Feather DE 
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil 
BRUSH: Alpha Shaving T-400 Tribute with 26mm Tuxedo Synth Ferrule
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat 
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by a rinse with Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with PAA Frost Byte AS/Cologne.

Yikes, sorry to hear about Mittens. Hope he pulls through.

Also damn rotten of the new neighbor. What a jerk. I hope karma pays him back.

Great sounding shave, though. Hopefully things turn around for the rest of your day. Good luck!

Thanks, Doug, sorry for not responding earlier.  Mitten’s doing much better.  My neighbor just moved in with her ‘partner’ back in Feb. 2020.  She’s a millennial 30 something and apparently some hotshot professor at Univ. of Penn.  It turns out she’s been feeding these vermin since she arrived.  We’ve lost a number of small pets in the neighborhood since her arrival.  After I shot her beloved coyote in MY yard to protect poor Mitten who was scrapping way out of his weight class, she called the police who ticketed me for violating the township gun ordinance.  The coyote was a nursing female, so we tracked her back to her 5 pup litter which my neighbor’s blue tick hound made short work of.  Turns out old Sam (hound) doesn’t like coyotes any more than we did!

SOTD MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 2021

Up early again, this time with a feline emergency. One of my wife’s three cats was attacked by a coyote and needed to be rushed to the local Veterinary Emergency service by yours truly. He’s in pretty bad shape. The coyote was sent to join his ancestors, and yours truly has a township gun ordinance violation to deal with thanks to my coyote-loving new neighbor! Mitten’s a good cat, but it doesn’t look good! After returning home, I needed a pick-me-up. So I grabbed my 160 year old Boker French Point and my Christopher Bradley safety razor from Karve. 

This old Boker just feels so good in hand, and despite the softer English cast steel needing more frequent touch ups than some of my other straights, the edge always feels buttery smooth on my mug. The regular three pass mug shave checked all the boxes as did the two pass ATG dome shave with the Karve. I’d stopped using the Karve because of my tendency to nip my ear with the exposed tabs, but since getting the wide body top cap it’s no longer a concern. I feel a bit pissed off, but otherwise clean, refreshed and dolphin smooth!

RAZOR: H. Boker & Co. French Point (Mug), Karve Safety Razor with D_OC Plate (Dome)
BLADE: Feather DE 
PREP: Cold water rinse followed by a scrub with Argan Oil 
BRUSH: Alpha Shaving T-400 Tribute with 26mm Tuxedo Synth Ferrule
SOAP: Mitchell’s Wool Fat 
POSTSHAVE: Cold water wash with brush squeezings followed by a rinse with Humphreys Lilac WH. Finished with PAA Frost Byte AS/Cologne.

Yikes, sorry to hear about Mittens. Hope he pulls through.

Also damn rotten of the new neighbor. What a jerk. I hope karma pays him back.

Great sounding shave, though. Hopefully things turn around for the rest of your day. Good luck!

Thanks, Doug, sorry for not responding earlier.  Mitten’s doing much better.  My neighbor just moved in with her ‘partner’ back in Feb. 2020.  She’s a millennial 30 something and apparently some hotshot professor at Univ. of Penn.  It turns out she’s been feeding these vermin since she arrived.  We’ve lost a number of small pets in the neighborhood since her arrival.  After I shot her beloved coyote in MY yard to protect poor Mitten who was scrapping way out of his weight class, she called the police who ticketed me for violating the township gun ordinance.  The coyote was a nursing female, so we tracked her back to her 5 pup litter which my neighbor’s blue tick hound made short of.  Turns out old Sam (hound) doesn’t like coyotes any more than we did!

I'm a sucker for a happy ending. And as a pet owner, I'm no fan of coyotes.

Yikes, sorry to hear about Mittens. Hope he pulls through.

Also damn rotten of the new neighbor. What a jerk. I hope karma pays him back.

Great sounding shave, though. Hopefully things turn around for the rest of your day. Good luck!

Thanks, Doug, sorry for not responding earlier.  Mitten’s doing much better.  My neighbor just moved in with her ‘partner’ back in Feb. 2020.  She’s a millennial 30 something and apparently some hotshot professor at Univ. of Penn.  It turns out she’s been feeding these vermin since she arrived.  We’ve lost a number of small pets in the neighborhood since her arrival.  After I shot her beloved coyote in MY yard to protect poor Mitten who was scrapping way out of his weight class, she called the police who ticketed me for violating the township gun ordinance.  The coyote was a nursing female, so we tracked her back to her 5 pup litter which my neighbor’s blue tick hound made short of.  Turns out old Sam (hound) doesn’t like coyotes any more than we did!

I'm a sucker for a happy ending. And as a pet owner, I'm no fan of coyotes.

Crazy story. Where I live, which is suburban but surrounded by woods, we often have coyotes and so am always worried about our dogs when they are out at dawn or dusk.

SOTD
Razor: Wolfman WR1 .61SB/WRH7 Hollow
Blade: Bic
Soap: Ethos Greenfresh
Brush: Elite Azurite w/Malachite 26 mm Manchurian White
Aftershave: Ethos Greenfresh 


Sunny spring day, so Greenfresh readily came to hand to match the mood. 

I fixed my Speick Stick Shtick by adding a Schick.

Check out his cool 1959 J2!

Wednesday AM 2021-04-14


Rooney Emillion 1 Porcelain Finest (24/48)
Ethos Grooming Mélange d'Agrumes shaving soap
LASSC BBS-1/Triad Aristocrat Black
Wilkinson Sword 'New' (15)
Ethos Grooming Mélange d'Agrumes aftershave

Preceded by a touch of Ethos First Lather, the shave was extraordinarily smooth, even with the blade on its fifteenth use.

SOTD 20210414 Rosso
by IschiaPP @ Forio
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Bat71 Chubby Plus
Prugno (Plum Wood), Frank Shaving, Finest 2-band, 26x50x110mm, 67g
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Art of Shaving Sandalwood (sample, repack)
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Mondesir 87 Gold Cream
Kayser Ellison & Co's Best Sheffield Silver Steel, 20x70mm (-13/16"), 48g,
Full Hollow, Round Point, Deco & Gliding on blade, Jimps Up & Down, Double Stab,
Silver Plate Mondesir on Three Pin Cream Scales
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Old Spice Original After Shave Lotion
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#Shave #WetShaving #WetShavers
#ShaveOfTheDay #ShaveLikeaMan
#CutThroatRazor #StraightRazor #Vintage



Full size:
https://imgur.com/QcPGq5n
Soundtrack:
The Clash - Shepherd's Delight
https://youtu.be/GmT0qjseO5A

SOTD: Nice easy mid-week shave - hope everyone is doing well!

Wolfman Ti WR2 1.55mm SB WRH3XL

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