Alfred does ship nice and fast, yes?
Alfred does ship nice and fast, yes?
So First Strop went well,... no leather hunks missing from the Strop,.. happy with how it looks too
I video Taped myself doing it and could see quite a few things wrong,... pressing to hard,... wrist turning a lot,.. just had to find a comfortable way to hold and hang, found a sight upward angle and turning the strop to about a 45 degree angle helped get it to a more comfortable place to let my hand do its thang
the shave was almost like a step backwards though used "the friday" blade tonight and the first pass seemed okay but by second pass all of a sudden my off hand caused a nick, and a few weepers on neck,.. think my few days off didnt help
But we will get there soon enough
Shave number two is in the can,... much better tonight used some spiek and my H.I.S. Brush got a DFS did one up and one down
but we have a problem lmao no leather in the house yet so until I get my hands on a strop we may be done till then,.. which will have to wait till the new CC arrives since i lost my old card
one minor weeper small enough cold water took care of it and we are feeling good,... really getting excited now, cant wait until i get my second baby back, ugh its been a day into a 5 week wait !, May have to pay a visit to Sam see if i can borrow his leather lol, i got some pens to play with and inks to trade anyhow to keep us both entertained at the moment
I think im going to like this much more then i thought, its like starting all over again, one bit of trouble i did get into that could have been a problem till i noticed a hand in my pocket that should have been stretching skin... nothing bad happened but the blade caught up a bit on me and skipped on an upward pass on cheek
wont let it happen again, stretch flatten stretch
I was gonna recommend stopping on newspaper, but I see you have a strop now. For future reference, a newspaper strop works fairly well and it is good to know how to make one in an emergency, so you might want to give it a go some time. Just fold it longways until it is 2-1/2" to 3" wide, pass one end over a towel rod and pinch both ends together, and pull it tight and you have a disposable emergency improvised strop.
while i hone my Stropping skills