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WetShaving

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This is a community of enthusiasts, hobbyists and artisans who enjoy a traditional wet shave: brush, soap, and safety or straight razor. We are a part of the WetShaving community found on Reddit, Discord, and IRC.

New subscribers welcome!

Please visit our wiki, which is always and forever a work in progress.

Our sister Mastodon instance is https://wetshaving.social.

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This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here.
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[–] Mosquito 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anyone know of an iOS app for Lemmy? Last I checked, they're hard to come by, if not straight-up nonexistent. I'm just working a browser for now.

[–] souleater7173 3 points 1 year ago

This list by the Lemmy people suggests one but it requires the beta client for apps. Don’t personally feel like messing with it until it’s released officially.

[–] merikus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only iOS app right now is called Mlem, and it is very much a beta. I've been very happy with the mobile browser experience, though. Displaying the main feed by new comments is very useful for this community.

[–] PorkButtsNTaters666 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] souleater7173 2 points 1 year ago

It’s also Android only. It doesn’t seem like these fediverse sites have really branched into iOS from a software dev perspective. I’m guessing that’s a mindset thing. I, personally, really like the whole Apple Walled Garden thing, but I can see why actually computer/network savvy people don’t.

[–] xgoldenjackalx 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been looking but can't seem to find one for iOS. Been also using the browser as much as I don't want to.

[–] Mosquito 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least the browser version of Lemmy seems to work like you expect. Haven't encountered any bugs yet, though my comments so far have been light on the formatting and links.

I'm curious about usernames...TESTING @xgoldenjackalx@sub.wetshaving.social

[–] Mosquito 2 points 1 year ago

Heads up: usernames autofill after four or five characters, but it takes a little while to load, so be patient.

[–] bigwalleye 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

if anyone has tried an ultrasonic to clean razors what solution did you use? wasn't sure what to put in mine, figured water and couple drops of dish soap couldn't hurt. it got it cleaner but missed some spots. was cleaning a blackbird and it didnt get all the stuff in the grooves of the handle.

[–] Sandman0 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Simple Green has always worked well for me. Sometimes I have to run a couple cycles to get everything off, depends on how dirty the razor is and also how good your USC is. In my experience you don't get really good results with one cycle until you're a couple hundred deep on your USC. Something about changing modulation if the frequencies being needed to keep them effective if I recall correctly. Been a minute.

[–] bigwalleye 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks. Just picked up some SG.

edit: the simple green working great! 10 minutes and razors coming out like brand new! it was always annoying to me how hard it was to get into all the nooks and crannies, pretty much just accepted the fact that there would always be dried soap or whatever in there, this makes it easy.

[–] AdWorried2804 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use a few drops of Dawn. After ultrasonic for a few minutes I lightly scrub the razor parts with a nylon brush to loosen anything that didn't release during the ultrasonic bath. I've been very happy with the results.

[–] Nevyn_1970 4 points 1 year ago

Thats what I did. Water as hot as it comes out of the tap, and a splash of Dawn. Still learning it. My Flare tips took about 6 90 second trips through the bath, and soft toothbrush to remove the stubborn bits of crud in the knurling.

[–] bmac92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a question. Just trying out this whole federated thing. Please ignore :)

[–] merikus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is it working for you?

[–] bmac92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, I said please ignore. Why are you ignoring my plea?

Seriously, though, it's taking some getting used to, but it's pretty cool. Definitely some kinks to work out, though I can see the potential.

[–] merikus 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was too cool when I saw your post from another instance, I couldn’t ignore!

[–] bmac92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'll be honest, I figured I'd just create a whole new reddit alternative account, so I went with an instance that wasn't tied to one of my niche hobbies.

Though, I went with lemmy.world because that's where /r/flashlight ended up.

Seems the biggest drawback is that some of the actibity hasn't synced yet, so on my sub page it's a little off.

[–] merikus 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s cool. I created an account on Lemmy.ml as well, but it’s cool how you can really be on any server and it doesn’t matter. Don’t get me wrong, there are problems, but it’s working better than what I expected.

A good app would fix it for sure.

[–] bmac92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's very cool. I'm very curious to see if it all takes off.

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