Thread: i dont get it

Patience my young Jedi! You don't say what your facial prep is. Who professionally sharpened it for you? If it was not one of our honemeisters or someone you know for absolute certainty knew what they were doing with a hone and straight razor then I would call into question the honing. If it was one of our honemeisters then I strongly suspect your technique hasn't been perfected.

How long have you been using straights? If you just started then I recommend you do just the area between your sideburn and jaw line, and with WTG only. Work on your angles and pressures. Not many of us were born with the skillset to get a BBS when we first start shaving with a straight razor. At least I wasn't. I am now getting my BBS, but only after a few months of developing my skills to arrive there. Once you are comfortable with maneuvering your blade slowly add new areas to your repertoire as well as XG and AGT. It won't take long, but these are skills that must be developed or you are doomed to frustration and disappointment.

Hey, there must be something to all this advice and the Wiki. We all managed to get through it. And I don't have the steadiest of hands. I have an inherited slight tremor. But I figured out what techniques work best for me. Even with that, the fundamentals of pressures and angles are the same for me as anyone else who uses a straight razor!

So take heart. They do get better...