Thread: 1 handed or 2 handed shave

I shave with both hands. I like being able to use identical technique on each side.

For those trying to tame a non-dominant hand, I wonder if the usual beginners advice might apply: start with just the sideburns, then on a later date advance to the whole cheek, and only then begin experimenting with problem areas.

I'm like azjoe; I tend to do different things with different "dominance". Most people I know think I'm left-handed because I write left-handed. I also eat (except w/chopsticks) and catch left-handed. But most other things are predominantly right-handed; throwing, batting, using a racket, brushing my teeth, shooting pool or guns, using a saw or chopsticks. And my other tool use (hammers, screwdrivers, sanders, and now my Dremel) has always been ambidextrous.

So like joe, it was a pretty easy transition for me to adopt a two-handed shave regime, although I'm still working out the details on which hand gives me the best angle on different parts of my face.

Cheers,

My first straight arrived in the mail today and I've not used it yet

But I plan on starting one handed working the left in later possibly by mimicing the actions using a blunt straight to get used the the movements

Originally Posted by USNA92

I'm like azjoe; I tend to do different things with different "dominance". Most people I know think I'm left-handed because I write left-handed. I also eat (except w/chopsticks) and catch left-handed. But most other things are predominantly right-handed; throwing, batting, using a racket, brushing my teeth, shooting pool or guns, using a saw or chopsticks. And my other tool use (hammers, screwdrivers, sanders, and now my Dremel) has always been ambidextrous.

So like joe, it was a pretty easy transition for me to adopt a two-handed shave regime, although I'm still working out the details on which hand gives me the best angle on different parts of my face.

Cheers,

Actually, I'm a bit of a freak myself. I bat, play hockey and golf left handed and none of it any where near what could be considered 'well', but everything else is right handed. ... well almost everything. I'm a left handed romantic as well. Lets just leave the rest between my wife and I.

X

Two handed and sometimes both handed on the back of the head.
Don

I'm a two handed man with a straight...find it much more comfortable for control.

WTG - right hand -> right side, left hand -> left side
ATG - right hand -> left side, left hand -> rightside

I'm right handed and not particularly adept with my left hand. However, I started using both hands from the start of my str8 shaving and picked it up quickly. Perhaps because the str8 shaving technique was foreign to both hands at first and I had to go slowly, carefully and very consciously. I am very comfortable shaving with both and would not want to try it with only one now.

- Dale

I just started shaving with a straight razor ten days ago and used both my left as well as my dominant right hand, from day one. I figured that since the feel, coordination and skills required to using a straight was altogether different from shaving as I had, with a double edge, it might be better to develop the muscle memory and coordination shaving with right and the left hand, from the start. I shaved my entire face from the first day, with few mishaps. I went very very slowly. I'm still very slow.

Michael-

Originally Posted by Michael-

I just started shaving with a straight razor ten days ago and used both my left as well as my dominant right hand, from day one. I figured that since the feel, coordination and skills required to using a straight was altogether different from shaving as I had, with a double edge, it might be better to develop the muscle memory and coordination shaving with right and the left hand, from the start. I shaved my entire face from the first day, with few mishaps. I went very very slowly. I'm still very slow.

Michael-

This is how I started, same reasoning and was never sorry... Well, the *only* difference is that I had MANY mishaps in my first shave

Cheers
Ivo

Two-handed from day 1, and I was surprised how easy it was to use the left. Sometimes I find myself using the left hand on places I would normally use the right hand just to avoid switching hands. Like another poster said, perhaps it is easier to use both hands from the very start because both are doing something foreign.