My first straight razor shave went well, after a hot shower whipped up some Trumper’s Rose cream applied some to my face and began stropping the razor. Thirty rounds later (or some thing like that I lost count) I started a with the grain pass and every thing went ok had some problems working under my lower lip. I tried to do an against the grain pass and ran in to some problems the razor started pulling the second I hit the hair. I did another with the grain pass and the rest of the neck went fine. I had some problems with the chin area and I started to get a little rushed trying to finish up and got a small nick on my chin. I still had some problems getting the chin area and under the lower lip. I finally decided it was good enough for a first attempt and put the razor down. All in all not to bad a shave for the first try looking forward to the next time although I’ll have to get up a little earlier so I don’t get rushed toward the end of the shave.