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Wednesday SOTD Thread, July 16th, 2025 (#764)
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Buena Vista Wetshaving Social Club Wed 16 Jul 2025
For today's meeting of the Buena Vista Wetshaving Social Club, we shave with CGC Irving park, courtesy of @BossHoggins10@sub.wetshaving.social (Thanks Boss!). It's a dupe of Rive Gauche and a thoroughly enjoyable scent. I consistently get great shaves from Vida's soaps, both the older base (did it have a name?) and darkwing, and today was no different.
I'm trying to decide which Friodur to use for this year's Austere August and I'm waffling between today's weird masonic deco Frio 50 with the murky history, the venerable Frio 14, the chonkier Frio 17, the Frio "the cleaver" 72-V, and a normal 72 or 59. My dilemmata:
Today's shave was fantastic, so I think I'm leaning towards a repeat of the masonic 50.
You are spoiled for choice with all these nice frios! ๐
For what itโs worth, Iโd probably base the decision on which razor I would be willing to risk bringing on a trip.
The Masonic sounds like a one-of-one razor, would be a shame to lose it!
Yes, but on the other hand, yolo?
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Thatโs a conundrum, but as your formal education is similar to mine, Iโll suggest that your decision can include risk analysis; where you trade benefits of use against the likelihood and consequence of loss ๐
The only rational choice is a Gold Dollar: Highest utility if lost, while traveling. Nash would agree!
Thatโs certainly one strategy to which Nash could be applied ๐
Maybe I should have taken a more applied direction because I learned none of that at uni. My analysis so far is more along the lines of Alfred, Lord Tennyson;
Yes, well, this from a man who was bearded during the heyday of straight razor usage. ๐
I admit that I did not learn risk analysis while attending university, but I did realize its importance during my 12 years working at one.
I think the previous base was called 'Canard'.
Two people, one thought ๐
Yup, not sure how I forgot that ๐
The old CG base was called "Canard" IIRC and I agree that it is a very solid performer - I'm not familiar with Darkwing though...
Yup, not sure how I forgot that ๐
To be fair, there's a ton of different bases with different names by a variety of soap makers. It's hard to keep track of everything that's out there.