News from Karve Shaving Co.
A new line of handles, inspired by the classics of Gillette.
https://ischiapp.blogspot.com/2023/06/ka...eries.html

Available in two materials:
• stainless steel
• brass

These are the three models, all with thread #10-32:
• G Tech | 3.000" / 76,2mm
• G New  | 3.000" / 76,2mm
• G Orb  | 3.175" / 80,6mm

There’s already a video.
https://youtu.be/-LR5nJP9BnU

Arrived today. Cleaned and ready. Looking forward to try it out tonight. 

       

Are there any difference in the SS blades?  Aren't they made by the same company?

Thursday's Cold Water Shave

Cold Water Rinse
Palmolive Shave Cream
Jayaruh #439 Synthetic
PAA Starling Safety Bar
Personna GEM SS PTFE
CWR
Florida Water

The Palmolive Shave Cream lathered well with the Jayaruh #439 Synthetic brush. Two passes and touch ups with the PAA Starling razor with safety bar and a Personna GEM SS PTFE Blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse I finished off with Florida Water. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

So I just heard they are not using tallow in the Fat anymore. Anyone else heard this?

As dome may know our buddy here CrustyCat sent me a big goody box of smokes. I have smoked up most of the cigars. I have remembered my love for a good box pressed Maduro. I also remember that Oliva makes a good cigar.

On the pipe side perique is still an awesome thing. I will be ages working my way through the pipe stuffing stuff. 

One of the pipe tobaccos sent is a big tub of Prince Edward. Classic drug store stuff that I am mostly smoking through vintage Kaywoodie  and Dr Grabow pipes. Wonder time out on the patio.

Just got some synthetic knots from China and was able to finish #439. The handle was made from 3/4 inch plywood. It has been sitting without a knot since March sometime. I have it planned for next week's shaves (mon-sun).

From the passion of a professional chemist for classic shaving, born A&B Cosmetics.
Fortunately, this person has a chemical company near Perugia.
Where it makes nutraceutical and pharmaceutical production.
So a different level of skills.
https://www.chemibit.it/index.php

I was immediately fascinated.
The apparent simplicity conceals a gem.
In fact there is a wealth of technical details.
Which unfortunately don’t show up in the INCI.

These are some examples.
I report the ingredients list and the olfactory pyramid:

• Bois Aromatique
  
• Essence
  
• Mint & Flowers
  
• Ribera
  

I ordered the 3d printed adapters for gem blades from fugal shave at the beginning of the month they came last Thursday, There are 2 designs, 1 is riverrun 's 2 piece  and the other is a 1 piece was designed by The_Boxhead for Swedish lather catchers. They come Very rough but I was able to fit the 1 piece to my 1880 PT very easily with no issues. I just had to remove a little bit of flash left on the print .The Dr. Scott's 1896 on the other hand I had to take some material off each side of the adapter, and dummy gem blade because the Dr scott's wedge blade is shorter side to side than the kampfe wedge blades. I've also been experimenting with shimming the adapter on Dr. Scott's with a couple layers of duck tape to get the blade at the correct angle to the roller guard. (!caution!)It worked in this first experiment with a dummy blade but I am unsure of the safety of this mod with the amount the blade adapters 3 stops will engage the gem blade. I am going to retry with electrical tape on the bottom of the adapter see if it that will work. As for the 2 piece adapter, fitting It has been a slow process I've got the bottom plate at about 75 % and 0 on the top plate. Not one surface on the top mates to the bottom. I will take my time fitting it and will update this in the future and post and update on the DR Scott's. All in all I am very happy I can finally do a easy shave with my Kampfe Bros Star 1880 PT with common gem blades with out having to mess with a wedge blade.