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Yes, they are such a good match 😊
Day 22 of Atlas Shaves 2 – Electric Boogaloo Sat 22 Feb 2025
- Brush: Stirling Soap Co. / Zenith - Boar Brush 31mm × 50mm
- Razor: Zwilling J. A. Henckels Friodur 17 (NOS, 7/8", hollow ground, stainless steel)Blade:
- Lather: Stirling Soap Co. – Satsuma
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. – Satsuma
- Fragrance: Acqua di Parma – Blu Mediterraneo Arancia di Capri
Easy one today with Stirling finally making an appearance.
Read to Victory:
| Category | ∑ | Δ |
|---|---|---|
| Daily theme soap | 12 | 0 |
| Artisan | 44 | +4 |
| Scenter | 0 | 0 |
| Half of the scent notes | 16 | 0 |
| Airbudding the day | 1 | 0 |
| Cross posting | 21 | +1 |
| Snitching | 7 | 0 |
| Snitching incorrectly | -5 | 0 |
| Goody Two-Shoes | 20 | +1 |
| Total | 118 | +6 |
Has anyone heard from him otherwise?
Yes, I've been in touch with him. He currently has a lot on his plate. We should see more of him again soon
Montrose Beach++;
Day 21 of Atlas Shaves 2 – Electric Boogaloo Fri 21 Feb 2025
- Brush: Chisel and Hound Intrepid with 26 mm Zenith boar knot at 53 mm loft
- Razor: Böker S.S. Paris Wins (6/8", carbon steel, full hollow, square point)
- Lather: Chicago Grooming Co (formerly Oleo Soapworks) – Montrose Beach
- Post Shave: Brut – Oceans
- Fragrance: Spearhead Shaving Company – Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime
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A little nautical-themed shave to match the artisan of today's theme soap, Chicago Grooming Company - Frankie & Myrna.
I used Montrose Beach a lot in 2021 and then kinda forgot about it. A very nice rediscovery.
Road to Victory:
| Category | ∑ | Δ |
|---|---|---|
| Daily theme soap | 12 | 0 |
| Artisan | 40 | +4 |
| Scenter | 0 | 0 |
| Half of the scent notes | 16 | 0 |
| Airbudding the day | 1 | 0 |
| Cross posting | 21 | +1 |
| Snitching | 7 | 0 |
| Snitching incorrectly | -5 | 0 |
| Goody Two-Shoes | 20 | +1 |
| Total | 112 | +6 |
Oh, who did you snitch on?
Day 20 of Atlas Shaves 2 – Electric Boogaloo Thu 20 Feb 2025
- Brush: Zenith 506B MB (27 mm × 51 mm Manchurian badger)
- Razor: Weck Sextoblade Med Prep
- Blade: Kismet Rostfrei, Polymer beschichtet
- Lather: Southern Witchcrafts and Chatillon Lux – La Forêt de Analingus for Excellence in Shitposting
- Post Shave: Southern Witchcrafts and Chatillon Lux – La Forêt de Analingus for Excellence in Shitposting
- Fragrance: Southern Witchcrafts and Chatillon Lux – La Forêt de Analingus for Excellence in Shitposting
After the kooky, naughty, obstreperous, and bellicose @pridetwo@sub.wetshaving.social tried to get me kicked out of AS2EB for pointing an inconsistency in his SOTD, a fierce legal battle ensued over my fate, spearheaded by the firewallden of djustice, @walden@sub.wetshaving.social, and now I am, like Lazarus, back from the dead. I still lost yesterday's points, which would appear to indicate that P2 was not entirely wrong. To the untrained eye, that is of course.
Today's theme is West Coast Shaving - Campfire with notes of cedar, cypress, and smoke. To celebrate the saving of my ass, I'm showing it some love with La Forêt de Analingus and its notes of cypress, oakmoss, cedar, vetiver, rose, geranium, juniper, bergamot, grapefruit, vanilla, benzoin, musk, patchouli, and a little more butthole
Read to Victory:
| Category | ∑ | Δ |
|---|---|---|
| Daily theme soap | 12 | 0 |
| Artisan | 36 | 0 |
| Scenter | 0 | 0 |
| Half of the scent notes | 16 | +2 |
| Airbudding the day | 1 | 0 |
| Cross posting | 20 | +1 |
| Snitching | 7 | 0 |
| Snitching incorrectly | -5 | 0 |
| Goody Two-Shoes | 19 | +1 |
| Total | 106 | +4 |
Who am I to disagree? 🎉
A nice little mailcall arrived.
I had tried Tobacconist a while back in soap form and loved it, and I've finally pulled the trigger on the frag. Such a nice rich tobacco scent!
I've first tried Macduff's base thanks to @sahenders@sub.wetshaving.social's BVWSC submission a few month back and I was really impressed with the soap base. The scent is a blind buy, but the scent notes tobacco, lemon zest, spiced plum, roasted coffee, vetiver, cedar were intriguing me and I really like the scent off the tub. I'm looking forward to exploring it after AS2EB.
Finally, the comically large tin of LPL is my first tub from this artisan after having tried it also thanks to BVWSC, this time from @PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social.
A very long awaited mail call from Black Friday finally made it to me and I was a bit worried about two of the blind buys in it. Fortunately I got lucky across the board.
The goods, from the safe buys to the risky ones:
- A bottle of SBS Valedictorian EdP. This has been one of my favourite outdoorsy scents for a few years now, but I've never had the frag so far.
- A bottle of uncool Shire splash. I love the scent of Shire, but the cooling agent in the previous splash always felt jarring to me. So far, all know stuff for me.
- A set of CF Gemütlichkeit soap and splash. I love warm wintry gourmands, so I was pretty sure I'd like this one and it's delightful off the tub. I'm looking forward to trying it soon.
- A trickhole set of CB Blugère. It felt a bit stupid to blind buy an entire trickhole set, but shipping and reshipping for alcohol over pond is super expensive and adding a frag to a shipment costs so much less that adding a shipment for the frag, so I made the gamble that I'd like it and would regret not getting the frag. I think that was the right call.
- A set of CB DFTR soap and splash. The description for this one has had me intrigued for a while now. Boozy green fig with tobacco and woods? Sounded delightful. The scent is really interesting (in a nice way): Bright fresh green with warm tobacco.The combination reminds me of both CGC/HoM Armonía and T&S Madagascar. I'll enjoy exploring this in more detail.
It feels good when a gamble pays off 😊
Nice little mail call. These three waterstones expand me options. I only had 3k and 10k waterstones so far and i was curious about how a little more range and resolution would feel.
Also, this dull-like-a-butter-knife Thiers Issard frameback. It's my first frameback, and it was a bitch to hone (I did that two days ago). It just would not pass the packing peanut test off the stone. A real mystery to me. In my limited experience, I always manage to get the edge sharp on the stone without stropping, if I used a light enough touch and alternate the sides frequently, ending on leading edge strokes. But not with this guy. It wouldn't even shave arm hair without stropping.
In my mental model, this means that the steel is ductile and forms a burr, but I'll gladly be corrected by any Honemeister who actually knows what they're doing😅
Either way, I have up after it somewhat push cut into the packing peanut, but was a bit disheartened when I compared it to the pushing-into-a-cloud sharpness of other straights. We'll see how it goes. Either I'll figure it out or maybe the steel has lost its temper and is a paper weight now?
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Day 23 of Atlas Shaves 2 – Electric Boogaloo Sun 23 Feb 2025
Ron made today's theme soap, Coastal by Stubble Buster, and he's also the artisan making Gemütlichkeit.
Road to Victory: