Getting Started – Some Thoughts On the Collection
Paul As of this moment (I’m writing this the weekend of March 7, 2025), I have 991 individual things in the shaving collection, and that feels like an enormous number. And…
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The Dorco Dilemma – Platinum Edition
After a week with the Dorco Titan blade, it’s now the Platinum HQ Red’s turn. I do have more history with the Dorco Platinum HQ Red blade, having used it…
The Dorco Dilemma
In the last blade pickup, I received a tuck of blades that I honestly hadn’t heard of, but that makes sense, and I’ll explain why in a bit. The blade…
The Merkur Progress 500 Adjustable Review
Adjustable razors have a special place in shaving. It takes some engineering to make a safety razor that can basically change the blade gap of the razor while not altering…
The Merkur Progress 500 Shaves
This is the last of the new razor shave weeks…for now. I’d like to say I have enough razors and won’t be buying any more, but I want one or…
The Goodfellas’ Smile Syntesi Review
So yeah, the bonus razor. Why is it a bonus razor? Because it was in the box with the Merkur, and the vendor I ordered from didn’t want me to…
The Goodfellas’ Smile Tryouts
I could also call this week’s shaves happenstance, since I didn’t actually order the razor, but it came to me anyway… The Goodfellas’ Smile Syntesi is a bit of an…
The Mühle R89 Review
I know what I said in The State of the Shave of the Day post at the end of the year, as I listed out the razors I was thinking…
The Fine German Shaves of the Week
It’s time to start breaking in the new razors, and I’ll be starting with the Mühle R89. The Mühle R89 is often referred to as a fairly mild razor, good…
New Arrivals
Okay, have a seat. This may take a while. I was good during all of the Black Friday sales and didn’t buy anything, even though there were some great deals…