Shave No. 1.5!

[The National Razor]

So I don't know if anyone remembers my first attempt at straight shaving, but I just received my razor back from Leighton, who did a wonderful job with it.

The razor was probably shave-ready enough before, and the trouble was due in large part to my incompetence, but Leighton was able to smooth it out for me.

So I figured I'd give it another go. I'm off work every other Friday (gotta love government jobs!) I'm not going to call this shave 2 because the first one was so disastrous I'm not even going to call it shave 1, more like shave .5. So this one is shave 1.5.

I stopped the razor about 30 x on the canvas and 30x on the leather. I lathered up some Cella and went for it.

Right away I had much better success--no jumping around. The razor mowed down the stubble and I was able to complete 2 passes--WTG and ATG. Actually I had to switch up some of the motions I was used to with DE because the angle was too awkward.

Only 1 or 2 nicks on the chin due to me getting a little wild--not bad at all. for a 2 pass shave it was very good. Supposed to go to a Christmas party tonight so I cleaned up with my Futur, but only had to do 1 ATG pass (and some touch-up).

I'm very encouraged and looling forward to the Official 2nd shave.

thanks for all the help from the "first" shave!

 

[Jsteele]

Nice.. i used to do the same thing,a few passes with the straight and finish the touch up work with my DE.

 

[Seraphim]

So I don't know if anyone remembers my first attempt at straight shaving, but I just received my razor back from Leighton, who did a wonderful job with it.

The razor was probably shave-ready enough before, and the trouble was due in large part to my incompetence, but Leighton was able to smooth it out for me.

So I figured I'd give it another go. I'm off work every other Friday (gotta love government jobs!) I'm not going to call this shave 2 because the first one was so disastrous I'm not even going to call it shave 1, more like shave .5. So this one is shave 1.5.

I stopped the razor about 30 x on the canvas and 30x on the leather. I lathered up some Cella and went for it.

Right away I had much better success--no jumping around. The razor mowed down the stubble and I was able to complete 2 passes--WTG and ATG. Actually I had to switch up some of the motions I was used to with DE because the angle was too awkward.

Only 1 or 2 nicks on the chin due to me getting a little wild--not bad at all. for a 2 pass shave it was very good. Supposed to go to a Christmas party tonight so I cleaned up with my Futur, but only had to do 1 ATG pass (and some touch-up).

I'm very encouraged and looling forward to the Official 2nd shave.

thanks for all the help from the "first" shave!

Nope.

Since you have already classified shave # 1 as shave #1/2, you will never have a shave #2. You will go directly to shave #2.5.....


Tough break, kid!

 

[The National Razor]

Nope.

Since you have already classified shave # 1 as shave #1/2, you will never have a shave #2. You will go directly to shave #2.5.....


Tough break, kid!

For of all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these: it might have been!

 

[Bacchus]

Unless you just do half a shave, then you can have your 2nd and get back on track! Now what would qualify as a half a shave other then a complete disaster... maybe one quick pass with stubble left over?

 

[leighton]

Awesome! Glad you were able to start your journey off with the right shave!

We could just call it shave #2 with the "new" razor, and go from there.....

Or you can round up and go to shave #3. But consistency dictates that you do some touch ups like Scissors and call it half a shave to get back on track to whole numbers.

 

[r0ckrat]

... I just received my razor back from Leighton, who did a wonderful job with it.
...
I stopped the razor about 30 x on the canvas and 30x on the leather.

Congrats on the much better shave!

Uhm, Leighton, didn't you instruct him NOT to strop before first use? Just askin'...

 

[quixand]

Shave one side of the face... doh!

Personally, I would be very content to go on counting at (n+0.5) shaves. If quantum raising/lowring operators can do it, so can you, 's what I always say.

 

[The National Razor]

Congrats on the much better shave!

Uhm, Leighton, didn't you instruct him NOT to strop before first use? Just askin'...

I'm not good at following directions!

I stopped this time because last time I didn't, with poor results. I was very happy with the turnout.

 

[Luc]

Nice work! You might need to do more than 30 laps on the strop but if it feels good to you then it should be fine!