Ram57
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Thanks, Jeff!!
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SOTD May 2026
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8th Night
Shave Member
That is awesome that you got in on the ground floor with Rockwell. The 6s is such a smooth, versatile razor. It is a tank. I too have used most of the plates based on different growth and how I feel. Thanks for sharing.
8th Night
Shave Member
8th Night
Shave Member
Terrific shave, Akhi!
Have a great Sunday. Here is the US, this Sunday is Mother's Day. Is it celebrated in Canada?
8th Night
Shave Member
I love those perfect, no drama shave days! Great shave, Akhi!
8th Night
Shave Member
I love those perfect, no drama shave days! Great shave, Akhi
Nice to take advantage of some spare time to mow! Great way to prepare for Shabbat. You've been using that MdC quite a bit, Akhi, and it looks like you haven't lathered it even once... amazing!
8th Night
Shave Member
Very nice shave, Lantzman! I hope you had a good Shabbat yesterday.Guten Morgen die Herren,
Gerade eben:
(Good morning gentlemen)
(Just before)
Hot shower
Yaqi 30mm Barber Pole
Super Speed/Perma Sharp day 7
Gold Dachs Spezial SS
Lubriderm Moisturizer
Amatoury 114 Lemon Cologne
Whenever I use a good soap from Germany I start thinking in German!This Gold Dachs Spezial is such elegant stuff, its scent is so beautiful in an old school European way, my awesome Yaqi synthetic churned up such great lather from it, and the post shave feeling is so comfortable. The Lubriderm moisturizer works so well as a balm, and the 114 cologne not only smells lovely, it’s so refreshing. Three passes did the job for me - another tip top BBS shave that was such a pleasure!
Enjoy your day and your shaves - be well and stay safe!
JeffView attachment 158926
8th Night
Shave Member
Fantastic shave. Akhi!
remfan170
Jr. Shave Member
May 10, 2026
• Bowl: Doug Smith Pottery – Ceramic Shave Bowl
• Brush: Semogue – 1470 (Boar)
• Razor: GEM – Junior 1912 Brass with Art Deco/Chain Link Handle
• Blade: Accuforge – GEM Microcoat
• Soap: Strike Gold Soaps – Lewis & Clark
• Aftershave: Floïd – The Genuine After Shave
• Balm: Stirling – Unscented Post Shave Balm
• Fragrance: 24 – Gold Oud Edition
TL;DR: A bit of a rant on Strike Gold Soaps’s schtick (I don’t mean this disparagingly) of naming shave soaps after US presidents.
Marcus and Sara of The Barbershop Duet sent me this sample of Strike Gold Soap’s Lewis & Clark in one of their giveaway packages. Not a lot for me to say, really. It has a generic (but what I suspect is a popular) cologne scent. This kind of cologne scent kept me away from colognes until I was thirty-nine years old. As I lathered it, the cologne scent gave way to something I found somewhat unpleasant: almost a rain-soaked rotting wood in a desert. Despite my misgivings about the scent, the base was quite good and is something I would have in my rotation.
I’m a history professor and historian by trade and one of the interesting facts about most historians is that what most folks call “history” is rather boring to us. I recall interviewing for a job at a college in Virginia and asking if it would be a problem that I didn’t care about The Civil War. When I visited my sister in Boston for the first time, she wanted desperately to take me on the history walk and couldn’t wrap her head around why I wasn’t particularly excited to be in 300-year-old cemeteries. Don’t get me wrong, I still get goosebumps whenever I hold an object that is older than myself. But, if I were in Boston, I might like to hit up some antique shops and maybe find a nice old razor. There was a local bookstore that I saw and I wanted to visit that instead. So, the soaps based on presidents or other historical things does not really interest me all that much. I know I’m being a buzzkill and overthinking this. But, here goes:
What is also a bit troubling is that many of the soaps are dupes of other scents and the connection to the president on the tin is usually a bit of a stretch or just flat out anachronistic. One chance they had to get something correct, John F. Kennedy’s well-noted love of Caswell-Massey’s Jockey Club, they miss by ascribing him a dupe of Penhaligon’s Sartorial. I can forgive them for not knowing what scent to ascribe to Ulysses S. Grant. I could provide historical evidence of scents available at the time and through records find what scent he favored. But, before I waste any time on that, I’m going to say for certain that Grant would not have recognized a blended dupe of a mixture of Creed Aventus and Baccarat Rouge 540. Pineapples were so rare in his day that it was only the ultra-rich (like Jeff Bezos rich) who presented one at parties. Moreover, Grant’s personality was one where he would see it as an affront to his rugged American manhood to try something so elitist as a tropical pineapple or a European delicacy like saffron.
American presidents often wore American, with connotations of ruggedness and common-man democracy. Think Brooks Brothers, though we think of it as elitist now, when it was founded in 1818, it was the first clothier to offer clothing off the rack and not individually tailored. This was seen as democratic and a strong antidote to St. James, London’s sartorial “snobbery.” Brooks Brothers has clothed just about every president from at least Lincoln up to Biden (with the exception of Trump who seems to favor Brioini suits from Italy). Teddy Roosevelt, the short, asthmatic, high-pitched voice having man who was obsessed with presenting himself as a rugged man would have seen the powdery, citrusy, lavender barbershop they gave him as quite feminine. See…this is the rabbit hole I did not want to fall down. Then again, I think their “Man of the People” based on Jefferson is a scent built on three wine grape varietals. Yes, Jefferson was a vinophile and that soap sounds interesting. I’d try a sample. So…there you go.
Have an awesome day, friends!
• Bowl: Doug Smith Pottery – Ceramic Shave Bowl
• Brush: Semogue – 1470 (Boar)
• Razor: GEM – Junior 1912 Brass with Art Deco/Chain Link Handle
• Blade: Accuforge – GEM Microcoat
• Soap: Strike Gold Soaps – Lewis & Clark
• Aftershave: Floïd – The Genuine After Shave
• Balm: Stirling – Unscented Post Shave Balm
• Fragrance: 24 – Gold Oud Edition
TL;DR: A bit of a rant on Strike Gold Soaps’s schtick (I don’t mean this disparagingly) of naming shave soaps after US presidents.
Marcus and Sara of The Barbershop Duet sent me this sample of Strike Gold Soap’s Lewis & Clark in one of their giveaway packages. Not a lot for me to say, really. It has a generic (but what I suspect is a popular) cologne scent. This kind of cologne scent kept me away from colognes until I was thirty-nine years old. As I lathered it, the cologne scent gave way to something I found somewhat unpleasant: almost a rain-soaked rotting wood in a desert. Despite my misgivings about the scent, the base was quite good and is something I would have in my rotation.
I’m a history professor and historian by trade and one of the interesting facts about most historians is that what most folks call “history” is rather boring to us. I recall interviewing for a job at a college in Virginia and asking if it would be a problem that I didn’t care about The Civil War. When I visited my sister in Boston for the first time, she wanted desperately to take me on the history walk and couldn’t wrap her head around why I wasn’t particularly excited to be in 300-year-old cemeteries. Don’t get me wrong, I still get goosebumps whenever I hold an object that is older than myself. But, if I were in Boston, I might like to hit up some antique shops and maybe find a nice old razor. There was a local bookstore that I saw and I wanted to visit that instead. So, the soaps based on presidents or other historical things does not really interest me all that much. I know I’m being a buzzkill and overthinking this. But, here goes:
What is also a bit troubling is that many of the soaps are dupes of other scents and the connection to the president on the tin is usually a bit of a stretch or just flat out anachronistic. One chance they had to get something correct, John F. Kennedy’s well-noted love of Caswell-Massey’s Jockey Club, they miss by ascribing him a dupe of Penhaligon’s Sartorial. I can forgive them for not knowing what scent to ascribe to Ulysses S. Grant. I could provide historical evidence of scents available at the time and through records find what scent he favored. But, before I waste any time on that, I’m going to say for certain that Grant would not have recognized a blended dupe of a mixture of Creed Aventus and Baccarat Rouge 540. Pineapples were so rare in his day that it was only the ultra-rich (like Jeff Bezos rich) who presented one at parties. Moreover, Grant’s personality was one where he would see it as an affront to his rugged American manhood to try something so elitist as a tropical pineapple or a European delicacy like saffron.
American presidents often wore American, with connotations of ruggedness and common-man democracy. Think Brooks Brothers, though we think of it as elitist now, when it was founded in 1818, it was the first clothier to offer clothing off the rack and not individually tailored. This was seen as democratic and a strong antidote to St. James, London’s sartorial “snobbery.” Brooks Brothers has clothed just about every president from at least Lincoln up to Biden (with the exception of Trump who seems to favor Brioini suits from Italy). Teddy Roosevelt, the short, asthmatic, high-pitched voice having man who was obsessed with presenting himself as a rugged man would have seen the powdery, citrusy, lavender barbershop they gave him as quite feminine. See…this is the rabbit hole I did not want to fall down. Then again, I think their “Man of the People” based on Jefferson is a scent built on three wine grape varietals. Yes, Jefferson was a vinophile and that soap sounds interesting. I’d try a sample. So…there you go.
Have an awesome day, friends!
Yetzirah
Shave Member
Hey Akhi, Yes, Mother’s Day is celebrated today in Canada as well.
8th Night
Shave Member
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms in your life.
Yetzirah
Shave Member
Thank you Akhi!
MdC is packed right to the brim. I’m starting to see the upper edge of the jar so I’m getting there!
Paul
Yetzirah
Shave Member
Thank you!!! You too!!