Straight Razor Success!

[mountaindon]

Well it is the end of my second week Shaving with a straight razor ( dovo Prima Klang from SRD )
This Journey started out with a bit of blood and burn, but with all the advise from reading posts, yesterday was my first "nearly Bloodless" and today was my first bloodless shave, and it is at least a DFS shave, with BBS face.

I am stoked. The two advise posts i read that helped the most were:
Just try to take the lather off instead of cutting all the beard
Get the blade moving before it touches your skin and use short little strokes

I am not even sure what i am doing ( except better ) to be so much more confident and less pink. it just seems to becoming much more natural

Thanks to everyone who passes on their knowledge and experience

Don

 

[totorlekiller]

One advice, if you want to keep to shaves smooth.
That linen thing on the other side of the strop. I did not make much of it initially, but it helps. It is coarser than the leather and helps maintain the edge.
My routine is now to strop 30*2 on linen before the 50*2 on leather before shaving and about 15*2 on linen and 15*2 on leather after.
That seems to be enough to improve the edge at each shave, instead of seeing it degrades. And my hair is pretty coarse and plenty full (my facial hair is just one notch below terrorist level).

 

[mountaindon]

One advice, if you want to keep to shaves smooth.
That linen thing on the other side of the strop. I did not make much of it initially, but it helps. It is coarser than the leather and helps maintain the edge.
My routine is now to strop 30*2 on linen before the 50*2 on leather before shaving and about 15*2 on linen and 15*2 on leather after.
That seems to be enough to improve the edge at each shave, instead of seeing it degrades. And my hair is pretty coarse and plenty full (my facial hair is just one notch below terrorist level).

I was actually thinking today that the razor was in a little better shape than usual after some extra stropping.

I also stop right after shaving as well

d

 

[Brooksie967]

Your skin should be getting used to it by now/pretty soon and your shaves will get better and better! Keep at it