Thread: Is it possible to be TOO vertical?

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Have you sought out mentor help? This has been offered and suggested. If you are closing on 100 shaves and not there yet, you may never get it, some people just can't. If your blade is right and the stropping is right, then you just aren't getting it, time for one on one tutoring. Tc

Yup! Randy Tuttle and Rod Bell met with me this weekend and gave me a number of pointers that I need to try out. Just to be clear, I'm nowhere near 100 shaves yet. I'm still practicing, but it's an odd feeling, because it doesn't feel like I'm making progress each shave. Rod said that one thing that often happens is you feel like you're not making progress, you're not making progress, and then one day, after a while, it just sort of happens and you get it.

Originally Posted by Smattayu

I finish up with my DE, but I always spend at least a little time on my neck trying to find a way that works well, otherwise I'll never become proficient there. I've done fairly well at making progress while not going so far as to feel like I'm shaving with 80 grit sandpaper.
The progress is slow, but I am improving on almost every shave and that's what matters to me. It's the journey not the destination and all that

I am only a little in front of you and my neck is my trouble spot as well.

It is mostly my stretching that is the problem and I am not consistent yet with it.

I get it close every now and then with the straight but if I make more than three passes I can't shave the next day.

I've made it as far as clearing to just under my jawline with a straight. Only cleaning up my neck with a DE. Progress.

A lot of folks have suggested using a DE to clean up. I would do that, except I jumped right from cartridge shaving -> straight. I never learned how to use a DE, nor do I own one, lol. (I do have a shavette, though).