Hello everyone,

I appreciate all your guys efforts in helping out newcomers to the world of straight razor shaving. A select group in which I'm a proud new member. However I can't say my first experience has been a great one.

I purchased a brand new, shave-ready dovo razor, on ebay i might add. I moistened my face and applied lather and all that as I'm not a noob to shaving, just straight razor shaving. When I went to swipe the razor down it just clung to hairs and had to be forced through. It was a very uncomfortable shave.

I noticed that I did do better on my strong side under my sideburn as suggested in one of the beginner "must read first" threads. However it wasn't as smooth as I expected.

The first time I shaved I didn't strop. I haven't received my strop yet and used light brown leather belt with a smooth finish since that's all I had the second time and the results were about 5% better.

Any suggestions or questions are much apprecaited. I know it's lengthy but I feel the details are probably important.

Thank you!

Paul