Originally Posted by
Jeltz
Thanks to ben.mid for providing me with a shave ready starter str8 :)
I had my 1st attempt at shaving with it tonight and it was a lot more alien than my 1st DE shave was. That said I did manage to shave both right and left cheeks from side burn down to jaw line and used both hands. My angle was all over the place, but I managed to get away with only 1 small nick and a mild bit of irritation, I finished up with a couple of passes with a DE razor.
I suspect the learning curve is a bit steeper than DE shaving, after years of cartridge razors DE isn't as huge a leap grip is similar etc.
However I do remember that I managed some reasonable blood leakage on my 1st few DE shave which didn't happen with the str8!