merikus
@merikus@sub.wetshaving.social
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - December 03, 2023 11 months ago:
Great razor. Also love the name. I don’t know why, but it’s my favorite razor name in all of shaving. Something about the hyphen and the Pruf.
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - December 03, 2023 11 months ago:
Do you have an MM24? Easily my favorite.
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - December 03, 2023 11 months ago:
Dec. 3, 2023
- Brush: Declaration Grooming B14 “Nebula” Badger
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: GEM PTFE (3)
- Lather: Barrister & Mann - Vespers
- Aftershave: Barrister & Mann - Vespers
- Aftershave: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented
- Balm: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented
- Osma: Osma - Osma
- Scuttle: Georgetown Pottery - G20
Lovely shave. The GUTL and the Nebula worked well with the Omnibus base, and of course Vespers is a top tier scent. Another great Christmas Shave.
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread - November 29, 2023 11 months ago:
Here’s a rundown of the process:
- Open soap container.
- Scoop out a wad of soap.
- Place wad of soap into a bowl or scuttle, pressing it thin.
- With a damp brush, swirl your brush in this soap until it develops into a thick protolather. You may need to add a little water, but not too much.
- When you have a good protolather, move to your face. Begin using standard face lathering techniques to build a base of protolather on your beard area.
- Once the lather base has been built, move back to your bowl. Add water, building volume to your lather, getting it slick and ready to use.
- Move back to the face, adding more water to the brush to refine the lather on the face and preparing for the first pass.
- Finalize your lather in your bowl, bringing that bowl lather to your face and mixing it up, giving you a Grand Unified Lather.
- As you move forward with your second and third passes, the lather in the bowl will serve as your Lather Reservoir, enabling you to not run out of lather for three, maybe four passes.
It’s called the GUTL for Grand Unified Theory of Lathering.
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread - November 29, 2023 11 months ago:
I essentially do a combination bowl lather/face lather called the GUTL. Essentially begin building your lather in your bowl, continue on face, then back to bowl, until you get a good lather from the combination of the two.
Just love using the G20 whenever I can.
- Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread - November 29, 2023 11 months ago:
Nov. 29, 2023
- Brush: Zenith MOAR BOAR
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: GEM PTFE (2)
- Lather: Barrister & Mann - Vespers - Soap
- Post Shave: Barrister & Mann - Vespers - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented - Balm
- Osma: Osma - Osma
- Scuttle: Georgetown Pottery - G20
One of the main reasons I repeat my shaving setup day after day is I have soap left in the bottom of my scuttle from GUTLing and don’t feel like scooping it out and putting it back in the container.
That and this setup is fucking awesome.
- Comment on Tuesday SOTD Thread - November 28, 2023 11 months ago:
Nov. 28, 2023
- Brush: Zenith MOAR BOAR
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: GEM PTFE (1)
- Lather: Barrister & Mann - Vespers - Soap
- Post Shave: Barrister & Mann - Vespers - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented - Balm
- Osma: Osma - Osma
- Scuttle: Georgetown Pottery - G20
I bought this puck of Vespers on sale at the end of last season as a replacement for the one I killed and just found it. Absolutely one of my favorite scents.