Thursday SOTD Thread, August 14th, 2025 (#793)

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• gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  August 14, 2025

  • Brush: Zenith B44 28mm Boar
  • Razor: Koraat 14 “Moarteen” 15/16" Full Hollow
  • Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - I, Rich Moose (Mutton -r/Wetshaving) - Soap
  • Toner: Thayers - Cucumber - Toner
  • Aftershave: Stirling Soap Co. - I, Rich Moose - Aftershave
  • Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz - Sir Irisch Moos - Eau de Cologne

  3 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.

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  Such a close shave today! Very comfortable. Now that I’m two weeks in, I feel no appreciable change in the edge, even though it has not been stropped since 7/31.

  Edge Microscope Images
  $RawHoggin
  $ShepherdsofStirling
  $headless
  $Stropless
  $discord

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• snooting@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  August 14th, 2025: MMOCMQ Day 14

  • Brush: AP Shave Co. “Amber Smoke” - Silksmoke 26mm Synthetic
  • Razor: GEM Micromatic Open Comb
  • Blade: Accuforge GEM Microcoat (14)
  • Lather: Mike’s Natural Soaps - Orange, Cedarwood, & Black Pepper - Soap
  • Post Shave: Stirling - Arance Mandarini - Aftershave
  • Post Shave: Stirling - Glacial Unscented - Balm
  • Fragrance: Stirling - Destination Unknown - EdT

  Home from my trip today and had an excellent three pass shave. It’s so nice shaving again in my own space.

  $discord

  BIG $monthofmikes

  Walking the righteous path to MMOC mastery ⚔️

  • u/Priusaurus
  • u/oswald_heist
  • u/expoqeteer
  • u/tsrblke
  • u/Tetriside
  • u/Lob-Star
  • u/Impressive_Donut114

  Fallen

  • u/merikus (day 2, no post)
  • u/Jill_Lett_Slim (day 5, no post)
  • u/Specialist-Quiet-833 (day 5, no post)
  • u/OnionMiasma (day 6, no post)
  • u/frankieIVfingers (day 8, no post)
  • u/Low_Key1782 (day 13, no post)

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• djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Day 13/31 of Riding through Serenity in Austerity

  • Brush: Zenith - 506 N XS (extra soft horse)
  • Razor: Zwilling J. A. Henckels Friodur 50 (7/8", hollow ground, stainless steel, masonic deco)
  • Lather: Barrister and Mann – Roam
  • Post Shave: Barrister and Mann – Roam Two
  • Fragrance: Barrister and Mann – Roam Two

  $FriodomRiders
  $HoneMeisterschaft
  $Equestrian

  Oops, forgot to post this until now

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  • gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you still going stropless?

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    • djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, but I made it back to home base after almost 4 weeks of travelling today, and I think I might strop for tomorrow’s morning shave. I’m curious about the difference!

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• BossHoggins10@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  August 14th, 2025: AA Day 14

  • Brush: Proraso - Professional Boar
  • Razor: Weck - Sextoblade Med Prep
  • Blade: Fromm Hair Shaper
  • Lather: Mike’s Natural Soaps - Vetiver - Soap
  • Post Shave: Catie’s Bubbles - 322 - Aftershave

  Today’s shave was good. Was probably the first day where I wasn’t digging vetiver since I had a pretty bad headache earlier, but I got through it. Brush is feeling even better know and I think the Fromm is getting even smoother somehow.

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• sahenders@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Aug 14, 2025 - Lonestar

  • Brush: Chisel & Hound Foundry 26mm Declaration Grooming B16 Badger Knot
  • Razor: Aylsworth Razors Drakkant Ti
  • Blade: Gillette Platinum [11]
  • Lather: Noble Otter - Lonestar - Soap
  • Post Shave: Noble Otter - Lonestar - Aftershave
  • Fragrance: Noble Otter - Lonestar - Eau de Parfum

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• walden@wetshav.ing ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  August 14th, 2025

  • Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts - "Santa Noir" w/ 28mm Badger
  • Razor: Union Razor Cutlery 5/8 Full Hollow (7)
  • Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Ozark Mountain - Soap
  • Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - I, Rich Moose - Aftershave
  • Post Shave: Declaration Grooming, House of Mammoth - Cerberus - Liniment

  I haven't used this razor in a little while, and since I had two great straight shaves the past couple of days, I figured it was a good time to break it out and test my new shallow angle skills. Great overall!

  I've mentioned before that I wanted to spin up a PieFed server, which is an alternative to Lemmy. I created a new VPS (this time in the USA for much faster latency from where I live) and got it going.

  Unfortunately, since I've experimented with PieFed once before and spun up an instance on my home server (using the same domain name (https://wetshav.ing), our little Lemmy instance here has been looking for it (and failing) for the last 3 months since I just spun it up, tested federation, and spun it down. Because of that, federation is broken at the moment. I can seemingly comment on Lemmy posts from PieFed, and Lemmy posts make their way to PieFed, but PieFed posts don't show up on Lemmy, and there's some other weird comment stuff that doesn't work.

  Hopefully, once our Lemmy server does it's thing tonight at midnight, it'll reattempt whatever it needs to attempt and everything will catch up. Right now the Lemmy logs say it's 1800+ activities behind, and that it retries every 24 hours. 1800+ sounds like it knows it's about 3 months behind with posts, comments, upvotes, etc all in the queue. So, my hope is that it'll sort of catch up on its own... but it might not.

  Anyway, if you want to try PieFed, applications are open at https://wetshav.ing. Just be warned it's still very new to me and could come crashing down at any moment! It should work just like Lemmy but with more options for squashing fascists and other undesirable users.

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  • walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nice.

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    • PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure about that?

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