Thread: FINALLY! I figured out how to go against grain on neck.

Ugh....how I wish my neck hairs grew straight down....anyway I finally figured out against grain shaving there. I used a butter knife to practice a bit and after the initial up and down strokes I put the razor in opposite hand and made a down stroke towards the opposite side.

So right side neck: left hand, start at chin, down but curve towards middle of neck. No cuts, did fine. Ditto for left side neck: right hand, start at chin, down but curve towards left shoulder.

Right neck baby bottom smooth, left neck close but not perfect. Practice will continue.

I have to do mine like that, but opposite direction. Ear to base of throat. Then from side of neck to the chin.

I call it a X stroke.

Mike that is neat, thanks for the pics. I am glad I am not alone in the struggle!

For some reason, I have a very, very sensitive section around my vocal cords and I shave that section carefully with a disposable. For the rest of my neck, it's shave up, against the grain and second pass shave down, with the grain. The end result is more than presentable.

The pics really make the clear to even the dullest of readers....

Thanks!

Wish that was all I had to do to get mine. My neck hairs go sideways in a couple of spots. I can get baby smooth on the cheeks, but even with multiple passes every which way I can never get the same on my neck. Steel wire tough red hair doesn't help maters either.

What I did was faceturbate on the way to work and think which direction I would have to go to get that on a 3rd pass. If you can remember, work that way next shave!
Before long, it will become habit.

ATG as far as I remember is, you got the hands correct Angles, but you start at the neck and go up towards the jaw line.

I think what you're describing and Outback is demonstrating is more a XTG or a scything stroke.

Here's a video of a pro, this is the video that got me into straight razor shaving, he used to be a member here as well.

6 years on, and I still love this video. When I saw the title, I thought at first he was going to shave with the butcher knife in the rack on the kitchen wall....:-)

I also learned a lot from watching this video a few hundred times when I started.

Behold the Master....his second pass, on the neck that's against the grain, and then when he lather up the second time, that's all ATG and XTG.

I remember that! Dudes a badass!

Gotta love it, a cut to the chase no BS shave. No fancy gear or posh shave den either.

Bob