New to straight razors. Looking for advice.
Hi all,
My name is Damien and I am from the Mississippi gulf coast. I have just wet shaved for the first time with my new razor. I bought this razor to learn shaving stropping and honing on. It not a expensive one but from what ive read its a decent begginners razor.
Its a Gold Dollar razor that was shave ready. Here are some pics of my post shave experience of my first shave
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Shave was taken after a hot shower. Stropped the blade the best I know how to. I tried to whip up and lather on some soap with the blades grim smolder but it seemed too watery. It took multiple shaves to get the results maybe 5-10 times a area and it still wasn't cutting the best. most of the trouble came around my jaw line and neck but to be honest the whole shave was trouble.
Any advice, comments, questions, or concerns for a better and more thorough shave would be greatly appreciated.