Two (non) quick questions from a total neophyte:
  1. What's the best way to find the 30° angle? Do you:
    • Start with the face flat against the skin and pivot the spine out until you get to 30º; or
    • Start with the edge on the skin positioned between an acute and an obtuse angle and with the edge of the blade against your face and pivot the spine in? (Even as I am writing this, it seems completely wrong and dangerous to pivot the edge on your skin); or
    • Start with the blade away from the skin at an approximate 30º angle and just attack with the edge.

  2. Can someone please post a picture of the proper hand-hold for shaving the different face facets? I get the idea of the thumb on the edge side of the tang and two/three fingers on the spine side of the tang for shaving most of the face, but I read somewhere that the thumb should always press against the heel of the blade on the tang side. Is that so? Can anyone comment? And what are the holds for shaving against the grain and under the chin and such?