Thread: Many questions with straight shaving?

Originally Posted by OiRogers

I found that after several shaves I started to do both Scything and Guillotine strokes naturally.

My scything strokes aren't on a fixed pivot as what I believe Ben.Mid described... but are similar to the guillotine in that the heel moves at an angle across the stroke and the toe travels in an arc faster than the heel. I find I use these strokes on/under the chin and in the hollows next to my adam's apple.

I guillotine on my cheeks and the flats of my throat... angled strokes that heel and toe stay in the same plane... no rotation.

As Sham rightly pointed out... it's all about technique. As my technique improves, my shaves get better and better. Every shave improves my technique just so... I'm in this for the long haul, no questions.

I did too, naturally that is...I think for everyone, when they learn there face, You do what works best...I was confused about the scything motions af first too, then I realized, I actually do it...

I don't know if this is good advice for guys just starting out. Newbies really need to learn the angle first, otherwise you can really slice the He** out of yourself...

The straight will cut you badly if you allow the blade to move in a direction parallel to the edge. This must be avoided. A scything motion that fixes one end of the blade so that the blade rotates in a circular arc will, by definition, prevent motion parallel to the edge, because either the heel or toe is fixed.

Think of a string with one end pinned to a piece of paper, moving the other end of the string cannot allow any motion towards or away from the pin. I think this scything motion is much less scary than an oblique stroke because it will protect you, provided you keep one end of the razor as a fixed pivot point.

Wake up thread,,, Wake Up !!!

It's funny when someone finds a 5 year old thread and posts in it.. how they find it is beyond me.

Forgive him Hirlau for he knows not what he does.

Originally Posted by S0LITARYS0LDIER

It's funny when someone finds a 5 year old thread and posts in it.. how they find it is beyond me.

Forgive him Hirlau for he knows not what he does.

I know how this happens, because it happens to me.
This forum, while having many wonderful members, is fairly slow most times.
I like coming here, and hate to leave, so I do a lot of reading in very old threads, several pages deep into whatever subforum I happen to be in. I'm just trying to find something I haven't read, or maybe dig a bit more into the knowledge base here.
After I have been at that 20-30 minutes(sometimes less), it's real easy to forget I'm 4 or 5 pages(or 10-12) deep, see a comment or a thread, and voila! I have posted to a long dead thread.
Oops.
Didn't mean to, but it truly is my love of this forum that causes me to do it. I am getting better, I don't think I have done this for a bit, but that is why it happens to me, fwiw.