PorkButtsNTaters666
@PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - January 19th, 2025 (#588) 7 hours ago:
No gas here, only induction. But I didn’t know that a small torch provides the power of the sun 💥
- Comment on Tuesday SOTD Thread - January 21st, 2025 (#590) 8 hours ago:
I bloomed my soap! 🆘🆘🆘🆘 Alert the Friedberg!
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - January 19th, 2025 (#588) 12 hours ago:
I have consumer-grade kitchen ustensils, and I doubt that even with fat, I will get much above 300 degrees (assuming I don’t set fire)
- Comment on Monday SOTD Thread - January 20th, 2025 (#589) 12 hours ago:
I willdefinitely give it a try, but I’m wondering if reaching out to the head of River Razors is the best option 🤔
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - January 19th, 2025 (#588) 20 hours ago:
As to heating up, what temps are we talking about as to not interfere with the tempering?
- Comment on Monday SOTD Thread - January 20th, 2025 (#589) 1 day ago:
I also generally prefer the Kai’s, but I had this one in the shavette, so I’m using it 🤷
- Comment on Monday SOTD Thread - January 20th, 2025 (#589) 1 day ago:
Not looking good, I see 😩
- Comment on Monday SOTD Thread - January 20th, 2025 (#589) 1 day ago:
Primidi 1 Pluviôse an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Lauréole
- Preshave: Proraso White Preshave
- Brush: Zenith 506U XS Horse 🐎
- Razor: Feather Artist Club SS Kamisori
- Blade: Feather Pro Guard (9)
- Lather: Le Père Lucien Bay Rum
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Pitralon Classic After Shave
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
I used the kamisori shavette today – no slippage. The shave with the shavette is quicker, but less close. Also, this blade starts tugging, so I may get rid of it soon.
@gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social: I screwed up and responded to myself, rather than to you, but here are the photos. I don’t know if you see anything.
At this time I’m wondering whether putting the lower part of the kamisori blade into a (padded) vice might be able to straighten the thing back?
Anyways, have a good evening!
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - January 19th, 2025 (#588) 1 day ago:
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - January 19th, 2025 (#588) 1 day ago:
I will get to it after work. Thanks for looking at it!
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - January 19th, 2025 (#588) 2 days ago:
I suckin taking photos, but this illustrates the problem:
Before, this was 100% symmetrical. There are no chips in the blade.
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - January 19th, 2025 (#588) 2 days ago:
Maybe local hone hero @gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social has a secret recipe for straightening the bent?
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - January 19th, 2025 (#588) 2 days ago:
Thanks! I broke a mug this morning, too - not my day 😭
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - January 19th, 2025 (#588) 2 days ago:
Décadi 30 Nivôse an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Crible
- Preshave: Proraso White Preshave
- Brush: Semogue C3 Galahad Horse 🐎
- Razor: River Razors Kamisori
- Lather: Abbate y la Mantia Ishtar
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Zingari Man Mousse Illuminée Recovery Splash
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
It has finally happened: my clumsiness manifested during the shave, and I dropped a straight into the sink. The kamisori is symmetrical no more, and upon inspection and stropping, the whole blade is warped to one side, more at the toe than at the heel, and the toe bites into the stropping leather. Positive side: I didn’t try to catch it, and no one was hurt.
I will certainly need to rehone this before using it again, but I’m not sure that it will ever be the same. Shit happens! (But maybe that’s a sign that I should go back to DEs and GEMs.)
Have a good day!
- Comment on Saturday SOTD Thread - January 18th, 2025 (#587) 3 days ago:
Nonidi 29 Nivôse an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Mercure
- Preshave: Proraso White Preshave
- Brush: Yaqi 28mm Synthetic Rock
- Razor: Mühle R41 (3-piece)
- Blade: Astra Superior Platinum (27)
- Lather: Abbate y la Mantia Ishtar
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Epsilon Blue Mediterranean
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
A quick shave, knocking down 3 days of growth. I binned the blade, if it was a straight, it would have needed another hone.
Have a good night!
- Comment on Free Talk Friday - January 17th, 2025 3 days ago:
🎉🎉🎉🎉
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread - January 15th, 2025 (#584) 6 days ago:
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread - January 15th, 2025 (#584) 6 days ago:
Sorry about the nick!
It probably wasn’t your fault 🤣
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread - January 15th, 2025 (#584) 6 days ago:
Sextidi 26 Nivôse an 233 de la Révolution, jour d’Étain: Buena Vista Wetshaving Social Club - January Edition
- Preshave: Proraso White Preshave
- Brush: Semogue C3 Galahad Horse 🐎
- Razor: Ertan Süer L’Ours Russe (7/8th)
- Lather: Los Jabones de Joserra - Noir
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Pitralon Classic After Shave
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
Time for BVWSC again, this time courtesy of @gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social! Like @djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social, both the soap and the artisan are new to me. The soap was expertly sealed, and was black, as advertised. To stay on theme, I also chose a razor with black scales.
Upon opening it, I mainly got an impression of smoke. They say:
The combination of cypress, vetiver, frankincense and musk appears fresh and dark at the same time. He [sic!] has something dry and earthy about it.
~The probably machine-generated translation did not use a recent LLM, I assume~
I found the scent very discrete, and had trouble identifying any of these (maybe because my nose is not as functional as usual these days in the cold season?). I also found the soap rather finicky to lather: I had to use about double the dose I thought initially I would need, and still slightly overshot the optimal dose of water, resulting in a rather runny, and not very protective lather (yes, I cut myself in the neck, you guessed correctly).
The experience of @djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social was markedly different, so probably I should try this again with filtered water and a synthetic nod (I have very hard water, which plays not too well with other artisans as well, e.g., AYLM). I reserve judgment for the moment, and will try again – the smush is big enough for a second shave.
Have a good day!
- Comment on Monday SOTD Thread - January 13th, 2025 (#582) 1 week ago:
- Comment on Monday SOTD Thread - January 13th, 2025 (#582) 1 week ago:
It will be a while before we reach total world shaving dômination 👀
- Comment on Monday SOTD Thread - January 13th, 2025 (#582) 1 week ago:
I have very dry skin, and it seems to help with that. Other than that, at some time in the past, I fell for a greatly reduced 300ml tub of preshave, and I used it because I had it. And somehow I got used to it 🤷
- Comment on Monday SOTD Thread - January 13th, 2025 (#582) 1 week ago:
Quartidi 24 Nivôse an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Cuivre
- Preshave: Proraso White Preshave
- Brush: Zenith 506U XS Horse 🐎
- Razor: Thiers-Issard 188 7/8 'Coq et Renard’
- Lather: Le Père Lucien Bay Rum
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Zingari Man Mousse Illuminée Recovery Splash
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
I got two samples with my order from LPL, among which Bay Rum. I never tried any bay rum scented product, so I was excited! I rather enjoy the scent, though I get some slight tingeling on my face – probably not for me!
Have a good day!
- Submitted 1 week ago to wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social | 1 comment
- Comment on Thursday SOTD Thread - January 9th, 2025 (#578) 1 week ago:
That is very kind of you – let me think about it. Ideally, I’d have a sausage-sauerkraut flavored soap 😜
- Comment on Thursday SOTD Thread - January 9th, 2025 (#578) 1 week ago:
Thanks 👍
- Comment on Thursday SOTD Thread - January 9th, 2025 (#578) 1 week ago:
Whiskey-labeled soaps who end up smelling like smoked sausages
Public service question: which one is/are these?
- Comment on Thursday SOTD Thread - January 9th, 2025 (#578) 1 week ago:
The aftershave was also unscented, except for the fact that I dumped a sample of Roman Spice into it, so it actually smells like Roman Spice.
Now that I think about it, that kind of makes sense.
- Comment on Thursday SOTD Thread - January 9th, 2025 (#578) 1 week ago:
Décadi 20 Nivôse an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Van
- Preshave: Proraso White Preshave
- Brush: Zenith 506U XS Horse 🐎
- Razor: Star 1912 Type Razor
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (17)
- Lather: Le Père Lucien Traditionnel
- Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
- Postshave: Epsilon Blue Mediterranean
- Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm
I received a mail today from Le Père Lucien (4 shaving soaps and an after-shave; I will not be able to kill 4 soaps this year, I’m afraid…), and I also got a smush of his Traditionnel soap. So why not start with this one? First impressions: It provides a good and protective lather, but the smell reminded me disturbingly of a Bouquet Garni that I would put into soup.
Official scent notes: Lavender, eucalyptus, thyme, rosmary
~Now that I see it, I should have listened to Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel while shaving.~
Excellent shave with the 1912.
Have a good evening!
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread - January 8th, 2025 (#577) 1 week ago:
Somehow, I woke up with razor burn on my neck that wasn’t there when I went to sleep…
Maybe tell your wife that you already shaved? 😎
