Hey, I'm not trying to say a straight is better! I just get the impression that DE blades are polished finer, so will cut easily without the need for scything strokes. Plus they are shorter, so you won't get any pulling sensations on a thick beard.
I don't think straights are specifically better for heavy beards- wedge ones seem to be, but if you gave some thick bristled beginner a really hollow ground staright, he might have more trouble than with a DE.
I don't think that Straight, DE and cartridge razors are entirely different- perhaps we could imagine it as a continuum of safety features, straights at the beginning with none, then with the "sabot a razoir" on it to help a beginner to learn to shave himself, then the Rolls Razor, which has minimal safety features, then DE, then M3, then the cartridge razors with wire over the blade, aloe vera strips, compasses, blah blah blah.
So the nearer the beginning you get, the more it is up to you, the more it is a skill. That's why most of us are here, surely? Its a skill, there's satisfaction in that, and we enjoy it? Plenty of folks wetshave with multiblades, get a good shave and enjoy it. Lets not have a huge argument shall we?
I don't think straights are specifically better for heavy beards- wedge ones seem to be, but if you gave some thick bristled beginner a really hollow ground staright, he might have more trouble than with a DE.
I don't think that Straight, DE and cartridge razors are entirely different- perhaps we could imagine it as a continuum of safety features, straights at the beginning with none, then with the "sabot a razoir" on it to help a beginner to learn to shave himself, then the Rolls Razor, which has minimal safety features, then DE, then M3, then the cartridge razors with wire over the blade, aloe vera strips, compasses, blah blah blah.
So the nearer the beginning you get, the more it is up to you, the more it is a skill. That's why most of us are here, surely? Its a skill, there's satisfaction in that, and we enjoy it? Plenty of folks wetshave with multiblades, get a good shave and enjoy it. Lets not have a huge argument shall we?