djundjila

@djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monday SOTD Thread - January 20th, 2025 (#589)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  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?

  Unfortunately it’s not that simple. You have to overcome elasticity, which means that in needs to be bent back more than just straight, so that in plastically deforms in the exact precise way that makes it straight again after unloading. Predicting the right deformation (i.e., this exact problem) is a difficult computational dark art in deep drawing. Also, you only get a few chances, because plastic deformation leads to work hardening (it’s like you’re forging the steel locally where it deforms locally).

  To illustrate the problem, you can bend a straight piece of hardened wire like a bicycle spoke and try to straighten it again. It’s almost impossible, because the exact location of your original bend has work-hardened and when you try to revert it, typically a part next to the original bend will bend instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monday SOTD Thread - January 20th, 2025 (#589)⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Peach & Cognac was the last A&E soap I ever bought (so far?) and I love this boozy gourmand. It’s just so comforting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunday SOTD Thread - January 19th, 2025 (#588)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  😬 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunday SOTD Thread - January 19th, 2025 (#588)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Beautiful picture.

  Did you ever find out the story behind the spelling of “cherie tobacco”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monday SOTD Thread - January 20th, 2025 (#589)⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Mon 20 Jan 2025

  • Brush: Zenith r/Wetshaving exclusive MOAR BOAR (31 mm × 57 mm bleached boar)
  • Razor: Zwilling J. A. Henckels Friodur 17 (NOS, 7/8", hollow ground, stainless steel)
  • Lather: House of Mammoth – Shire
  • Post Shave: Catie’s Bubbles – DFTR
  • Fragrance: Chatillon Lux – Gratiot League Square

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  A nice Mammoth Monday tobacco declension. All of these scents are somewhat rugged tobacco scents, but with completely different characters. We’re going from fresh outdoorsy happy tobacco in Shire, to bright green strong tobacco in DFTR, to smooth swee-leathery tobacco in Gration League Square. A nice Mammoth Monday start into the week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunday SOTD Thread - January 19th, 2025 (#588)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, sorry to hear about the Kamisori’s demise. Good that you didn’t try and catch it. I’m worried I’ll reflexively try to when I inevitably drop one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunday SOTD Thread - January 19th, 2025 (#588)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Gemütlich! Sun 19 Jan 2025

  • Brush: Zenith 506B MB (27 mm × 51 mm Manchurian badger)
  • Razor: Thiers Issard 14 Médaille d’Or 1921 Exposition d’Algier Acier Spécial (7/8", extra hollow, square point, carbon steel)
  • Lather: Chiseled Face – Gemütlichkeit
  • Post Shave: Chiseled Face – Gemütlichkeit
  • Fragrance: Tom Ford – Tobacco Vanille

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  I haven’t used the Chiseled Face base in forever and forgot how quickly it lathers. Gemütlichkeit is total gourmand overload and I love it for this lazy Sunday morning shave. I had been considering getting this set for a long time and I’m glad I finally did. The only bad surprise is the menthol in the splash (not anybody’s fault but mine, it’s right there in the ingredients list). I dislike menthol or synthetic cooling agents in warm scents, it feels jarring to me. So I’m not sure I’m going to use that splash again, but the soap is a winner. Not for everyday use, but for indulging extra-gemütlich winter weekend morning shaves like this one.

  The lather was a bit fluffy, but still slick enough for a close and gemütlich lazy Sunday morning shave with the big Thiers Issard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friday SOTD Thread - January 17th, 2025 (#586)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the plan :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friday SOTD Thread - January 17th, 2025 (#586)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! And 🍻

  Blugère ++;

  I got a bunch of compliments on it from my wife, and I suspect she’ll use the frag herself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saturday SOTD Thread - January 18th, 2025 (#587)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sat 18 Jan 2025

  • Brush: Zenith 506B MB (27 mm × 51 mm Manchurian badger)
  • Razor: Thiers Issard 14 Médaille d’Or 1921 Exposition d’Algier Acier Spécial (7/8", extra hollow, square point, carbon steel)
  • Lather: Catie’s Bubbles – DFTR
  • Post Shave: Catie’s Bubbles – DFTR
  • Fragrance: Chatillon Lux – Weinstrasse

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  Yay for DFTR. This scent is a wonderful puzzle to me. It’s fresh and warm and this dissonance is left hanging. The bright green note together with the tobacco reminds me of CGC Armonía, but only as a zeroth-degree approximation. It’s lively like Armonía, but the warm dry woody notes pull the whole thing in a different direction. I can see that it’ll take me a while to figure out this scent, and I’ll enjoy the journey.

  Bright green Weinstrasse plays really well with DFTR, and I think I’ll try matching it with Valedictorian next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friday SOTD Thread - January 17th, 2025 (#586)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Blugère buddies 🍻

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atlas shaves 2: official rules⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s GOOOOOOOOOO!

  I’ll might fail on day two because I’ll be in the mountains on that weekend, and there’s only one Mulligan, but a strategically well-chosen baggy of samples might just be what saves my butt?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friday SOTD Thread - January 17th, 2025 (#586)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks man!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friday SOTD Thread - January 17th, 2025 (#586)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks man!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friday SOTD Thread - January 17th, 2025 (#586)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  🍻

  Oh man, I hope you get back from this quickly, this sucks. Can’t even play with my kid 😮‍💨

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friday SOTD Thread - January 17th, 2025 (#586)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Blugère Friday 17 Jan 2025

  • Brush: Zenith 506B MB (27 mm × 51 mm Manchurian badger)
  • Razor: Thiers Issard 14 Médaille d’Or 1921 Exposition d’Algier Acier Spécial (7/8", extra hollow, square point, carbon steel)
  • Lather: Catie’s Bubbles – Blugère
  • Post Shave: Catie’s Bubbles – Blugère
  • Fragrance: Catie’s Bubbles – Blugère

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  I finally got to try the much hyped Blugère in its full trickhole glory, but I tweaked my back and was too distracted by pain to really enjoy it 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thursday SOTD Thread - January 16th, 2025 (#585)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Theme Thursday 16 Jan 2025

  • Brush: Zenith 506B MB (27 mm × 51 mm Manchurian badger)
  • Razor: Razorine Premium Brass
  • Blade: Lord New Lord Platinum
  • Lather: Vitos – Super Extra Coco
  • Post Shave: Proraso Balsamo Dopobarba Pelli Sensibili
  • Fragrance: Spearhead Shaving Company – Seaforth! Roman Spice

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  So, today’s theme remembering a dictator taking permanent power and giving the coup de grâce to a centuries old republic. Mkay 😅

  Vitos is an odd soap, it’s so hard that it crumbles into fine dust when pressed into a bowl, but it lathers beautifully. If it had a nice scent (or any scent, at this point), I think I’d use it more often.

  I have a few Italian razors, but the Razorine is the most fun (in a gimmicky sense). I don’t use it often, so today’s shave was slow and not equally close everywhere. The little Manchurian Zenith is currently my favourite brush, and also Italian.

  Only the frag is not from Italy, but Roman Spice can’t really be missing from this Roman shave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday SOTD Thread - January 15th, 2025 (#584)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry about the nick!

  It probably wasn’t your fault 🤣

  Strong dad energy 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday SOTD Thread - January 15th, 2025 (#584)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I did use a synth just to play it safe with the new-to-me base so that might have helped. Sorry about the nick!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday SOTD Thread - January 15th, 2025 (#584)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Buena Vista Wetshaving Social Club Wed 15 Jan 2025

  • Brush: Chisel and Hound Azurite with 26 mm Maggard Tuxedo knot
  • Razor: Thiers Issard 14 Médaille d’Or 1921 Exposition d’Algier Acier Spécial (7/8", extra hollow, square point, carbon steel)
  • Lather: Los Jabones de Joserra – Noir
  • Post Shave: Mühle – Aloe Vera

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  Another BVWSC shave in the books, again with a new to me artisan, this time from sunny España. @gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social chose a warm woody soap with a green heart. Just delightful. I don’t get the darkness that the name implies, and that’s just fine. The soap base is easy to use, with dense lather that hydrates gradually. There really doesn’t seem to be a shortage of great artisans :)

  This isn’t the first time that the BVWSC makes me discover a new artisan that I instantly like and am tempted to include in my den.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tuesday SOTD Thread - January 14th, 2025 (#583)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  🍻

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday SOTD Thread - January 8th, 2025 (#577)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t know why I keep it.

  I keep it because 1) it smells good and 2) I can’t still it in good conscience (unlike scoot 😅, apparently)

  My real treasures are 4 PAA soaps

  *gasp* 🙈 🙉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monday SOTD Thread - January 13th, 2025 (#582)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  💯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tuesday SOTD Thread - January 14th, 2025 (#583)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tabac Tuesday 14 Jan 2025

  • Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts Tabak Oridjinal, now with 28 mm Gelousy knot
  • Razor: Thiers Issard 14 Médaille d’Or 1921 Exposition d’Algier Acier Spécial (7/8", extra hollow, square point, carbon steel)
  • Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
  • Post Shave: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
  • Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original

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  Nice and uneventful Tabac Tuesday shave. They don’t call it “Old Reliable” for nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monday SOTD Thread - January 13th, 2025 (#582)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I see. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monday SOTD Thread - January 13th, 2025 (#582)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazing that we have 7 members already 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monday SOTD Thread - January 13th, 2025 (#582)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you get from the preshave? I used to have a preshave product when I started out, but I never figured out what benefit it gave me so I stopped

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday SOTD Thread - January 8th, 2025 (#577)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, in the abstract, I might consider giving away soaps, but I literally can’t think on one I wouldn’t miss other than garbage like DG Opulence, and those I don’t want to inflict on anyone 😅

  I’ve given away BaM Bay Rum because I sort of outgrew the scent, but that’s it so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monday SOTD Thread - January 13th, 2025 (#582)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mammoth Monday 13 Jan 2025

  • Brush: Zenith 506B MB (27 mm × 51 mm Manchurian badger)
  • Razor: Thiers Issard 14 Médaille d’Or 1921 Exposition d’Algier Acier Spécial (7/8", extra hollow, square point, carbon steel)
  • Lather: House of Mammoth – Shire
  • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Shire 2
  • Fragrance: House of Mammoth – Shire 2

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  Great trickhole shave Mammoth Monday with uncool Shire splash 🎉🎉. This bottle of uncool splash was part of my Black Friday haul which finally had made it to me on Thursday. I happily jumped on the opportunity when u/mammothben announced the uncool splash because warm scents with cooling agents aren’t for me. Really looking forward to combining this splash with Valedictorian someday soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thursday SOTD Thread - January 9th, 2025 (#578)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes sense. Plus, it’s always nice to see your AA edge images :)