SOTD by u/tsrblke

March 25, 2024

• Brush: u/J33pguy13 TnS L4 Pass around
• Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
• Blade: GEM (25)
• Lather: Noble Otter – Rawr
• Post Shave: Zingari – Unscented
• Fragrance: Sir Irisch Moos

Team Otter show up! Otters are social creatures, unlike lawyers, so I have big expectations for today. We’ll see. The legal beagles came strong out of the gate.

This blade is probably past its prime, but I only have 6 more #MMarch24 shaves so I’m probably gonna ride it out.

But let’s talk about the brush. It’s on loan from our resident ~~horder~~ archivist, and this is only the second hand tied knot I’ve ever tried. The other being a B3 which was…suboptimal. In advance I ran through my V18 and V20 fanchurians again because they feel different to me and I was trying to figure out why. Looking at them, the hair in the V18 seems a bit thicker, and it has a slightly more hybrid shape than the totally flat top V20. Both these give the V20 more splay, and to me a better feeling of the brush on my face (as opposed to it being more like a thick cloth.

The L4, splits this somehow, having the splay of the V20, with the “can feel no individual hair, wall of badger” feeling. And like the B3, it feels made for this brush in a way the fanchurans can’t. I like it. Having said that the V20 gets me 80% of the way there for 30% of the price so, not sure about that. And having said that, if I never experienced the V20, I’d probably say the V18 gets 75% of the way there.

One thing though that was totally different was how this thing held lather. It felt like there were extradimensional pockets just expelling the lather as I went. I did a bit longer load than normal because it didn’t look like it picked up enough soap and ended up with enough for 6 passes if I wanted. And I kept having to add water to my face (despite being a mostly bowl latherer) because it kept putting out more soap as I went. I could definitely see that as being a boon to the face lathering crowd. I may try face lathering with Chesire tomorrow.

**March 25, 2024**

* **Brush:** u/J33pguy13 TnS L4 Pass around
* **Razor:** EldrormR Industries MM24
* **Blade:** GEM (25)
* **Lather:** Noble Otter – Rawr
* **Post Shave:** Zingari – Unscented
* **Fragrance:** Sir Irisch Moos

Team Otter show up!
Otters are social creatures, unlike lawyers, so I have big expectations for today. We’ll see. The legal beagles came strong out of the gate.

This blade is probably past its prime, but I only have 6 more #MMarch24 shaves so I’m probably gonna ride it out.

But let’s talk about the brush. It’s on loan from our resident ~~horder~~ archivist, and this is only the second hand tied knot I’ve ever tried. The other being a B3 which was…suboptimal. In advance I ran through my V18 and V20 fanchurians again because they feel different to me and I was trying to figure out why. Looking at them, the hair in the V18 seems a bit thicker, and it has a slightly more hybrid shape than the totally flat top V20. Both these give the V20 more splay, and to me a better feeling of the brush on my face (as opposed to it being more like a thick cloth.

The L4, splits this somehow, having the splay of the V20, with the “can feel no individual hair, wall of badger” feeling. And like the B3, it feels made for this brush in a way the fanchurans can’t.
I like it.
Having said that the V20 gets me 80% of the way there for 30% of the price so, not sure about that.
And having said that, if I never experienced the V20, I’d probably say the V18 gets 75% of the way there.

One thing though that was totally different was how this thing held lather. It felt like there were extradimensional pockets just expelling the lather as I went. I did a bit longer load than normal because it didn’t look like it picked up enough soap and ended up with enough for 6 passes if I wanted. And I kept having to add water to my face (despite being a mostly bowl latherer) because it kept putting out more soap as I went. I could definitely see that as being a boon to the face lathering crowd. I may try face lathering with Chesire tomorrow.