Another Shaving Journal

[Graybeard57]

Well normally I would say that at least you smell good...but you used GTB...so the whole shave must have been a downer!

I really like GTB for its skin food and smell. YMMV. The bite I gave myself puts the overall shave into the downer category. I take a baby aspirin, so the bleeding was ugly.

 

[NurseDave]

If it helps in the future, I saw Rambo heat up the tip of his knife and use it to cauterize a wound. Seems pretty effective.

 

[Maryland998]

Remember chicks dig scars.
Shaving mishap.....or that time in Juarez that you took on 3 banditos To defend the honor of a damsel in distress?

 

[Graybeard57]

If it helps in the future, I saw Rambo heat up the tip of his knife and use it to cauterize a wound. Seems pretty effective.

Thanks, Dave. I do think cautery is best used while anesthetized, but then again, I'm wimpy that way.

Remember chicks dig scars.
Shaving mishap.....or that time in Juarez that you took on 3 banditos To defend the honor of a damsel in distress?

Well, there was that time my face got into an argument with my windshield (Windshield 1, Face 0).

 

[MilkCrate]

I really like GTB for its skin food and smell. YMMV. The bite I gave myself puts the overall shave into the downer category. I take a baby aspirin, so the bleeding was ugly.

I have to take aspirin and have to be careful as well.

 

[Dave in KY]

Remember chicks dig scars.

One of my favorite quotes that always brings an eye roll from the misses

 

[Graybeard57]

• CBL-T SIR Fougere (19)
• Maggard 24mm tuxedo synthetic
• Stirling Travel Bowl
• Blackland Vector/Feather Soft Guard (1)
• GTB splash

Great, comfortable shave tonight without bloodshed. Lately, I have a very low bar for success. Very comfortable shave, it'd be BBS except for around my neck wound. Ordered Schick Prolines today.

 

[Graybeard57]

• CBL-T SIR Fougere (20)
• Maggard 24mm tuxedo synthetic
• Stirling Travel Bowl
• Blackland Vector/Feather Soft Guard (2)
• GTB splash

This blade is a keeper. Three blades I like: Schick Proline, Feather ProGuard, and Feather Soft Guard. All have delivered comfortable BBS shaves. I may be looking at purchasing all three, though with 30 Schicks en route, I won't need to buy Feathers for awhile. Kais are dead to me. In other shave news, my gouge of the other day is healing nicely and no longer needs a bandage.

Work is work, and life is life. Walking a bit faster and more confidently than a couple of months ago. It's all good.

 

[Dave in KY]

Nice progress on the walking and blade shuffle. Never heard of Soft Guards........interesting stuff Bruce

 

[Graybeard57]

Never heard of Soft Guards

They were included in a blade sampler from Tryablade. Haven't looked for them yet. The guard is smaller than that of the ProGuard. It's a very comfortable blade that shaves quite closely.

 

[NurseDave]

They were included in a blade sampler from Tryablade. Haven't looked for them yet. The guard is smaller than that of the ProGuard. It's a very comfortable blade that shaves quite closely.

So it's like when you take just one of the training wheels off?

 

[Graybeard57]

So it's like when you take just one of the training wheels off?

Training wheels are off, but gloves, helmet, and elbow/knee pads remain on.

 

[Graybeard57]

Last night:

• CBL-T SIR Fougere (21)
• Maggard 24mm tuxedo synthetic
• Stirling Travel Bowl
• Blackland Vector/Feather Soft Guard (3)
• GTB splash

DFS+, comfortable and smooth. I'm definitely enjoying this combo.

 

[NurseDave]

• CBL-T SIR Fougere (21)
• GTB splash

I don't even know what's going on over there. Leather and cowboys in the fern forest?

 

[Graybeard57]

I don't even know what's going on over there. Leather and cowboys in the fern forest?

You got a problem with that? There are ranchers and cowboys in the Amazon, right?

 

[Graybeard57]

• CBL-T SIR Fougere (22)
• Maggard 24mm tuxedo synthetic
• Stirling Travel Bowl
• Blackland Vector/Feather Soft Guard (4)
• GTB splash

Still shaving around my neck wound. Another fine shave with this gear. Soap is going strong.

 

[Graybeard57]

• CBL-T SIR Fougere (23)
• Maggard 24mm tuxedo synthetic
• Stirling Travel Bowl
• Blackland Vector/Feather Soft Guard (5)
• GTB splash

DFS+ this morning. Ready to start the day.

 

[NurseDave]

Ready to start the day.

That’s good, because it’s coming anyway

 

[Graybeard57]

• CBL-T SIR Fougere (24)
• Maggard 24mm tuxedo synthetic
• Stirling Travel Bowl
• Blackland Vector/Feather Soft Guard (6)
• GTB splash

First BBS in days. Was able to thoroughly shave over my recent neck wound.

Elsewhere, Sheri & I visited my son and DIL and their puppy Odin. He looks like a Pit Bull, but is a Staffordshire Terrier. At about 4 months, he weighs roughly 50 lbs. Here is Brian holding him. He's a very sweet, friendly boy, about half grown, perhaps.

 

[Dave in KY]

Gorgeous, my previous was a Staffy