Jun. 4, 2024
Brush: Zenith MOAR BOAR
Razor: GEM Open Comb Micromatic Gen. 2
Blade: GEM PTFE [5]
Lather: Barrister & Mann - Paganini’s Violin - Soap
Post Shave: Barrister & Mann - Paganini’s Violin - Balm
Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented - Aftershave
Osma: Osma - Osma
* Scuttle:* Georgetown Pottery - G20
Even though I’ve never completed the Lather Games, in June I have a rule: if I’m going to shave, it has to be by the calendar. If I can’t meet the calendar’s requirements, I don’t shave.
This is problematic when you don’t prepare for the Lather Games and you, occasionally, need to shave. That’s what happened today, and I was feeling pretty SOL about the situation and my self imposed rule.
Then I saw someone used Paganini’s Violin for today. And I was like, really? All joking about it being the best smelling unscented soap aside, there’s got to be more than one note here. Right?
Not according to Will. “For Paganini's Violin, we have composed a fragrance built on multiple variations on a single note, all playing together into one unified, singular whole.”
Cool, thanks Will. I don’t buy it for a minute but you’re the guy with the golden nose. I’m just an idiot who can’t get his shaving shit together.
As for most missed bases, I mean aw shucks it has to be Mickey Lee Soapworks, right? Probably the base wouldn’t hold up by today’s standards, but the folks at MLS were some of the most upstanding, kind, and giving members of the wet shaving community early on. When they shut down the community lost something, and I’ll always remember them for that.
As for current bases, that’s tough. It’s a tie between Stirling Sheep and HoM Tusk. I like them for different reasons; they perform equally good in different ways. I do think that Sheep is the unsung hero of wet shaving bases, though. Fewer people are aware of it because it just gets folded in with Stirling’s normal base, which is good in its own right.