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

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 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 I am out of date.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 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 I am out of date.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.

Excellent. Glad to hear it's going well, perhaps you should, in the name of science wind back the variables until you find out why. Or maybe not

In the name of Science, I wonder if there has been something of a blind taste test done with razors/hones, combinations? I would think the answer would be yes even though there are obstacles to shaving blind with a straight razor. But the possibilities of demythologizing are vast...but actually now that I am thinking of it, I like the myths.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Excellent. Glad to hear it's going well, perhaps you should, in the name of science wind back the variables until you find out why. Or maybe not

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Excellent. Glad to hear it's going well, perhaps you should, in the name of science wind back the variables until you find out why. Or maybe not

All I do at work is test and retest in a world of imperfect and insufficient data. At home I am tickled to use intuition or just fly by the seat of my pants.

Jimbo nailed down my nemesis in this discussion. Whisker grain on my neck is east & west, growing outward from the windpipe. Up or down strokes are easy and do equally well but ATG on my neck is out of the question. It appears the best results on this curved, hard to reach landscape is (for me) all about:

1. a series of simultaneous heel-leading, inward, downward, diagonal guillotining strokes finishing with a touch of scythe near the collar; and
2. inward, upward, diagonal guillotining strokes finishing with a touch of scythe along the jawline and under the chin; while
3. minding the point doesn't bite me somewhere out there.

It's a lighthanded balancing act. Developing this coordinated movement was a gradual result of simpler skills building and everything else not working; I didn't decide, "OK. Gotta work on this move." Steering a razor, especially one with a point, in three dimensions (or four, if you include watching the time) has taken months of practice. I don't think someone could have shown or explained this to me a month ago with any benefit.

Anyhow, my shave skills suddenly took a jump-step much to my surprise. It is, indeed, the journey, not the destination. What a pleasant thing a shave can be.