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October 2, 2024
Brush: Wald Nimbus Bloodline 27mm J3
Razor: Hart Steel 6/8 Quarter Hollow
Lather: Declaration Grooming - Cerberus - Soap
Aftershave: Noble Otter - Cerberus - Aftershave
Fragrance: Declaration Grooming - Cerberus - Eau de Parfum
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
Today's shave was a very enjoyable test shave of this Le Grelot Royal Canadian. Cerberus was fantastic, as always!
Wednesday, October 2, 2024: Stratcona Wednesday
I am alternating Old Strathcona and Autumn Ash until OS is gone – I would assume I have 3 or 4 shaves left.
Have a good night!
Oct 2, 2024 - Spiced!
Bentley for Men Intense ++ 👍🏻
It's a really good companion to Spiced
October 2, 2024
This tub is on the kill block. I used it for AA and there are only a few shaves left in it. I need to make room for the tub of Sea Ice Lime that I got in the https://spearheadshaving.com giveaway.
What's notable to me about Port-Au-Prince is that I started the month thinking it was a meh scent, and ended the month loving it. I never got sick of it, and even a month removed from the AA shenanigans I still find it a wonderful smell. I can see myself replacing it with some other vetiver scent eventually -- maybe from Mike's Natural?
En rechtige Giel het n Hegel em Sack.
Growing up in Switzerland, Victorinox Swiss army knives had a special significance, and ever since I was a cub scout over 30 years ago, I've been carrying one in my pocket. A habit so deeply ingrained that I've had to "donate" a dozen or so at airport security checks because I forgot to check them in.
Victoria was briefly (from 1909 on) the old name of Victorinox. In 1921, the company specialized in stainless steel so completely that they changed the company name to Victorinox (= Victoria + acier inoxydable), way before Friodur patented the cryogenic hardening process for knife steel, btw. This means that this pristine Victoria half-hollow with the pretty horn scales must have had very meticulous owner in the last 100+ years, because there is not a speck of rust on it. It looks like it was manufactured yesterday. The only give-away is the half-hollow grind without belly which completely fell out of favour sometime in the first half of the last century. I've only ever seen two Victoria straight razors for sale and the other one wasn't anywhere near this well preserved.
A wonderful shaver, this, and it feels similar to my Heljestrand (unsurprisingly also a half-hollow). It has the weight of a hollow with the sound of a wedge, which sounds like exactly the wrong combination (i.e., the opposite of a big 14) but it's just butter smooth unlike the tiny wedges like the Spike, which feel like a hard pencil on rough paper. And maybe I have a bit of a bias for sentimental reasons, too.
En rechtige Giel het n Hegel em Sack.
I am Arthur Schopenhauer, and I disapprove of this statement.
Immanuel tried to say something to disapprove of this message too - but he Kant...
Wait until you hear what Karl would to the Hegel!
Setting it from its head to its feet?
Edit: I see your photo shows the Marxist view
As befits lemmy😄