Excellent analysis of your shave!
Thanks!
Very good info Randall! When my Fatboy gets home I may do a similar test for my own to see if I can shave at lower settings now.
Let us know. I bet you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Good test!
All in the name of shave science!
You blinded me with science! lol
Although I could not get to them all, great catch up reads
Thanks, Dave. You're under no obligation to read my journal entries. If you don't have time, don't worry about it. But I do appreciate the comment.
Great shave and observations Randall!
Thanks.
All caught up Randall. Great stuff and thanks for the entries.
Thanks. I don't know how long I will continue this, but for now I guess I'll keep going a bit.
143/180 this morning.
Decided to change things up a bit this morning, so last night I refreshed the ZY on the CrOx 20 laps, the FeOx 20 laps, and then stropped it up.
For software, I pulled out a sample of Wholly Kaw in the "Dark Vetiver" scent for this morning's shave. I think I have mentioned previously that I think this is one of the biggest misnomers in all of shavedom. I like the scent a great deal, but there is nothing dark about it. In fact, it's a bit sweet and a bit floral to my nose.
Anyway, I know these soaps get a lot of praise, and I like the soap, but I don't feel like it's all that much better than my other soaps. And lathering it was a lot more work, at least it was for me this morning. All told, I'd say I had to put in almost twice as much work to get the lather I wanted versus what I have to do to get a good lather from Stirling or Soapy Science. Did it shave better? The post-shave face feel was better than either of the above, but during the shave I didn't notice any real difference.
Anyway, on to the shave. The first shave went well. First-pass reduction was slightly better than I usually get with the Noonan (this razor is much heavier, I wonder if that has anything to do with it?). I was running a bit late, and it occurred to me while rinsing from the first pass that I could save a bit of time by doing the Chimensch pass on the left and a regular pass on the right, thus doing the second pass above the jaw line without changing the hand that was holding the razor. It went well and was pretty easy.
I did an XTG third pass above the jaw and then finished the shave with my iKon S3S loaded with a Polsilver. I didn't do any of the third pass below the jawline with the straight razor, in the interest of time. I also touched up the mustache area with the S3S, and that's where I got my only weeper of the day. Of course, as usual, it was not from the straight razor.
Overall, a great shave, though. The weeper stopped up by the cold water rinse.
Then, on the way to work, I get to a busy intersection in Norfolk and see all this smoke billowing around my car. I figure the guy to the left of me is overheating, but his car looks fine. There were no cars in front of me. I'm getting the sneaking suspicion that it's me, but it seems impossible. I look at the car to the right of me, and the driver is pointing to the smoke coming out from under my hood. She mouths, "Is that your car doing that?" and I realize that it is.
I couldn't stop right there in a busy intersection so I carefully drove another 1/4 mile or so to a gas station where I could pull over and stop the engine. Dang! Then I had to call the clinic nurse to see if she could come pick me up and bring me the rest of the way to work, which she graciously did. Now my wife has been working half the day to get the car towed and checked out. I was going to take it in on Wednesday for an oil change and tire rotation. I guess the car decided it needed to be seen sooner........sigh. Always a great way to start off a new week. At least I had a good shave!
Hope y'all are doing better than I am. Have a great day.
