Thread: Shaving Accross Neck

Originally Posted by JordanM

The neck is tough, and I am still struggling as well. I have found Guillotine cuts work best for going EW and that is the only way I can fit a blade there in that direction. Be careful, and good luck

Well said, and this is exactly what I do.

The guy in the video doesn't quite do E-W or W-E on the neck, but great technique. I have the same problem I am working on, and the sort of sw-ne and se-nw with a little guillotine motion seems to be working, although I have yet to get bbs on my neck yet, even with that. I have faith that it will come with practice though.

edit: having a goatee to work around makes it even harder, I find.

Originally Posted by srmd22

The guy in the video doesn't quite do E-W or W-E on the neck, but great technique. I have the same problem I am working on, and the sort of sw-ne and se-nw with a little guillotine motion seems to be working, although I have yet to get bbs on my neck yet, even with that. I have faith that it will come with practice though.

edit: having a goatee to work around makes it even harder, I find.

Yeah, I goatee does make it harder, but I take comfort in the fact I have less to bother about. My moustache, soul patch and goatee are all separate, so i have a few edges. I shaved the goatee off a little while ago (it's back now) as I wanted to shave ALL my chin at least once. I've never shaved my upper lip.

Just this morning I did manage, by coincidence, to get a particular annoying little patch on the neck that grows SE to NW (bottom right to top left), but I wouldn't even try it with a spike point, I'd just do my best or use a DE if I HAD to get it...

I have the same (or at least a similar) issue. To make matters worse, the hairs that grow east-west on my throat come out almost completely flat against the skin. What I wound up doing was stretching the skin directly opposite the direction of growth, and then using a guillotine stroke in the direction of the stretch (looks like XTG but it's actually ATG for those whiskers). You might find some help in this thread: http://straightrazorpalace.com/begin...-neck-xtg.html. Near the bottom of the first page there's a useful diagram. Good luck!

When I was doing touch ups with the old multi-blade cartridge I got a better sense of how the hairs were laying.
They pretty much point backwards from the chin to the ear- so a careful pass from ear to chin seems to get most of them.
Practice, practice, practice. And the sharpness of the razor makes a big diff here & dexterity of the non- dominant hand is improving...
Not something I've tried yet with the spike points- ouch!

well done. I like the way you do across the nick passes. for me I do "the frog face" and do almost true east to west

the hair on my neck grows all over the place, I found a N/S then a S/N takes care of almost everything which is basically a combination of WTG/XTG/ATG depending on the area of the neck. After that I can do angle touch ups because there is no way I can do E/W,W/E on my skinny neck...

BTW jic007 where are you in boston, I'm over in Holliston

Originally Posted by scottiemann

the hair on my neck grows all over the place, I found a N/S then a S/N takes care of almost everything which is basically a combination of WTG/XTG/ATG depending on the area of the neck. After that I can do angle touch ups because there is no way I can do E/W,W/E on my skinny neck...

BTW jic007 where are you in boston, I'm over in Holliston

Thank you for this Scott. Are you on facebook
What do you mean by angle touch ups? Is there a video of this technique?
I live in Hyde Park but study at Kenmore

No video, I just cant do horizontal passes on my face, so after the 2 passes I just feel around for stubble and hit it at an angle...

I work for UPS and deliver in the south boston towns including hyde park sometimes...

I am on facebook but currently my phone sucks so I am rarely on it at this moment...

Originally Posted by scottiemann

the hair on my neck grows all over the place, I found a N/S then a S/N takes care of almost everything which is basically a combination of WTG/XTG/ATG depending on the area of the neck. After that I can do angle touch ups because there is no way I can do E/W,W/E on my skinny neck...

This has become my technique as well. Usually, I just do a 2 pass (N>S and S>N) and call it a day. I will occasionally do another N>S (which is more toward ATG for me) for a touch up. Works pretty well. It wont be BBS like I can get from a DE, but good enough.