Share your Shave of the Day for Saturday!
Décadi 20 Vendémiaire an 234 de la Révolution, jour de Pressoir
- Brush: Muninn Woodworks Gloire de France with Zenith 505BC Boar 🐗
- Razor: Koraat 14.2 Straight Razor
- Lather: Martin de Candre Absinthe
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Tabac Original After Shave Lotion
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
Now that the Barbarasso has gone to vacations in Switzerland, I felt that I should try something a bit rarer. The Koraat felt much sharper than my usual razors – I guess it is time I honed them again 😅
Uneventful shave, and Tabac as an aftershave after Absinthe is not as strange as it may sound at first sight.
Have a good day!
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 days ago
Day 11/31 of
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I was at a conference in @PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social’s home turf and we met for a lovely dinner, where he surprised me with his Dovo Barbarossa to try. The Barbarossa is a fascinating and odd little razor. It’s a 5/8" blade, seemingly made from the same blade blank as the regular modern Dovo 5/8"s, see my Dowo 41 Inox blade for comparison (which I happened to travel with, coincidentally), but the blade is about one third shorter. The Spanish tip makes it look even more stubby.
I’ve been curious about this for a while because I don’t really understand why traditional straights have a ~75 mm edges. Anyone who, like me, has a patch with horizontal direction in their beard growth pattern in the hollow bits under the jaw line knows that the long blades get in the way where the shorter blade of a DE or a traditional kamisori don’t. In short (pun unintended), the design made sense to me.
So, how does it shave? First off, with the short blade and the wooden scales, this thing is so light it’s a bit unsettling at first. Then, I wasn’t aware how much I’m usually just keeping the tip of a straight in view, and this short blade always tried hiding behind my hand. Both of these issues are just small deviations that play tricks with muscle memory, though, and easily overcome with a bit of focus.
The shave was uneventful, and the shorter blade wasn’t the superpower I thought it was, but I probably need to play a little with the new geometry to figure out how to best exploit it before floating the idea of a sub-exclusive short-blade cleaver out of Ulrik’s new 9/8 blanks 😅
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 2 days ago
I’m currently working with Ulrik on razor that will allow me to test the Damascus steel he uses. As usual, he is just a pleasure to deal with. (This will be my fifth Koraat 🙄)
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 1 day ago
I’ve been having some less pleasant dealings with Ulrik recently. I was one of the first customers for his bigger 9/8 blanks. He accepted an order for a custom blade with engravings, then made it without and wanted me to buy it. Only after I asked about the engraving, he said that he couldn’t do that any more because his engraver quit. I asked whether he’d be looking for a new one, but haven’t gotten an answer. He’s been ghosting me for about two months now. Very disappointing
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 2 days ago
I was sent a very short stainless, hollow ground razor from Portland Razor Company to hone. You can see the length in the photo below. I also thought that there would be significant advantages to the shorter size, but found that I am so comfortable with all the technique work I’ve done, the short blade felt like more of a hindrance than a help. Image
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 1 day ago
This is what I’m thinking too. There should be an advantage, but we learned to deal with the longe edge, so we’re not seeing it immediately.
PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 3 days ago
It is a bit awkward in the hand. Once your back home, could we see a size comparison with your kamisori of decadence?
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 2 days ago
Similar, but the Kami is bigger
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