Getting the correct angle?!!! HELP!!!!
Thank you all in advance for the advice I am about to receive...Amen.
I am very new to str8 razor shaving (like 5 attempts now). My first and second were with a new TI that just wasn't "shave ready", so I sent it off to Lynn to be masterfully honed to shaving perfection (thank you Lynn, you do amazing work).
I am getting a LOT of razor burn, and believe that I have too steep of a shaving angle. I know that all the texts say that you should hold the blade 30degrees to your face. The problems are that I am pretty much blind as a bat without my glasses and have a hard enough time seeing myself in the mirror when my hand/wrists/arms AREN'T contorted into some mystical yoga pose. I just keep getting in my own way!!!
I am thinking that if the blade makes a scraping sound (like I can hear it actually scraping off the whiskers) that my blade angle is too steep. Should you be able to hear the blade as you shave? If so, what does is sound like?
Thanks to all who find the kindness within themselves to help a lowly newbie such as myself.
- Mike