Fifteen years ago I thought I was honing my blade properly. Moments later was looking at a disintegrated razor and have not touched one until my new kit arrived today. I was ecstatic that I got pretty much a bbs but ran into some questions/problems.
3-day old sparse, but very thick beard.
1) My lather (badger brush, Col soap), seemed poor to me. There were notable bubbles on the face when brushing on and it seemed "thin".
My Technique: Beard wet after hot shower. Very warm water brush (not ouch hot) - shaken, swirled on soap until coated tips, swirled into teaspoon warm water mug to whip ~ 1 minutes, spread on wet face. Thin, thin thin.
What am I not doing right? I experienced a lot of "tugging" on my chin and sides of jaw halfway during the first pass.
Face is bbs but man, is my face warm to the touch - I did many passes (WTG, XTG, XTG, ATG, ATG, etc, until I felt no hair - wet face the whole time though). I will not need to shave for two days.
BTW, Thanks Lynn for the honing and to Vintage Blades for the great kit and service.
Thanks for any help,
Alpsman