Thread: Mandatory to use left hand?

Originally Posted by 10Pups

A good shave is getting the whiskers off without blood letting. Doesn't matter if you do it standing on your head with your right foot :<0)

I have found by using my non dominant hand when ever I can , it makes other things a little easier. It's just a matter of training yourself to do it and if it's worth the effort to you.

Lynn suggests that's it well worth the effort to use your non-dominant hand but I'm removing whiskers without passing out due to blood loss so I guess I'm doing something right. Thanks again for replying.

Hell no. Right hand all the way for me. Much as I expect true left-handed folks are.

(need to try that! )

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Hell no. Right hand all the way for me. Much as I expect true left-handed folks are.

(need to try that! )

I guess I should have rephrased the question to: Does anyone shave with their left hand? Ha. Thanks for replying.

Originally Posted by hotreffys

I guess I should have rephrased the question to: Does anyone shave with their left hand? Ha. Thanks for replying.

Yeah...I am pretty much to the right!
Lots of us use 2 hands, I don't.

I remember posting a post years ago when I started saying "Can you hold the razor like this?" and people replied, "Yeah, sure, if you WANT to, but..."

I decided to try and use both hands right then and have never looked back. I'm VERY right handed. I think some people are maybe more balanced, i.e. they can actually DO things with their non dominant hand. I can't throw a ball five feet with my left hand (well, slight exaggeration but I'm REALLY bad at doing things with my left hand).

My young son forced himself to kick a football (the real type of football, Aussie Rules football) when he was about 8 pretty much equally well with both feet.

Gentlemen,

I switched hands from the first straight razor shave, because I figured the Lord gave me two hands and I shouldn't waste His work. Looking back, I am glad I did, because switching hands improves my field of vision, and it deepens my embrace of the art form. Then again, it's your razor to use any way that is comfortable.

There are few things shaving related that are written in stone as a "must" do it this way. I trained myself from the beginning to use both hands with a SR but I still shave using only my right with a DE. Whatever gets you there safely.

Bob

I'm left-handed and have permanent nerve damage from a neck injury. My right arm and hand muscles and sensation are either shot or compromised and a slight hand tremor comes and goes. If I can learn to shave with both hands, anyone who wants to will learn. Starting out with a plastic knife (I recommend the Bojangles knife cause I like their chicken) it felt natural using my non-dominant hand in less than 10-days.

It works either way for me now. I can shave both hands, lefty and righty.

I started right handed as my left just sucked. After a while I started to just add a single left hand pass here and there and already knowing angle etc made it easier to pick up. I now use both but am still slightly more right dominant.

I remember Lynn talking about little exercises to train the non-dominant hand, such as writing your name etc.
Someday, I may try it. Right now, I would probably cut my ear just bringing the razor to my face.
Perhaps I shall breadboard an old razor and practice that way.
Here goes!