TriplePlaid

SOTD - 2026-02-02

• Prep: Stirling Unscented Preshave Soap
• Brush: Unbranded; synthetic?
• Razor: Stirling de3p6s standard head
• Blade: Feather Hi Stainless (2)
• Lather: Stirling Scots Pine Sheep Shave Soap
• Alum: Stirling Travel Size Alum
• Aftershave: Stirling Deton-8 Aftershave Splash
• Serum: Ash Hopper Blueberry Serum
• Lotion: Humble Bee Botanicals "Calendulove" Face Cream

Single pass WTG. Wow. This was not fun. I should have rinsed that lather off and started again with a different soap but instead I pushed through the mildly irritating effect of this soap. I was so hoping that the sheep's tallow would make a difference - but any difference that made was taken away by how my face reacted. Now my lips are a little swollen. Lesson learned. And unsurprisingly Scots Pine ranks as my least favorite Stirling scent.

Comfortably close shave on most of my face except for under my chin. Closeness on the upper lip came at the cost of a couple small weepers. So far my experience with Feather blades is that past the very first use they are complete garbage. It will be some time before I try reusing a Feather I think...

Maybe it is just that it won't allow me to create a new piefed account on Voyager...

I'll try creating the account with other means and see if I can use it on Voyager maybe?

I need a mobile app that works well. Is there such a thing that will allow me to host my username on wetshav.ing? Voyager will not allow a piefed user host.

Thanks for any info, I really don't have a good handle on all this server stuff...

SOTD - 2026-02-01

• Prep: Stirling Unscented Preshave Soap
• Brush: Unbranded; synthetic?
• Razor: Stirling de3p6s standard head
• Blade: Feather Hi Stainless (1)
• Lather: Stirling Campania Shave Soap
• Alum: Stirling Travel Size Alum
• Aftershave: Stirling Campania Aftershave Splash
• Serum: Ash Hopper Blueberry Serum
• Lotion: Humble Bee Botanicals "Calendulove" Face Cream

Single pass WTG - a comfortably close shave. Some irritation in problem areas (chin, one place on neck) where I tried touching up too much. Wish I coulda got it closer on the chin and neck. Ditching the Taconic aftershave balm seems to have gone well.

I had been intimidated to use the Feather blade in this razor but I think it went alright. I think this shave maybe had the least amount of tugging so far, but still some on my chin. Maybe I should try a slant or open comb some day?

First time using Campania. It's nice, very clean smelling, but a bit tame. I would rank it as my 3rd favorite stirling scent so far.

SOTD - 2026-01-31

• Prep: Stirling Unscented Preshave Soap
• Brush: Unbranded; synthetic?
• Razor: Stirling de3p6s standard head
• Blade: SharP 7 AM plus super platinum (3)
• Lather: Stirling Duke Shave Soap
• Alum: Stirling Travel Size Alum
• Aftershave: Stirling Duke Aftershave Splash
• Balm: Taconic Aftershave Balm
• Serum: Ash Hopper Blueberry Serum
• Moisturizer: Humble Bee Botanicals "Calendulove" Facial Cream

First pass WTG. 2nd pass XTG on upper lips, cheeks, chin. It was a mistake on the upper lips - I got overconfident because I could tell that I had the lather dialed in really well today. So now I have some irritation that could have been avoided. Also maybe did not help that this blade is on the 3rd use? But really I think it would have been fine if I had even just been less aggressive on the XTG pass.

I included the serum and lotion because I think they both help with irritation from the shave and help to balance out the drying effect from the alum. They are both pretty amazing products! I'm considering ditching the Taconic balm and just using the calendulove. Too bad as the Taconic balm is still mostly full...

First time using Duke: it's pretty nice! I think this has claimed the #2 spot for me in terms of Stirling scents. Gf and I are on the same page on this one - very nice but not quite as nice as Deton-8.

Thanks for your perspective. I think I will keep trying to make it work with the boar brush that I already have. I really want to try a badger brush - do you have a recommendation for a quality choice? (Budget of $100 maximum? Is that reasonable? I know badger gets expensive...)

SOTD - 2026-01-30

• Prep: Stirling Unscented Preshave Soap
• Brush: Unbranded; synthetic?
• Razor: Stirling de3p6s standard head
• Blade: SharP 7 AM plus super platinum (2)
• Lather: Stirling Deton-8 Shave Soap
• Alum: Stirling Travel Size Alum
• Aftershave: Stirling Deton-8 Aftershave Splash
• Balm: Taconic Aftershave Balm

Single pass WTG. Not super close but not too bad; a comfortably close shave. I did a relatively good job keeping it irritation free except for a few places on my neck and my chin. This razor and blade combo feels like a winner potentially. Deton-8 is awesome!

I appreciate your offer very much and have been giving it some thought. I think I want to move away from synthetic materials generally since I am trying to minimize sources of microplastics in my life... But I am very interested to hear your perspective on synthetic vs. natural brushes. Maybe I should try to set my growing fear of plastics aside?

SOTD - 2026-01-25

• Prep: Stirling Unscented Preshave Soap
• Brush: Unbranded; synthetic (I think) kinda not a great brush but so far I SUCK at lathering with my boar brush, one moment my lather seems perfect the next moment it disappears completely...
• Razor: Stirling de3p6s standard head
• Blade: Astra SP green (3)
• Lather: Stirling Sharp Dressed Man Shave Soap
• Alum: Stirling Travel Size Alum
• Aftershave: Stirling Sharp Dressed Man Aftershave Splash
• Balm: Taconic Aftershave Balm

Taking down 8.5 days of growth, one pass WTG. I would say it was a socially acceptable shave, a bit more irritation than I was going for, not terribly close on the upper lip and parts of the neck. My lather was maybe (?) not dialed in well, or perhaps it was that this is the 3rd use of the blade. Not too bad anyway, and the alum combined with aftershave and balm helps a lot. Sharp Dressed Man is fine I guess, the shave soap smells like ivory soap to me but the aftershave is nice imo... Gf says it is OUT however. Deton-8 is the favorite so far.

Sadly this shave is probably not close enough to guarantee I will not have to use a beard net at work tomorrow. I must do better...

I love how you can see the fingers digging into his face. I never thought about how excruciating it would be to birth someone from your forehead.... Awesome work!!

I feel your pain with the winter driving, we have had a lot of rough days where I live. Do you have snow tires? I have found that they make an enormous difference (but sometimes it is sketchy driving no matter what).

Good luck with the new workplace! Sounds stressful, but maybe it could be very rewarding?

Nice video! I was hoping you could provide some more context as to the bevel angle and what advantages/drawbacks there are with having such a large angle.

I know very little about straight razor shaving but I am getting interested and may have to try some day... Still need to finish learning the DE razor first I think.