Thread: Conquering a weird angle

My beard has a weird growing pattern coming up from my collar bone and sprouting like a tree. I also have a large Adam's Apple right where my beard decides to grow in several different directions. The hardest part for me is finding out the best way to hold and attack the hair growing on and to the sides of my Adam's Apple. The angle is basically 45 degrees towards my Adam's Apple to go ATG. I find it difficult to properly position my hands and the razor to get that angle and be flush with the taught skin.

I should also note that I have a growing beard that goes from my cheek to basically an inch or so under my jaw line (down to where my problem area starts) so I'm trying not to shave off that hair in the process

Anyone got any tips? Currently I just go perpendicular to the grain up and down as I handle WTG and ATG for the rest of my neck but it doesn't get very close.

Thanks and here's a diagram to explain better (red circle is the problem area)!

I have a similar growth pattern. I reach more or less over my head and and place my finger on the corner of my jaw and pull back and up, at the same time tilting my head. That tightens the skin along and under my jaw line. I then take my razor and do a stroke on the under side of my jaw from ear to chin. Visibility is poor and a lot of faith is required. It is the only way I have found it to get the under side of my jaw clean. As for the under side near the point of my chin it comes clean with a well stretched against the grain stoke starting at my adams apple going up. Tilt my head forward, grasp the skin near my adams apple, tilt my head back, point my chin and go up with fairly short strokes and a very low blade angle. As I have gotten older the sides of my adams apple have gotten easier because I seem to have filled in a little. I hope I am making sense.

Thanks for the tips! I've tried tightening my skin on the sides of my Adam's Apple and i still have a concave section that the razor won't sit flat on. Maybe I just need to sit for a while and tug on my face in different directions until I find a good spot

Tug in different directions and test shave the area with a plastic knife so that you don't cut yourself. If you remove the lather cleanly, then a razor will too.

Between a crevasse-like scar on my throat and a similar pattern as yours I have, over time, found that a sharp razor will work it's way neatly through some scary lookiing terrain. Over that stretch of throat I pull skin up, lift my head back and shave straight north and/or straight south on the next pass. Never a problem since overcoming the fear I'd slice my neck open; actually, it may be the only place I never nicked.

My neck hair grows down and in on one side and up and out on the other. The stroke I use is kind of like a honing x stroke where as I move down I also move across. Be very careful using this stroke as if you get it wrong you will cut yourself.