Steep Angle Shavers Alliance
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Excalibur is not about numbers. It's about improving your technique and using the number of shaves as an indicator. If you normally get 3 comfortable shaves from a blade and you get it up to 5, you qualify.
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The thing is I'm a creature of habit and one to rest on my laurels (I'm basically lazy). I pretty early on went from 3 to 5 shaves on a blade because it's too much of a bother changing blades mid-week.
I went 11 days on a blade because Cal convinced me to give it a go once. So I think even though it is about technique over numbers, being a creature of habit, I really, probably, wouldn't be pushing it ever to expand my limits and technique. Unless I could join totally resting upon what I have already accomplished?
I'm afraid that this project might siphon off members from my Perpendicular Angle Shavers Alliance thread.
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Ouch!
What about the shaving while standing on your head naked in the corner and sucking Jello through your nose alliance?
Oh yea,forgot, that's just me.
Oh yea,forgot, that's just me.
Don't know about the alliance, but there is such a method--however the "illustrated" part did not survive the transition to the new format apparently:
Low Angle Shaving, Illustrated
Excellent, thanks.
I'm in.
I've been shaving at steep angle (or riding the cap as some call it) all my life , the way my dad taught me.
I've been shaving at steep angle (or riding the cap as some call it) all my life , the way my dad taught me.
Yeah. It is like a lot easier and more efficient for me. Pity it took me a while to find out...
I'm afraid you're OUT Tallships.
Riding the cap is shallow angle shaving:
Whereas riding the guard is steep angle shaving:
Ummmm, that's a shallow angle. Steep angle is "riding the guard".
Think of it as the angle the blade makes with your face. Almost parallel to your face is a small (shallow) angle. Almost perpendicular to your face, closer to 90 degrees, is a steep angle.
You're confusing me Juan.Are you really a steep angle shaver, or a closet shallow angle shaver. Explain yourself!
STEEP/SHALLOW ANGLE CONFUSION:
Many people get mixed up with steep and shallow angles (I know I did).
The angle referred to is "skin to blade," not "skin to handle," as Rudy explained in post #33 above.
Many people get mixed up with steep and shallow angles (I know I did).
The angle referred to is "skin to blade," not "skin to handle," as Rudy explained in post #33 above.
Are you really a steep angle shaver, or a closet shallow angle shaver. Explain yourself!
Edge of or part of the cap of razor is on my face, ergo riding the cap, the blade will always be angled as if I was using a straight razor. different razor heads have there own geometry and razor angle adjusted to that razor. Example: My Fatboy head id different than my Weber PH, therefor I change the angle so the blade cuts smoothly.
Are you really a steep angle shaver, or a closet shallow angle shaver. Explain yourself!
Oops...got it wrong! Steep angle forever!
Ouch. That's almost like scraping the beard off. If I road the guard I'd need lots of band-aides, think I'll pass.
Begone!
Seriously, I thought the same as you for 40 years, watching my dad "scrape" off his beard every day with a DEvette.
Then in a nostalgic moment, I said let me try this steep angle thing for a week straight. My shaves went from amazing to really amazing.
I'm not taking anything away from shallow angle shaving - it works and works well. For some, like the denizens of this brotherhood, steep angle works when better.
Try a steepn angle (about 70 degrees, not perpendicular) for just the WTG pass for a *few days* - stay shallow for XTG/ATG. You won't cut yourself going WTG, and as you develop the touch, you might like it.
Actually, with a razor like the 2011 R41, it's safer (whether or not it's better) to use a steep angle--you're less likely to cut yourself.
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