Originally Posted by
norton
I've been using a straight razor for about a month and haven't cut myself since the first couple times, until yesterday.
The razor had been getting dull even with stropping. My honing kit arrived from classic shaving.com and so I had a newly sharpened razor and got a little inattentive and sliced my chin nicely.
Also, for the last week I've been doing something that I don't see mentioned here. When I shave the way Lynn does in the video I don't get a very close shave, in fact its pretty bad. Scraping the razor over my face just leaves too much stubble, even after two passes from different directions. Since knives cut best by slicing, not scraping, I''ve added a slight diagonal motion to my strokes. Now with fewer longer strokes I get a much smoother shave and the second against the grain pass goes very easily. The razor seems to stay sharper and the shave is much smoother. Of course I have to be more careful not to cut myself.