Thread: What bugs me

Flooded with resources and contradictions in those resources too which is a mine field to navigate for uninitiated.

Bob

Keep in mind that straight shaving gives you a completely customized shave. So try to treat it that way. When you're done with your shave, feel around for the rough spots you missed. Take ONE of those areas and think hard about how you can get it clean. Think about you ATG pass for that area and what angle the razor needs to attack from to accomplish that. Think about how you will need to hold the razor in order to do it. Now go to work on that spot in your next shave. If you nail it, move to the next spot that needs help. Later think about the sequence in which you will string these events together. It's a step by step process toward that customized shave. So take it one step at a time. Where you begin is your choice.

Originally Posted by Ryan82

I think in many cases there are other factors involved too. The majority of shaving vids that I've seen feature men with light, sparse beards. As well, they usually seem to have very minimal growth to begin with, to the point where you have to wonder why they are bothering to shave in the first place; this offers very little resistance for the blade, so they get this long sweeping strokes for the camera. And to be fair, we can't tell how close the resulting shave is

Remember, very few shaving vids are done for educational purposes. Most are for fun or simply to show off to friends and strangers. I'm sure some have even taken some, oh, "dramatic/creative license" for that very purpose.

100% true,have seen shaving vids and the guys had nothing to shave off,The other side of the coin is you see very rotund guys posting vids.
far easyer to shave a big fat face than one that is angular.Skin is already stretched from being overwieght.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

FrankD,THANK YOU!! I thought I was the only one to have such feelings. Not wanting to offend anyone but it seems to me that in every one of those shaving videos the shaver is a full faced person. No nooks. No crannies. No hollows. No protuberances, Just full, slightly rounded physiognomy. It would be a boon to the many if some of the very experienced straight razor shavers of the forum who possess a face of valleys, canyons and mountains, or some combination of such would do a series of videos casting light on shaving in those areas that irritate many of the brethren of the razor.

I totally agree.

Thanks Ryan for those points I must admit my 2nd pass is so much easier than the 1st and the cynic in me wondered whether some of the videos were "set up" ie there was nothing there to shave off!

It's come to the point where I normally only do a 2 pass shave unless I have a weeks worth of growth. I have to agree with Ryan and the others where I wonder about some of these shave vids. Some of them make me wonder if they even have to shave to begin with..just a bit of "fluff" there and it looks sooo easy..lol.

It takes good while but u get better shaved with short multi strokes while stretching face a little different while making those strokes. Now doing that quick is challenging. But it comes to ya with experience.

Yes, the shaving vids, the sparse beards, the big fat faces, and there is the famous, "Willi" (??), who is / was a member of this site.

This video has had many titles, I'ts been posted here before, but it is a shaving video of a bearded thin man, str8 shaving. Now the title I saw it under was, "The Manliest Shave Ever", and the first time I saw it, I thought he was going to use the big knife hanging on the kitchen wall:

The Manliest Shave Ever!! - YouTube