Originally Posted by
steve
Gentlemen:
I finally got to use my new razor and paddle strop from Tony Miller :y
Overall, it went smoothly. Here are my issues:
1. I understand while stropping, the spine of the blade should rest on the stop. When I did that, the blade didn't touch the strop, I had to lift the spine a bit and then got a nice sound. I stopped because I didn't want to damage the blade.
2. Sides of face went great! Even used both hands.
3. Had great difficulty getting the upper lip and chin area. I got 2 small cuts and pulled a couple of hairs. Razor kept getting caught in the beard. I assume it's either my angle or I messed up the blade stropping.
Questions:
1. How do you get that lip area (unfortunately, Lynn's DVD didn't help me too much on the lip. I could get the 1st pass with the grain but against it was a little tough and I had to finish with my Fusion
2. Same question only on the chin area. I seemed to get decent results holding it at a 90 degree angle but I don't think that should be proper.
Results of first shave:
Near BBS on sides and neck. Troubled on the lip and chin but overall a great experience and I will definitely be back for more :tu