Quote Originally Posted by grant9908 View Post
OK, I'm on my tenth or twelfth shave.... Whatever, I've lost count. Anyway, my shaves are adequate enough to not stop straight shaving but not nearly as smooth as you guys say you are getting, such as "baby but smooth. " so, I just recently found out the whole letting your razor set for 24 hours thing is complete BS and I can sharpen that bad boy any time I would like, even during shaving, so that's exactly what I did. Stropped.... Shaved untill blade was covered in lather, gave one quick pass, then repeated. Clean blade.... One pass.... Clean blade... One pass... Ect. Now, it goes without saying that, that happened to be the smoothest shave ever lol. But something telling me two things.
1) this shouldn't need to be done, and I'm probably doing something wrong, and number
B) Shooter is now going to yell at me again lol.
In your post, you mentioned, "gave one quick pass," slow down and use short slow strokes. Take your time, this is something to be enjoyed. If your razor is properly honed and you properly stropped your razor, you should be good to go throughout the shave. Getting the BBS shave takes time, I don't always get it but I come away with a great shave nevertheless. When I first started out, I was shaving WTG first and very unhappy later in the day with a 5 O'Clock shadow, but I kept going until I "graduated" to XTG and ATG. I still have a problem under my jaw line but I am still learning and working on it. Nevertheless, I enjoy straight razor shaving. Your BBS will come, give it more time.