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beginish
The Dr. Who of the TSC
Back on the 3017 horse with Harris Arlington again. The puck has a pronounced divot, and the Chubby 2 synthetic is very effective. With about 3-4 weeks worth of dalliances in there, I'd say I have just shy of 5 months on this puck, and at least another 1-2 months to go. I'm notoriously bad at predicting end dates for soaps, so It will either be a month or 3 months (or more).
woodpusher
TSC’s International Man of Meh
Ugh. Hopefully it was a clean bowl. Marvicide/barbicide would do the trick for me and hope the brush didn't turn blue; since it's a synth, it might not.
Yikes! Another push for always keeping the lid down.....Horror of horrors this morning. The Chubby 2 synthetic accidentally found its way into the toilet.
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
Off to the BST 
"Slightly used brush with a funk similar to badger"?Off to the BST
beginish
The Dr. Who of the TSC
"Faint hints of Hammam Bouquet"
beginish
The Dr. Who of the TSC
Good thing it got the treatment over the weekend.
The one time I didn't. That'll teach me.
Super slick.
Off to the BST
Which one?
beginish
The Dr. Who of the TSC
3 days growth on the stubble to take care of this morning, and I went with the Valobra shave stick I'm keeping in the cabinet for the odd 3017 rogue shave. Using the same soap every day is great for dialing it in and being guaranteed good to great lathers day in and day out. It also has the added benefit of deleting soaps from the stockpile in a very consistent way. The time to use up a puck will vary, but you start it, and you always know that it will end.
The downside to using it every day is that for me, my nose just gets so used to the scent, it actually stops registering. Remember when you started this hobby and you'd sneak into the bathroom to get a sniff from the soaps and creams in the den, maybe even taking an aggressive whiff of the brush? Yeah, well the longer I have done this, the more my shaves have been about the routine than the experience. Paying attention to the scent is just one casualty of that.
I do notice the scents when I'm starting up with a new soap, or I change up the routine a bit. I think this is why I love shaving on the road, because I always through something different in the Dopp kit. The whole routine changes, and I truly appreciate the scents. Anyway, I truly appreciated the scent from the Valobra stick this morning. It had sat in its box and wrapper for about 5 years until I opened it a few weeks ago. I really noticed the fougere scent it has. It's squarely in the English Fern category, but is much lighter on the powdery front note. It's truly a treat.
The downside to using it every day is that for me, my nose just gets so used to the scent, it actually stops registering. Remember when you started this hobby and you'd sneak into the bathroom to get a sniff from the soaps and creams in the den, maybe even taking an aggressive whiff of the brush? Yeah, well the longer I have done this, the more my shaves have been about the routine than the experience. Paying attention to the scent is just one casualty of that.
I do notice the scents when I'm starting up with a new soap, or I change up the routine a bit. I think this is why I love shaving on the road, because I always through something different in the Dopp kit. The whole routine changes, and I truly appreciate the scents. Anyway, I truly appreciated the scent from the Valobra stick this morning. It had sat in its box and wrapper for about 5 years until I opened it a few weeks ago. I really noticed the fougere scent it has. It's squarely in the English Fern category, but is much lighter on the powdery front note. It's truly a treat.
beginish
The Dr. Who of the TSC
For some reason I can't explain, I pulled the Sensor Excel out of mothballs and have used it the last couple of days. Time was short, so I tried to shave a couple of minutes off, I guess. In any case, the shaves were great. 2 pass BBS in under 3 minutes. I used the Valobra stick with the Chubby 2 synthetic as well, so the combination was just about as good as I could expect. If the blades weren't $1.15 a pop (cheapest when bought in bulk), I'd seriously consider it. As it is, I have 2 spare blades, so I may just use them for the heck of it, and try and stretch a few weeks out of each blade.