It was that or Noir, and I felt I needed to stay on brand.
Interesting! Thanks.
Wait there’s different Clog Prufs now? I thought I only had to deal with different OCMMOCs.
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.
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.
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.
Nov. 18, 2023
- Brush: Proraso Professional
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: GEM PTFE (3)
- Lather: Barrister and Mann - Smoking Bishop
- Balm: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented
- Osma: Osma - Osma
- Scuttle: Georgetown Pottery - G20
This scent is more pleasant than I remember.
I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for it. Bought it at midnight in 2016. It was sold out by 6 AM. Got a scent I loved and the thrill of the limited drop kill all at the same time. I’m pretty sure it’s why I bought everything that came out for two years straight.
Yeah. Planes may be quicker technically, but they got nothing on rail for the overall time and experience.
Sadly, in the US our rail system is a joke. The lines are owned by freight companies, who are supposed to yield right of way to passenger rail, but don’t, and the government does nothing.
Getting there several hours late is considered good outside of the northeast; getting there a day or more late isn’t uncommon.
Years ago I heard about people using the Feather Cartridge Razor while traveling and being happy with it.
I always check bags so I just put a razor I don’t much care about in my checked baggage. Typically a Gillette Tech because I have an Altoids travel container for it.
Feb. 12, 2024
It’s the Mammoth Monday closest to the Lunar New Year, so this seemed like an excellent themed shave today. This is one of my top tier scents, one that I think everyone should give a whirl.