Thread: Frustrations of the first week...

SR shaving depends on getting and keeping a shave ready edge, a topic of neverending discourse.. One cannot learn to shave or even shave, if an experience user, without a shave ready edge. It takes time to learn to shave, strop, and hone, just like learning to play a musical instrument, golf, or use chop sticks. The starting point for learning these skills is getting a shave ready edge so you will know how it feels.

I hate you had a tough start. Persist and the road becomes as smooth as our cheeks.

Looks like the bases were covered above. When I gored, nicked and chopped my first strop into dogfood I carefully rubbed out the problem spots with a fingernail file. Surgical precision, that. After that I practiced a lot with a plastic knife from Bojangles before putting a razor to it again. I found a plastic (or butter) knife very helpful to learn the moves. No more nicks.

To stop nicking strop: make sure you start moving in the opposite direction before you finish flipping the blade.

Michael