Hi everybody! I just wanted to say hello, share my beginning experience, and also to say thank you to this community for the resource that is this forum! It has helped me greatly with getting started.

Unfortunately, I found this forum AFTER I had purchased a GD 208 set about 6 weeks ago and had a pretty bad time with it. However, after coming across this forum and in turn, SRD, I bought a Dovo Gentleman about 4 weeks ago. I am about 10 shaves in with the Dovo and I am getting pretty good shaves with it. No nicks, and no burn. My ATG passes were still leaving a little to be desired though.

I was reading through some of the threads here and someone mentioned stropping between the WTG and the ATG passes, so I decided to try it last night. WOW, did that make a difference for me….I have a pretty thick, wiry beard and after the secondary stropping, I was able to do the ATG with ease. My first perfect BBS shave!