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    I understand from research that selective professional is a bad brand to use. Because of this realization, I have invested in a Geneva and I am awaiting arrival. I have honed the selective blade and wanted to "practice" with this one. Should I just wait for the better brand or start practicing before it gets here? Also what is wrong with going against the grain to reach those hard areas? I have never shaved and I want to first experience to be satisfactory at least.

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    at first welcome.
    you are starting great. so many of us made mistake and bought useless blades before find srp.
    My advise will be wait for your Genco to arrival and get it honed someone knows what they doing. you can check classified and find person close where you live. in this case you will know what does shave ready means.
    Lastly when you start to shave with straight razor your face at first needs to get used to it. that is why people says don't go atg in your early shaves. Please check wiki you will find great helpful information for starters. gl

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    Quote Originally Posted by demetriustracy View Post
    I understand from research that selective professional is a bad brand to use. Because of this realization, I have invested in a Geneva and I am awaiting arrival. I have honed the selective blade and wanted to "practice" with this one. Should I just wait for the better brand or start practicing before it gets here? Also what is wrong with going against the grain to reach those hard areas? I have never shaved and I want to first experience to be satisfactory at least.
    Do you have a strop? Practice strop, I hope. If so you can practice your stropping technique while you wait.

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    Quote Originally Posted by demetriustracy View Post
    I have never shaved and I want to first experience to be satisfactory at least.
    I don't know how come i miss this. Someone else pointed to me.
    Does this means you are young? i mean you said you never been shaved? if this is truth Please be careful.start right with straight shave will be great but read and watch videos first please.

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    demetriustracy Welcome to the Club.

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    sorry...lol..I have shaved millions of times before w/disposables....I have a crappy strop from what I hear so maybe that can be just for practice also.

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    Quote Originally Posted by demetriustracy View Post
    sorry...lol..I have shaved millions of times before w/disposables....I have a crappy strop from what I hear so maybe that can be just for practice also.
    Whew... I was biting my nails here waiting for you to reply.

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    your razor can't hold a sharp edge long enough for a shave, and the strops seem to have very bad reviews too, so the only thing you can do with these is go through the stropping motion for building muscle memory.

    i guess you can also dull the edge and practice holding the razor wiping lather off your face while keeping the spine low (1-2 widths) and no pressure. again for building muscle memory.

    i wouldn't call the geneva an 'investment', these are good quality inexpensive razors. there just isn't such thing as a $10 razor. The zeepks and selectives are not razors - these are razor shaped ill-tempered low quality steel, and the double arrows while being made of decent steel are so poorly made that I can not call them a razor. A tool capable of shaving is more correct.

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    Quote Originally Posted by demetriustracy View Post
    sorry...lol..I have shaved millions of times before w/disposables....
    You better be careful shaving in that wheelchair.

    you are at least 1000000/(2*365)=1370years old
    even if we count each of your twice daily shaves five times as it may have ben done was done with a 5-blade cartridge, that's still 274 years
    And you did say millions, so the actual numbers are few times larger....

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