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.
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New week, and time for the other Holy Grail razor I’m lucky enough to own.
Feb. 26, 2024
Great shave. The Astra green blades have been working very well for the last couple shaves. I’m a bit shy to order a whole sleeve of them though. I ordered a sleeve of Personna blades after I had a great tuck of them and the whole sleeve sucks. They are packaged different, same brand and model, and perform terribly.
February 26, 2024
Brush: Chisel & Hound Gulf Short 26mm V22 Fanchurian
Razor: J.A. Henckels Friodur 472 13/16" Full Hollow Square Point
Lather: House of Mammoth - Beloved - Soap
Toner: Thayers - Lavender - Toner
Aftershave: House of Mammoth - Beloved - Splash
Talc: Yardley Classic
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
473;
February 26, 2024
Another nice shave with this razor. Definitely on the mild side.
Ski break is over and I don't feel like going back to the office at all. Ugh.
MM24 ++; (#PracticeMMarch24)
Varen ++;
Feb 26, 2024 - Mammoth Monday: Voices
Voices is great. That is all.
Rating: 4.5/5
Monday, February 26, 2024: Haslinger Hétfő
It's time for Haslinger on Monday. With the ring of death, lathering became difficult, so I scraped the soap together and created a small hill of death.
In unrelated news, I got lem.el to run on emacs, but I couldn't figure out how to find the threads on our instance. So I will continue to create the SOTD posts in emacs, and then paste them over to the webgui of Lemmy. This is not ideal, but lem.el is not well documented, and I lack the time and the energy to dive in.
Have a good night!