100%. Home sweet home

It is pretty nice 😊

Tue 31 Dec 2024

• Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts Tabak Oridjinal, now with 28 mm Gelousy knot
• Razor: Böker – 14er (8/8", extra hollow, carbon steel, square point)
• Blade: Feather New Hi-Stainless
• Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
• Post Shave: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original
• Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original

A nice relaxed Stankening. Ending the year basking in the Glory Of The Stank® feels appropriate. I think the vegan Tabac base dries out more than the tallow version, and I find myself loading a lot longer than with the previous puck. At least according to my potentially unreliable memory.

Mon 30 Dec 2024

• Brush: Simpson Chubby 2 Manchurian
• Razor: GEM Micromatic Flying Wing (NOS, chrome plated)
• Blade: Personna GEM PTFE
• Lather: Chicago Grooming Co. / House of Mammoth – Armonía
• Post Shave: Chicago Grooming Co. / House of Mammoth – Armonía
• Fragrance: Chatillon Lux - Weinstrasse

Very nice MMMMFF shave tonight. I’m really enjoying this Simpson brush now that it’s not losing so many hairs anymore (5 today, 7 yesterday, 11 the day before).

Sun 29 Dec 2024

• Brush: Chisel and Hound Ambrosia Maple with 26 mm Maggard knot
• Razor: Thiers Issard 14 Médaille d’Or 1921 Exposition d’Algier Acier Spécial (7/8", extra hollow, square point, carbon steel)
• Lather: Stirling Soap Co. – Satsuma
• Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. – Satsuma
• Fragrance: Acqua di Parma – Blu Mediterraneo Arancia di Capri

Back from the snow and the mountains, it’s very nice to have my whole den to choose from again. I felt like the bright orange juice happiness of Satsuma, and the big TI gave me a nice evening shave.

The Chubby lost 7 hairs, after the 11 yesterday, so I think it’s stabilising.

Mindigo ++;

• Blade: Dorco SD507 disposable (2)

Travelling again?

I’ve experienced number 1 myself with both Mindigo and Hygge

Sat 28 Dec 2024

• Brush: Simpson Chubby 2 Manchurian
• Razor: Wolfman Satin WR1 dual comb 0.74 mm gap head on hollow WRH1 handle
• Blade: Feather New Hi-Stainless
• Lather: Barrister and Mann – Dickens, Revisited
• Post Shave: Barrister and Mann – Dickens, Revisited

Eleven. The brush lost only eleven hairs today. It’s settling 🎉

Fri 27 Dec 2024

• Brush: Simpson Chubby 2 Manchurian
• Razor: Wolfman Satin WR1 dual comb 0.74 mm gap head on hollow WRH1 handle
• Blade: Feather New Hi-Stainless
• Lather: Barrister and Mann – Dickens, Revisited
• Post Shave: Barrister and Mann – Dickens, Revisited

Same shave as yesterday, and the Chubby lost fewer hairs than yesterday. We’re making progress.

Thu 26 Dec 2024

• Brush: Simpson Chubby 2 Manchurian
• Razor: Wolfman Satin WR1 dual comb 0.74 mm gap head on hollow WRH1 handle
• Blade: Feather New Hi-Stainless
• Lather: Barrister and Mann – Dickens, Revisited
• Post Shave: Barrister and Mann – Dickens, Revisited

Exact same setup as yesterday, and the soft pillowy Chubby lost a lot fewer hats than yesterday. It’s all going in the right direction 😊

Thanks, I think I’ll get along very well with it. It’s lost free hairs today than yesterday, so I’m not overly alarmed.

I’m getting a bit lost with the different badger hair designations. I’m my mind the Manchurian knot were the high mountain badgers, but apparently there’s a distinction😅

Wed 25 Dec 2024

• Brush: Simpson Chubby 2 Manchurian
• Razor: Wolfman Satin WR1 dual comb 0.74 mm gap head on hollow WRH1 handle
• Blade: Feather New Hi-Stainless
• Lather: Barrister and Mann – Dickens, Revisited
• Post Shave: Barrister and Mann – Dickens, Revisited

This brush was a Christmas present from by wife yesterday. It’s got a good backbone, but super soft gelled tips, and it’s my first such badger. It feels super nice on the skin! I can tell I will like this brush. It lost a slightly alarming number of hairs but most during the first pass and many during the second and third passes, so I think that this brush just had a bunch of loose hair and once they’ve worked themselves out of the knot it’ll settle. The knot had no badger funk, and it lathered well already during this first use. I’m curious if there will be a lot of breaking in.

Dickens is a very nice scent for a winter vacation in the snowy mountains, and I had a great shave after a day in the snow with Djunior.

Stirling Christmas Eve++;

A lovely Christmas Eve to all who celebrate!

And to you too!

Yeah, it’s picture book winter here, it’s hard to beat 😅

I hope a bit of Glühwein or Lumumba will get you over the rain and wind! Merry Christmas!

Merry Crimble!

On Christmas Eve, there are two acceptable soaps: Christmas Eve and ‘Twas The Night Before.

Not this year when Christmas Eve falls on Tabac Tuesday.

Stirling Christmas Eve ++;

Merry everything too you too and welcome back home!

Tabac Tuesday 24 Dec 2024

• Brush: Chisel and Hound Ambrosia Maple with 26 mm Maggard knot
• Razor: Wolfman Satin WR1 dual comb 0.74 mm gap head on hollow WRH1 handle
• Blade: Feather New Hi-Stainless
• Lather: Mäurer & Wirtz – Tabac Original – Stick
• Post Shave: Barrister and Mann – Dickens, Revisited

Merry Tabac Tuesday my friends!

My wife gifted me a gorgeous butterscotch Simpson Chubby with Manchurian badger today, but this shave happened before, so it’s with my travel synth. I’m excited to try it out tomorrow.

I haven’t used the Tabac stick nor the WR1 Wolfie in a while, but they are just as nice as I remember and I had a wonderful Christmas Eve.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, and I hope you are all having some happy times Seth friends and/or family.

Maybe Santa will bring a brush tonight?

Thanks! It’s the first Christmas where Djunior’s has also make presents for the other family members, so he’s extra excited. It’s really cute!

Oh yeah, knee-deep fresh snow on top of old snow. Well built some serious snow men and fortresses 🥳