Trying Something New To Hone My Shavette Skills
Aloha!
OK, I'm not ready to give up on Shavettes yet. I originally thought they'd be a DANDY option for a traveling gentleman like many of us, but it's been nick and cut and razor burn city since I picked one up for the first time years ago. I bailed out many times and went back to my Straight and/or my DE.
Tonight I thought of two things. Perhaps my beloved Voskhod DE Blakes that I love so dearly simply do not work for me in my Shavette razors? Could this be true? So I switched to the Derby half blades I have had in the shave cabinet that came with one of my Shavettes. And right off the bat - A much more "forgiving" blade for SURE in my Shavette.
So I am doing the following to try and improve my Shavette form and function.
1.) FIRST pass with a Shavette with Derby blade nice and easy.
2.) Second pass with my DE and Voskhod to clean up most of what the Shavette missed.
This worked nicely tonight. I really took my time with the Shavette and the Derby blade and made sure I was following proper form and function with the "Train Whistle Pull" on the strokes and a very good angle of attack. I got about 40-50 percent of the whiskers on the first pass really taking it easy. Why push it? Otherwise, there will be blood. With the DE the second pass yielded a very CCS. One more pass and I'd have BBS, but I don't want to push it when I'm potentially punishing my skin enough with the Shavette, since my technique is not there yet.
I'll take a break tomorrow and go back to my Straight. But I think this may just work for me. I'd LOVE to master a Shavette.
-Zip