Im steadily getting into the swing of straight razor shaving and I m now conquering years of shaving rash and irritation and I only nowadays get the odd nick, usually on my chin when Im thinking about other things then shaving my chin.

What Im finding is that if I shave with two passes daily or three passes every other day I get very little irritation with known products. A three pass will give me a BSS and a two pass is an acceptable DFS although when I run my fingers against the grain I can feel whiskers. I have fair skin so It does look more "shadowy" after two passes. but to me it looks clean and acceptable.

So both methods are suitable and comfortable with my skin. A three pass shave daily very rarely ends up BSS, more a DFS but closer than a two pass day but mostly due to two stubborn patches on my neck, but It does irritate me a little. I don't have to shave everyday but I do love the time to myself and the fresh scents every day. Can you ever get too much I ask myself?

This got me thinking and wondering. What did our fathers do? Did it occur to them to aim for BSS every shave? Did they do One pass, two pass or three?

What do most of you out there prefer to do shave wise? every day, every other, two or three pass or more?