Quote Originally Posted by Dzanda View Post
One thing that will cause a straight to "chatter" is too high a blade angle. Even a super sharp blade may not glide with too high an angle of attack.

Try lowering the spine so that the razor is nearly flat against your skin; you'll probably find that the best angle is somewhere between almost flat and about 1 1/2 spine widths off the skin.

Good luck!
Interesting. If anything I felt like I was erring on the side of a too-shallow angle (spine pretty close to my face), but obviously it was just my first go so I don't really know for sure. But I did try to change the angle a bit and still had the tugging, rough feeling.

I've emailed Larry as well to see if he has any thoughts. I suppose it's possible that the razor wasn't really shave-ready. It's so tough to gauge when I don't know what it's SUPPOSED to feel like.