Hey everybody. I have a confession.

I've been at it for about a year. I still can't get all of my neck quite as smooth with a SR as I can with a DE.
The rest of my face? 100%, above and beyond the best shaves I have ever gotten. So amazing in fact, that even the imperfect nature of the neck won't get me to quit.

My razors are sharp enough. My prep is good enough....hmmmm, what does that leave....oh yeah...my technique.

From an inch off center to an inch in front of the line down from the ear, there is a spot perhpas the size of a silver dollar that I simply CAN NOT get BBS. I go WTG, XTG, do my best to go ATG (sideways toward the center, in flesh that can not be pulled flat, the real contours of the neck simply don't allow it. I sythe, I slice, I buff. Eventually, I get some burn, or even some nicks from trying to force the square peg into the round hole.

Anyone have any super-secret advanced techniques too risky to be trusted to newbies? I remember a few times getting really close in that area. I don't know what I did differently those times. I'm thinking maybe a radical new way to hold the blade to get the correct angle ATG? That seems to be my problem, but I can't find a way to correct it without slicing my throat (which would be horribly counter productive...though perhaps while loading me into the ambulance, the EMT could remark..."Hey Joe, look at the amazing shave this guy got this morning." Then, I could smile as I drift along towards the great unknown beyond this world knowing I got that damned spot smooth.)

Any help would put me forever in your (even deeper) debt.

Your frustrated brother in the blade,

SL1