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When I roll out of bed and still in a daze, I'm thinking "why am I doing this", Then when I feel the blade on my face and hear that bread knife on toast sound...aaah!

This morning's shave was the best yet! Didn't use my glasses at all. Afterwards I ran my hand, then my safety over my face, I hardly missed a thing and zero nicks! I did 3 passes - WTG, XTG, ATG. ...

An incredibly smart & funny female friend of mine just put this on my FB post announcing that I've taken up SR shaving:

"LIKE! My grandfather had the most gorgeous Rolls razor in a chrome case....

Today went great, and my confidence is building. I only had to use glasses when doing my neck below the chin. My "trouble spot" seems to be the 1-2" of my left cheek immediately adjacent to the...

Obie,

Thanks! I'm definitely in this for the long haul. As you know, being husband, dad, and bread-winner means a lot of sacrificing of one's time. Straight shaving is a little daily retreat...

Obie,

Glasses:
Last night in between chapters of a good book (love that phrase about waiting on a eunuch to get …) I had an epiphany. I went to my shaving den and picked up my razor. You see,...

Obie,

My errands at lunchtime turned into somewhat of a fiasco. As I mentioned, B&BW didn't have the Proraso-like product in anything but a foam. I guess I got confused about the...

I went to Bath & Body Works at lunchtime. They said they had the C.O Bigelow Proraso-equivalent shaving cream. When I got there, they didn't - actually they had the shaving foam in a can. I was...

Thanks Obie,

As a novice, I couldn't swear to you that the angle of my blade to my face is the textbook 20-30 degrees, but for the sake of this discussion let's assume I'm spot-on in that...

It's amazing that I've had this same face all these years and not noticed all of its peculiarities. This morning was my second str8 shave and overall things went great. I did a first & second WTG...