Surprising but welcome results. Noble Otter is just so great.
Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread - March 20th, 2024
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 6 months ago
Southern Wedgecrafts Wedgeday
- Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts Papa Eld with Declaration Grooming B3 knot
- Razor: Wade & Butcher Celebrated Fine India Steel Razor -13/16 near wedge with barber’s notch
- Lather: Southern Witchcrafts Pomona
- Aftershave: Summer Break Soaps Teacher’s Pet
- Fragrance: Stirling Soap Co. – Island Man
Kind of a good news, bad news situation. We have our first upset, but DG took a surprisingly brütal beating yesterday:
64 🦦 vs 26 🦬
Who would have thought just a few years ago that Declaration Grooming could lose this match-up by more than a 2-1 margin? DG was king. Talk about fall from grace 😳.
The race was never close, to the hour-by-hour horse race table is less interesting that the one for the BaM-SW nailbiter two days ago:
| No | DG | Other | Total | Time (GMT) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:00 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 07:00 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 08:00 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 09:00 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 10:00 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 11:00 |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 12:00 |
| 18 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 13:00 |
| 27 | 10 | 5 | 42 | 14:00 |
| 32 | 12 | 5 | 49 | 15:00 |
| 37 | 14 | 5 | 56 | 16:00 |
| 40 | 15 | 6 | 61 | 17:00 |
| 42 | 16 | 7 | 65 | 18:00 |
| 42 | 17 | 8 | 67 | 19:00 |
| 46 | 18 | 8 | 72 | 20:00 |
| 47 | 18 | 8 | 73 | 21:00 |
| 49 | 18 | 8 | 75 | 22:00 |
| 50 | 19 | 8 | 77 | 23:00 |
| 52 | 20 | 8 | 80 | 00:00 |
| 57 | 22 | 8 | 87 | 01:00 |
| 58 | 22 | 9 | 89 | 02:00 |
| 61 | 23 | 9 | 93 | 03:00 |
| 62 | 25 | 9 | 96 | 04:00 |
| 62 | 26 | 9 | 97 | 04:45 |
I had mentioned that I suspected NO might win, just based on how visible the two brands have been in the sub recently, but I thought it’d be close. this almost Tabacalypse-level of clarity definitely took me by surprise.
Today’s Wedgeday shave is brought to by Southern Wedgecrafts and Wedge & Butcher. The heavy Sheffield cleaver is alwaysa joy to use and Pomona and Teacher’s Pet are a very uncontroversial pairing that immediately got me compliments from the missus. I’ll spritz on the Island Man before leaving for the office.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 6 months ago
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 6 months ago
Agreed. And apologies, but I don’t know how to say this without being a dick, but DG is … not so great.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 6 months ago
When I started this lifestyle back in 2020 Scott was all the rage. I think Milksteak was relatively new at that point? His scents and brushes never really clicked with me, which has saved me lots of money!
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 6 months ago
You and I started right around the same time, and I have had a similar experience. I do like some of his scents (Fake Yellow Light!), some of his dupes (MOTI!), and several of his collabs (Weinstrasse, YRP!), but I feel like every other time I heard from Scott in his own words, he was either complaining about his customers on podcasts on the chat, or making non-apology-apologies for long wait times and defective products like unlatherable Opulence and broken B12 knoots.
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 6 months ago
Wedgeday++;
My first contrarian loss. If each round went according to seed, and I pick the higher number in each round, I get to use 15 out of 16 soaps on competition days. If I pick the lower number in each round, and there are no upsets, 8 out of 16 soaps get used. Clearly, I have my own ideas of winning :)