Are There Any Southpaw ....

[RfD Dallas]

Straight edge users? Techniques would be appreciated. It just doesn't seem possible.

[gregindallas]

They're all dead. It wasn't pretty.

[azmark]

They're all dead. It wasn't pretty.

[Ronan the BARBERian]

Straight edge users? Techniques would be appreciated. It just doesn't seem possible.

I think most of us shave with both hands. Thats not to say were ambi-dexterous, just takes some getting used to

[professorchaos]

I can and do shave with both hands. Does that count?

[taffy]

Wish i could shave with both hands, tried and tried again, but absolute failure every time

[Vir]

I'm southpaw, I'm trying to teach myself to ambi but I'm finding it tricky. I guess it just takes getting used to.

[kwk285]

I have found I do a better job when I use both hands.

[RfD Dallas]

I'm southpaw, I'm trying to teach myself to ambi but I'm finding it tricky. I guess it just takes getting used to.

How much blood have you lost?

[RfD Dallas]

I am a hard core lefty (except for politics). I have no problem with my Merkur but always wanted to try shaving with a straight.

[Mvcrash]

I am a lefty and found using both hands is worth the effort. Most left handed people are better with their right hands than right handed people are with their left. That is due to the world being right handed.

Try both. I have never nicked myself with my right, but I have with my left.

"Left handed people are the only ones in the Right Mind."

[DE_Dude]

Ok, I'll ask the noob question here...why does a southpaw grip make a difference with a straight? I pretty much always use my DE with the left, holding it normal or reverse like a spoon.

[ouch]

Not only am I left handed, I'm probably the most left handed person alive.

Straights are no problem. Righties have to learn to use their left hand, and lefties have to learn to use their right. Perfectly fair.

[STRAIGHT RAZOR]

I think most of us shave with both hands. Thats not to say were ambi-dexterous, just takes some getting used to

I am truly ambidextrous .
can write ,shave,eat,punch,ect.
with either hand. maybe that's why.....................
i date twin sisters ..

[Walker]

I have better luck shaving right handed. I try being ambi but can't get the angle right and end up leaving hairs in the wake of my passes.

[johnmrson]

Is a southpaw a left hander? If so then yes I am and I only shave with my left hand. As for technique, I a full WTG pass (north/south) and then 2 mixed XTG passes (including a few sliding strokes which go down and acrossin the same stroke). I had a very deliberate and careful shave today using this technique, trying out a razor I'd just honed that I'm selling to a member here and I got total BBS (the Shumate is a very nice razor Raj).

[One Fierce Beer Coaster]

I'm a south paw as well, and yes shaving with the right hand just feels dirty and wrong. Shaving w/ my right hand is like shaving in the dark with a lawn mower....just asking for trouble.

It takes some time to get it down just right, but when you doooooooooooooo its like butter. I tend to get weepers on the right side of my neck more than any other place, but I can live w/ a weeper.

[Wid]

Not a lefty but I do use my left hand while shaving with a str8.

[nicknbleeding]

I use both hands. Forced myself the first time and it has been natural.

[professorchaos]

Straight edge users? Techniques would be appreciated. It just doesn't seem possible.

Try it. It isn't as hard to pick up as you might thing. If I learned to use both hands, anyone can.