May PIF

I will be doing a PIF in May in conjunction with Andrew of Andrew's Shave Shop on Etsy. He contacted me and said that he had a couple of Schick E3s coming that had bum handles. He wondered if I would be interested in making wooden handles for them and piffing them and that he would spot the shipping. I said, "Yes, Iwould love to do that." So they are on the way, and today, I got outside on this beautiful North Cackalacky day and worked on the handles. I had two St. Louis Slugger stubs left that I thought would work just right for the handles. So, that was the last of the SLS stubs. Here are the handles so far. I will post more when I get the razors.

April 30

The razors arrived today.

Two Schick Gs and an empty blade key.

I cleaned up the heads and fitted them to the handles. I stained one with a pecan stain and one with a dark walnut stain.

 I finished the handles with several coats of lacquer.

I glued the heads into the handles with super glue.

PIF for 1000th Post on TOST

I put together this PIF to commemorate my 1000th post on TOST: a Pal Injectomatic razor, Jayaruh #258, a puck of Williams Mug Shaving Soap, and six Ted Pella Personna blades loaded into a Schick blade loader.

Received Big PIF

In the mail today was a medium size Priority Mail box from  Texas. Tony, AKA omaney on TSD. It contained 5 synthetic knots, two boar knots, three donor brushes, a four pack of spectrapoly blanks, a blank of cocobolo, and a blank of ebony gaboon. A big thanks to Tony for this great PIF. It will be fun putting each of these pieces to work.

I Won the Pinaud Vegetal PIF

I won this PIF on The Shave Den on the 7th, and it arrived today on the 10th, As an added premium, Scott included some nice blades: Gillette Nacet, Wilkinson Sword, and Gillette Silver Blues.

I Receive a Blade PIF

I signed up for and won this blade PIF on TSD. I got one tuck each of Rapira, Voskhod, and Shark blades and four tucks of Gillette Wilkinson Sword blades.

March PIF

The Bottom-Dial Toggle Executive PIF

March is PIF month at The Shave Den. I have been wanting to do this pif for a while. For this PIF I wrote:

The mythical Bottom-Dial Toggle Executive is the Bigfoot or Sasquatch of the wet-shaving world. It is so rare that I made it up myself. So, if you win this pif, I will include a picture of it for you.

In the PIF were a user grade MMOC, an Ever-Ready 1912, my home made scuttle, and an assortment of shaving cream samples.

 To enter, one had to provide a photo of Bigfoot or Sasquatch or something similar and say, "I'm in."

I made a collage of the photos.

I finished up the PIF on Monday, March 28. I got the package ready to go. There was a last place winner also who got an assortment of ten DE blades.

The PIF Arrived Today

I won this PIF last Sunday, it was mailed out Monday, and today, Wednesday, it arrived. In addition to the originally advertised offering, there are fourteen soap samples, a baggie full of aftershave samples, and a great stainless steel fat handle.

These are before and after pictures of the MMOC and Old Type.

Old Type on the fat stainless steel handle

MMOC and Old Type all cleaned and shined.

I Just Won a PIF

This is a PIF by Skinny Rogers over at The Shave Den. I just found out that my name was chosen as the winner. There are two nice user grade razors: Gillette Old Type and GEM Micromatic Open Comb. Proraso Shaving Cream, Speick After Shave, Mystic Water Shaving Soap, and I Coloniali Delicate Shaving Cream rounded out the PIF.

I will be getting up a PIF in about a week. Thanks, Skinny Rogers, for getting together this great PIF.

"New to Me" PIF Completed

On December 31 I opened the "New to Me" PIF on The Shave Den forum. Up for grabs was a Merkur 15c open comb razor and a Vie Long horse hair brush. The Merkur 15c was too mild for me, and I had too many other brushes I enjoy more than the Vie Long. So, they need a new home. I also included 10 DE blades. There were 12 entrants, and the winner was chosen on January 11. The first place winner was FatherofSquirrel. I also gave 10 blades to the last place in the drawing: hrairy.

Schick J PIF

This is my Schick J-2 that I got in a lot of razors on eBay back in September 2015. Its run was from 1958 to 1964. It was not getting as much love as it deserved (only 16 shaves since I got it). I did use it this year for a week during SEptember where the focus was on single edge razors. My friend, Don, on TSD had not tried an injector yet, so I offered to send him this one. He was excited to give it a try. 

The metal part is in mint condition, but the handle has a few dings on it. They do not affect function. I cleaned it up and put a new blade in it, and Thursday, I finally got it sent out to him. I hope he enjoys it. It is a great little shaver. The long handle offers a new dimension of control.

Memorial Day PIF

Today, I received some shaving supplies in the mail that I won in the Memorial Day PIF held by a gentleman on TSD from New Jersey.  Included were: Col. Conk Bay Rum, Col. Ichabod Conk Bay Rum in travel tub, Col. Conk Lime, Semogue 1800 Portuguese Oak Wood Boar brush, Omega 11137 Ash Wood Boar brush, 5 Astra Super Stainless blades, 5 Personna Super Stainless blades.

Omega 11137 Ash Wood Boar and

Semogue 1800 Portuguese Oak Wood Boar brushes.

Test lathering with Col. Conk Amber

Post lathering, time to dry.

Dried.

Shave of the Day - 5/5

 

Dove Men Face Wash

TOBS St. James Collection (first shave)

Jayaruh WC1 Silver Tip

Schick E2

Personna Stainless 

CWR, Asma Alum Block

Thayers Rose Petal WH

FD Old Spice

The TOBS St. James Collection Luxury shaving cream ( a pif from Redrock at TSD) face-lathered well with my Jayaruh WC1 Silver Tip badger brush. Two passes with my Schick E2  razor and a Personna Stainless 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 FD Old Spice after shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...