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I just got word from Boris de Rivière that he has finished work on my kamisori, and that he will send it back tomorrow. I'm impatient to see how short the thing has become!

Yay for double root canal treatment!

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Septidi 17 Pluviôse an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Lichen

• Preshave: Proraso White Preshave
• Brush: Semogue C3 Galahad Horse 🐎
• Razor: Star 1912 Type Razor
• Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (18)
• Lather: Abbate y la Mantia Ishtar
• Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
• Postshave: Epsilon Blue Mediterranean
• Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm

Since @vext01@lemmy.sdf.org mentioned a good shave with his 1912, I felt inspired to take mine out as well. The experience with this razor is always good, and today was no exception. I'm making progress on Ishtar – I'm seeing the bottom of the tub.

Have a good night!

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As I understand, the Green Shadow is harder and better for Nagura stone slurries. The Black Shadow is to soft for JNAT-like use.

Sextidi 16 Pluviôse an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Buis

• Preshave: Proraso White Preshave
• Brush: Yaqi 26mm Syntetic Bingcha (Iced Tea)
• Razor: Puma 100
• Lather: Zingari Man The Watchman
• Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
• Postshave: Zingari Man Mousse Illuminée Recovery Splash
• Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm

I have had The Watchman for quite some time, but this year it is vibing with me. Good shave with the Puma, getting to know better the Bingcha brush.

Have a good evening!

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Puma++

That's because I'm no good in photo 😭

Better pics than I could have made:

https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005007624336041.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2deu

Quartidi 14 Pluviôse an 233 de la Révolution, jour d'Avelinier

• Preshave: Proraso White Preshave
• Brush: Yaqi Bingcha (Iced Tea)
• Razor: Koraat 14.2 Straight Razor
• Lather: Chiseled Face Midnight Stag
• Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
• Postshave: Chiseled Face Midnight Stag Aftershave
• Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm

I bought a new brush from Yaqi, which arrived yesterday. It is really beautiful, and the photos don't really do it justice (there is a chattoyance in the blue part that doesn't come out in the photos I have seen). The only thing I slightly dislike is that it gets quite slippery when covered with soap – which happens easily, because the handle is rather short. And, yes, I dropped it, thanks for asking.

I also honed the Koraat yesterday, and just as with the Puma, I did a quite decent job.

Have a good day!

PS: Not participating in the Atlas shaves; I have none of the artisans (and even less the precise soap) up to now, and I guess that it will stay that way.

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No good one:

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

https://www.connaughtshaving.com/gemss.html

Is in the UK, at least I had to pay customs

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

This looks like a GEM 1912 razor and it take GEM blades. You want to get PTFE blades.

Fatip are plated brass, not bronze

I stand corrected!

don’t drop

it can be complicated at times 🥵

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:

1. Not doing something isn't automatically an example of that thing (not playing basketball doesn't make you a basketball player)
2. 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.

@enndeegee@sub.wetshaving.social is out according to our wise robotic overlords.

_{All hail our wise robotic overlords, be they Chinese or American}

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 @djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social or @gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social might correct me on this.

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 @djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social'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!

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I dropped a really expensive and nice razor – other than that, things have been going rather well. But then, the year is still long 🤔