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The 3rd Annual Williams Mug Soap 3017 Challenge!

Spider said:
Last day of the first month! But the 3017 continues.

I missed one shave, so I have 27 shaves on my puck so far. Barely made a dent. But I know for sure I've got 6 months of shaves on this puck easily.

Funny thing is, with my new technique of just rubbing the puck on my face and giving a quick finger lather on my face, I'm not using a brush, obviously. Well, Amber came in and saw my technique, looked over at my shelf and said, "You've got $50,000 worth of brushes [slight exaggeration] and now you're not even using one?!?!" :ROFLMAO:
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Oh God! Get to a doctor STAT! You are becoming a …… Blech…. Minimalist
 
Made it through the month, and probably at least that much left on the puck, I think I'll just keep going, though I'm not concerned about that 100 day thing.
I even kept the same blade in the whole time, and up to this week it was doing fine, but shaves have gotten rougher and uneven, so a new blade tomorrow. Still that was a lot longer than I expected the blade to last. If it was my only blade, I could still shave with it, but just don't see the point of 'meh' shaves.
 
Billiams Racing - Heat #15

Okay, so maybe half way done. 🕺
A few small twists to the routine of bondage.
Synthetic brush which pleasantly surprised me. In the past, I’ve always thought naturals to be better with hard soaps.
Used the 6/8 Le Grelot most graciously gifted to me by @Scuttlesoap because I sharpened a couple of his razors. Way too generous! Thanks Brian.
Probably 3rd shave on this edge, very slightly more aggressive than the 7/8 I’ve been using on the challenge that has about 20 shaves and still push cuts tomatoes.
The Razorock Lime stank was easily corrected by generous helpings from GFT.

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Scuttlesoap said:
At this pace, I think the folks behind CBL Soaps (those crazy birds) and quite possibly Stirling Soaps will retire before you finish that puck
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Nah. I'm optimistic that I could get 1 year out of it, but I don't think it'll actually happen.
 
Billiams High Performance Soap Team
Plenty of energy left on lap #16

Continuing to work on my techniques for the recently added shaving real estate (chin & stache)
Nicely progressing results

The Lovely Mrs. M came home yesterday from a week visiting her sister in TX. I took the day off today to make up for lost time.

Wishing everyone a great week

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03.06.2023
Thats it, Bye Bye, Syonara, Adios, Finished it off today. I knew I would be the 1st out, based on loading. Thanks @Spider for the Challenge and Good Luck to the rest of you.....

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Billions Soap Racing Team Round #18
Playing around with a honing project.

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Video posted
please don’t ask me why the link reads that way, just click and you get the vid

Bill TV

They make it in red too. 😎 Ya I will “slum” it a bit and buy this from such a crappy razor making company as the “authority” has kindly warned us inexperienced straight razor folk. Hahahahaha
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Thought I would share how my puck looks over 1/3rd of the way through the challenge.....

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..Not too shabby. Should still give me well over 100 shaves. And to think of how much Williams I've wasted over the years.
 
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