Thread: Scarry shave video

Originally Posted by U2Bono269

From the second one I learned that maybe a little extra confidence is a good thing.

I have to agree with you here, though it was a lesson I had to learn on my own confidence in my strokes has made a huge difference in the effectiveness of my passes. It's like a dog, you show fear and it bites!

Why the DE ??? Razor must not be sharp.

Originally Posted by nessmuck

Why the DE ??? Razor must not be sharp.

Hate to pick on the guy but its harder to get the angle wrong with the DE

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?

Yes, in fact I do. I am not blessed with an easy beard growth. That is why I started seeing shaving as a hobby or a challange if you will. Seeing this video I was hardly aghast. It kind of resembles what I do. Two passes (not three though) with the straight razor and one last pass with my DE.
I do use a bit more steep angles sometimes but hardly as steep as he did.

The reason for the DE is simple. I have been into straights for years now, and have gained a lot of experience when it comes to sharpening. My razors are as sharp as possible. That being said of course I have tried several honemeisters with the same results.

On the neck I sometimes get smooth results from the straight alone, sometimes I don´t. But the real difficult part is the chin and around my nose. There is no razor sharpened any way that will cut my hair on this part smoothly. The beard is extremely stiff. It is so stiff, not even my shavette OR my DE safety razor can cut the hair without any pull. I have grown to live with that. Because I get the smoothest and closest shave nown to mankind with this combination, I don´t think it can be that wrong. No stubble, no ingrowns. It simply works for me

I don´t encourage to reenact what you saw in the video, but (at least for the beginner) it is no big deal to finish off with a DE if necessary

Im new to this.... I use a 90 degree angle starting at my nose, and after I get started it drastically drops in angle. My chin sees a 90, and parts of my neck are about the same steepness he has. My neck is REALLY tough to shave, even with machs I have had hell getting it shaved. I have gotten to where one pass is almost bbs, with a touch up on the right side of my neck where it comes into my jaw. I have noticed for me, that if I need a second pass, I get a smoother/easier one if I just re wet my face in parts, shave that part and re wet another and keep progressing like that. For some reason lathering a second/third time I cant get as close of a shave.

But I did cut the living shit out of my jaw line today though. The only places I get nicks are on my face where the angle is a lot less drastic. YMMV

seriously 90 degrees? That´s perpendicular. I doubted getting past 45° to be practicable

beyond repeating that the blade angle (and perhaps keenness), what does everyone think of their brush use? To me, I feel like the gentleman in the first video was jamming the handle into his face. This doesn't really matter as far as the shave goes, but more for keeping your badger/boar from prematurely dying. Thoughts?

I only have a couple of questions. Is he a barber, and where? I'm not taking any chances!

Is it only me, but I think it's more like he scrapes the stubble off, than cut/slices it. Sometimes that can be better for a newbie, when building confedence, not like he looks like a careful newbie though, lol. Scaping the stubble off wouldn't be effective enough, so I guess the DE's needed to get a clean shave. Just my two cents though.

If he does a WTG, ATG and a XTG and still makes a skritch, skritch sound when he draws it across his face, I doubt it is sharp enough to cut butter.