Thursday SOTD Thread, August 14th, 2025 (#793)

August 14, 2025

Brush: Zenith B44 28mm Boar
Razor: Koraat 14 "Moarteen" 15/16" Full Hollow
Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - I, Rich Moose (Mutton -r/Wetshaving) - Soap
Toner: Thayers - Cucumber - Toner
Aftershave: Stirling Soap Co. - I, Rich Moose - Aftershave
Fragrance: Mäurer & Wirtz - Sir Irisch Moos - Eau de Cologne

3 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.

Such a close shave today! Very comfortable. Now that I'm two weeks in, I feel no appreciable change in the edge, even though it has not been stropped since 7/31.

Edge Microscope Images
$RawHoggin
$ShepherdsofStirling
$headless
$Stropless
$discord

August 14th, 2025: MMOCMQ Day 14

Brush: AP Shave Co. "Amber Smoke" - Silksmoke 26mm Synthetic
Razor: GEM Micromatic Open Comb
Blade: Accuforge GEM Microcoat (14)
Lather: Mike's Natural Soaps - Orange, Cedarwood, & Black Pepper - Soap
Post Shave: Stirling - Arance Mandarini - Aftershave
Post Shave: Stirling - Glacial Unscented - Balm
Fragrance: Stirling - Destination Unknown - EdT

Home from my trip today and had an excellent three pass shave. It's so nice shaving again in my own space.

$discord

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Walking the righteous path to MMOC mastery ⚔️

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Day 14/31 of Riding through Serenity in Austerity

Brush: Zenith - 506 N XS (extra soft horse)
Razor: Zwilling J. A. Henckels Friodur 50 (7/8", hollow ground, stainless steel, masonic deco)
Lather: Barrister and Mann – Roam
Post Shave: Barrister and Mann – Roam Two
Fragrance: Barrister and Mann – Roam Two

$FriodomRiders
$HoneMeisterschaft
$Equestrian

Are you still going stropless?
- Yes, but I made it back to home base after almost 4 weeks of travelling today, and I think I might strop for tomorrow's morning shave. I'm curious about the difference!

August 14th, 2025: AA Day 14

Brush: Proraso - Professional Boar
Razor: Weck - Sextoblade Med Prep
Blade: Fromm Hair Shaper
Lather: Mike's Natural Soaps - Vetiver - Soap
Post Shave: Catie's Bubbles - 322 - Aftershave

Today's shave was good. Was probably the first day where I wasn't digging vetiver since I had a pretty bad headache earlier, but I got through it. Brush is feeling even better know and I think the Fromm is getting even smoother somehow.

Aug 14, 2025 - Lonestar

Brush: Chisel & Hound Foundry 26mm Declaration Grooming B16 Badger Knot
Razor: Aylsworth Razors Drakkant Ti
Blade: Gillette Platinum [11]
Lather: Noble Otter - Lonestar - Soap
Post Shave: Noble Otter - Lonestar - Aftershave
Fragrance: Noble Otter - Lonestar - Eau de Parfum

August 14th, 2025

Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts - "Santa Noir" w/ 28mm Badger
Razor: Union Razor Cutlery 5/8 Full Hollow (7)
Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Ozark Mountain - Soap
Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - I, Rich Moose - Aftershave
Post Shave: Declaration Grooming, House of Mammoth - Cerberus - Liniment

I haven't used this razor in a little while, and since I had two great straight shaves the past couple of days, I figured it was a good time to break it out and test my new shallow angle skills. Great overall!

I've mentioned before that I wanted to spin up a PieFed server, which is an alternative to Lemmy. I created a new VPS (this time in the USA for much faster latency from where I live) and got it going.

Unfortunately, since I've experimented with PieFed once before and spun up an instance on my home server (using the same domain name (https://wetshav.ing/), our little Lemmy instance here has been looking for it (and failing) for the last 3 months since I just spun it up, tested federation, and spun it down. Because of that, federation is broken at the moment. I can seemingly comment on Lemmy posts from PieFed, and Lemmy posts make their way to PieFed, but PieFed posts don't show up on Lemmy, and there's some other weird comment stuff that doesn't work.

Hopefully, once our Lemmy server does it's thing tonight at midnight, it'll reattempt whatever it needs to attempt and everything will catch up. Right now the Lemmy logs say it's 1800+ activities behind, and that it retries every 24 hours. 1800+ sounds like it knows it's about 3 months behind with posts, comments, upvotes, etc all in the queue. So, my hope is that it'll sort of catch up on its own... but it might not.

Anyway, if you want to try PieFed, applications are open at https://wetshav.ing/. Just be warned it's still very new to me and could come crashing down at any moment! It should work just like Lemmy but with more options for squashing fascists and other undesirable users.

Nice.
- Sure about that?