Thread: Sun - June 09th- Sat June 15th

Originally Posted by johnnypipe

You could be like me and not have a camera at all. All my pictures are taken with a cheap 5-year old 3G Samsung Cellphone camera.

Some of the photos on here are worthy of being put in a magazine.

I take mine with a digital camera that's over ten years old! I do like very narrow DOF as ratbag is talking of, though. One day I'll use my Rolleicord to take photos of my razors; one day...

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

Hi Jean,

I use a Naniwa 12K finisher, but I also use a rather long pasted bench strop, pasted with chromium oxide and then the usual linen and leather stropping, here's my finishing table strops close at hand.

Jamie.

That looks all very professional and neat and tidy. I just dump all my stuff on the dining room table, much to my wife's discontent...

Today I had my best shave as of to date. I think I might be a shaving cream kind of guy instead of soap. I used speik shaving cream with a couple of glycerin drops.

Strop - Jemico
Prep - Hot water + shave towel
Pre-Shave - Musgo Real Glyce
Brush - Vie-Long horse hair
Soap - Arko
Mug - Rogers & Bro
Razor - 9/16 C.D. Abrams & Son wedge
Post - Thayers + Nivea balm

I'll admit that I bought this brush because I saw some of you guys using them in SotD pics. I like a firmer brush and this is really nice. I swirled it in some soap and hot water a couple of times before using it but it still smells a bit like moth balls Anyways, I enjoyed looking at the pics as usual, here is to a nice week for all!

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

That looks all very professional and neat and tidy. I just dump all my stuff on the dining room table, much to my wife's discontent...

My good wife as given me the small back bedroom as my little restoration come honing den which I'm more than happy with, any successful marriage 27 years for me you both need a little give and take one small kind gesture as with this one, will usually bring a positive rewarding outcome for both parties, my Wife as always used this ploy on me.

jamie

Today a Dewsnap

Prep face wash L'Occitane sandalwood soap
Razor Orion Kikuboshi half hollow 13/16
Strop Kanayama cordovan #8000
Brush Semogue 2012 special Boar & Badger mix
Cella creme da barba
Alum & Thayers witch hazel rose & aloe toner
Kiehl's aftershave balm
Guerlain vetiver Edt


An extremely smooth top notch shave from the Orion Kikuboshi.

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

My good wife as given me the small back bedroom as my little restoration come honing den which I'm more than happy with, any successful marriage 27 years for me you both need a little give and take one small kind gesture as with this one, will usually bring a positive rewarding outcome for both parties, my Wife as always used this ploy on me.

jamie

I wish my wife would give me a small, back bedroom; I probably need a whole wing, actually, or a separate story; a basement even. A little castle, two or three stories high, EXACTLY the same as in a chess set...I actually wrote something a while about that; here it is, for your amusement...

I'd like to live in a tower, like a wizard, a tower exactly like the rook in a chess game; but with a bit of a porch out the front, and maybe a bit of a toilet out the back, because otherwise you'd have to have the toilet in the big round room at the bottom, and if you had toilets on each floor you'd have to have separate pipes. Would you put the pipes in the walls or like, running down the wall? I think in the wall, I wouldn't want to see them, unless you made them nice, some folk art decoration; maybe dead, coloured flowers glued on, some stencils, bows, bits of dead grass stuck on in little, like, sheaves; like wheat sheaves from the 16th century, they'd match, being 16th century like stuff, 'cause the castle is like 16th century. And I guess you'd need a chimney on the porch out the front for the kitchen fire; you couldn't have it inside, well you could but you'd need a chimney going all the way up; through the floors, like the toilet pipes, and now you've filled all the walls up with pipes; unsightly! Get rid of them I say, get rid of them; either put them in the wall (too hard, it's stone; remember, it's a castle), or move them to the outside. Actually, that's an idea, make them go up (or down) for a foot or two and then out through the wall and then run up (or down) to the top (or bottom). What do you think? No? Yeah, I agree; looks tacky with all those pipes (looking at it from the outside). We need to keep the walls clean on the outside, OK pipes inside then, but I demand polished brass pipes (you can polish them, I might help on weekends) and get rid of the tacky folk art shit; the leaves will burn anyway, and it's all so passé, I want either art deco (50s), French antique farmhouse, or ultra modern Dutch or Swedish; minimalistic, but with a natural slant, after all, we don't want polished stainless steel and LCD screen TVs; it's a castle, it wouldn't go.

I’ll build it on a hill, with a blue sky, clouds, a bird, a tree.

You always have a very amusing story for guys on the Straight razor forum Carl, and I like to think we all look forward to your funny observations on on daily life, so talking of towers and castles I'll leave you with a few photo's of my old School Cyfarthfa Castle which was built by the local Iron masters the Crawshay family as one of their many homes when my town Merthyr Tydfil was the largest Iron producing town in the world, I'm thinking one of my old school rooms the round library would make the perfect tower room for you.

Jamie.

Tuesday

Razor | Jernbolaget | Cream | Body Shop Macca Root| After Shave | Lavanda

Nice shave this morning after the De Pews debacle. Very smooth; just wish I could tighten these scales; loose scales mess with me. Scales (I think) and the positioning of them relative to the razor; are very important balance wise. Get the scales’ positioning wrong and it can affect your shave.

The cold (or flu or full blown pneumonia or whatever it is) is hanging on and causing a LOT of whingy whiney self pity. I’m self identifying faults. I think I need to. I was reading a paper today on whether narcissistic people can identify the fact that others don’t share the same opinion of them and came to the conclusion (before I’d got to the end of page 2) that I’m narcissistic. I do rather value myself somewhat, possibly unreasonably so. Frank Lloyd Wright said 'Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.' and I respect him for it...