Perhaps I can take my wife's hair razor, with it's changable blades (it looks exactly like a regular straight razor, but cheaper) and put in a piece of plastic, lather up my clean shaved face, and familarize myself with my left hand to see how it would work. My razors at present *used are not sharp enough to have with comfortably. I tried the other day and it drags and pulls, so I finished up with the disposable. Trying on the off hand was horrible. It was like it didn't want to glide down the face, so, before I cut myself, I stopped and finished up with the "norm".