Do both of you happen to have problems with the first razor you're using seeming to be dull when you get to the chin?
Here's why I ask and why I'm actually agreeing with thebigspender for once ;)(oh, I'm just kidding!): Even razors from honemeisters would slow down and trudge through before I was done with my chin whiskers. I too started to use two razors.
Here's what I found:
- I had never really studied my whiskers enough to realize quite obviously that whiskers grow much much more densely packed on my chin than on the rest of my face.
- More importantly, if an imaginary line was drawn vertically from the center of my lower lip down my chin (dividing my chin into a left and right half), ATG is actually going TOWARDS that center line. That means my chin whiskers have a horizontal growth pattern to them. Which way was I attacking my chin whiskers when I would shave?.......towards the center line of my chin. I was going ATG right off the bat. Some say a razor that is ultra sharp can wipe whiskers ATG with no problem. I'm actually not into shaving with razors that sharp right now. I get very comfortable shaves with no irritation and no razor burn now, so I see no real need to go for "feather-like" sharpness. Don't get me wrong, I like to tune my razors now to where my ultra-fine blond hairs explode with no effort with an HHT (I could never get an edge to pass the HHT using my own hair before a few months back and just figured my hair was just way too fine. Now it's my gold standard, tuning an edge until my own hair cuts effortlessly along the whole edge; I used to use some of my wife's that she donated from her brush).
So..........I agree, a review of technique may be in order if you think your razors are sharp enough. Proper stropping also really helped me and improved my razors. I've not had a need to use more than one razor for a 2 pass shave in a long time (I've never felt I really needed a true ATG pass across my whole face since I get BBS with an WTG and XTG. ATG on my neck is too risky even with straights.
Chris L