Originally Posted by
Durhampiper
I also have difficult areas to shave on the neck, and for most of the throat area, my whiskers seem to grow nearly straight back, instead of straight down. In addition to the scything stroke mentioned above, another useful WTG stroke I've found is the guillotine stroke. To do this, visualize how the blade of a guillotine is angled. To recreate this with a razor, think of holding the razor with the spine parallel to your jaw with the toe pointing back toward your ear, then drop your hand slightly so that you'll lead with the point but at the same time expose the edge at an angle to the whiskers. Then push the razor, point first, in the direction the whiskers grow. What this effectively does is narrow the width of the blade--how narrow depends on you and how much room you have to work with on that part of your face. You'll want to be confident in your technique and make sure you don't let the angle of the spine from your face get too steep, or you'll dig the point in.