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WetShaving
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This is a community of enthusiasts, hobbyists and artisans who enjoy a traditional wet shave: brush, soap, and safety or straight razor. We are a part of the WetShaving community found on Reddit, Discord, and IRC.
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Not long ago I won a beautiful brush handle from Peter at Wolf Whiskers in a charity raffle. It came with a great synthetic knot, but it was lofted too short for me. I decided to remove it so I can put something else in.
I emailed Peter and he confirmed that all of his brushes are assembled with epoxy. I didn't want to risk steaming the handle, but the Discord chat convinced me to try a 5 minute steam, which I did... 5 minutes isn't long, and it didn't work.
Not wanting to further risk a total failure (the handle is in 2 pieces, plus it has a coin in the bottom), I went back to plan A - mechanical destruction.
Picture 1: I used a box cutter with a fresh blade to slice most of the hair off
Picture 2: I used a combination of a small cutoff wheel and a grinder bit on a Dremel tool and started slowly chipping away at things.
Picture 3: This bit worked the absolute best. It's small, so it took a while. It also created TONS of dust, so I had to do this outside.
Picture 4: This is pretty much the end result. It was very difficult to know when to stop. The end of the knot/epoxy and beginning of "handle" was never really obvious. In the end, the hole was 15.5mm deep, and 26.5mm wide.
I did mess it up in a few spots. The keyless chuck on the dremel has some knurling which made contact with the ferule a few times, despite me trying to be careful. I was able to buff them a little bit and they're only noticeable if you're looking closely at it.
I still haven't decided which knot to put in it, but it's a beautiful handle!
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I had two new arrivals this week. First, a combination of Barrister and Mann and Spearhead goodies reached me:
Fleur de France is a favourite of mine and I was super lucky to get a backup tub and splash of this discontinued scent in the Spearhead anniversary giveaway. Added bonus, it's in my favourite base, 20.1. I also bought a backup frag, since it seems very unlikely to ever be made again.
I already have and like Nocturne in the Zslur version, but I'm uneasy using their ill-named products, so the recent BaM re-edition was the perfect opportunity to further dezingify my den.
The surprise star of this part of the mail call is Roam Two though! I have OG Roam in the Soft Hearts base (including the finger balm that's going iffy). I love its deep dirty grass scent. I first smelled it as a kid, maybe 11 or 12 years old, when I went on my first spring tent camp with my scout group (before that, I was a cub and the camps were in huts and houses, not in tents). We had set up our tents on a friendly farmer's pasture in the Jura mountains at the edge of the forest and near a little stream. I was in the team that built and maintained the kitchen tent, and after the second day it started raining and never stopped. Everything turned to mud, the wet grass between the tents got trampled down and its scent combined with the smoky tarp of the kitchen tent is OG Roam. I love the scent, but it's not the most wearable in an office setup. When I read that Roam Two is significantly different, I was both worried and hopeful. Worried it might have lost what triggers happy memories for me, hopeful it might be a more wearable fragrance. Well, Will knocked it out of the park! It still has that wonderful outdoorsy feel, but the smoke and dirt are less prominent. It now feels outdoorsy in a similar way as Shire or Valedictorian do. Yayy!
Second, I got this pretty Mühle Purist brush with an ebonite handle as a total blind buy:
I had been on the fence about this for a while and posted questions about Mühle badger experiences all around, but got no feedback. There are only very few users of these brushes in the forums I know. My first shave brush was a Mühle travel brush with a tiny synthetic knot and it was bad. As I went down the rabbit hole of wetshaving, I switched to bigger synths, badgers, boars, and horse knots and I haven't looked back. I often wondered how it was possible that Mühle kept selling these tiny knots. This particular badger knot has a 21 mm diameter, and they call that the "medium" size. And it's not like these are cheap, either. Apparently, there is a market for these somewhere. When this brush came on a big discount I threw caution to the wind and got it. Let's see whether there's something to tiny German badgers.
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