Quote Originally Posted by joke1176 View Post
Quick update: I just shaved with the razor above, and I have to say I liked it! A different feel for sure, and the two spike-type points make you watch your edges, but it was kinda neat.
I'll read that as "Quick [, I have an] update [for you]:"

Today I was trying to shave with less of a blade angle. Amazing that all these people with experience were right... less angle works a lot better and I've been shaving wrong for about 20 years now. Oh well. I'll see if I can change but I suspect it may be a lot like my golf swing -- many years of a fundamentally flawed stroke firmly ingrained in muscle memory. Shaving is more of a concious act so there may be hope. So anyway, I'm fiercly concentrating on using the very slightest of angles and carefully running down the straight-edge line of my sideburn when it dawns on me that I'm hearing extra shaving sounds. Yes, yet again I've carved a little further into my goatee with the heel.

Could you describe the dremel excercise with a little more detail? I may have to accelerate my plans to buy a practice razor and then maybe move on to modify my first line razors. You said you used the 1/4 sanding drum? and low speed. I have some grinding drums as well. Any pointers? Did you just free hand it or did you draw a pattern first? About how much time to make the rough cut? any issues when you got towards the edge? any special edge treatment or restoration when you were done?