And no stitches or bandaids required. Good challenge and a good learning experience. Have to give thanks to this site for all the tutorials and member posted info that helped prepare me for this experience. Also to Chris Ellison for honing my razors.

I know that it is suggested to start slow, and i did have a safety razor ready for backup, but i could not help taking advantage of an empty house and no distractions and ended up doing a full three passes resulting in a pretty decent shave with only a couple nicks and some razor burn. Shave was not quite CCS and far from BBS, but enjoyable just the same. Going to take abit of work to learn to shave my neck where my beard seems to swirl, and also to get better angles on my chin, but I think I will get there eventually. One thing I learned is the importance of proper blade angle to my face. There is a fine line between the razor grabbing and skipping vs gliding smoothly across your face. Just things to think about on my next attempt.