Another "successful" shave, success being defined as no blood release. But as for shave quality ... not so impressive. It was shave number two and I decided to do the shower first to soften beard. And in the shower I saw the bottle of salt scrub. The stuff leaves an oily coating on the skin (and my dog loves licking it off) so I figured it might be the bee's knees if I used it on my beard. Whether it was due to that, or the Proraso pre-shave, or the lather isn't so super clear but the reality was that the skin was very tacky, for lack of a better word. The razor wanted to chatter, not glide.

So tried rinsing, retry, rinse again and use different soap, etc. End result was a bit of shaving on the neck, a BBS on a pretty small area, and a crappy shave to no-shave everywhere else. Figured discretion the better part of valor and called it a morning. Didn't finish with the DE since I'm in it to learn the SE, not default to the old way. I'll wait until this evening and give it another try, concentrating on the areas that are essentially unshaved. Should be instructive.