Nice design.

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I suppose this is the best place to post this. 
I finished making this spring bronze wedge blade adapter to hold a modern                 Gem blade for my Torrey Safety razor today.

Howdy all, 
Figured I'd pull up a chair and talk for a few. 
Been interesting times these last few months, promotion at work( whole lot more responsibility and pressure) but last November I stepped down to a lower position and less stress, or so I thought. Found out it's about the same stress and less money, but I enjoyed it until the last 4 months. 
Well long story short put in my notice and the 17th of this month I start a new position. 
Looking forward to it immensely, going to work for a non profit organization Habitat for Humanity as director of their restore. That's the thrift shop for those that may be wondering. 
This will mean a set schedule , more money, and the chance to actually spend time with the family, as well as hopefully being able to pump out more shave videos as well. 
This last year has been rough, but sometimes you just gotta keep pushing through and tread water into you make it. 

That's all for now, but I'm looking forward to the next adventure.

New little SE in the Den today. Loaded with a fresh GEM PTFE blade.

   

Williams Wednesday's Planned Cold Water Shave

Cold Water Rinse
Williams Mug Shaving Soap
Jayaruh #199 Synthetic
Unmentionable Razor and Blade
CWR
PSC Caffeinated After Shave Balm

A little long, but a fun youtube video.

Shave Like a 1930s Hobo!

Welcome to all the new members. Feel free to let us hear from you!!

Nice Gem Push Button Shave with a carbon steel blade, and vintage Colgate cup soap 

I have not seen many people doing head shaves with lather catchers so I thought I would make a video . I have been getting really good head shaves with this gem Junior leather catcher. It is my favorite razor for head shaves . I also tried vintage Colgate cup soap for the first time and it performed great.

It's eclipse day! I was going to drive the 40ish miles to the center of the path of totality, but rethought that idea. Too many people will be there and I really dislike crowds. I saw a total eclipse as a child and I'd like to see another without spending gobs of $ chasing one down. But totality is not going to happen for me. I had out of the way spots all figured out (farrrrr out of the way in the wiliwacks!) , but the spring snow storms that we had, ruined those unplowed sites in the way back of beyond that few know about.

Where I am will lack totality, we'll be at maybe 95%+ covered so I won't get to see the magic of the corona, but could get the diamond ring effect. So due to my dislike of crowds and just the logistics of getting to totality (there's more involved that I'm not mentioning), I'll see it from home. 

I'm an amateur astronomer so I'll see it through my filtered wide field 'scope and it'll still be enjoyable to see the hunk of rock we call the moon moving in it's orbit*. I was thinking that maybe we'd be clouded out, as usual, but no. The rest of the US will be mostly clouded out but we're expected to be clear (Maine). The best states are expected to be Maine, VT, and NH.

*The last eclipse I saw I had random nightmares years afterward of immense "rocks" rolling on me and crushing me. I was a child, that's my excuse.