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I'll try once more as well. I give you that a scythe may not move in an arcing motion and to call this a scythe cut my not be correct. However, the blade of the razor sure moves in an arc during this...

Ok - if the vocabulary is hanging this up - call it whatever you want. This is an arcing motion about a pivot point - either at the finger tips or at the wrist.

So lets just called it an arc cut...

These are two diagrams I did for a friend of mine. Just like nun2sharp said, it is like a windshield wiper. You can pivot at the fingers or the wrist.

Modine - I do the same thing. Just before I go to bed I look over my rack of razors, I think about how each one shaves and when I used it last, and then I select a razor - following which I pick my...

Hmmm - I don't think I, or anybody I have seen, chop straight into a tree. It is always at an angle to create a wedge shaped cut.

I'm in the scything camp. There are some strokes I need to make that just would not be possible without it. I don't think I have ever tried had the goal of using scything to reduce my shave to one...