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It's tough at any age, but 41 is just wrong. My condolences my friend.
It's tough at any age, but 41 is just wrong. My condolences my friend.18/6/24
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Soap - Signature Soaps Eboracum
Brush - Highlander LE
Razor - Gillette raw brass flat bottom Tech
Blade - Gillette Nacet (1)
AS - Pitralon Classic
Edt - Izzey Miyake
Today was a day I'd been dreading since I found out about it. A few weeks back one of my best mates died suddenly aged 41 and earlier today was the memorial service his family held for their departed son/brother.
I'm generally not one to theme a shave, but for today's shave I picked out a few things I'd been given here.
Signature Soaps aka @BrianH Eboracum isn't a soap I use on a regular basis, but I'm not entirely sure why but I seem to take a huge amount of pleasure from using it. A delightful lather to build and it performs as good as anything. The Highlander LE was made beautifully by @gile and it was a great pleasure to participate in the thread leading upto the inception, creation and delivery of the brush. The shave itself as it is Tech June-kies, was the Flat Bottom Tech Paul @pjgh stripped the coating off, it seems to shave a little differently to the other FB Tech I own.
Sometimes, during the shave itself you find a few moments of peace, I found a few today as I was making my best effort to present my best self to honour my departed friend and avoid my head spiralling out of control as it has been at times. I used to give him shaving equipment over the years, and he used to enjoy using them. He absolutely despised having any kind of hair on his face, which used to largely futile as he was an incredibly hirsute fellow and the 5 O'Clock shadow was an integral part of his persona.
The memorial itself at times was an incredibly difficult encounter. I'd not seen my friend's parents since his death, and a few other mutual friends who found the abrupt nature of his death to be an incredibly difficult concept to deal with.
It's funny how age creeps up with you. It seems only not too long I was hanging out with these group of individuals when we were kids in our early 20's getting shit faced after work with few cares in the world. Now we're all in our early 40's that's all changed, but losing one of your buddies is something I'm not sure I ever expected to be something we had to deal with too.
Thanks to all who made it this far. This is a great little pocket of the internet, I'm pleased to have found it and everyone who posts here.
18/6/24
View attachment 121794
Soap - Signature Soaps Eboracum
Brush - Highlander LE
Razor - Gillette raw brass flat bottom Tech
Blade - Gillette Nacet (1)
AS - Pitralon Classic
Edt - Izzey Miyake
Today was a day I'd been dreading since I found out about it. A few weeks back one of my best mates died suddenly aged 41 and earlier today was the memorial service his family held for their departed son/brother.
I'm generally not one to theme a shave, but for today's shave I picked out a few things I'd been given here.
Signature Soaps aka @BrianH Eboracum isn't a soap I use on a regular basis, but I'm not entirely sure why but I seem to take a huge amount of pleasure from using it. A delightful lather to build and it performs as good as anything. The Highlander LE was made beautifully by @gile and it was a great pleasure to participate in the thread leading upto the inception, creation and delivery of the brush. The shave itself as it is Tech June-kies, was the Flat Bottom Tech Paul @pjgh stripped the coating off, it seems to shave a little differently to the other FB Tech I own.
Sometimes, during the shave itself you find a few moments of peace, I found a few today as I was making my best effort to present my best self to honour my departed friend and avoid my head spiralling out of control as it has been at times. I used to give him shaving equipment over the years, and he used to enjoy using them. He absolutely despised having any kind of hair on his face, which used to largely futile as he was an incredibly hirsute fellow and the 5 O'Clock shadow was an integral part of his persona.
The memorial itself at times was an incredibly difficult encounter. I'd not seen my friend's parents since his death, and a few other mutual friends who found the abrupt nature of his death to be an incredibly difficult concept to deal with.
It's funny how age creeps up with you. It seems only not too long I was hanging out with these group of individuals when we were kids in our early 20's getting shit faced after work with few cares in the world. Now we're all in our early 40's that's all changed, but losing one of your buddies is something I'm not sure I ever expected to be something we had to deal with too.
Thanks to all who made it this far. This is a great little pocket of the internet, I'm pleased to have found it and everyone who posts here.
18/6/24
View attachment 121794
Soap - Signature Soaps Eboracum
Brush - Highlander LE
Razor - Gillette raw brass flat bottom Tech
Blade - Gillette Nacet (1)
AS - Pitralon Classic
Edt - Izzey Miyake
Today was a day I'd been dreading since I found out about it. A few weeks back one of my best mates died suddenly aged 41 and earlier today was the memorial service his family held for their departed son/brother.
I'm generally not one to theme a shave, but for today's shave I picked out a few things I'd been given here.
Signature Soaps aka @BrianH Eboracum isn't a soap I use on a regular basis, but I'm not entirely sure why but I seem to take a huge amount of pleasure from using it. A delightful lather to build and it performs as good as anything. The Highlander LE was made beautifully by @gile and it was a great pleasure to participate in the thread leading upto the inception, creation and delivery of the brush. The shave itself as it is Tech June-kies, was the Flat Bottom Tech Paul @pjgh stripped the coating off, it seems to shave a little differently to the other FB Tech I own.
Sometimes, during the shave itself you find a few moments of peace, I found a few today as I was making my best effort to present my best self to honour my departed friend and avoid my head spiralling out of control as it has been at times. I used to give him shaving equipment over the years, and he used to enjoy using them. He absolutely despised having any kind of hair on his face, which used to largely futile as he was an incredibly hirsute fellow and the 5 O'Clock shadow was an integral part of his persona.
The memorial itself at times was an incredibly difficult encounter. I'd not seen my friend's parents since his death, and a few other mutual friends who found the abrupt nature of his death to be an incredibly difficult concept to deal with.
It's funny how age creeps up with you. It seems only not too long I was hanging out with these group of individuals when we were kids in our early 20's getting shit faced after work with few cares in the world. Now we're all in our early 40's that's all changed, but losing one of your buddies is something I'm not sure I ever expected to be something we had to deal with too.
Thanks to all who made it this far. This is a great little pocket of the internet, I'm pleased to have found it and everyone who posts here.
My deepest sympathies and condolences to you...Earlier this year my work mentor "a great man" took his own life, leaving behind a wife & children. I'm still coming to terms with it now...Regards. -B.18/6/24
View attachment 121794
Soap - Signature Soaps Eboracum
Brush - Highlander LE
Razor - Gillette raw brass flat bottom Tech
Blade - Gillette Nacet (1)
AS - Pitralon Classic
Edt - Izzey Miyake
Today was a day I'd been dreading since I found out about it. A few weeks back one of my best mates died suddenly aged 41 and earlier today was the memorial service his family held for their departed son/brother.
I'm generally not one to theme a shave, but for today's shave I picked out a few things I'd been given here.
Signature Soaps aka @BrianH Eboracum isn't a soap I use on a regular basis, but I'm not entirely sure why but I seem to take a huge amount of pleasure from using it. A delightful lather to build and it performs as good as anything. The Highlander LE was made beautifully by @gile and it was a great pleasure to participate in the thread leading upto the inception, creation and delivery of the brush. The shave itself as it is Tech June-kies, was the Flat Bottom Tech Paul @pjgh stripped the coating off, it seems to shave a little differently to the other FB Tech I own.
Sometimes, during the shave itself you find a few moments of peace, I found a few today as I was making my best effort to present my best self to honour my departed friend and avoid my head spiralling out of control as it has been at times. I used to give him shaving equipment over the years, and he used to enjoy using them. He absolutely despised having any kind of hair on his face, which used to largely futile as he was an incredibly hirsute fellow and the 5 O'Clock shadow was an integral part of his persona.
The memorial itself at times was an incredibly difficult encounter. I'd not seen my friend's parents since his death, and a few other mutual friends who found the abrupt nature of his death to be an incredibly difficult concept to deal with.
It's funny how age creeps up with you. It seems only not too long I was hanging out with these group of individuals when we were kids in our early 20's getting shit faced after work with few cares in the world. Now we're all in our early 40's that's all changed, but losing one of your buddies is something I'm not sure I ever expected to be something we had to deal with too.
Thanks to all who made it this far. This is a great little pocket of the internet, I'm pleased to have found it and everyone who posts here.
The injector blade works in the Micromatics because of the little tabs in the cap that would normally engage the GEM blade side edge slots, they push the back of an injector blade forward into the blade stops as the cap moves forward. No other GEM type razor will support the injector blade as far as I'm aware.19/06/24
Vintage Wednesday
Pre - Dove Original Cream Bar
Brush - Vintage Culmak Plus - Mühle 23mm Classic Silvertip
Soap - Maca Root / Palmolive stick Superlather
Razor - Ever-ready Streamline
Blade - Personna Injector err! no that did not work - GEM PTFE
Post - Cold water Rinse
Balm - Barts Balm Ben Lomond & Original Cinnamon & Patchouli lotion
A/S - Pashana Original
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I should have known better, however, when an idea pops up, it has to be tested - the injector blade in a GEM Razor? although it did not move on my dry arm, it did on the second stroke of the shave, i quickly changed it out to a GEM and carried on, 2 full passes and some touch up for a fine BBS finish.
My condolences @donnie_arko, that is awful news, so young.
Take care all.
@Rip my flesh - what he said mate - ups and downs - such is life - cheers - I.A massive congratulations to your daughter and her new husband.
A nice balance to your recent less happy events.
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