Having some trouble

[Chaddy]

The hair under my jaw line and on my neck grows like towards my ears. So I'm trying to do a east to west and west to east. How do people do this? I find the blade just to long to get this right. Any help would be really appreciate. I'm on my 11th shave with some GD's if I get right I'll spend a couple hundred on something a nicer.

[PaulKidd]

Try stretching your skin in a north-south direction, and see if that gives you better access:
pull up on your cheeks and stretch your neck as much as possible. Then maybe you could
attack the problem area half at a time.

If that doesn't work, then you may have to resort to a different approach, something like
a modified across-the-grain stroke, maybe from two different directions. Keep the spine
of the razor fairly close to the skin.

[eddy79]

You can try a guillotine stroke. Moving either up or down and to one side at the same time. Takes a bit of practice though.

[Aldwyn]

The hair on my neck grows mostly E to W, so I feel your pain.

I found that even with a shorty, it's not an easy task to go WTG or ATG, so I tend to do modified XTG... As Eddy mentions, I kind of do a NE to SW stroke and then a SW to NE stroke. I get DFSs out of that technique.

[toonboog]

I second the guilotine stroke idea.
I have a few hard to shave spots myself.
With this kind of slicing motion it's usually okay.

[tcrideshd]

You stretch the skin as flat as you can get it , that will take care of the east to west cut, it just takes time , your not even close to having enough shaves to have it worked out, maybe just slow down and work on the one area and don't expect BBS on the trouble area till you learn the different motions and stretching, then it will come together for you , and maybe a truly sharp blade will shave a little closer and smoother. Good luck and read up on the Guilotine cut and stretching. Tc

[edhewitt]

I was just browsing through some old threads and found a description of scything as having the heel at a fixed point and rotating the toe, simple yet explanatory description. It made me think of military lines wheeling, where one end marches with smaller steps than the other.
Guillotine is where you hold the blade at an angle greater than 90 degrees to the direction of cut.

[Chaddy]

I'm going to try it tonite see what I can make happen. Thanks and I take any tips help I can get.

[Chaddy]

I have a hard time stretching my skin to slick. What do y'all do about that?

[edhewitt]

Guillotine or scything strokes should work, however they also are a bit more difficult than a straight stroke. You will need a really good stretch and to take it very slowly and in small bites until your proficiency with the strokes and shaving in general increases.