Hello all shavers and experts

Must check my shaving experience....

My facial hair is quite coarse. My first round is shaving downwards on face. After that i still feel the beard all over the face. So i start lather for 2nd round and then im trying to do cross-over and against grain.

On my 2nd round is when my problems start. It feels like the razor is jumping over the straws that are left. I can see on my razor i get tiny bits of the straws shaven. Dont know what to call the straws that are left on the cheeks after 1st round, i think you know what i mean. Then there are those straws that grow along my wrinkles on the throat. Having real hard time getting them at all.

Since the razor is starting to jump over the straws, my 1st reaction is to push a little harder. Doing that makes my skin burn after a while and i end up getting a quite bad shave-experience. Still i like standing there and trying to get a shave with the cut-throat razor (like the sound of that name).

I got my new Norton stone 4000/8000 and have used it once. I prepared it with stages of 280, 320, 480, 600 and 1000 grit papers. Then i started to hone the razor with the pyramid technique. After that i went to the strop with approx 50-75 strokes. Everything is done with very light to none pressure.

I know, it takes long time to even master a tiny bit of straight razor shaving. What should i do with my facial hair .. Should i focus on my razor and get it sharper?

I guess that those of you experienced in this have seen this question lots of time. Where should i get my focus while getting more experience?

Regards,

Rikard