And I could also wish for a sharper blade...
Finished my first SR shave this morning. None of the cuts were anything but my own stupid fault - including a trio of crisscross slices from the toe of the blade where I have his hollow under my jaw that tug, pull, press, or stretch how I may, I can't make this spot flat enough to do anything with.
However, my real question is about sharpness and angle - in many places it was very plain that the blade was having trouble cutting - I could feel tugging like with a DE blade that was past its useful life. Is this strictly technique, or should I be thinking honing thoughts? I try to keep the spine of the blade between 1/2 spine width to 1 spine width from the skin because I read that having it further gets into scraping rather than shaving territory...
The razor came from a member here who honed it before he sent it my way, so I have every reason to believe it is quite sharp. I can treetop -some- hairs at 1/8" from my forearm, though it pushes more out of the way than it treetops.
I do have quite tough facial hair. I used to shave in the shower, and I used to let it go for three or four days at a time - on more than one occasion, I've had family members come out of the shower thinking they had splinters in their feet, only to find out one of my whiskers had pierced the bottom of their foot.
Finished my first SR shave this morning. None of the cuts were anything but my own stupid fault - including a trio of crisscross slices from the toe of the blade where I have his hollow under my jaw that tug, pull, press, or stretch how I may, I can't make this spot flat enough to do anything with.
However, my real question is about sharpness and angle - in many places it was very plain that the blade was having trouble cutting - I could feel tugging like with a DE blade that was past its useful life. Is this strictly technique, or should I be thinking honing thoughts? I try to keep the spine of the blade between 1/2 spine width to 1 spine width from the skin because I read that having it further gets into scraping rather than shaving territory...
The razor came from a member here who honed it before he sent it my way, so I have every reason to believe it is quite sharp. I can treetop -some- hairs at 1/8" from my forearm, though it pushes more out of the way than it treetops.
I do have quite tough facial hair. I used to shave in the shower, and I used to let it go for three or four days at a time - on more than one occasion, I've had family members come out of the shower thinking they had splinters in their feet, only to find out one of my whiskers had pierced the bottom of their foot.
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