Thread: Missed (a perfect shave) by that much!

Try cold shaving technique. I`m getting better shaves during this technique. Not sure why but I know I`m getting more and more into this one....

Do you have a razor with a smile? I have been loaned one, and the curve of the blade is quite usefull for odd spots, might get those neck patches.
I had best not tell my work I use a straight to shave with in camp or I will have to look through:

To find some sort of PPE. (probably a mach 3, if they stocked them)

Originally Posted by MisterMoo

Yes, re. the #4 thing. Pretty much invisible spots known only to me and my wife (who enjoys checking out the results each morning). She humors me. So, I guess, I am pretty much there. I can certainly settle for 90% perfection 90% of the time in all the optional things. It's SOOOOO much nicer than a Braun electric or the Schick HydroElectric Vibrato, which is pretty good. Corrective hair redirection surgery is out of the question.

So the daily 100% BBS shave may be something of an illusion. I suspected. There's no doubt I am very happy with my new shaving regime and that's not going to change. I'll just keep on keeping on then and see what changes in the next few months. I have seen that small changes in method can have big results
in the outcome. It will be fun to works the details a little each day while trying to achieve better sharpening skills. Better stropping might generate the next big improvement.

Item last - no, not killing my face or my fun. Just plodding along cheerfully every morning, pleased as can be. I much enjoy developing this skill! Thanks for the heads up and good perspective on the art.

I can assure you brother that the BBS is for real. I achieve it every time like this: Make a great lather and work it into your face with the brush, now buff it into your beard with your fingers. The goal is to make your beard stand up erect as possible. Let this lather stand while you strop your razor. Now wipe off this lather and re-lather with the brush. I shave 2 passes with the lather and touch ups are done with only water. The touchups are important to my shave.Since the lather has already done the heavy lifting, the water touch ups are gentle to the skin. This method is for straight shaving only..I believe it would be too harsh for DEs.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Do you have a razor with a smile? I have been loaned one, and the curve of the blade is quite usefull for odd spots, might get those neck patches.
I had best not tell my work I use a straight to shave with in camp or I will have to look through:

To find some sort of PPE. (probably a mach 3, if they stocked them)

Hey! My old mates. Didn't know Protector merged with Alsafe. I am out of date. Hope Redback hasn't merged with Perrier to make alcohol- and hops free beer.

Originally Posted by Wayne1963

I can assure you brother that the BBS is for real. I achieve it every time like this: Make a great lather and work it into your face with the brush, now buff it into your beard with your fingers. The goal is to make your beard stand up erect as possible. Let this lather stand while you strop your razor. Now wipe off this lather and re-lather with the brush. I shave 2 passes with the lather and touch ups are done with only water. The touchups are important to my shave.Since the lather has already done the heavy lifting, the water touch ups are gentle to the skin. This method is for straight shaving only..I believe it would be too harsh for DEs.

I was trying to fight this off until 2014.I'll have a go with your methods this weekend. Thanks for the advice!

Originally Posted by MisterMoo

Hey! My old mates. Didn't know Protector merged with Alsafe. I am out of date. Hope Redback hasn't merged with Perrier to make alcohol- and hops free beer.

I reckon I have just proved I have a mind that will retain fairly useless info, for periods of time , a useful skill when I worked in customer service environments.Nah mate, if anything it'd be peats ridge or mount franklin, none of that foreign muck. If you worked out of Melbourne did you know Doug Allen? He is one of our safety reps on site, but his background was in selling safety stuff.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

... If you worked out of Melbourne did you know Doug Allen? He is one of our safety reps on site, but his background was in selling safety stuff.

Tony Riddell was one of two or three who kept me out of trouble, mostly at Geelong and other automotive related sites,

The elusive perfect shave advances 1 1/2 steps. The big change this week was the sudden ability to float a blade on a strop; one day I thought I was doing fine and the next day I realized there was a far lighter touch that promptly took an OK blade to a "hanging hair" blade. The razor is sharper and the shave is smoother, easier.



The half-step is some cheating stuff. I finally cleaned up the old man's Rolls Razor and took it for a spin -Dad bought it new ($12.50 on the box) and tried it once. I gather it scared him and he put it away then, decades later, gave it to me. It never touched my face until this morning. Tell you what... it easily gets into neck spots where I still have trouble with a straight blade. Bottom line is, it runs quickly through ATG lower neck patches after the regular shave is complete. Almost perfect. Not sure how a Rolls Razor touch up rates in the scheme of things but I like the shave and I like the connection to my dad, now gone a dozen years. Tough bird but a sweet guy, depression kid, Detroit bootlegger, weightlifter, drove a 2x6 team of Belgians in NJ, busted horses in AZ, champion shotgunner and .30cal iron sights marksman, did sit ups at 90 but was afraid of a Rolls Razor. He feared for that pretty face of his.

I have heard rolls razors mentioned a few tmes, but have never seen one (though I havent really looked) other than the one in your post. Why are they scary?

Originally Posted by edhewitt

I have heard rolls razors mentioned a few tmes, but have never seen one (though I havent really looked) other than the one in your post. Why are they scary?

The blade is essentially a very short straight locked into a perpendicular handle; the "guard" isn't for your face, it's to protect the blade from being bumped. I would say the scary part is that it seems potentially unstable in appearance, as if it might easily tend to yaw. A small change in orientation could, conceivably, fillet your face. In my limited practice I do not find pitch, yaw or roll problems to be an issue. I did a back and forth pass on my arm first - no drama, no more hair.

Like the famous Atomic mokapot from Oz - very discontinued, very functional, very cute and very unlikely to be used every day. Jury is out on how often I'll use the Rolls. I now learn some folks use them regularly, some use them infrequently and most who own one seem never to have tried. Bad talk on Rolls is probably due to dulled or poorly sharpened blades. Having experienced how well a sharp blade works I could imagine a raggedy one would be more like a self-sacrifice than a shave.

Just had a chat to Doug, he was the competition, his old man started all safe.