Quote Originally Posted by Andrew530 View Post

And linacman, to clear up my earlier question: Do you use the toe of the blade running along your lines to touch up, or do you put the legnth of the blade along the line?

Thanks for the encouragement guys.

-Andrew
Andrew, I do both. When I shave I do 3 passes in this order: WTG,XTG, and ATG. On the WGT the heel of the blade is running along the lateral line of the hairs joining stache & goat. I don't get overly concerned if I totally get the whiskers right at the line on this pass as it is hard to know exactly where the heel edge is in relation to the hairs. On the XTG pass the length of the blade starts right at this line and the blade sweeps laterally towards my ears. On the ATG blade, the toe of the blade defines this line. It's a little awkward because I do the right side w/ my right hand and the left side w/ my left hand. I just go slow with an incredibly light touch - the least pressure and you'll nick yourself. I'm really careful to keep the angle of the blade flat - definitely < 30 degrees.

You may ask why I don't do toe to the line on the WTG pass, but unfortunately I don't have an answer. I just started doing it that way and it just works for me

As for defining the bottom of my goat immediately below the jawline I put the length of the blade along the line for both WTG and at the end of my ATG sweep (ATG on my neck is inferior to superior direction).

Hope this helps. Have fun!