Quote Originally Posted by xman View Post
What a great start! I like that you see the disposable items as clutter now. My wet shaving gear must be installation art.

X
Exactly!

Today, I had my first complete shave without touching the disposable gear I'll stow it away now to try to eliminate the possibility of falling back. The left-hand-for-left-cheek trick also worked this morning - "easy peasy" - don't know what the problem was yesterday, and the result on the left cheek was almost as good as my BBS-shaved right cheek. Didn't achieve a BBS neck and chin, nor did I expect to, and I even got a small red spot on my neck (my first nick) but I ended up totally presentable. Stropping today was 20 on the linen side and 20 on the leather side (from 15 and 10 the two days before), and I'll probably increase that to 30 each now that I feel confident that I'm not destroying the edge. Hopefully I can keep that routine going for a month before I need to try sharpening it on my DMT (or a Norton 4K/8K if my local sword-shop Walhalla.no can get hold of some by then).

This experiment has gone way beyond my expectations...

Larsarus