Originally Posted by
mdarnton
I was impressed with that post that popped up the other day regarding the 12 year old girl who shaved someone with a straight in her mom's shop, and I learned something from it: One pass only, ATG. Why do we need to do three passes ? Isn't that to keep a DE razor from clogging up? How can you clog up a straight? How does a straight know if there's .2mm or 10mm of hair up there in the air above the blade? It doesn't, so why waste time with WTG, and across, when they don't really do anything?
Thus, one pass, ATG, only. Interestingly, it solved a problem I've been having under my chin where the hair lies really flat against the skin and nothing I do will pop it up to be cut. If it's longer, and hasn't been trimmed off laterally WTG, it's easier to cut. . . . no, put it this way: if it's shorter, after a WTG, it DOESN'T get cut, no matter what. One pass, ATG, at a pretty steep angle picked those hairs up off the skin and cut them, which before, following the "rules", never worked.
On pass, ATG, also cut a lot of time off the job, and it takes me about 10 minutes, start to finish.