Thread: First Shave - Please check out videos - Please help I am doing something wrong.

Just to add my 2 cents here. You have been given some great advice from some pro's here and along with that advice remember that you are also doing remarkably well for your first time (or two). The razor is not going to give you a baby butt smooth shave with one pass going with the grain. All I would be looking for on a first pass down the cheek is shave readiness which is pain free pass with hair removal. That blade looked and sounded REALLY sharp in your video. I mean, if it wasn't sharp you would have made it half way down your cheek and been howling from the razor yanking the hair outta your face. That razor seemed to sing right on through the hair smooth as butter. As you get better you can add an across the grain pass and then finally an against the grain pass and your shaves will be much smoother by then. All in all it looks like a huge success plus you got some great advice on how to move forward and improve your stropping and your angles shaving. The less pressure you use on your face, I have noticed, the closer the razor seems to cut the hairs.

thanks for the advise will look at stropping videos again and try to get this down. A thread said the sound of the blade stropping was a give away what should it sound like. again thanks guys for all the massive help

Originally Posted by JFriendly123

thanks for the advise will look at stropping videos again and try to get this down. A thread said the sound of the blade stropping was a give away what should it sound like. again thanks guys for all the massive help

I think you will find sound varies from different strops. Just concentarate on contact IMHO.

I looked at the stropping video again. It might be the camera angle but it appears that the strop is mounted very low. If so you will wear out your back and arms. I think anything waste to sternum works. Below or above that back or arms suffer.