Originally Posted by
holli4pirating
Personally, I would call what CommieCat shows "one pass," even though he makes small overlapping strokes. I sometimes do an actual single stroke, and sometimes I do small overlapping strokes.
And my own results mirror Commie's; whatever hair is on my face comes off in 1 pass. I get what I call directional BBS - meaning if I run a finger along my face in the same direction I shaved, it feels BBS. If I go WTG, ATG will not feel BBS, but XTG might if it's a really good pass/edge.
I just don't understand beard reduction with a straight. The only way I could imagine doing beard reduction would be if you shaved without putting the edge on your skin, but instead floated over your face, cutting the hair above the skin. But doing that really makes no sense to me. Unless you have a razor that knows to only shave off every other hair, or something like that...
As for DE's or SE's, the only alternate explanation I could think of is if the razor gets clogged and is no longer able to cut hairs (I do get this sometimes with a straight, if I am shaving off some serious beard and the already shaved lather/beard slides down the blade onto the edge or gets on my face). Not that I really know anything about using paperweights to shave....