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Originally Posted by clam61
I had a dovo solingen straight razor and used proraso cream, but with all the cutting I thought maybe I was not stropping it properly. so recently I switched to a double edge safety razor and the same problem happens.
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Provided you are using quality blades (Merkur, Personna, etc.), you can eliminate a dull blade from the equation WRT your Dovo.
So far, so good. Two things come to my mind, though:
- Have you tried other shaving products? I recently test drove different lime scented shaving creams, and the T&H one actually gave me ingrown hairs for no apparent reason. AOS's new shaving cream nearly made my face explode (admittedly, that would not have made much of a difference aesthetically, but it certainly was not pleasant). Try to get a high quality product and try that. Personally, I believe that you should not even need a pre shave for a DE, if your shaving cream is good (yet another shameless plug for Castle Forbes here).
- In order to draw the amount of blood you described (pictures might be interesting, really...), you must be applying pressure to the blade. Do not do that. At all. A quality blade, DE or straight - does not matter, will cut your whiskers but not your skin. It can, and probably will, take you weeks or months to get a decent result, but you will get there, eventually. Mind you, the WTG pass is not meant to leave you even halfway decently shaved. The trick lies in progressive passes that will remove your hair, not trying to literally scratch everything away with the first pass, and then touch up.
Anyhow, good luck. Quality products, and patience when shaving, should get you there. Eventually.