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An Unexpected Journey: A Newbie's Walk In Wet Shaving

Friggin city folk....

Well, if Shawn is working on your cabin, I expect to see a forged weather vane with the cadre logo in the middle when all is said and done..
Probably not from me. Mike is a better blacksmith than I am. I started out trying to blacksmith and then jumped right into blades and stayed there. He's actually taken the time to learn blacksmithing.
I'm going to make him teach me though in trade for bladesmithing lessons. :ROFLMAO:
 
I dunno about that Shawn. I've seen your non-blade related stuff and it looks just fine to me especially your cast iron rack.

Man I'm glad to be back to really cold water! My shaves have been really pleasant since returning from being on the road for a few days last week. The cool weather here hints of fall and after a fine cold water shave, the air feels great when I exit the bathroom.

I'm approaching the one year mark for wet shaving. It was about this time last year that Shawn started trying to convince me that wet shaving wasn't weird and that guys with cabinets with razors, soaps, and brushes on display weren't in need of some mental health counseling :ROFLMAO: Now look at me.......

Oh yea, I almost forgot....I know @NurseDave is probably wondering about a mammoth painting report. Still painting and the scent is still lasting all day. City water didn't affect the mammoth painting either :LOL: so no excuses for you guys without well water.
 
I'm approaching the one year mark for wet shaving. It was about this time last year that Shawn started trying to convince me that wet shaving wasn't weird and that guys with cabinets with razors, soaps, and brushes on display weren't in need of some mental health counseling :ROFLMAO: Now look at me.......
How is counseling going?

Oh yea, I almost forgot....I know @NurseDave is probably wondering about a mammoth painting report. Still painting and the scent is still lasting all day. City water didn't affect the mammoth painting either :LOL: so no excuses for you guys without well water.
Yes, about time. The log looks like this:
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8/21
8/22
8/23
8/24
8/25
8/26
8/27 Okay
 
I dunno about that Shawn. I've seen your non-blade related stuff and it looks just fine to me especially your cast iron rack.

Man I'm glad to be back to really cold water! My shaves have been really pleasant since returning from being on the road for a few days last week. The cool weather here hints of fall and after a fine cold water shave, the air feels great when I exit the bathroom.

I'm approaching the one year mark for wet shaving. It was about this time last year that Shawn started trying to convince me that wet shaving wasn't weird and that guys with cabinets with razors, soaps, and brushes on display weren't in need of some mental health counseling :ROFLMAO: Now look at me.......

Oh yea, I almost forgot....I know @NurseDave is probably wondering about a mammoth painting report. Still painting and the scent is still lasting all day. City water didn't affect the mammoth painting either :LOL: so no excuses for you guys without well water.
One whole year of mammoth painting?! Nice!
 
Shawn started trying to convince me that wet shaving wasn't weird and that guys with cabinets with razors, soaps, and brushes on display weren't in need of some mental health counseling

I completely disagree with this statement! I think we all are weird and we all DEFINITELY NEED mental health counseling! I just think Shawn was trying to trick you int thinking that you are actually sane. Embrace the weirdness!
 
I never said that we weren't in need of mental health counseling. I just said it's a great hobby that accomplishes a mundane task in an enjoyable manner with many variants. And it will save you money.....

Mundane task more enjoyable......Check!
Save money.........Check-Check now that my wife is using a DE

Yes, about time. The log looks like this:

I have been slacking........no bribing Shawn to get pictures of just how much chest hair I have :LOL: I draw the line somewhere

I completely disagree with this statement!

 
Hey Cadre........The big day went well. The highlight of the day was meeting our very own TSC member Shawn. He showed up ready to work and soon became the point man of our team. We worked like heck and got all the walls up before lunch. The roof proved to be a bigger job than I thought. We had a team making the rafters and another putting in the top plate of the wall to sturdy things up. With daylight fading quickly, the focus quickly shifted from "Can we finish this?" to "How do we protect what we got done?". We got 4 roof rafters up and some plywood started but were unable to get any further. We picked up, put tarp on the floor due to rain coming this evening and called it a day. Looks like we have one more full day of work left before the roof is on.

I had a hard time falling asleep last night knowing that the tarp will just act as a barrier to pool the heavy rain. I thought up an idea just before dozing off and put it to work this afternoon. I bought another huge tarp, installed temporary roof rafters that span out to cover the section that had nothing and pulled the tarp tight with screws through the eyelets. Ahhhh, closed in. The tarp above and below should protect the new OSB I put in on Friday. After screwing on the door temporarily, I left the cabin feeling much better about it staying like that until I can get a crew back out there. Don't tell my hip doctor, but I was up on ladders this afternoon. Shawn will be posting some pictures of the day yesterday.
 
Here's some pictures. Keep in mind that someone else built this cabin and we were kinda stuck with how they put things together. Shawn and company really did corrects some problems from the original builder so that was very much appreciated. I also got the cabin up far enough off the ground to keep it dry in all seasons.

Here's where we got by lunch. Lots of work still left to do.

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Here's some of the guys putting together roof tresses (rafter sets with rafter collars). Bill and Bruce working hard.

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Here's Mitchell, Matthew, and our very own Shawn up on the roof getting some plywood decking on the tresses. Shawn is the guy styling in shades.IMG_0973.JPG

Big Mike squeezing the rafters into plumb while the guys get screws in quick.

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Walking away at the end of the day yesterday this was as far as it got. I was proud of how hard everyone worked doing things I just can't do because of my hip surgery. A super big thank you to our own TSC member Shawn for driving 3 hours just to help out. It meant a lot to me. I'll post pictures tomorrow evening of it all covered up and any progress I do during the day tomorrow.

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I don't know what he's talking about.... I just stood around and got in the way. And that couldn't be me on the roof... I'm afraid of heights! 😜

Here's what it looked like when I got there. Somebody brought a bunch of junk and piled it in the way for people to trip over...

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End wall got put in place first for a starting point.

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Here is another at lunch time. Mr. Blade-meister himself at the far right.

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Rafters going up and plywood going on. (See, I told you I was standing around and not up there :ROFLMAO:)


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It was a pretty good day overall. Long drive of 3 hours each way, but I got to meet a group of really great guys and stand around watching them do a lot of hard work.
 
It was great progress for our crew. It's tough because really it's a tiny house when it comes down to it. I got out there today and put up the ledger that will hold up the loft. I also found a few water leaks that I had to chase down and fix. I'm hoping to complete the loft this upcoming weekend.

Here's what it looked like after I left. I had to get creative with some temporary supports for the tarp so that I wouldn't get any water pooling. I felt a little like when I had my tepee years ago or that I was in some yurt type structure. It poured rain today so I was able to make adjustments to the temporary supports to make the water drain better.

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So this morning I'm looking at all my MW soaps and I'm seeing the container bottom peaking through the soap so I decided I need to show some other soaps some love until I can find some money to get some refills (cabin project sucking up anything extra) I pulled out the Williams Mug Soap to give it a try. I've heard great things about Williams, so why not.

My first observation is that it foamed up really quick with my presoaked badger brush. This concerned me, but hey I'm face lathering so I could always go back for more soap if I needed to. I was pleasantly surprised with the rich thick lather I got. The first 2 passes were really high quality and felt great. The last ATG pass was good, but with a cleanup pass I could feel that this soap didn't seem as slick residually as the MW is. I also do not think it worked as great with the Kamisori as the higher priced soaps. Overall, it was a pleasant shave. I thought I'd have some redness, but I found I had very little. For the price, this is a great performing soap.

On the personal side of things, I'm working nights out in the knapping shop to get ready for my last show. I sell a lot of knives there so I'm focusing on making a batch of them and a batch of primitive arrows. I normally don't flake obsidian or glass because I hate the stuff, but I had this red/white/ blue flag themed square slab of glass and decided to give it a try. This is a radically different process than knapping a flint blade out of a piece of raw material. I ended up with a great blade and will be doing an American theme for the knife handle. Getting flakes to travel across a flat surface of glass has a special process, one I haven't mastered really but the blade came out clean and in one piece so I'll take it.

On the cabin.......Saturday I hope to get the loft floor joists up and subfloor on it to aid with getting the other half of the rafters up. I've lined up a couple of guys on the 21st to come out and I'm working on another guy for the 14th and possibly others on 9/28. Once the remaining roof rafters are in place, the plywood should go up pretty quickly.
 
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