Share your Shave of the Day for Monday!
June 2, 2025
- Brush: Wild West Brushworks Blue Space 26mm Cashmere
- Razor: River Razors 6/8 3/4 Hollow
- Lather: Hendrix Classics & Co - Badass - Soap
- Post Shave: Unilever - Brut - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Thayers - Cucumber - Toner
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
I have not used any product by Hendrix Classics & Co before. I found this soap sample in my box o’ samples while wondering if I would need to skip today’s challenge.
IMO, Badass is not. Here’s how HC&C describes it:
Badass is an awesome, masculine scent. Citrus notes provide an excellent contrast to the depth of oakmoss and white cedarwood.
That’s the scent description that I could find. I found the scent strength to be mild and definitely masculine, in that, I’m a man and could smell no scent other than my own. Since I shaved after I took a shower, the lather smelled like me after a shower. From the sample jar, I could pick up hints of the oakmoss with the tiniest bit of citrus, but only because the description says it is there. I found the lather to be nice; a little more high volume that I prefer for straight razor shaving, but definitely a workable lather.
So Badass is a pass for me.
I have used every razor on the challenge list for today and I have shaved with a couple of knives in the past also. So, the best I can offer in the “New All Things” category is, admittedly, pretty lame. I have been trying to find an edge that works well with this razor’s particular geometry. Saturday, I put a coticule/Black Arkansas edge on it and used that yesterday. Last night I took the razor back to the Black Arkansas stone to add more refinement on that stone; essentially creating an edge texture that is more Arkansas and less Belgium.
So, it is a razor edge that I have never used before. Yeah, I know, tenuous at best, but more importantly (for me), I think I have found a great match in comfort and keenness for this razor. Today’s shave was closer than yesterday’s and as comfortable as yesterday’s.
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 months ago
New To You: Day 2 of Lather Games
Razor:Unknown Brand - Glass stove top scraper$PLASTICBlade:Derby Extra Stainless Steel (blue)Image
Theme justification: I’ve never ever used 345 Soap Co’s soaps. The post and frag are relevant in that they represent the same fresh cleanliness (in the case of Telegrama even explicitly: “fresh linens” are a note in Telegrama, and “a freshness like clean laundry” in Chapter 2.
Challenge justification: I’ve tried all the razor types on the list, so the seasoned-veteran clause applies to me. Last year, I managed to weasel my way around the list with a shitty dovette, but this year I finally ran out of razor types. This being an emergency, using an emergency first responder rescue tool seemed like the obvious choice. I’m very comfortable honing razors, but as u/gcgallant says every once in a while, razors are trivial to hone because the spine acts as a built-in bevel angle guide. I’ve never sharpened a knife free-hand, and just looking at the tool, it was immediately clear that I would have to set a completely new bevel, since this tool has a super blunt angle, so I made sure to also have a backup solution in case I can’t manage a good enough edge. The argument for the backup solution is that this scraper was sold (in German) as a “Schaber”, which is cognate with the English word “shaver”. Fits like the fist on the eye, right? (another German thing)
It just took me two hours setting the bevel on a 1000 grit water stone yesterday evening, and another one and a half hours on 3k to 10k to get it to cut arm hair. Easy peasy. I couldn’t find a comfortable way to hold the blade for north-to-south passes, but who needs those anyway. So all ATG I went, and you know what, it was both better and worse than I expected. First of all, it shaves, but it took me what felt like four or five ATG passes worth of awkward micro strokes to get somewhere approaching a close shave. I was very pleased with myself for not spilling any blood, but then the aftershave splash made me wince and yelp. Oh well.
Now that I’m writing this up sitting in my train to work, I can feel a patch I missed during my multiple cleanup passes and I know it’ll bother me all day. But on the upside, I didn’t need to use that glass scraper, so I know what I can use next year for this challenge.
I was too concentrated on the pointy Böker (pointy toes seem to be a trademark of Böker razors) to really pay attention to the 345 soap scent, but I did put a lot of effort into getting a wet and slick lather going, and it performed well enough.
PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 3 months ago
And you should definitely retire from competition for the year after that 😱
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 months ago
We’ll see, I’m sure there are some more things I can sharpen
DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 3 months ago
Kudos for having balls of steel for shaving with an outdoor knife. This reminded me of an old commercial where a few “tough guys” were shaving in a public bathroom. The toughest dude was shaving his head with a large bowie knife… afaik it was a commercial for an insurance company 😂 Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find said commercial, but I found this Bob Ross of knives who even shaves his face clean from a long beard without properly lathering the soap with a brush. 🤯 I mean sure, in ancient times that was how everyone shaved. Still takes a lot of skill and massive intestinal fortitude…
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 months ago
oh wow, he really makes that look easy :)