Is your razor assembled correctly?
If in doubt, rub it between your fingertips. It should stay slick and stable for a while. If it disappears or crumbles, it ain't good!Although I have only performed 2 DE shaves so far, I am in the camp of more water...
First shave was as good as could be expected.... pretty uneventful, although it took about 40 min... a far cry from my 4 min multiblade cartridge. No suprises aside from noticing a closer shave result than I expected!
On my 2nd shave however, I tried to get my lather a little thicker, and it looked great and went on very well fist pass. 2nd pass I didn't really notice it had dried out slightly in my shave cup, so it went on fine, but with a dryer and much thinner layer of lather painted on 2nd pass, halfway through the shave my razor started to have a tough time sliding... lather felt "sticky", blade hopped, skipped and pulled... I had plenty of weepers and irritation after that shave.. not so fun.
Good lesson however on the importance of the lather... I will err on the side of too wet/foamy over too dry next time.
3rd time is a charm right?