Thread: Barber instructional straight shave video

Awesome vid. But i wonder if shaving a mannequin messes up the edge?

Originally Posted by kooray83

Awesome vid. But i wonder if shaving a mannequin messes up the edge?

It looked like he was using a Featherette. Most states require barbers to use a disposable blade when they shave a customer.

One observation, he says never do an ATG. I always finish with an ATG final shave. I assume he is really talking to students that will be shaving others and don't want to risk cutting them.

Great lesson though.

I laughed at the part where he said that the WTG pass always goes down, from the sideburn to the collar bone. On my cheeks, that is XTG. Also, my neck only goes down for about half way, then it's going back up.

All-in-all, a very good video, I plan on trying some of his techniques tomorrow morning when I shave again. Thanks for posting it.

It seemed to me that on his x the grain shave that he didn't apply shaving cream. Is that correct?

No, he does that for instruction purposes. There is though a water only pass after all that, if desired.

Barbers are taught to never go ATG.

My dad recently told me that when he was in barber college in the mid 50s, they learned technique with dulled razors and practiced on each other. By the time they actually got to shave someone, they had a couple hundred practice sessions in. They also did not practice on balloons.

When they were learning to strop, they had a teacher, old as dirt, who could hear bad stropping technique from across the room. He'd be on you like stink on sh^* and get you straightened out in a a hurry.

I wonder if they even teach honing and stropping in school anymore.

Kev

Thanks good video.

Thanks, Isn't it a little ironic that the patron is bald while the Barber is sportin a pony tail?

Good vid,of interest to me was the part of moving (stretching)the skin on the adams apple to the sides not to shave over it to aviod the possible cut.

Very cool video! He has a great demeanor and seems to be a good teacher. I would let him shave me...