Thread: I've been at this for a week now and I'm hoping you can help me a bit

I had a problem w/ the razor either sticking or jumping too, but I thought about it over about 2 days, and figured it out. Your problem could be completely different though.
I was shaving my strong side, and wiping the blade, when I went to the weak side (my left) the blade is turned around, so the covered with old hairy lather side was against the skin. My angle was so shallow, that the curve of the hollow blade was pressing into my skin (probably too much pressure also), and the semi dried puck soap after wiping the majority off was thin, dried quickly, and was sticky, and so the smooth part of the blade was actually sticking to the clean spot where the edge of the razor had just made the pass. I found that by rinsing the blade off, and leaving lots of water on the blade when I was going to do another pass helped tremendously. I don't have the problem any more. Hopefully that will help, and if not you, maybe someone else will read it and figure it out before exploding their mind over it like I did

Another tip, that I had an epiphany over, is watch your scales to determine your angle, not the blade. They are relative, and it's easier to see your angle over 4 inches of scale than it is to see it over 6/8 of a blade. Hope that helps!

- Lucas