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Should I feel shame?

Now some of you know I been here a while, I returned to wet shaving after long years as I had forgotten it and now have been back into the fold...I want to say 3 years? It could be a little less I know I been here since about the time I started again.

Now here is the reason for this thread...

I thought I was doing pretty darn good getting pretty good shaves and have a nice collection of goodies in my bathroom, well not near what some of you have and I envy you.

BUT...

I had a wake up just the other night during a shave, I was shaving with my new EJ89 and a Derby blade on it's 2nd shave. The first shave with this combo I was iffy on the blade, I had never tried Derby and well suffice to say was about to drop judgement on it that night depending on the shave as I knew it couldn't be the razor. So it was my EJ89, Spieck cream, Derby blade. It was another ordinary shave to say the least in its very early stages first half of the first pass and it was ok like last time not great, well I went on to the 2nd pass which I normally do two on a 3rd day beard growth and it is always ATG all normal for me. Well I just so happened to think of toying with my angle for some reason and well I angled more on the head of the razor handle angling away mind if that makes sense let me know, and it was like the key fit and the gates opened lol.

What in the hell have I been doing this whole time? The thing mowed right through my stubble like a hot knife through butter, I am now all twisted wondering how I missed this. And it was a friggin Derby! Imagine a Feather. Has this EVER happened to any one?? I feel a mix of renewed excitement, but I also feel shame a little bit and I prolly should being back in it this long to miss a key thing like that, it is ridiculous lol :001_tt2:
 

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Shame? Did Archimedes shout "eureka!" out of shame? Did Einstein feel shame when he discovered relativity? Did Nick feel shame when he woke up with the chubby girl he picked up at the bar? Okay, not the best example.
 
Ahaha agreed I am having a "Duh" moment, guess I felt i had it down and well I nearly did but I seemed to have stopped just short of mastering things as it were. Lots of stuff going on in my life since I began wet shaving again, and well 2 moves and all that later I guess I got a tiny excuse but yeah lol. I think I will feel glad I figured it out as I did not think I was having a problem as I got the BBS now and then and got pretty good shaves mind, but this...this is like DING DING DING you win the Nobel Prize! I will however also 'pay penance' to the shaving gods by nabbing a 100 pack of blades and offer tonight's whiskers up as sacrifice! *Insert creepy maniacal laughter here* lol

As for blades...I thought of Super Max...I liked them as I had a sample pack of them while back. Any recommendations? My main blades are Feather Black and Astra SP.
 
Shame? Did Archimedes shout "eureka!" out of shame? Did Einstein feel shame when he discovered relativity? Did Nick feel shame when he woke up with the chubby girl he picked up at the bar? Okay, not the best example.

Thanks for that!!
 
Oh no never wasted and locking in into muscle memory, and glad I did find it cause now it feels as though I could almost wield my razor for a BSS every time though I wont hold my breath lol. Now I am fully happy, guess experience is hard won all over. I feel like buying myself a nice new fedora as a reward, now I just gotta find the job to get me the money rofl. Well now I think I can feel confident helping new DE shavers on the forum, ahh...lol
 
feel shame,
Lots of shame,
you must make amends by sending sacrifices to the shaving gods!
you already have my adresse.
 
Yes yes, sacrifices to be made lol and yes I do me thinks ROFL. And on the chubbies...one has good taste and you cannot fail lol.
 
Funny is right I got a fair amount of time under my belt and this just falls into my lap like a girl I didn't know I had...just plain weird...but pleasant all the same!
 
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