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    Quote Originally Posted by RezDog View Post
    Are you shaving against the grain? Low blade angle, skin taught, lather thin, edge keen?
    As much as I can. My grain runs east to west so it's a bit weird.



    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    I always get a bit of that on the sides of the neck. Even after 2 WTG and 1 ATG. It's OK!
    Same as passing a 6-blader or equivalent, too much is counterproductive to me, Exfoliated and irritated to the tissue and ingrown hairs galore is no fun! Shave it in all it's glory.
    Again in a day or three. Just Me!
    That's what I ended up doing at the moment.
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    My shaves improved 10 fold once I stopped chasing BBS. Haven't had time to burnish my Arks properly yet, but if Mastro Livi finishes on a trans they must be good. Really enjoying Thuri edges at the moment.
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    A little while back, I was getting BBS shaves 80% of the time by using slight angle adjustments on the hollows of my neck and the corners of my jaw since my hair (like many many others) grows at weird angles and/or circles in these spots. This always resulted in very minor irritation. On a scale of 1-10 a 1 being no irritation and a 10 being like fire ants were attacking my face/neck it was about a 3 or a 4. I was very happy with that result and it was pretty consistent. Then I decided, as Shaun pointed out, that I need only achieve a DFS and I was more than happy. I would do this with a one pass muti-directional shave straight N and S and it would leave some "cats tongue" in the hollows and corners but no irritation so I was happy with that. Then I was tweaking an edge with a hard/black/translucent Arkansas and when I shaved with it just a quick multi-directional single pass North and South BOOM! I was BBS even in the hollows and corners and no irritation. I now have three blades that will do this. A John Sellers & Sons, a Holley, and a Mappin & Webb. It can be done with the right technique and a very finely tuned edge IME.
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    Huge fan of the 1 pass Multi-directional shave

    If you know and have mapped your face it allows for a really close comfortable shave
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    Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
    Huge fan of the 1 pass Multi-directional shave

    If you know and have mapped your face it allows for a really close comfortable shave
    Where do you think I got it from? Lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steel View Post
    Where do you think I got it from? Lol.
    Just so I get it right. This is a one pass shave against the grain?

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    For me it is one pass using whichever direction gets that section of face the best

    I will let everyone else answer what it means to them
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    Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
    For me it is one pass using whichever direction gets that section of face the best

    I will let everyone else answer what it means to them
    Exactly. +1 here
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    I do a two pass sometimes 2 1/2 pass shave and they are multidirectional, as in not all in one direction. If I have a really heavy growth I will do a mustache and goatee area north to south. Mostly I do a mostly south to north pass, with variations for odd spots and then the jaw up get ears to nose, with a weird diagonal pass on the underside of my jaw and then my neck also gets a diagonal pass but not in the same diagonal as the underside of my jaw. It is difficult to explain when thing it isn't a straight up direction. So on the underside of my jaw it goes ears to nose but combines it with northerly direction.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    I always get a bit of that on the sides of the neck. Even after 2 WTG and 1 ATG. It's OK!
    Same as passing a 6-blader or equivalent, too much is counterproductive to me, Exfoliated and irritated to the tissue and ingrown hairs galore is no fun! Shave it in all it's glory.
    Again in a day or three. Just Me!

    Same here Tom. I can stand in front of the mirror & go every which way I can forever yet I still have that little bit on each side of my neck.

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