Thread: My very first shave!!

sounds like your razors are not shave ready ,, maybe should get one done right so you will know what shave ready is,, it took me a bit to find out my razors wern t ready,, and I could cut paper with my knives all day long easiest way to learn how to shave well is with a razor that's ready , till then you wont know good luck tc

Good luck and keep at it, slow and steady.

You're making me laugh and cry at the same time

I admire your fortitude and persistence, but encourage you to either perfect honing quickly (not likely or easy) or get one or two of your razors honed professionally.

I'm a year in and finally getting very (almost) shave perfectly. Part of it is fresh, well honed issues that I didn't ruin stropping or shaving badly, part is lather finally learned, and part is angles and PATIENCE.

Good luck, hand in, and as our guru says "have fun". Sounds like you are!

Well it's one month today,so here's an update.The shaving is going well with a couple of hone masters"wipped dog" for one and a double duck on Ebay plus 16 others to practice on.The shaving has been going very well with only a couple of small nicks.The restoring and honing has been fun to say the least.Thank god for the video's!!! I was over honing and sharping,then not stroping enough.So that's comming along.I am branching out to across the grain and that so far has been working well.Now my friends and getting ready to start this weekend We are having a shave a thon.This will be fun to say the least..I think I will give out prizes for the most blood lost Ok people I will keep you updated and thank you all for the support and advice...Dave

You might want to call the blood donor trucks out!

Well I'm going to shave first and go over the rules so to speak.They are going to keep it pretty flat till they get the feel of it..This should be fun