Thanks for the info all. I sure will check out the razor angles. Maybe my skin is a pit too sensitive to go against the grain just now. I haven't shaved with any sort of razor in about 5 years. I've been using my beard trimmer to do the job cuz the last inch or so of the hair on my neck is just so hard to shave. It lays so flat against my skin that the multi-bladed razors wouldn't cut the hair but pick it up between the blades till it gets to the base then would take a chunk out of my skin. No matter what I did, pulling, streching, or contorting would give me a shave that didnt look like I took a belt sander to my neck. So, I gave up till I thought maybe a straight razor will get the job done. So here I am.