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Good tip, you catch one or two hairs from your Mo in that gap you will squeal like a pig under the gate...as they say..

Try using the side of a wine cork, and making one "slice" drawing the blade from back to front/pulling it across.
Known as "corking the blade" there are some who do this with the Feather DE Blades...

"Snow Plow" is another term for leading with the heel or the toe of the razor.
You can also learn how to "chevron" - a stroke that moves diagonally as traverses the area (not slicing, check the...

And a Happy New Year to you and yours...

My Feather shave routine is basically at the most a two pass, N-S and S-N.
This ends up being a mostly WTG N-S and a mostly XTG S-N.
I don't need to do...

Take heart...the "three steps forward, one step backwards" process of learning how to use a Straight is normal, the Feather makes those steps forward and backward a little more profound.

Some...

At this point you are well on the way.
Would not bother with the Light Blades, I believe they are mostly use for cosmetology.
The Guards and nice, you can still cut yourself and they don't seem to...

Angle - imagine that you where to lay the razor flat against your face, then lift the spine up - if you raise the spine up 1 to 2 spine widths that would be "shallow or low angle"

Cleaning up with...

+1 to the two excellent posts above.

As a long time Feather system user I have to agree that the learning curve is much steeper than it is with a conventional straight.

The trade off is that it...