I stumbled on this video while searching for info on a couple new razors I aquired. As the title states this video scares the hell outta me. Especially when the guy goes atg, what is his skin made from steel?
Wet shaving with Friodur.wmv - YouTube
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I stumbled on this video while searching for info on a couple new razors I aquired. As the title states this video scares the hell outta me. Especially when the guy goes atg, what is his skin made from steel?
Wet shaving with Friodur.wmv - YouTube
I don't see any blood or scars at all.
What scares me is not the sound...but the blade angle :nono:
He looks very comfortable shaving, other then the part without any cream, i like a lot of lather for sure!!!
As above,that blade angle is off the wall,how do's he get away with it?
My best guess is that his angle of hair growth determines the angle of his blade.
My beard grows almost flat to my face and curls in toward the skin to boot. (Yes... Lots of ingrown hairs if i try to shave with a modern pull and cut type razor) Add that to a few swirl spot on my neck and my angle of cut with a straight gets pretty hairy at times, or so to speak.
The big trick is pressure! A light touch is absolutely necessary.
One has to wonder what sort of edge he has on the Str8 if he has to make so many aggressive passes with it at that almost perpendicular angle and then finish with a DE. :shrug:
It looks like he's using a 45deg blade angle.
He appears to be a reasonably proficient straight razor user - he certainly knows a good razor when he sees one! Sometimes video can make the angles look steeper than what they actually are, and sometimes proficient users do in fact use steeper angles than are recommended. In the end it is whatever works for you, and clearly this is what works for him.
James.
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!
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?
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! :thinking:
So let's be clear Newbs - this is NOT an instructional video. This is clearly just how one man shaves.
For most people, that blade angle would leave curls of skin like shaving chocolate curls for a cake.
Second, I think there is a big clue on how rotten a straight razor shave he is getting by watching the agressive way he has to use the safety razor following the straight razor. A little more care and he would not have to do that.
But having offered my criticism, I have to agree with the other posters, the man looks damn proud and happy - and in the end, that's pretty much what this is all about.
Speaking of high blade angles, I was watching a couple of the barbers in my local barbershop the other day and how they used their straight razor (one with replaceable blades) to trim the back of the neck after a haircut. They held the blade at 90 degrees and were dragging the blade across the skin. Is that typical for these type of razors and their intended usage? At the time, I was thinking that somebody really ought to show them how to use a straight razor correctly.
If you want to see a scary video I'm sure you guys have seen the Youtube one wear the kids all hairy, he's smoking, and pauses to drink as he shaves super fast.....awesome but uh....freaky too....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK3I1...B1A763&index=5
I dig this video, I'll give it to the kid, he has some swagger. As a rule, I neither drink nor smoke while shaving. The part about this video that I found a bit disturbing was his admission that this was him shaving before going to work AS A BUS DRIVER! Let's all hope that he's in the minority and that all bus drivers don't have multiple shots of bourbon for breakfast.
@ 1971wedge, If I am not mistaken that was one of our own, Bladewielder. Some kids work way too hard to be a grownup.
Also if you look closly, I think it's on the second or possibly third pass, he has so much preasure on the blade that his skin is bunching up in front of it. That's what gave me the creeps in the first place I was amazed he could shave like that and not take a huge chunk of flesh off with each pass which kinda leads me to also suspect this being a hoax. The only question if it is a hoax is..why?
Not my preferred shaving angles at all... but what about the wet hands ? Must have an Inox Frio :)
well I learned something from both of these videos, so kudos to everyone. In the first, I realized that I've been a bit lackadaisical about my technique and I seem to have developed a too-steep blade angle, a lot like that guy. I've been paying more attention to it and my razor burn has gone away.
From the second one I learned that maybe a little extra confidence is a good thing.
Why the DE ??? Razor must not be sharp.
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.Quote:
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?
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 donīt. 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 donīt think it can be that wrong. No stubble, no ingrowns. It simply works for me
I donīt 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? Thatīs 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.