Progress, some forward, some backward

[bbshriver]

Well last night was interesting.
I got my CrO and had my bench strop so I touched up the edge on my Case, and tried shaving "gillotine" style as mentioned by someone else on here....
Best/closest shave I've had so far with the least irritation.... Except for the huge gash I put in my neck when I wasn't paying attention

Styptic stopped it up, but I've still got a nice scar/scab this morning for all the world to see... It's special..

[cwrighta70]

That IS interesting...could you explain the "guillotine" style for me. Sorry, newbie

I can imagine that the styptic felt really nice on that gash!

[bbshriver]

From another thread here

A DE pass across skin is typically "head on" rather than angled or skewed like a proper straight razor pass. Even with a very sharp properly tuned straight and using a proper angle, I personally can't draw the blade head on into the whiskers in most cases, there's pull. The scythe/skewed motion is therefore recommended for straights. This is a morbid analogy, but think of a guillotine blade. It's angled. I doubt, and don't want to think much more about it than that, but if a guillotine blade was straight across and came down "head on", I would assume it would not be able to accomplish its task; too much resistance and not enough slice. You need to slice your whiskers rather than chop the whiskers.

I hope this helps.

Chris L

[cwrighta70]

I see WHY you sliced yourself.

[bbshriver]

It DID give a better more comfortable shave... but maybe also contributed to the slicing.

[KingHarvest]

Do you mean you just don't keep the blade level? That's what I do, I find it more difficult to keep the blade completely level.