Thread: It's not your razor. It's you.

I meant to write this post forever ago but forgot. For the longest time I thought my razor and the honing I did was faulty. Every time it hit the mustache against the grain I would get this pulling and skipping feeling. Like the blade was bouncing across the area all the time. Eventually I gave up and start using my DE again. One day I realized my DE, even with a new feather blade, was giving a very similar feeling. Not the bouncing due to its weight, but the catching, pulling feeling. It was just less noticeable because a DE has more weight and less feedback than the straight. So if you are concerned your blade on the straight isn't up to snuff try the DE. If it's the same feeling in general it's your technique that's at fault not the blade. I found skin stretching, proper angle and good forward pressure helped fix my issue.