Update from this Welsh lurker - Shaped beard by the way of shaving cheeks and neck, mainly. Cheeks went fine for 3 passes without a hitch, neck is still presenting with some 'razor rash'. The hair on my neck grows quite far down, is quite tough/short, lays relatively flat and is grain = up at the bottom, grain = down at the top and meets a bit under my jawline to go across inline with my jawline back towards my neck/ears (if you can envisage that difficult description).
Had a couple of 'pulls', rather than nicks. It was rashy and marginally bleedy which was remedied by use of an alum block (which I might look at changing, this one was beyond cheap and bit harder than a honey badger on heat). Cheeks are 'dolphin smooth' to coin FergieBilly's expression, neck leaving a bit to be desired.
I've narrowed my 'neck difficulties' down to a couple of issues:
(a) I'm struggling to see what I'm doing - a rugby injury circa 4 years ago means I have a metal plate under my eyeball which causes some double vision in extremes of gaze down and right.
(b) The razor doesn't seem to remove hairs when I'm attempting to remove shaving soap alone. E.g. with my cheeks, my aim is to remove the soap, the hair will come with it. If I try this on my neck, it seems to catch/snag, maybe because of the differences in grain and thickness? This is regardless of angle, from what I can gather. However, my angle may be way off and I can't tell at this early stage (another 'it'll come with time' point).
I'm sure it'll come with time! P&B Sanskrit is lovely to use, smells beautiful and far more protecting than the cheap soap I used previously. I'm already looking forward to using it again!