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Saturday SOTD Thread - February 1st, 2025 (#601) [Atlas Shaves Edition] (sub.wetshaving.social)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Share your shave of the day!

Atlas Shaves Theme - LA Shaving Soap Company - Woody Lavender (Ho wood, lavender, amyris bay)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

February 2, 2025

Brush: Stirling 24mm Synthetic
Blade: Wilkinson Sword Classic (4)
Lather: Chiseled Face - Bespoke #1 - Soap
Post Shave: Pinaud - Clubman - Aftershave
Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral

Shave number 2 for today, because I forgot I had this sample in my dopp bag. No need to blow my airbud on day 1!

I'll be conservative and give myself 3 points for shaving with "the scenter". It'd be 4 points to count is as the artisan, which I have no qualms with, but that's ok.

Daily points: 4 Scenter: 3 Crosspost: 1 (gem.wetshaving.social and r/ws)

Total: 4

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I think you can give yourself a point for engaging with the community as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

February 1, 2025

Brush: Elite Razor Honduran Rosewood Burl 24mm HMW Fan
Razor: ERN 6/8 French Point Full Hollow
Lather: Floris London - No. 89 - Soap
Aftershave: Floris London - No. 89 - Aftershave

2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.

The soap base for No. 89 is only good enough. There are plenty of artisan soaps that have better bases. The key thing about No. 89 is the wooden bowl and that awesome 1950's/1960's scent. I could use this everyday.

Sorry @enndeegee, I'll be doing Atlas Shrugged this month.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Finally used The old man I found at an antique store after cleaning and applying some linseed oil. Used a Wilkinson Sword with it. Got a few bleeds and razor rash but it was very effective at taking down my beard. I think I'll save it for longer growth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Saturday, February 01, 2025: Atlas Shaves 2 - Day 1

Brush: Rad Dinosaur Creations "Stardust" - TurnNShave Tuxedo 26mm synthetic
Razor: Bic Sensitive Disposable
Lather: Barrister and Mann - Rhapsody (Soft Heart base)
Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Lavanille Aftershave splash
Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Rhapsody Aftershave Balm (Soft Heart base)
Fragrance: Barrister and Mann - Lavanille EdT

A great shave with Rhapsody. It's a lovely warm-yet-bright scent that I always enjoy using. Lavanille might not be the best pairing, but it works well enough.

The Bic Sensitive performed better than I expected. It's not great and feels cheap and flimsy, but it gave me a very close shave with no irritation. Not bad for a travel option.

+2 points for soap with at least half of the same scent notes (Pear Blossom, Apple Blossom, Cherry Blossom, Vanilla, Orange, Rose, Sandalwood, Patchouli, Musk, Lavender, Lemon, Bay)
+1 point for cross-posting
+1 point for engaging yesterday

Total points: 4

🍳 Created with Neovim & sotd.nvim 🍳

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

lather: LA Shaving Soap Company - Topanga Fougere

Atlas daily points: 4 points for Artisan +1 for crossposting on lemmy and reddit

Atlas cumulative points: 4

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Don't forget to cross-post on reddit or Mastodon for an extra point

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Day 01 of Atlas Shaves 2 – Electric Boogaloo Sat 01 Feb 2025

Brush: Boti Laminate brush with motherlode knot
Razor: GEM Micromatic Clog-Pruf Peerless (gen 2)
Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (1)
Lather: Chiseled Face – Trade Winds
Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. – Mountain Man

Ok, this is a difficult start into Atlas Shaves. I brought Mount Smushmore, my collection of samples and smushes that has helped me more than once to fix a hole in my LG roster, with me to the mountains, and I felt pretty smug about it. What are the odds that none of these more than 100 samples share the right scent notes? Really, what are they? 😅

Thank god there are technicalities and poorly worded rules:

LA Shaving Soap Co. Woody Lavender - Notes: Lavender, Ho Wood, Amyris, Bay

This particular soap was made by two artisans: first John the founder of LASSC, and after the purchase by Chiseled Face, by Ron. The current artisan making this soap is Ron, and I have a bunch of stuff by Ron like today's Trade Winds.

The wording of the rules mentions artisans, not brands, so crisis averted.

Road to Victory (through technicality):

Category	∑	Δ
Daily theme soap	0	0
Artisan	4	+4
Scenter	0	0
Half of the scent notes	0	0
Airbudding the day	0	0
Cross posting	1	+1
Snitching	1	+1
Snitching incorrectly	0	0
Goody Two-Shoes	0	0
Total	6	+6

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Feb 1, 2025 - Atlas Shaves II

Brush: AKA Brushworx Green & Black 26mm AP Shave Co. SynBad Synthentic Knot
Razor: Aylsworth Razors Drakkant Ti
Blade: Gillette 7 O’Clock Super Stainless (Green) [19]
Lather: The Los Angeles Shaving Soap Company - Vert Noir - Soap
Post Shave: Declaration Grooming - Contemplation - Aftershave
Fragrance: Declaration Grooming - Contemplation - Eau de Parfum

Our LatherBot overlord randomly selected LASSCo - Woody Lavender for day 1 of AS2.
Scent notes: Lavender, Ho Wood, Amyris and Bay

I managed to find a single sample of LASSCo Vert Noir at the back of my shave den. It's not one that I liked the scent of off the sample puck. Lathering it today, the scent mellowed and it was enjoyable.

Daily Total: 5 (4 artisan who made the daily theme soap + 1 for crossposting bonus)
Running Total: 5

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

February 1, 2025

Brush: Stirling 24mm Synthetic
Blade: Wilkinson Sword Classic (3)
Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Scots Pine Sheep - Soap
Post Shave: Pinaud - Clubman - Aftershave
Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral

~~Welp, I'm out.~~ ~~Airbud~~

~~Points: 1~~

~~Edit: I'm a dolt. I think I have a sample in my dopp bag that will work. I'll find out when I get back to the hotel and maybe do a second shave.~~

Had the sample. Shaved again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'll find out when I get back to the hotel and maybe do a second shave.

Fingers crossed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I prevailed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Tridi 13 Pluviôse an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Laurier: Kät Day

Preshave: Proraso White Preshave
Brush: Muninn Woodworks Gloire de France with Zenith 505BC Boar 🐗
Razor: Puma 100 Straight Razor
Lather: Zingari Man The Watchman
Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
Postshave: Epsilon Blue Mediterranean
Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm

Since I'm home alone, I tried my luck with the Dremel and polished away on the Puma. I'm afraid that esthetically, this was not a success – while I removed some of the staining, I'm not sure I have the right tools, and there is a visible difference in level of polish between where I had protected the blade with tape, and where I had polished. Like @[email protected]'s Thiers Issard, this razor is now officially esthetically challenged.

It had no bevel on it at all, so I went all the way from 1k, and I had to get rid of a small enough dent in the toe. However bad it may look, it is a spectacularly good shaver. I will certainly use this one quite regularly.

Have a good day!

~Shared via emacs & sotd.el~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

My Puma is also a great shaver. Do you have a picture of the esthetical challenge?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

No good one:

The differences in reflexion here are not due to the light, and there are also smaller stains.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

World's weakest shave.

SSL

RED ZENITH 27MM BOAR

1914

not on theme and not using ait bud. That puts me out first and officially the waeakest shaver.

X-post from lemmy or whichever one it is I use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I’m calling you out for a rules infraction.

They said a dog couldn’t play basketball; they said a dog couldn’t shave. You said you were out.

But you’re all wrong.

You have the AirBud point but you’re choosing to not use it. But that’s the ultimate AirBud thing to do. So really you are AirBudding even through you said you weren’t AirBudding. Which, is, obviously, AirBudding.

Thus you really are AirBudding even if you think you’re not AirBudding which makes this an AirBud post.

Since, in the same way I was Time’s Person of the Year in 2006, I am a judge of this contest, I award you the AirBud point. Congratulations, you’re not the first one out.

Crossposting to Discord because rules.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You have the AirBud point but you’re choosing to not use it. But that’s the ultimate AirBud thing to do. So really you are AirBudding even through you said you weren’t AirBudding. Which, is, obviously, AirBudding.

I was confused. So obviously, I asked Claude to explain this to me:

The quote you've shared is making a meta-joke: It's suggesting that choosing not to use an Air Bud-style loophole is itself an Air Bud move, since presumably there's no rule saying you can't choose not to use an Air Bud loophole. Then it takes this further, noting that this creates a recursive loop - the very act of saying you're not using an Air Bud loophole becomes an example of using one. It's a clever piece of circular logic that plays with the concept of self-reference, similar to paradoxes like "this statement is false" or the classic barber paradox.

In terms of strict logical reasoning it falls apart under scrutiny because:

Not doing something isn't automatically an example of that thing (not playing basketball doesn't make you a basketball player)

The core premise of "Air Budding" is exploiting a specific loophole to do something novel - simply not doing something doesn't fit that definition

It's like saying "By refusing to be a rebel, you're rebelling against rebellion, which makes you a rebel!" It's not actually logically sound.

@[email protected] is out according to our wise robotic overlords.

~All hail our wise robotic overlords, be they Chinese or American~

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This is hilarious and unnerving.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Are there any plans to train a LLM on the yuge data ofsthis server?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

That's what's keeping the lights on! We're in talks with Microsoft about a potential buyout.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

So I have been looking around for budget stainless steel razors and one that popped was the Swiss Shave Black Tiger which claims to be "100% steel" and is priced at $7.50. This price immediately raised red flags for me as is it far below any of the closest equivalent razors I have found and is cheaper than most zamak razors. What is catch? There has to be one. Edit: It has $6 shipping so I guess that places it at ~ $14.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

That looks suspicious (already the name triggers all my do not buy alerts). The cheapest stainless steel razors I would trust (materialwise) would be from Yaqi (check on Aliexpress in the Yaqi factory store) – though I don't know how they shave.

Otherwise, I have a Greencult II stainless steel razor, which is produced in Austria, and comes in at 99€ – which is the cheapest non-Chinese SS razor I am aware of (shipping was free to France, AFAIR).

If durability is the sole issue, Fatip has plated bronze razors at price points you only get zamac for otherwise. Bronze is similarly durable to stainless steel – but local metallurgy experts @[email protected] or @[email protected] might correct me on this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

The Razorock razors seem to be sold in both an aluminum and stainless steel versions for different prices obviously. Though their stainless razors all seem to be ~$60 usd.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

For a safety razor, I don't think durability is a factor in real terms. Zamak razors can provide many years of use. From a practical standpoint, you'll pay more for stainless, bronze, or brass. These are heavier and feel better (if you like heavier), but safety razor performance is unrelated to material or cost. I assert that it is mostly related to technique.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Fatip are plated brass, not bronze. Great metal either way.

My favorite Fatip is the Gentile.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Fatip are plated brass, not bronze

I stand corrected!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

It's hard to tell, but it might be a rebranded (and marked up) Baili. It's a super common practice. You feel like you're getting a good deal by it's cheaper to get a Baili.

This particular one might be similar to this razor https://a.co/d/2QvV8bG but with a different handle.

My favorite Baili is the BR171.

Keep in mind that "steel" is not stainless steel. The first one I linked to is stamped metal. Very thin, light, and cheap feeling. The second one I linked is a zamak razor. It's sturdier feeling. Both won't last forever, but for the price that's ok.

The cheapest stainless steel razors are probably from RazoRock or AliExpress.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

It being stamped sheet metal makes perfect sense. The reviews I have seen don't mention it but they are too busy saying it is "great for the price!".