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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

๐Ÿฐ Stirling vs House of Mammoth ๐Ÿฆฃ

  • Brush: Boti Motherlode knot in laminated wooden handle
  • Razor: Dovo 41 Inox
  • Lather: Stirling Soap Co. Mountain Man
  • Aftershave: Stirling Soap Co. Mountain Man
  • Fragrance: Stirling Soap Co. Mountain Man

I'm on a company engineering seminar in the mountains, so a Mountain Man trickhole is the perfect choice for my Stirling vote today. There's simply no way I can get disappointed with today's outcome. Both u/mammothben and u/stirlingsoap deserve to go all the way IMO, and I am somewhat optimistic one of them will.

Today was the first time I've taken a straight razor to the mountains and I made a fun observation: The thin, dry mountain air plays tricks with my strop and the leather-steel combo is like the plexy glass stick and cat pelt experiment from high school physics: crackling discharges of static electricity and all the hairs on my stropping arm stood up.

Every time I use the Motherlode knot I'm impressed and tell myself I should use it more, and I never do ๐Ÿคท

Fantastic shave, I won't be too mad if we get snowed in and I have to repeat it a few times.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Stirling Soap Co.++;
Motherlode++;

Another "win" for the stainless steel straight razor -- the perfect no-stress travel razor.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Totally. This one in particular with its stainless steel scales ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Pretty much! ๐Ÿ˜‚