Thread: Scarry shave video

He shaves from collar bone to eye socket. That blade so close to his eye was a little scary.

I guess it helps if you have a nice round face to work with. My skinny face has much more angles than his. He is very comfortable with that razor!

The craziest part of that video is the number of passes, 3 with a straight and a clean up with a DE. My skin starts to get a little sensitive after three with a straight.

It all looks a bit scary but hey he looks happy enough.........Each to his own!

Originally Posted by itlives

I guess it helps if you have a nice round face to work with. My skinny face has much more angles than his. He is very comfortable with that razor!

What he said....
Even my wife thought that was being a little wreckless, I suppose he likes to live life on the edge... Lol

Have noticed the same thing,fully 90% of the vids on utube are Rotund Jowley Guys,No adams apple,round face,bull neck.makes things a tad easier IMO.

Blade angle was a bit steep for my tastes and that no lather pass kinda puckered me up a little (just looked kind of awkward). Like the others I was a bit perplexed by his safety razor pass. IMHO if you can do 3 passes with a straight and still need a safety razor touch up, then your straight (or perhaps technique) needs significant attention. But again, like others have said, I saw no bloodshed and he appeared to be having fun so, hey, to each his own. As a side note, I don't think I've ever seen anyone face lather cream the way he did but it did seem to work.

Video kinda reminded me of my early days with single edge safety razors. Back then 4-5 passes with a Micromatic Open Comb was pretty much a daily occurance. Yeah, I was obsessed with the CBS shave. Not so much these days though, most of my shaves are single pass, occassionally 2 passes on the weekend. Three pass shaves (my standard early on in the straight razor days) are now a once in a blue moon happening. The result of my new approach? Well, I've never had extremely sensitive skin so that was never really an issue. As far as I can tell, the only difference between one pass and three is that the stubble is slightly more abundant between 9 and 10 PM just prior to going to bed. At that hour, does it really matter?

Dunno. No visible beard growth start of shave. Maybe a bread knifed Friodur and a DE with no blade??? Between the blade angle and no stretching, I suspect maybe a hoax???

Just looked at it again. I think the DE pass is the tipoff. Is there anyone out there truly proficient with a straight who uses a DE to finish up?

Originally Posted by pcb01

Dunno. No visible beard growth start of shave. Maybe a bread knifed Friodur and a DE with no blade??? Between the blade angle and no stretching, I suspect maybe a hoax???

The first pass sounded like it was cutting whiskers to me. You can shave at fairly steep angles, it's just not as nice as lower angles. I have no reason to believe the guy would bother to fake a shave and film it. The way he used his hands and razor looked like he had done it many many times to me. I certainly don't understand all those passes with and without lather and two different razors though!