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by drmoss_ca
Wed Nov 01, 2023 5:34 am
Forum: Colognes & Aftershaves
Topic: Aramis Tobacco Reserve
Replies: 2
Views: 568

Re: Aramis Tobacco Reserve

I can't tell you, but I'd be very surprised if there have been no changes, given what has happened to everything else!

Chris
by drmoss_ca
Mon Oct 30, 2023 7:50 am
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: What Did You Hone Today?
Replies: 152
Views: 55444

Re: What Did You Hone Today?

Another shave of two-day stubble to report, using the newer TI 5/8 Super Gnome. The razor has lost the brand-new edge feel, after being stropped three times, and is as close to the old one as makes no difference. I'm going to try an extra step just for fun, although I don't really feel the need to i...
by drmoss_ca
Sat Oct 28, 2023 11:45 am
Forum: Shopping
Topic: How do you fix a Cracked Blade???
Replies: 10
Views: 4369

Re: How do you fix a Cracked Blade???

Ah, but some people make a living out of straight razor repairs...
Ever notice the address used for classicshaving.com re-scaling?

C.
by drmoss_ca
Sat Oct 28, 2023 10:35 am
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: What Did You Hone Today?
Replies: 152
Views: 55444

Re: What Did You Hone Today?

And it did outshine the newer 5/8 Super Gnome. The small stiff half hollow blade goes through stubble with that same quiet cloth-tearing sound that you hear from a big wedge. I'm going to say something I've said before: I could live happily with these razors. I guess I'm either lucky (or confused an...
by drmoss_ca
Sat Oct 28, 2023 5:36 am
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: Bent Blades Beware
Replies: 9
Views: 5294

Re: Bent Blades Beware

Welcome, Bob. Like all forums, these days SMF is pretty quiet. Some of us don't care for Facebook-style interaction, and when all posts are shown consecutively it makes it hard to really dive into a topic without distraction. There's a ton of information here and we intend to preserve it, and even i...
by drmoss_ca
Fri Oct 27, 2023 12:20 pm
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: What Did You Hone Today?
Replies: 152
Views: 55444

Re: What Did You Hone Today?

Honed the 6/8 Super Gnome from scratch, and it was indeed very good. Not quite as good as the second 5/8. For tomorrow, I have taken the older 5/8 Super Gnome through the full set (Chosera, BB, coticule). It always was a better shaver than the newer one, and maybe it will outshine it now.

C.
by drmoss_ca
Thu Oct 26, 2023 5:32 am
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: What Did You Hone Today?
Replies: 152
Views: 55444

Re: What Did You Hone Today?

Two more shaves to report. A second go with the ebony Livi showed that more stropping has calmed the edge, and it was smooth and comfortable. Then I waited two days and honed my second 5/8 Super Gnome (Chosera 1k, BB and coticule using the method described above). Stropped it well and just had one o...
by drmoss_ca
Thu Oct 26, 2023 3:44 am
Forum: Cooking & Recipes
Topic: A Cook's Diary
Replies: 128
Views: 59250

Re: A Cook's Diary

Yes, and no, Murray. You let it cool to firm it up so you can cut it and have it hold together. But having cooled, you warm it up to serving temperature and then cut it: it doesn't fall apart again after re-warming. Same process applies to moussaka and lasagne.

C.
by drmoss_ca
Tue Oct 24, 2023 4:30 am
Forum: Cooking & Recipes
Topic: A Cook's Diary
Replies: 128
Views: 59250

Re: A Cook's Diary

Having a pair of eggplants and some leeks to use up, I imagined this: Eggplant Terrine Two bread tins Two large globe eggplants 7-8 medium potatoes One medium onion Two tins flaked tuna or Equivalent amount of smoked salmon Grease the bread tins with oil. Slice eggplants into </=5mm disks Line bread...
by drmoss_ca
Sun Oct 22, 2023 7:57 am
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: What Did You Hone Today?
Replies: 152
Views: 55444

Re: What Did You Hone Today?

So the ebony-scaled Livi gave me a very close shave, but just a bit "scrapy" - it feels like the blade will need to be stropped a few times to calm that edge down a little. So I don't need to come up with an explanation for why it is better to hone all the way to Arkansas level and then go...
by drmoss_ca
Sat Oct 21, 2023 12:10 pm
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: Coticule only?
Replies: 24
Views: 7442

Re: Coticule only?

How times change, and how we may be embarrassed by our past pronouncements! Searching for my previous attempts at coticule only finishing, I found this thread. I cannot recall doing the things I describe above, though no doubt I did. Now I'm finding the coticule can be a good finish stone, if used c...
by drmoss_ca
Sat Oct 21, 2023 11:52 am
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: What Did You Hone Today?
Replies: 152
Views: 55444

Re: What Did You Hone Today?

I did some careful searches and found I'm retracing my old steps: https://forum.shavemyface.com/viewtopic.php?p=699953#p699953 I wish I'd recorded then in detail how it felt. If it had been as good as today's shave I'd have been doing it ever since. And by the by, I see 3" wide coticules are ha...
by drmoss_ca
Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:08 am
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: What Did You Hone Today?
Replies: 152
Views: 55444

Re: What Did You Hone Today?

I'm puzzled and delighted, both. Delighted as the Livi came out as good or better than the TIs honed this way. Damasteel is funny stuff, very tough, but not of ultimate hardness. Likely scores higher for being malleable and ductile than hard. And yet, once sharp, you can shave with it for months. A ...
by drmoss_ca
Fri Oct 20, 2023 6:10 am
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: What Did You Hone Today?
Replies: 152
Views: 55444

Re: What Did You Hone Today?

The 7/8 Eagle wasn't quite as sensation-free as the 5/8 Super Gnome, but it was just as close. Going to try my luck tomorrow with the oldest Livi, a briar-scaled, riveted 7/8 Blue Tongue.

Chris
by drmoss_ca
Thu Oct 19, 2023 10:28 am
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: What Did You Hone Today?
Replies: 152
Views: 55444

Re: What Did You Hone Today?

The 6/8 Super Gnome gave an average shave, not as effortless and free of sensation as the last two, but there again, I never did like it that much, and this as good as I have ever got it. I wonder if a second go on the coticule will make it as good as the others? I've honed one of the 7/8 TI Eagles ...
by drmoss_ca
Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:53 am
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: Carbonsong C135 steel
Replies: 12
Views: 14802

Re: Carbonsong C135 steel

Waking the dead once again. I contacted Thiers Issard/Sabatier and asked: I have been collecting and using TI razors for twenty years, and I have some very special ones (8/8 damascus limited edition from 2005, and the Pierre Thiers Hand-Forged, a seven day set of 6/8 Eagles and so on). I have a ques...
by drmoss_ca
Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:04 am
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: What Did You Hone Today?
Replies: 152
Views: 55444

Re: What Did You Hone Today?

I couldn't wait two days, so the 5/8 SuperGnome was honed on the coticule with the same progression and stropped. The shave was even better than yesterday's Loup et Bellier. Shorter stubble from a single day's growth, but also the pleasing nature of a thicker grind. Very little sensation of being sh...
by drmoss_ca
Tue Oct 17, 2023 10:53 am
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: What Did You Hone Today?
Replies: 152
Views: 55444

Re: What Did You Hone Today?

Decided two days' stubble would be enough, so I stropped the TI on all three Kanayamas (canvas, suede and Cordovan) and lathered up with some old Trumper Rose cream. The shave was as easy and comfortable as any I've had, including cross and against passes. Glassy smooth at the end and no sting with ...
by drmoss_ca
Sun Oct 15, 2023 9:21 am
Forum: Straight Razors
Topic: What Did You Hone Today?
Replies: 152
Views: 55444

Re: What Did You Hone Today?

Had a leisurely three-pass shave with The giant Zowada 01 chopper today, using some old Conk Bay Rum and lime melted together just for the scent. As I shaved I thought about the huge honing experiment I did before moving house, and thought it would be nice to revisit the coticule-only shave. I looke...
by drmoss_ca
Fri Oct 06, 2023 5:32 am
Forum: Shaving Creams & Hard Soaps
Topic: Free AOS tallow shaving
Replies: 7
Views: 1558

Re: Free AOS tallow shaving

Yes, there is a definite bentonite blunting of the scent in those old AoS soaps, but I rather like it.