Morning shave bliss again. Over 30 hours have passed since the last shave (Yesterday's podcast SOTD happened at an odd hour because of time zones and the need to set time aside for editing), so I basically felt like a hobo and the whiskers were long enough to get some visual feedback regarding the efficiency of my ageing blade. Indeed, I could see that some whiskers survived the WTG pass on my cheeks unscathed. That wasn't a problem, though, and the shave turned out quite close by the end of the third (ATG) pass.
Now I'm wondering of course whether these survivors of the first pass are a result of the degraded edge (i.e., I found an element #GEMsOfWisdom), or whether the same would have happened with a fresh blade (i.e., duh). I hope I'll remember to check up on this during sample September.
The #RawHoggin brush has me reconsider how I like boar brushes to be: Most of my Zenith brushes are scrubbies (50mm loft/28 mm ⌀), or medium lofts (57 mm loft/26 or 28 mm ⌀) and there's one floppy 60-something mm loft with 26 mm ⌀, but none have a very tight ferrule, so they bloomed considerably as they broke in, and they splay easily. This one is different: I opened the ferrule just enough for the glue bump to squeeze through (like the 508 XL beast), and it keeps the knot very tight (see SOTD picture). The result is a similarly strong backbone.
It shouldn't have come as a surprise, but I just had attributed the beast's characteristics to its huge diameter of 31 mm rather than the tight ferrule construction.
This SOTD is part of the challenge
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