Thread: Shaving Accross Neck

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!