Thread: 1 Pass Shave (atg only).

My regular shave is one against and one across, it does the job. I shave every day and a half to two days.

I'm on a 2-3 day shave.

The 6/8 bismarck took off 4 days growth.

My hair is not very course but there is a fair amount of it.

When I think about it it shouldn't matter if you do the ATG pass on long or short hair. If you do an ATG pass it still has to cut the same amount of hair at the same density for the blade. The shank length is never seen by the blade as it only sees the hair directly in front of the cutting edge.

The only real difference is on short hair the blade will skip at 0 resistance, With longer hair it's going to treetop.

Gentlemen,

I avoid a one-pass shave against the grain only, because that's asking for ingrown hairs, if not now, perhaps in the future, unless your skin is made of thick hide. Shaving against the grain is a predominant cause of ingrown hairs, regardless of proper preparation.

One-pass shaves and I are old friends. Mine, however, have been mostly with the grain with some across the grain and against the grain strokes for touch-ups. My razors are silky sharp, but I still prefer to remove the bulk of the stubble with the grain before attempting other strokes.

Yes, perhaps some gentlemen might get away with shaving in one pass against the grain, but for most of us, that's asking for trouble.

This old guy has dirty fingernails and a nice one-pass-with-a-jawline-twist technique. I do this sometimes but, no, not ATG.

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An update to this one.

I've only done ATG 1 pass shaving since I put this thread up.

I'm nearing a month in now. And so far no problems for me. It might be my hair skin combination but it seems to be working with less irritation than the 3 pass shave.

Lather wise I've only been using good high glide stuff. I've tried palmolive stick, TOBS eton, Bodyshop macaroot, Ingram cream. They all worked well. I also tried some Edwin Jagger lime It didn't have enough glide and caused a bad pass, I cleaned up and used palmolive for the rest of that shave.

Razor wise the single best one in my rotation is the 7/8 extra hollow. With a close second from the Joseph Rodgers near wedge. The worst shave was from the 6/8 Joseph Elliot near wedge. It just wasn't sharp enough to perform this shave and I think the weight of that razor was causing me to use bad angles, It's my only heavy scaled razor.

All the razors have had different final edges.

The 7/8 extra is currently rocking a thuri edge, The Joseph rodgers was running an arkie edge and has been swapped to a silkstone edge. The regular hollow 5/8 and 6/8 have both been finished on my home made diorite hone. All the razors were exceptionally sharp HHT4+, Fresh honed and stropped well.

My hair type is very very fine. There is a lot of it, but it has a fine shaft and is light coloured. Aurburn/white/ginger mix.

I'm going to continue with this technique and post back if anything becomes problematic in the future. For me for the minute this is a winning technique.

I shave daily and still prefer 1 with grain on cheeks and 1 with/1 against on neck. I think my beard (even at 1 day) is just too thick to start off against grain. Starting off against grain for me still causes some irritation.