Hi all,
In a recent thread 'Why a straight razor?'', couple of people, including me, noted that SR shaves are less irritating. I used Feather AC with Asylum, Cobra etc for many years. My beard is average, but I still need to shave every day, same with SR. I have alight touch and I usually have a very little irritation after SE shave, but with SR is virtually none, despite the fact I switched only 4 months ago, so my technique is far from perfect and I do make more passes trying to achieve BBS. Now my shaves with SR, in term of closeness, are 95% compari.g with SE. (I can't go ATG under the jaw line, since I need to shave horizontally, which is impossible with SR.), so I am just trying to do more passes.
As I mention, final results, literally zero redness/irritation.
Is it different grind/bevel or simply my SR are not as sharp as Feather AC.? So they are more easy on the skin? May be both sharpness and bevel geometry?
I only strop SRs not yet started with honing.
I start thinking may be I shouldn't try to achieve same degree of closeness that with AC? ( I thought to try the 'method' to make my SRs sharper) My shaves are perfectly fine for 24 hours, mane even 30, so if I can shave with SR each day, no irritation whatsoever then it's fine
Just wanted to know if it's only myself and just few more people, or this is a common thing( less irritation than AC and DE)
In a recent thread 'Why a straight razor?'', couple of people, including me, noted that SR shaves are less irritating. I used Feather AC with Asylum, Cobra etc for many years. My beard is average, but I still need to shave every day, same with SR. I have alight touch and I usually have a very little irritation after SE shave, but with SR is virtually none, despite the fact I switched only 4 months ago, so my technique is far from perfect and I do make more passes trying to achieve BBS. Now my shaves with SR, in term of closeness, are 95% compari.g with SE. (I can't go ATG under the jaw line, since I need to shave horizontally, which is impossible with SR.), so I am just trying to do more passes.
As I mention, final results, literally zero redness/irritation.
Is it different grind/bevel or simply my SR are not as sharp as Feather AC.? So they are more easy on the skin? May be both sharpness and bevel geometry?
I only strop SRs not yet started with honing.
I start thinking may be I shouldn't try to achieve same degree of closeness that with AC? ( I thought to try the 'method' to make my SRs sharper) My shaves are perfectly fine for 24 hours, mane even 30, so if I can shave with SR each day, no irritation whatsoever then it's fine
Just wanted to know if it's only myself and just few more people, or this is a common thing( less irritation than AC and DE)