Thread: Shaving stroke

i do only long strokes on the side of my face, the rest is short strokes. Why..... look at Jimbo's awnser.

My wife was watching me with the shavette the other day and said, "woah you use really short strokes. You aren't supposed to do that with a straight razor. You are supposed to use longer ones." I will say that I used longer strokes with the straight razor (I only shave my cheeks so top of cheek to bottom) and seem to use shorter with the shavette (maybe 5 strokes or so from top to bottom and then kind of clean up strokes where hairs are missed or I am watching my lines). I burned the devil out of my face with the shavette doing that. I think too many short strokes were covering the same ground as the last one.

I really need to work on my shavette usage. However, it felt more natural to do short with it and felt more natural to do longer ones with the regular straight razor. No idea why.

For me, long strokes down the cheeks and short strokes around the neck. Controlled speed. All on the straight.

I've gotten away with using long strokes, however, if something goes wrong, it's going to go VERY wrong. I cut my earlobe like that once, and it bled profusely for hours. On the other hand, with short strokes, you're applying the blade to your skin more often.

Originally Posted by Wayne1963

I've gotten away with using long strokes, however, if something goes wrong, it's going to go VERY wrong. I cut my earlobe like that once, and it bled profusely for hours. On the other hand, with short strokes, you're applying the blade to your skin more often.

Are your strokes around your neck just as long as the face?

I always use long strokes.
Short strokes seems like a strange idea to me, if it's shaving why pull up short?

I use long stroke on the WTG.
A bit shorter on the XTG and even shorter strokes on ATG.

Don't relly know why, but thats how it evolved.