Monday, November 30, 2015

Jayaruh #22 Dry Fitting Session: Horse Hair Knot

I received three horse hair knots today and did a dry fit with the Jayaruh #22 handle. This probably is not going to be the final home for the knot. I just want to see how it would look in this handle. The reddishness of the knot goes well with the red oak handle. I will be making some more handles from some walnut that I have on hand and using the horse knots in them. I will probably give them a reddish stain too.

Horse hair is used in brushes for men who have religious objections to boar or badger hair. Jews and Muslims generally fall into that category. So, horse hair or synthetic brushes are acceptable for their use.








New Knots Arrive

Two packages arrived today from China. One had a two-band finest badger knot, and the other contained three 21x70 horse hair knots. Right now I only have one handle without a knot, the Jayaruh #22. I got to work widening and deepening the hole for the horse hair knot.


24 mm two-band finest badger and three 21x70mm horse

24mm two-band finest badger

21x70mm horse

Dry fit of horse knot in JR#22



Shave of the Day - 11/30

 

Dove Men Face Wash
Tabac Shaving Soap 
Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip
Gillette Super Adjustable (8)
Astra Super Platinum
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Rose Petal WH
Aqua Velva AS

The Tabac Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip brush. Two passes with my Gillette Super Adjustable razor on 8 and an Astra Super Platinum blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Rose Petal WH and then Aqua Velva after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Sunday, November 29, 2015

DeFitch DF91 Three Piece Razor

This is the DeFitch DF91 three piece razor. It is version 2 of the DeFitch razor. The vendor had a limited offer of $5 for the razor to the first 50 to write for a special code. I jumped on it along with 15 others on The Shave Den. I signed up for the Amazon Prime 30 day free trial and got free shipping, too. The razor arrived on the 24th, and I took the following pictures. It is very nicely made. The fit and finish are flawless. The handle is solid brass with chrome plate. The head is a Zamak alloy. I used my new Jayaruh #28 for eye candy in the pictures. It has a Frank Shaving finest fan badger knot.





I will begin using the DeFitch DF91 on December 1 and use it for five days. Here will be my first shave. I will use this setup for the five shaves. I have other new razors I want to try out during December.

Dove Men Face Wash
Mitchell's Wool Fat Shaving Soap 
Jayaruh #30RS Silver Tip
DeFitch Three Piece Razor
Personna SS
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Lemon WH
Pinaud Clubman AS


Shave of the Day - 11/29

 

Dove Men Face Wash
Tabac Shaving Soap 
Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip
Gillette Super Adjustable (8)
Astra Super Platinum
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Rose Petal WH
Aqua Velva AS

The Tabac Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip brush. Two passes with my Gillette Super Adjustable razor on 8 and an Astra Super Platinum blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Rose Petal WH and then Aqua Velva after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Saturday, November 28, 2015

Shave of the Day - 11/28



Dove Men Face Wash
Tabac Shaving Soap 
Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip
Gillette Super Adjustable (8)
Astra Super Platinum
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Rose Petal WH
Aqua Velva AS

The Tabac Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip brush. Two passes with my Gillette Super Adjustable razor on 8 and an Astra Super Platinum blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Rose Petal WH and then Aqua Velva after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Friday, November 27, 2015

Shave of the Day - 11/27

 

Dove Men Face Wash
Tabac Shaving Soap 
Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip
Gillette Super Adjustable (8)
Astra Super Platinum
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Rose Petal WH
Aqua Velva AS

The Tabac Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip brush. Two passes with my Gillette Super Adjustable razor on 8 and an Astra Super Platinum blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Rose Petal WH and then Aqua Velva after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Shave of the Day - 11/26

 

Dove Men Face Wash
Tabac Shaving Soap 
Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip
Gillette Super Adjustable (8)
Astra Super Platinum
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Rose Petal WH
Aqua Velva AS

The Tabac Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip brush. Two passes with my Gillette Super Adjustable razor on 8 and an Astra Super Platinum blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Rose Petal WH and then Aqua Velva after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Shave of the Day - 11/25

 

Dove Men Face Wash
Tabac Shaving Soap 
Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip
Gillette Super Adjustable (8)
Astra Super Platinum
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Rose Petal WH
Aqua Velva AS

The Tabac Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip brush. Two passes with my Gillette Super Adjustable razor on 8 and an Astra Super Platinum blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Rose Petal WH and then Aqua Velva after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Jayaruh #22

The Jayaruh #22 was started back in September, but has not gotten its knot as of yet. Right now, it is the only Jayaruh handle without a knot. It has a hole for a 22mm knot. It is made of red oak that was sent to me by Ed Kennedy back in August. This handle has been sitting around since September without a knot. Today, December 14, I put a Plisson type synthetic knot in it.

Now it is complete. 










Shave of the Day - 11/24

 

Dove Men Face Wash
Tabac Shaving Soap 
Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip
Gillette Super Adjustable (8)
Astra Super Platinum
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Rose Petal WH
Aqua Velva AS

The Tabac Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip brush. Two passes with my Gillette Super Adjustable razor on 8 and an Astra Super Platinum blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Rose Petal WH and then Aqua Velva after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Monday, November 23, 2015

Jayaruh #28 Completed

Thanks to a post by JR Reyes on The Shave Den, I have finished up the Jayaruh #28 brush. The #28 is made from bird's eye maple and stained with dark walnut with burnished gold on top. It has been sitting around since September with no knot for it. I ordered a 24mm finest from Virginia Sheng, but it is still about a week out. JR suggested that I use the knot from my old Frank Shaving finest fan brush. I got to thinking about it and decided to see if the knot would come out without much of a fuss. Well, it did. So here are the pictures.

Here is the knot after I took it out of the donor handle. It came out with a little gentle force. 


I decided to shim it up just a bit with this dime. I used silicone to set the knot.



Here I pulled the knot out to see how the coverage would be.
 

Here it is with the knot set. I love this knot. It is soft and has good backbone. I face lather with it.

I will be using this brush next month after NoVember is over.

Thanks again, @JR Reyes , for the gentle kick to get me to finish this brush.

Here is the history of the Jayaruh #28. In the first row of pictures you can see that I started with two sticks of 3/4 inch square pieces that I glued together. Then I cut that piece in half and glued the halves together to make a square piece which I rounded. From there I shaped it using the #15 as a loose guide. Then I put the hole in it, finished it, and finally added the knot today. It is nice to have it finished.

Shave of the Day - 11/23

 

Dove Men Face Wash
Tabac Shaving Soap 
Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip
Gillette Super Adjustable (8)
Astra Super Platinum
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Rose Petal WH
Aqua Velva AS

The Tabac Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip brush. Two passes with my Gillette Super Adjustable razor on 8 and an Astra Super Platinum blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Rose Petal WH and then Aqua Velva after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

Sunday, November 22, 2015

The Blooms


Yesterday I did the test lathering with the JR#11 and JR#30RS. Today, they have really bloomed out nicely. The #11 will be going to its new home with my friend Larry in SC. The #30RS will go into service here in December after NoVember has expired.







Shave of the Day - 11/22

 

Dove Men Face Wash
Tabac Shaving Soap 
Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip
Gillette Super Adjustable (8)
Astra Super Platinum
CWR, Asma Alum Block
Thayers Rose Petal WH
Aqua Velva AS

The Tabac Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #27 Silver Tip brush. Two passes with my Gillette Super Adjustable razor on 8 and an Astra Super Platinum blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse, alum block, and a final cold water rinse, I finished off with Thayers Rose Petal WH and then Aqua Velva after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...