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You are so right. A smooth, steady stoke is critical IMO.



I tried that. They seemed to be more in the way than helpful so, for now, I'm doing the best I can without. Thanks for the input...

Well, a few more shaves under my belt. Getting better all the time. Now covering about 80% of my face with at least one pass and 80% of that with a second. Strokes are getting smoother and angles are...

Well, I took yesterday off. Didn't have the time to do things "right" so I fell back to the Fusion (which did fine - it always does - pretty good for a cartridge).

But today I did my second...

Thanks Jim... I kinda figured that would be the case. It's just so new right now, I have no sense for what is happening at any given instant. If I thought my eyesight was going to be the determining...

Thanks James. I decided quiting while I was ahead was more sucessful than pushing to failure.... I mean finish;) Honestly I got the idea from a post here somewhere and it made good sense to me.
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Thanks Mark, I need to work on all these things (of course!)

I had a lot of trouble with the blade angle. Not being able to see well only compounded that.

Haven't figured out skin stretching at...

Thanks for the encouragement guys! It helps! Half way through I was really into that "What in the world am I doing?" place, if you know what I mean! I know it will come... Nothing worth doing is...

With my new razor (Lynn honed DOVO from Vintage) some Clubman cream, my old (yuck) Burts Bees brush & mug and an IRS strop I went - very tentatively - into the bathroom.

Washed my face with hot...