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Shave of the Day - 2025

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RAZOR: Above The Tie Windsor SE
BLADE: Schick Proline
BRUSH: Zingari Man 26 MM V11 fanchurian
LATHER: Ariana & Evans Asian Plum Shaving Soap
POST: Ariana & Evans Asian Plum Aftershave Splash
 
Pre-shave:- Cold Shower
Bowl/Scuttle:- Captain's Choice
Brush:- Shavemac 'Crushed Mud' Resin 24/52mm Fan G5C Premium Synth.
Soap/Cream:- Noble Otter ~ Eros’ Ambrosia
Razor/Blade:- RazoRock Goat SS (borrowed) / Wizamet Super Iridium #5
Post/After-shave:- T.N. Dickinson Witch Hazel Astringent mixed into the 240ml bottle with Plunkett's Vita E Pure with Rosehip Oil (10 drops), Natural Plant Glycerine (20) & Tea Tree Oil Antiseptic (5)
Moisturising Cream:- Aveeno Active Naturals Daily Fragrance-Free (for autumn & winter season)
Fragrance:- L'Occitane Baux
Tonight Tipple:- Guinness

I'm returning the RazoRock Goat SS back tomorrow, it's been an interesting experience, I'm glad to see RazoRock has created a razor in stainless steel version of a similar or closer to the original Merkur 34C HD. That, a lot of wet shavers have experience and owned the Merkur 34C or 34G in their own den, it's a love and hate two piece razors, as YMMV some wet shavers find it, it's just right, and some find it's too mild as we all have different experience.

I've owned the Merkur 34C since I first started wet shaving many moons ago in my 30s, straight out from cartridge razors and airy can goo crap.

I've also owned a Weber razor awhile back since I've been hunting them online for years, which is a very close and near precise version of the Merkur 34C, however, it's a real shame the Weber razor isn't in production anymore when they offer their stainless steel version due to quality control issue back somewhere in 2010 or 2011.

RazoRock Goat SS gap is slightly wider, and the blade exposure is NOT neutral according to their website at all when comparing side by side with the original 34C. The blade exposure feels like double the rate, because, the RazoRock Goat blade exposure is one step higher against the original Weber razor I've owned in my den, when comparing them side by side against the Goat SS.

The Weber razor gap is the same as the 34C, with a slightly more blade exposure, just one step under against the RazoRock Goat blade exposure.
I find the Weber razor the most comfortable and the most enjoyable razor I've owned against the Merkur 34C and the Goat SS, the Goat SS blade exposure is a bit too much against the 34C for beginners, who never experience real traditional wet shaving with a double edge blade.

IF, RazoRock Goat drop the blade exposure slightly down a notch, keep the gap the same, and this new Goat SS razor well become near precise as the original Weber razor version.

My rate level blade exposure from high to low.
1. RazoRock Goat.
2. Weber razor
3. Merkur 34C & 34G
 
SpeedyPC said:
...a lot of wet shavers have experience and owned the Merkur 34C or 34G in their own den, it's a love and hate two piece razors, as YMMV some wet shavers find it, it's just right, and some find it's too mild as we all have different experience.
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I bought myself a 34C when I returned to DE shaving (when I started shaving my head) in 2004, after a long spell using straights. I can easily use any safety razor without a mirror, or even in the dark, but shaving my head with a straight is a performance, and not worth the trouble.

But the 34C literally never cut it for me. After enduring a few months of having to take 1,048,576 passes to get a decent shave, I gave up and got myself a Tech. I remember, I joined this forum specifically to find someone who would find a home for the 34C. And the rest, as they say, is history...
 
TOWEL DAY

As nominal custodian of the Total Perspective Vortex, I should remind you all that today is Towel Day, in celebration of, and tribute to the late Douglas Adams. In these perilous times when everything seems to be going to hell in an express handbasket, it's a Good Thing(TM) to remember.:

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(Innsbruck, where it all began)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels.
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap​
it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini-raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you – daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker​
has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit, etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have ‘lost’. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
 
Gargravarr said:
Beautiful pic, as always (y) One day, I'm going to try that Abbate y La Mantia soap.

What are your thoughts about the Amakuni? (Maybe, compared to La Faulx?) I imagine we'll hear about it from @Errol at some point, but other points of view are always welcome...
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Thank you! For me it is close to the Faulx is very comfortable and efficient It is also very agile but the best is the blade change is a game changer. Love it ! 👋
 
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Gold Dollar 66, Yaqi, Barrister & Mann Electric Mayhem.

Many thanks to @rbscebu for the PIF. First time shave with a Jnat edge. It does feel 'smoother' than the pasted balsa edge, but there was the faintest hint of tugging on the stroke (but that could have been insufficient stropping prior to shave/ shave angle/ technique). I do get a workable edge off my current synthetic progression (up to a Shapton 12k). I'd like to get into Jnats, but they're hugely expensive.
 
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