Another newbie from San Diego, CA
Howdy all,
New to SRP and realm of straights, but not new to traditional wet shaving, current DE user for sometime!
I recently got a decent starter kit from SRD, Boker king cutter and Latigo strop. I usualy buy a decent gear to start on a new venture, keeps variables under control. Tried my new razor the other day and I was getting pulling on the sideburns, I need to work on the angle, I was not around 30deg on WTG, it was more like 15deg. Watched Lynn's video and followed his advice to be vertical but I think I took it too far! After doing alot of resarch and watching videos it seems my angle was not enough, I'll give it another try tonight. Been practicing stroping with butter knife and so far I actually prefer the pencil twist method istead of the wrist twist. Other than that I have not stropped the razor yet, will do that once I can shave my cheeks with out any pulling. I have heavy middle eastern wiskers and it was not fun getting it pulled and tugged on! lol. Additionaly, I had trouble with my lather drying up and getting tacky, I think I need to add more water to it, the resduial slickness was not there and razor was not gliding. I guess this is going to take while to fine tune my routine! with DE shave no issues, I fly over my face. Hopefulluy within few months I can just do a WTG pass and no pulling.
-Amir