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Yep, I had picked that up in the beginner's guide in the Wiki early on. When I go ATG, I have the spine on my skin, which I figure puts the blade at about 5 degrees. That's the one stroke with...

Well, I tried both of these techniques under my jaw over the weekend, and got really good results. I realized that I've been using the guillotine stroke on my cheeks without realizing that that was...

Thanks for the tip, diagram and explanation! I'll definitely give that a try , but will probably wait until Saturday to attempt it, so as not to alarm the folks at work should things go amiss....

Ah! So this would have essentially the same effect on the whiskers as scything, but you're not rotating the blade--a different method of achieving an angled approach to what you're trying to shave.

Scything I understand, but what's guillotining? Sounds rather forbidding, to say the least. :chop:

Actually, on closer inspection, it turns out that in that pesky place under my jaw on the left, my whiskers grow towards the back of my neck--so what I'm getting there is neither a WTG or an ATG...

So, how'd it work out?

I've so far found XTG on the neck to be pretty much impossible. There's one place on the left side just under my jaw that would benefit from XTG, but I just can' get the razor oriented in the right...