Originally Posted by
carlmaloschneider
Well, the Dovo strop is as big as needed, and quite nice; very fine leather, a joy to use and behold, and stropping was also easy though I had to remind myself several time to go lighter; it's attached to my towel rail with a carabiner. I just did the leather side; not canvas. The guy in the shop said you do leather first and then canvas, but I think he was full of shit; actually. I think the canvas is for powders, and you do it before the leather; don't you? I wanted to tell him but resisted. No-one knows anything about straight razor shaving here (Adelaide, South Australia), though they act very keen and interested on the phone and tell me "All the young ones are really getting into that these days"...
The Provaro cream was very nice, still put Palmolive on in the shower, with hair conditioner after, then hot towel. Silly question, how do people scoop the cream up; it's thicker than I thought it'd be, I used, like, a little finger tip full. BTW, what's the notch on some razors for?
Did WTG and XTG. Did all of neck. Did around beard, still finding RH side of moustache and RH under jaw line and LH under jaw line difficult. FIRST CUT! Not significant, trying to go W to E on LH side XTG, bit reddish in areas I overdid, one important point is to know when to stop, actually.