Thread: Using both hands?

Is this common practice?

If you got them uses them i have always used both hands and it works very well for me.

Shaving two-handed seemed kind of sketchy to me at first, but it becomes pretty natural after a few shaves. That's the case for most people, atleast.

I'm barely competent at doing ANYthing with my left hand, but I can damn sure shave with it.

Fido,

Using both hands feels most odd at first, but you soon get used to it

In fact when I used to use a DE when away on business it felt odd not using the left hand !

Best regards

Russ

I dont.

I use my right hand only and I do weird passes that work for me..!

I really had to train myself to use my left hand. For the first three to four weeks of shaving with a straight razor I used my right hand only, however I soon realised that I was compromising the quality of my shave by doing this and took measures to get my left hand used to holding a razor to my face. I would hold a razor in my left hand while I wasn't shaving, while I was watching TV, or browsing the internet and I would practice strokes with it nowhere near my face. After a few days of this I was able to do a few strokes with my left hand on my cheeks and sideburns before progressing to using my left hand on my neck. It's really made a difference for me and I now find I can get angles and strokes that I was unable to get with my right hand only. I know many people have managed to shave themselves just fine with one hand only and I have no doubt I could have adapted to doing this myself eventually, but I'm glad I trained myself to use my left hand while I was starting out with straight razor shaving.

It's whatever works for you.Some of us shaved one-handed,then learned the two-handed method,and eventually switched back to one.

I shave and hone with both hands. I am more steady and can keep the blade flat with even pressure when using both hands while honing.

bj

I have been using my both hands before starting straight shaving so it was obviously for me to shave with the left too. Naturally right handed.
I write with both hands and do martial arts training with both sides.
It's a fun and not be take too seriously.

A little article

As you can see, it is a mixed bag. The benefit of shaving 2 handed is that there are less types of grip/stroke combinations to learn-- whatever works for the left side of you head will work for the right side, with the other hand.

It was actually pretty easy to learn with my left when I started, because the whole act of shaving with a straight was new-- so my dominant hand really did not have much of an advantage. Probably the longer you wait, the harder it will be to learn.

Once you have the strokes down with confidence, then you can probably gravitate back to 1 hand if you wanted to...

-Chief