Thread: HELP!!!!!!!!!

Mitchells Wool Fat....really helps me in the learning curve....lots of cushion and lasts longer on the face.

Where can one purchase some of this wonderful Mitchells Wool Fat soap?

I ordered mine from SRD but you can also get it from Amazon and probably Classic Shaving. Kinda pricey but worth it.

Alright, my 9th shave this morning and although it went ok, I did feel a little more pulling and resistance despite stropping the night before. I ordered the Wool Fat shave soap but until it arrives I'm locked into the Institute Karite.
I was watching several Youtube videos on shaving technique this afternoon and can't get away from the fact that every guy demonstrating a shave technique was getting a stubble free result from each downward stroke of the razor while I see lots of random hairs remaining in the wake of a stroke. Can anyone tell me definitively whether a stroke of a straight razor should leave as clean a trail as a Mach 3? Shouldn't the razor either cleanly cut all the hairs or none at all?

Hi WineGuyD
Remember, the objective is for "hair reduction" with each pass...not a straight swooping action that obliterates all hairs.

One step at a time..

The only thing, IMHO, that cartridge shaving and str8 shaving have in common is the word "shaving" ...What they do and accomplish are vastly different. Come to think of it, cartridge shaving should be changed to cartridge torture or irritation .

Originally Posted by WineGuyD

Alright, my 9th shave this morning and although it went ok, I did feel a little more pulling and resistance despite stropping the night before. I ordered the Wool Fat shave soap but until it arrives I'm locked into the Institute Karite.
I was watching several Youtube videos on shaving technique this afternoon and can't get away from the fact that every guy demonstrating a shave technique was getting a stubble free result from each downward stroke of the razor while I see lots of random hairs remaining in the wake of a stroke. Can anyone tell me definitively whether a stroke of a straight razor should leave as clean a trail as a Mach 3? Shouldn't the razor either cleanly cut all the hairs or none at all?

Originally Posted by WineGuyD

I was watching several Youtube videos on shaving technique this afternoon and can't get away from the fact that every guy demonstrating a shave technique was getting a stubble free result from each downward stroke of the razor

WineGuyD,
As Robert mentions, we're talking "hair reduction." That's removing "some" of our beard with each pass we make.

I've been at this since February and I'm just now attaining a DFS. No idea when I will finally achieve a BBS shave. When I do, it will be in "my" time, not someone else's time frame.

Watch the videos for inspiration but don't look to them for indication of how you "should" be doing.

I'm committed to taking as long as it takes to learning how to shave MY face with my straight razor.

Will you join me in that commitment?
Namaste,
Morty -_-

After two weeks of daily shaving with my Wosty and Coachmikes loaners I've reached the point where I'm feeling fairly comfortable with the razors and manage to complete WTG and XTG shaves in under 10 minutes.
The one recurring issue is that I get very little hair removal with each stroke. The razor is not pulling or dragging, just not making a clean cut...this phenomenon is happening with all the different razors so I would say that keenness is not an issue, more likely technique. My temporary solution has been to adopt the "buffing" shave technique which has delivered a pretty good shave even though I have to re-shave every section multiple times. I'm open to suggestions.

Well, I think I've tried everything. Coachmike loaned me three shave ready razors, I've honed(pun intended) my stropping and shaving technique, I switched to Mitchell's Wool Fat shaving soap and the one unsurmountable problem remaining is that even after 4,5,6 and even 7 passes on the same area of skin I still see uncut stubble.

The fact is...one pass with my Mach 3 turbo and not a filament of stubble to be seen. I don't get as much of this problem on my center neck and chin but on my cheeks, jawline and neck behind the ears I'm left with numerous hairs. It's as if the razor is removing every other hair on each pass.

Could really use some fresh ideas as to what I'm doing wrong!