Quote Originally Posted by nessmuck View Post
I see you got a nice pick-up that was restored in your avatar. Now when picking out the paint for that puppy,did you go with straight enamel ( Williams soap) or did you go with something a little better,like a 2 stage Basecoat/clearcoat (MWF) ?
Ha Ha! An interesting analogy and a fitting one at that. Truth be told, as a high schooler knowing that I'd be taking that truck to college some 700 miles away, and having spent most of my money repairing rust damage and overhauling critical systems (like the brakes), I selected a one-shot base/clear product from PPG. A base coat clear coat paint job is much prettier, but far more expensive to apply and maintain. Straight enamel was cheaper, but wouldn't look half as nice as the product I went with.
Now though...several years later, and nearly a hundred thousand miles later I'm wanting to repair some new rust spots and go with a rich base coat clear coat application. It will be more expensive, but since I'll be driving the truck at leisure (though pretty regularly) instead of relying on it as my only daily driver I believe I can afford the nicer paint job and it will last me.

Maybe the same applies with MWF? Maybe it's more of a date-night soap, leisure soap for those occasions I'm taking the wife and the old truck out? We'll see. $13 for a refill isn't too expensive in the grand scheme of things...one of the few things that is probably NOT out of my budget! But I'll probably wait until I've worked through some of my other pucks of soap, as I have several I've played around with. Being new to wet shaving (I only started as I joined SRP) there are a lot of things out there I'll eventually get to; all in good time!

Might put a bug in the wife's ear for Father's day though.