My favorite wetshaving forum has it’s own YouTube channel – why not check it out?
Plenty of instructive videos, lots of tips to pick up.
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Gillette Toggle
A short video about a rare but interesting razor – well worth watching:
Interview with shaving personalities
Sometimes you run across people who can be said to have written the book on a subject or other. Other times someone actually writes the book on a subject. Leisureguy is one of the later, and his book is on traditional wetshaving. I came across an interview with him via my favorite shave-forum.I can heartily recommend his book too – I don’t agree with everything he has to say on various subjects, but it’s certainly a good read and makes you ask the right sort of questions.
On the same website they also have an interview with Mantic59, the man behind some of the most instructive shaving videos on YouTube – a must see for a new wetshaver, and good for many old timers too.
Interesting looking book
One Thousand Beards: a Cultural History of Facial Hair.
Mixed reviews, but looks to be a fun read – in particular the chapter on the anti-beard, aka shaving.
Homemade shaving soap
One of the other members on my favourite shave-forum have experimented with making his own shaving soap. The results are encouraging and the process don’t look impossible to emulate – even if I don’t think I’ll be allowed to turn the crock-pot into a soap maker any time soon…
My favorite shave forum
My favorite shave forum – the Shave Nook – is a busy place. So busy they posted more than 10K new posts while I was away for a couple of weeks…
Shaving videos
My favorite shave forum – The Shave Nook – has it’s own YouTube channel with is well worth checking out. I’ve picked up more than a few tip and tricks from there, and it’s also great to see what I’m doing different than other wetshavers.
Cheap brushes and how they are made
Another backdated post – such is life.
One of the members over at my favorite wetshaving forum pointed us all to a little thing he wrote about cheap brushes and how they are NOT made by machine. The discussion it sparked is an interesting read as well.
It’s an interesting read – I did honestly assume that cheap and cheerful brushes were at least machine assembled, even if I did assume (correctly in that instance) that the hairs were graded by people. And while machine made brushes might hold true for the ones made with man made fibers*, it’s apparently not true when it comes to boar and badger brushes.
I guess that even in 2012 labour is cheap enough in China to not make it worthwhile inventing a knot-making machine…
*) Not to far fetched an idea; some of the really cheap brushes are made with nylon – all the softness and backbone of a painters brush…
Interesting read
One of the wonders of the internet is that your local paper can be online, giving you local news and stories for free. One of the bigger wonders of the internet is that you can check out the local papers from across the world… giving you an insight into what normal people in places you never heard reads when they have their morning coffee…
Someone over at my favorite shaving forum pointed us to such a story last week – about the local town vicar and his love of classic wetshaving.
…and now I have shared it with you too – enjoy!
Interview with a soap maker
Over at the Shave Nook, Mike from Mike’s Natural Soaps have given a most interesting interview.
I can recommend his bath and shaving soaps; the word “awesome” don’t even begin to cover how good I find them.