Thread: Reducing Shave time

I shave at night. That way I'm not facing the morning rush!

Originally Posted by BanjoTom

I shave at night. That way I'm not facing the morning rush!

I wish I could get away with that!

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.

Hey I thought part of this whole thing was a Zen experience, where one takes his time and enjoys the trip.

Definitely is Zen like and those are my favorite shaves. But alas, I cannot go into my Zen meditation every single time sadly. Damn real life gets in the way from time to time in spite of all attempts to resist!

I zen it, but with the brush and soap, not the razor. :-) Luv making them suds!

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.

Sounds like a good solution - IF you can get away with one ATG pass. Not everyone can, including me. My beard will laugh at a sharp blade if I try ATG first, and the results aren't pretty. No thanks, I'll stick with the multipass system. But like I said in my previous post, hat's off to you if you can.