walden
@walden@wetshav.ing
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread, November 12th, 2025 (#883) 11 hours ago:
There’s even a chat program now that these comments get cross-posted to, further drawing us in. Zulip server
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread, November 12th, 2025 (#883) 11 hours ago:
Here’s his answer:
Lux came out in 2016, Prem in 2022
I picked Prem cause it seemed like the only way to step higher
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread, November 12th, 2025 (#883) 13 hours ago:
Maybe I’ll ask Chris in the Discord chat.
I can only assume it’s because Luxury came first, so changing the name of that base would confuse people? Although before Premium came out, I don’t know if his base had a name.
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread, November 12th, 2025 (#883) 17 hours ago:
I think to spend the money on a Streamline you have to want it for reasons other than “it shaves”. I don’t think any GEM razor is worth whatever these cost ($150? $200?) for the shave alone.
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread, November 12th, 2025 (#883) 17 hours ago:
@sahenders@sub.wetshaving.social
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@pi_dash_rho@wetshav.ingDid I miss anyone?
BVWSC smushes of Fanzine Saponifications - Carrivagio went in the mailbox a couple of days ago… only a week to get to people’s houses. My apologies! We will play it by ear for next Wednesday, the 19th.
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread, November 12th, 2025 (#883) 17 hours ago:
November 12th, 2025
- Brush: Wolf Whiskers - "Gianmaria" w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
- Razor: Ever-Ready Streamline Jewel
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (9)
- Lather: Catie's Bubbles - 322 - Soap
- Post Shave: Spearhead Shaving Company - Seaforth! Heather - Toner
- Post Shave: Nivea - Sensitive - Balm
Love it. 322 is dank and wonderful, and the Premium base is pure luxury (shouldn't the Luxury base be named something else?).
- Comment on Tuesday SOTD Thread, November 11th, 2025 (#882) 1 day ago:
November 11th, 2025
- Brush: Stirling Soap Co. 24mm Synthetic
- Razor: Gillette Atra - Handle
- Blade: Personna Twin Pivot Plus (Atra) Cart (8)
- Lather: Wet Shaving Products - Black Amber Vanille - Soap
- Post Shave: RazoRock - Puros - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Kelp & Sea Mineral - Lotion
Decent shave. This lather ok. Just one of those things where you have to load dry/damp and heavy. The scent of this soap is right up my alley.
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread, November 9th, 2025 (#880) 3 days ago:
I agree on RazoRock handles – every one I’ve held has great knurling.
- Comment on Free Talk Friday - November 7th, 2025 3 days ago:
PieFed (https://wetshav.ing) has been updated to v1.3. There are a lot of new little features, my favorite of which is you can tag people more easily, similar to Lemmy. Just type @name and it’ll give you a list to pick from. @walden@wetshav.ing for example.
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread, November 9th, 2025 (#880) 3 days ago:
Honing seems like half science and half “need lots of experience to be comfortable knowing what you’re doing”.
Are you only taking it up through 8k? People here always seem to recommend and use up through 12k. I only have a 10k which works great for me, but I haven’t experienced anything different.
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread, November 9th, 2025 (#880) 3 days ago:
November 9th, 2025: MM24 Birthday
- Brush: Wolf Whiskers - "Gianmaria" w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (7)
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - I, Rich Moose - Soap
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - I, Rich Moose - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Nivea - Sensitive - Balm
- Fragrance: Geoffrey Beene - Grey Flannel - EdC
$discord
4 years ago, the MM24 took the world by storm. With a Micromatic handle (because they're great handles) and an Ever-Ready 1924 (Shovel Head) head, this Frankensteinian razor offers something unique and enjoyable. Mine has a two-tone handle which makes it even cooler.In the past I've gotten questionable shaves from the Shovel Head, preferring other styles of GEM razors. Today might have changed my mind… Maybe it was the lather, or my technique was better today, or the fact that I have a PTFE blade with 7 uses which in general is a nice sweet spot for those blades… maybe a combination of all of it! Either way, excellent shave.
- Comment on Saturday SOTD Thread, November 8th, 2025 (#879) 4 days ago:
Is this your Streamline? Do you know which generation it is? https://wiki.wetshav.ing/Curated_Articles/Streamline
I need to break mine out. I love the heft, the style, the thick high quality chrome plating… It’s so beautiful.
- Comment on Saturday SOTD Thread, November 8th, 2025 (#879) 4 days ago:
November 8th, 2025: Very nice!
- Brush: Maggard Razors - Tuxedo 24mm Synthetic
- Razor: RazoRock GOAT
- Blade: Zorrik Super Platinum (8)
- Lather: House of Mammoth - You & I (Will Die) - Soap
- Post Shave: Chatillon Lux - Nefertiti - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Nivea - Sensitive - Balm
- Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Jitterbug - EdP
After 5 days of varying levels of having no water, water full of bleach, cold water only, etc., the house is finally up and running! We got a new boiler with fancy new zone pumps, new indirect water heater, well tank, well filter, a UV light that the water runs through (just in case), and most importantly – a new water softener that doesn't make us fail fecal bacteria tests! The old softener was bypassed when we bought the house, and after using it for a while we found out why it was bypassed. We couldn't pass a well water test, and dishes would sometimes smell foul. We bypassed it again, treated the system, and all of our problems went away (except for the water being slightly hard… just enough to be annoying). So replacing it was an easy decision, especially since we replaced everything else at the same time!
It's so nice having soft water again. Super soft water with 0 hardness isn't my style either – it's slimy and things slip out of your hands. I have a mixing valve in the mail which will let me add in a bit of untreated water to make it more manageable.
Along with some car repairs on my wife's 2006 Xterra and a new dishwasher, it's shaping up to be an expensive week. These are things that we've been planning on doing for 3 or 4 years, so it's very nice to have it all coming together.
- Comment on Free Talk Friday - November 7th, 2025 5 days ago:
Due to me being out of town when an electrician did some work at our house, the Shaving Data System has been down for a couple of days. It’s back up now!
The worst part of this was my ADSB antenna which feeds FlightAware and Flightradar24. The FlightAware website gives you a stat of “longest streak”. Your receiver needs to contact FlightAware at least once per day to keep the streak going. Even when moving houses multiple times, I made sure the raspberry pi that it runs on got turned on at least once a day while in transit.
That streak is now over, and I’m starting anew. 2,561 days, or 7.02 years – and now I’m back to square one! I am at least thankful that I reached 7 years straight, and not 6.99 years, for example.
What did I learn from this? Well, I should explore BIOS settings to make my server turns on whenever power is reestablished. I should also make my Raspberry Pi reboot once a day – It never turned off because it’s on a different circuit, but once it lost wifi for a while, it never reconnected. I also need to create a fallback DNS for when my AdGuard Home DNS server is down. My other raspberry pi’s did reconnect to wifi despite DNS not working, so I could at least back door in and connect to them. Not the adsb one, though.
Oh well! The plumbing project that caused the hiccup appears complete pending inspection. It looks pretty snazzy! I’ll share a picture later.
- Comment on Thursday SOTD Thread, November 6th, 2025 (#877) 6 days ago:
Weinstrasse++
- Comment on Thursday SOTD Thread, November 6th, 2025 (#877) 6 days ago:
November 6, 2025
- Brush: Stirling Soap Co. - 2-Band Synthetic 24mm
- Razor: Gillette Atra
- Blade: Personna Twin Pivot Plus (8)
- Lather: Barrister & Mann - Ubrique - Soap
- Post-shave: RazoRock - Puros - Aftershave
- Post-shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Kelp & Sea Mineral - Face Lotion
Great scent! Great soap base!
My home server is down so the Shaving Data System is offline, but luckily ShavingInCT has an arguably better tool available to format SOTD’s!
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread, November 5th, 2025 (#876) 1 week ago:
cold water - November 5, 2025
- Brush: Maggard Razors - Tuxedo 24mm Synthetic
- Razor: RazoRock GOAT
- Blade: Zorrik Super Platinum (7)
- Lather: House of Mammoth - You & I (Will Die) - Soap
- Post-shave: Sketch - Bay Rum - Aftershave
Very nice cold water shave. They’re working on replacing our boiler, so no heat or hot water. Luckily I get to skip town and stay in hotels for work the next couple of nights. yayy.
Writing this SOTD from a new tool made by ShavingInCT. It’s pretty amazing so far! It pulls in your razor/brushes/soaps etc. from the Shaving Data System if you have that set up, so you can manage your den using a cool spreadsheet style database that gives you lots of neat info, and then hop on over to this SOTD generator and Bob’s your uncle.
- Comment on Tuesday SOTD Thread, November 4th, 2025 (#875) 1 week ago:
I’ve noticed something similar, but warmth always wins.
- Comment on Tuesday SOTD Thread, November 4th, 2025 (#875) 1 week ago:
November 4th, 2025: Sneaked a shave in
- Brush: Maggard Razors - Tuxedo 24mm Synthetic
- Razor: RazoRock GOAT
- Blade: Zorrik Super Platinum (6)
- Lather: House of Mammoth - You & I (Will Die) - Soap
- Post Shave: Australian Private Reserve - Raconteur - Aftershave
Welp, after planning on ending my 5+ year streak of daily shaves due to plumbing work being done at our house, it turns out I was able to get a nice hot shower and a nice relaxing shave. Our well was chlorine shocked yesterday, but I was able to run enough water to dilute it to levels that won't melt your eyeballs out!
I'll be able to shave tomorrow, too… but it'll be a cold water shave since they'll be starting work to replace the boiler.
You & I Will Die is really good. I don't like the name, but I love the scent.
- Comment on Thursday SOTD Thread, August 14th, 2025 (#793) 2 months ago:
In this case would you do extra stropping, or just the normal amount of stropping?
- Comment on Thursday SOTD Thread, August 14th, 2025 (#793) 2 months 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.
