Thread: Still using electric razor

Good advice here. When learning to straight shave, I always had my Mach 3 to fall upon and it gave me confidence to move ahead on areas knowing the Mach 3 would clean it up if I needed it.

Go at your own pace and once you get the BBS shaves going, you will keep going.

Good Luck!

Pabster

After reading your post it made me think of this

Originally Posted by Lynn

For your first shave, I would again recommend that you use a 30 degree or less angle with your razor and for the first time only shave from one sideburn down to the jaw. That's it. You want to develop a sense of how the razor cuts and work to perfect that feeling and the feeling of using a straight razor. After a couple of days, you can then move over into the cheek and work on that side of the face for the next couple days. When comfortable with this, you can then experiment with crossing to the other side of the face using the same hand or try the other hand which is easy for some and not so easy for others. From here, I normally recommend trying the down stroke on both sides of the neck and then trying the chin and then under the nose. When you start to feel comfortable with the process, you can then try going across grain from the jaw to the chin and then finally going up underneath the neck. By taking the time to learn to use the straight razor with this approach, you will be able to determine where and when to stretch the skin and to find out which areas you will need to go back and touch up.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/newbi...icipation.html

I'm sick and tired of disposables and my electric shaver. Further, the latter can't be helped becausei t's just run it's course for lithium battery's done won't hold a charge and I'm not gonna let it pull my hair again in midst of shaving for umpteenth time. I'm gonna leave my face as is and wait till razor arrives.

Also in that post Lynn mentioned that you shouldn't force yourself to move onward if you are not comfortable. This makes sense in regards to anything you do as first timer.

There's so much information I don't know what to do with them hahaa. Only time will tell as there's only so much we can read about. There's also the doing part. Hopefully as you get comfortable you won't be needing your shaver.

By no means am I "expert" straight shaver. I'm new to it as well. LEarning curve is different for everyone. No one's going to say "FAIL" or call you weak. Based on 40 some threads I bookmarked no one did such. On the contrary everyone from vets: honemeisters, stropmeisters, mentors and even new comers were offering advice as well be it from honing, stropping and in your case straight shaving.

Keep posted

Best of luck :beer:

This is all very encouraging, and I will keep at it. thanks.

I still use a good norelco rotary electric while traveling, because I hate to check luggage if I can avoid it.