- Joined
- Saturday January 28, 2012
- Location
- Southampton
Yippee! All that hype! Aggressive! More blade exposed! Sure to bite!
I took your advice and waited till I had more experience but then grew impatient by twelve days. Bearing in mind how careful one has to be with a slant, I put a Derby in - so forgiving, not to mention draggy after the first stroke. Light of touch ....
Why aren't all razors slants? Brilliant shave! Even sorted my hard to shave places - wings of my moustache and wings of under-my-chin. Growing in all directions? Seems to matter not one jot to a slant - Sword of Damacles, straight through the middle.
My Merkur 39C has just got itself a name - Damacles. Love it! I'll try with a Russian 7 o'clock tomorrow, see if we can't get BBS all over.
So two problems: What to call the 37C (cheaper than a Hoffritz and readily available) that's on it's way and ...any tips for getting the sideburns horizontal/square? I spent quite a bit of time waggling the razor handle forwards and backwards in the mirror before making contact trying to judge correct alignment. In the end I shaved a bit shy of the line WTG and got it all square X and ATG. Is there a better way?
I took your advice and waited till I had more experience but then grew impatient by twelve days. Bearing in mind how careful one has to be with a slant, I put a Derby in - so forgiving, not to mention draggy after the first stroke. Light of touch ....
Why aren't all razors slants? Brilliant shave! Even sorted my hard to shave places - wings of my moustache and wings of under-my-chin. Growing in all directions? Seems to matter not one jot to a slant - Sword of Damacles, straight through the middle.
My Merkur 39C has just got itself a name - Damacles. Love it! I'll try with a Russian 7 o'clock tomorrow, see if we can't get BBS all over.
So two problems: What to call the 37C (cheaper than a Hoffritz and readily available) that's on it's way and ...any tips for getting the sideburns horizontal/square? I spent quite a bit of time waggling the razor handle forwards and backwards in the mirror before making contact trying to judge correct alignment. In the end I shaved a bit shy of the line WTG and got it all square X and ATG. Is there a better way?