Thread: Hitting the brick wall.

Originally Posted by Disburden

Maybe it was the coticule, maybe it was the stropping, maybe it was the awesome video I watched at Rasurpur.de last night. The video showed me how slow and careful you should be when using a straight unlike other videos on here where the guys just zip through a stroke like it's nothing. I am still deciding on which razor to send out for honing, but right now I am pretty happy. Keep ya posted.

If you every watched either of the videos I did, you will see that I use small strokes to shave followed by a little longer clean up strokes. After all these years of shaving with a straight razor, I still do the same. No reason at all to take on an entire side of your face, neck or chin with one stroke either with, against or across the grain.

The best recommendation still for new people is to just shave one portion of the face only until you get used to how the straight razor shaves. Although at this point you are beyond that, I still recommend that when you switch razors or get a new one that you need to figure that razor out as they all have different handles, widths, blade shapes, etc, and therefore will shave a little differently. It is worth the time to figure them out before jumping in on the whole face.

Sounds like you're getting there.

All the best,

Lynn

Hey, ever wonder why we shave? I recently read a survey where the women canvassed said they prefer men who look like the models or actors who have 4-7 days growth: "it's macho."

So let's all go out and get a Wahl that'll cut the whiskers down to about an 3/16" and then figure out how we'll fight off the throngs of our new admirers. We'd never again have to worry about the sound of the proper strop or how hangs the hair or if your thumb got an A on its last quiz.

Stubble is butch

Originally Posted by Bruce

... we'll fight off the throngs of our new admirers....

Are we fighting over worn or unworn thongs? Oh, throngs..........nevermind.

Jim