September 30, 2024

• Brush: Zenith B40 28mm Boar

• Razor: Koraat 14-2.0 8/8" Full Hollow

• Lather: Shulton - Old Spice - Soap

• Aftershave: Shulton - Old Spice - Aftershave

2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.

Ending Straightember with the good stuff! Shulton Old Spice never disappoints. The Zenith B40 boar has been a real pleasure to Raw Hog all month. It's a terrific brush. Finally, the Koraat, with it's fresh JNat edge, performed magnificently.

Monday, September 30, 2024: Autumn!

• Preshave: Proraso Green Preshave
• Brush: Muninn Woodworks Gloire de France with Zenith 505BC Boar 🐗
• Razor: Thiers-Issard 188 7/8 'Coq et Renard'
• Lather: Southern Witchcraft Autumn Ash
• Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
• Postshave: Epsilon Blue Mediterranean
• Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm

It's getting cold, and heating is not yet to be found. Good shave, but Epsilon's stank is difficult to get used to – definitely beyond Tabac's stank.

Have a good night!

~Shared via emacs & sotd.el~

Sep 30, 2024 - Mammoth Monday: Ausflug

• Brush: Zenith Multi-Color (2006 XSE) 21mm Unbleached Boar Knot
• Razor: Blackland Razors Blackbird Ti
• Blade: Gillette Platinum [10]
• Lather: House of Mammoth - Ausflug - Soap
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Damocles - Splash

I'm thinking that Ausflug might be up there as SOTY for me.

Rating: 5/5

September 30, 2024

• Brush: Maggard 24mm Synthetic
• Razor: GEM Flying Wing
• Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (5)
• Lather: Red House Farms - No Scrub - Soap
• Post Shave: Old Spice - Original - Aftershave
• Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Jitterbug - EdP

An "ironic" shave.

Lather - A soap organized by @enndeegee@sub.wetshaving.social and made by a soaper who was shunned by IRC. The soap was given to winners of the enndeegee "No Scrub" contest and also to organizers, judges, and other contributors to the Lather Games. Ironically absent is anyone from the IRC gang.

Aftershave - The favorite smell of u/cowzilla3, writer of many reviews. Reviewers have historically been chased off the sub by the IRC gang, including by myself back in my IRC days. People like velocipedic wrote lots of reviews, made a lot of revisions to the r/wetshaving wiki, etc., and were looked down upon by the IRC gang. Asking why there aren't more reviews with a history like that is pretty laughable.

Frag - I got Jitterbug as a gift from Ben after helping him with a spreadsheet. I remember multiple times where the IRC bullies ganged up on Ben for talking too much about his creative process. I guess they were annoyed by that? They've ganged up on most of our outstanding members. J33p, DJ, and whoever else dared to publicly speak the truth about the IRC bullies got banned from IRC. A blessing in disguise. IRC has been in a battle against r/wetshaving for 2+ years now.

I'm listening to the new album by u/VisceralWatch as I'm typing this up. The album was sponsored by a soaper who is still active in the sub, along with someone else from r/wetshaving. The album is a result of a great collaboration, and winners were recently announced as part of the 5 year celebration by u/Ironbeard_SYS at spearheadshaving.com.

Adults have the ability make their own decisions about which websites they use. Children only have the ability to complain.

If you think r/wetshaving is in a lul, dying, or threatened by some other website with 9 monthly users, etc... get your head out of your ass. We're not going to wait, so try and keep up.

Mon 30 Sep 2024 – TabOKtoberfest Eve

• Brush: Semogue Owner's Club (cherry wood and boar) (60)
• Razor: Zwilling J. A. Henckels Friodur 17 (NOS, 7/8", hollow ground, stainless steel)
• Lather: Noble Otter – Firefighter
• Post Shave: Noble Otter – Firefighter
• Fragrance: Acqua di Parma Blu Mediterraneo – Arancia di Capri

Happy TabOKtoberfest Eve, friends. Tomorrow starts the road to Stanksgiving, and I'm looking forward to switching from Straightember, with one straight razor and brush while varying the software every day, to TabOKtober (Tabac-Offene-Klinge-October), with Glorious Old Man Stank® every day while varying the open blade razor.

This shave marks use 60 of the SOC and use 30 of this Frio edge. These SOCs are really nice once broken in, but they do require a bit of patience to get them there, at least when compared to Zenith boars, my base line for boar brushes.

The Friodur 17 gave be a month of lovely shaves. This grand-daddy of modern stainless steel is just so nice to work with: these blades hone up very easily on synthetic stones (according to @gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social and @whosgotthepudding@sub.wetshaving.social, they also work well with natural stones, but I have no first-hand experience of it), they hold their edge very long, and the fact that they are made from stainless steel makes them just so much more convenient in the day-to-day because you don't have to be paranoid about residual moisture in the pin or scales like with classic carbon steel straights. The form factor of the 17 is also very pleasant. A bit smaller – both narrower and shorter, it still ends up being 1 g heavier than the venerable 14 due to the thicker grind. I'm definitely glad I kept my eyes open until a NOS 17 showed up on eBay at a reasonable price.

This lovely Firefighter shave is the last use of the 17 for a while, and I'm looking forward to giving my other open blade razors a whirl this month.