Now after a month of straight razor shaving is still far away from the smoothness I get from DE razors. Maybe the straight razors I have are not sharp enough, maybe because I cannot make the passes as I'm used. My beart grows in every direction and I have a swirl at my neck. With DE razors I never get a clean shave when just making passes from north to south and back...
I coming to the conclusion that I should stay with my DE razors..
That is one of the pitfalls of straight shaving; not only will you have to master shaving with a straight, but you also will have to come to grips with stropping a straight and honing a straight. (I do not consider sending out razors for honing a viable, long-term alternative.)
A single mistake in any one of these three areas can ruin an otherwise perfect shave.
There’s a reason that double-edge safety razors became at one stage the dominant razor system, taking over from straights.
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