Monday SOTD Thread, April 14th, 2025 (#673)

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• pridetwo@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  • Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts w/ Maggard Synth 28mm

  • Razor: Blackland Vector titanium

  • Blade: Schick Proline

  • Lather: Storybook Soapworks x Australian Private Reserve - Carnivale

  • Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Passiflora

  • Fragrance: Zoologist - Camel

  Day 14 of APRil and I finally ran out of different APR scents. Camel is really good

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  • djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    14 is an impressive number of APR scents! You’ve joined like two years ago, right?

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    • pridetwo@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Aye sir, January 2023 was when i really got started

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    • djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Why am I asking when the DjSIA knows?

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• snooting@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Monday, April 14, 2025

  • Brush: Summer Break Soaps “Elyria” - TurnNShave v9 Tip 28mm badger
  • Razor: GEM - Micromatic Flying Wing
  • Blade: Personna - GEM PTFE (11)
  • Lather: Chiseled Face - Ghost Town Barber
  • Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Ghost Town Barber Aftershave splash
  • Post Shave: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
  • Fragrance: Barrister and Mann - Ubrique EdP

  I get a good lather from the CF base as long as I remember to come in with a pretty dry brush. Otherwise, it tends to puff up on me pretty quickly.

  A nice shave and another notch toward killing this tub of GTB. It’s going to be a while yet.

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• sahenders@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Apr 14, 2025 - Mammoth Monday: Finalist

  • Brush: Declaration Grooming Magic Hour 28mm B8 Badger Knot
  • Razor: Aylsworth Razors Drakkant Ti
  • Blade: Gillette 7 O’Clock Super Stainless (Green) [8]
  • Lather: House of Mammoth - You & I (Will Die) - Soap
  • Post Shave: House of Mammoth - You & I (Will Die) - Splash

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  Congrats to u/mammothben for this scent being announced as a Finalist in the 2025 Art & Olfaction Awards. Absolutely deserved.

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• BossHoggins10@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  April 14, 2025

  • Brush: AP Shave Co Pure Bliss
  • Razor: Merkur 34c
  • Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
  • Lather Fanzine Saponifications - Testing… Testing…
  • Post Shave: Seaforth! - Black Watch

  Done with the Black Watch sample. I’m happy to have tried it, but it’s not for me. The sweetness (plum?) is just a little too much for me. I’ve got Roman Spice left of my sampler and I’ve been looking forward to that one the most. Oh, and even after washing this brush with some dish soap, it still had some lingering War funk. Got to keep using it to get it cleaned out…hopefully.

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  • walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Soap bros

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    • BossHoggins10@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My sample puck is lasting a lot longer than I thought it would. I have still probably a week left of mine to use.

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• djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mon 14 Apr 2025

  • Brush: Zenith 506B MB (27 mm × 51 mm Manchurian badger)
  • Razor: Delolme – Le Thiernois №14 Acier Spécial pour Coiffeur (8/8", hollow ground, round tip, carbon steel)
  • Lather: Catie’s Bubbles – Reflection
  • Post Shave: Chatillon Lux – Weinstrasse

  This is the first shave with this chonky French FBU after an edge refresh, and it was wonderfully smooth.

  The Weinstrasse-Reflection combo works great, I’ll definitely repeat it.

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  • gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Your collection of “14”s is now very impressive! I admit, I’m still looking for an Iberia, and a Palmera. Hard to find, and trés cher.

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    • djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’m not ready to drop that kind of money on a 14 right now, but I can see that one day, I’ll see a pretty Iberia or Palmera on the bay and will cave 😅

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  • BossHoggins10@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Reflection++

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    • djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      so ++

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• walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  April 14, 2025

  • Brush: Wolf Whiskers – “Gianmaria” w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
  • Razor: Gold Dollar Straight Razor – Red (1)
  • Lather: Fanzine Saponifications – Test… Test… 123 – Soap
  • Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Varen - Aftershave
  • Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral

  First straight razor shave in the books. About 2 years ago I tried one shave with a $.50 half-DE shavette – this was better.

  Weepers, sure… but I didn’t have to get out the styptic pencil, and not as many as I thought I’d get.

  My deficiencies as a sharpener/honer were on full display, but the razor did cut hair, and as the shave went on my technique improved, and things got easier. I’m going to watch @gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social’s video on how to sharpen a straight razor again, now that I have stuff to play with (I think he has a dedicated how-to video, but don’t take my word for it). I only have an Atoma 600 and a Naniwa 10k at this point, so I’m sure I would benefit from something like a 6000 or 8000.

  So the good news is I’m not totally turned off from straight razor shaving, and I might actually enjoy the challenge! Woohoo!

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  • gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have a “fundamentals” video that is way too long, and there’s this “Sharpening Kit” video (also too long).

    Congrats on stepping down the straight razor rabbit hole! This is a practice, but you will make it pretty far up the learning curve in the first 30 shaves, and very comfortable after 100 shaves.

    I started with a Gold Dollar many years ago. I managed to drop it and break it during the ‘22 Lather Games. Best thing I ever did. The steel is awful and the razors are clumsy.

    I’m going to send you my $12 Union razor. This razor is well sorted, has a very comfortable synthetic edge, and will require very little maintenance if you make and use a loaded denim strop.

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    • walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yup, I already watched the fundamentals video today and it reinforced some things and answered some other things (mainly about burr removal). I’ll check out the other video, too.

      Maybe the loaded strop video will answer this question, but do people typically put any treatment on their leather stops, or just use them as is?

      Thanks for the Union! I haven’t heard of that brand, but I see on Amazon they are still only $13 or $14.

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• gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  April 14, 2025

  • Brush: Grizzly Bay Shire 26mm V18 Fanchurian
  • Razor: Silver Orchid - 6/8 - Full Hollow - Round Point
  • Lather: House of Mammoth - Shire 2 - Soap
  • Aftershave: House of Mammoth - Shire 2 - Splash
  • Talc: Yardley Gold
     
    3 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.

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  This was a test shave for this Silver Orchid razor that I honed earlier today. Great little razor, and a great shave. I have not used Shire in quite a while because I consider it more of a summer scent. I really enjoyed revisiting it.

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