Hey all, i'm new to SRP but not to straight razor shaving,
Used a shavette for 5-6 years up untill last autumn when i finally sent my dovo away to be honed by a pro (i'd had it 4 years by that point, fantastic 21st birthday pressie from my mum).

Its recently lost its edge a little and i think thats partly due to poor stropping technique.
Anyway, instead of paying for it to be honed again i fancied spending a bit extra and moving into doing it myself. This prompted a lot of research and led me here!

This site has given me more enthusiasm for straight shaving than i had before and has inspired me to make more effort in my shaving, one area is the aforementioned poor stropping, another is poor technique.

Don't get me wrong, i've had perfectly reasonable shaves untill now but have low standards and quite slow growing facial hair anyway, so i'd been purely doing WTG passes.

As of yesterday i've modified the way i hold the razor, which made thing s a little easier!

But i've also seen mention of using either the left or right hand for the respective side of the face.

How many of you guys do that?

Now that i'm not a newbie at straight shaving i don't like my chances of trying to coax my left hand in to help with the job!