Quote Originally Posted by edhewitt View Post
You are welcome, with your neck you will probably need to use your head to get a decent stretch. No that isn't a pun, what I mean is angling your head in such a way that the skin is pulled taught out of the hollow, or pulled up above your jawline.
I heartily concur with head position and stretching! The whiskers on my neck grow sideways from my trachea to my ears. There are three major regions on my neck with slightly different directions these are symmetric, but I also have three other non-symmetric patches which have a unique direction too. I also have a strip of beard at the very bottom of my neck which goes up and down.

Learning my beard pattern, where to point my chin (straight up and to the sides), and how to stretch the skin (mostly up towards my head but a couple of patches need a stretch that isn't straight up). A really sharp blade helps, and at least for me, a 5x magnifying mirror is a big deal. I can well see what I am doing even out of the corner of one eye.

By working on different razor grips and strokes, I am now reducing the beard and eliminating it on the ATG pass with the minimum number of strokes. This is so easy to write but took me about a month and a half of shaving to learn to do!

It will get easier, one day you will just do it, then you wonder why it was so difficult to figure out. Once you get it working, it just works!

Good luck,

Ed

I mapped my beard on paper three times and noticed my understanding changed a bit each time. I experimented with different grips on the razor, and finally settled I need to use both hands to get the best results on both sides of my neck.