Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread, July 16th, 2025 (#764)

djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Buena Vista Wetshaving Social Club Wed 16 Jul 2025

For today’s meeting of the Buena Vista Wetshaving Social Club, we shave with CGC Irving park, courtesy of @BossHoggins10@sub.wetshaving.social (Thanks Boss!). It’s a dupe of Rive Gauche and a thoroughly enjoyable scent. I consistently get great shaves from Vida’s soaps, both the older base (did it have a name?) and darkwing, and today was no different.

I’m trying to decide which Friodur to use for this year’s Austere August and I’m waffling between today’s weird masonic deco Frio 50 with the murky history, the venerable Frio 14, the chonkier Frio 17, the Frio “the cleaver” 72-V, and a normal 72 or 59. My dilemmata:

  1. I think my favourite option is the Frio 50, a great shaver, but it’s what I used last year.
  2. The 14 is my favourite razor of all times, but I guess I want to use it sparingly and deliberately.
  3. The 17 is a great shaver but feels a bit normal for AA
  4. I’ve never used a wedge consistently for a month, so the 72-V would be interesting, but I wonder whether I’d miss the crunch of a hollow.
  5. All of the above are hard to replace if they get lost, and I’ll be travelling during the lead-up to and the beginning of AA, so plenty of opportunity for lost baggage.
  6. The 72 or 59 are fine shavers, but there’s to oomph there. The upside is that I wouldn’t mind terribly if they got lost during a flight.

Today’s shave was fantastic, so I think I’m leaning towards a repeat of the masonic 50.

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