Published on: 2025-04-28 06:47:18
Last weekend I went to the 39th annual Kezurou-kai event in Itoigawa, Niigata. It was my first time going to the event here in Japan, and it was such a blast. For those who are unfamiliar with kezurou-kai, it’s an event where people compete to take the thinnest shavings of wood using Japanese planes. But more than that it’s really a gathering of people who are passionate about woodworking and carpentry, sharpening and hand tools, who are pushing their skills to the absolute limits of what is pos
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 16:03:00
It’s dangerous to have epiphanies while shaving. But in this case it was unavoidable: My epiphany was about shaving. For the past few weeks, my bathroom routine has been a little like George Clooney in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, minus the smelly Dapper Dan. I’ve been lathering shave soap with a brush and bowl, and shaving with an old-fashioned single-blade, single-edge, unmedicated safety razor. Specifically, I’m using the Leaf Thorn—a stylish and well-marketed and self-avowedly “aggressive”
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