Hey Everyone,

After years of scouring the internet for all things wet shaving and using my grandfather's Gillette Fat Tech to get used to DE shaving and all of the tools of the trade I finally made my way here. A couple of years ago after beginning to learn about straight razor shaving I picked up a pre-1890 Frederick Reynolds straight razor with horn scales that had no rust, a decent edge and a ton of patina. I shipped it off to Razor Emporium for the rehab work and got it back in great shape and shave ready. I rewatched a bunch of the videos I had watched before and gave it my best shot.

As I'm sure is true for many people here the first shot wasn't great. Had the angle all wrong mostly and just not very smooth with a lot of irritation. Then I found my way here and found Lynn's Beginner's posts and some of his YouTube videos and felt a lot better about my less than successful first shave; at least my jaw-line came out okay. One of the things that one of Lynn's video's seemed to suggest is that the angel is harder to perfect the wider the blade is. This was in no way a part of my knowledge base when I first bought my razor and the only razor I (currently) have is my 7/8" Sheffield. Anyone any input on whether it makes sense to try and learn the ropes of this art form on a slimmer razor or how best to get comfortable with a 7/8" is greatly appreciated.

And because I think it's beautiful, here's the razor:

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~Dan