03-14-2012, 11:45 AM
Gentlemen,
I split my shaves between the straight razor and the double edge. Nothing wrong with enjoying too much of a good thing, is what I say. Recently, because of my banged up hands, I have had to limit my straight shave to one pass, two the most, and clean up with the double edge. Some days it's strictly the double edge.
With the straight razor, I switch hands. I am a switch-hitter. That started with my first straight shave. I do the same thing with the double edge. I find my field of vision improves and, also, I don't have to do acrobatics with my dominant hand. This has been going on for a number of years so that now my left hand fairly adept.
Are you a switch hitter with the double edge?
I split my shaves between the straight razor and the double edge. Nothing wrong with enjoying too much of a good thing, is what I say. Recently, because of my banged up hands, I have had to limit my straight shave to one pass, two the most, and clean up with the double edge. Some days it's strictly the double edge.
With the straight razor, I switch hands. I am a switch-hitter. That started with my first straight shave. I do the same thing with the double edge. I find my field of vision improves and, also, I don't have to do acrobatics with my dominant hand. This has been going on for a number of years so that now my left hand fairly adept.
Are you a switch hitter with the double edge?
03-14-2012, 11:06 PM
I sure hope I can make this brief.
Over a decade ago I had damage to my right wrist that prevents full use of it. I shattered it in a most impressive way. But I have far more use of it than "they" predicted, but they never figure the human spirit into the equation. I'm a shooter and I was never going to give that up. I'd die first, or chop off the offending limb if it would help. I wound up firing my therapist and looking for another. If I had followed her advice I'd have been a cripple for the remainder of my life. Idiots!
Anyway, as soon as I could handle a gun to dry fire I began teaching myself to shoot left handed. Of course other more basic bodily operations also had to be learned. So basically I taught myself to be ambidexterous just to be ready for any possible contingency. I pushed myself just as hard as I could and much harder than the "book" said I could or should.
The result of all this is that I can now use my left hand as nimbly as my right for a great many things. That includes shaving as a spin off. Since my right hand can't do what it needs to do on the opposite side of the face with certain strokes, the left can handle it.
Oh, and the shooting? Never better. Weak hand shooting is a piece of cake now, and shooting rifle lefty? Better than righty. So the lemon has definitely been turned into lemonade.
But str8s? Better you than me gents. I know my limitations.
Over a decade ago I had damage to my right wrist that prevents full use of it. I shattered it in a most impressive way. But I have far more use of it than "they" predicted, but they never figure the human spirit into the equation. I'm a shooter and I was never going to give that up. I'd die first, or chop off the offending limb if it would help. I wound up firing my therapist and looking for another. If I had followed her advice I'd have been a cripple for the remainder of my life. Idiots!
Anyway, as soon as I could handle a gun to dry fire I began teaching myself to shoot left handed. Of course other more basic bodily operations also had to be learned. So basically I taught myself to be ambidexterous just to be ready for any possible contingency. I pushed myself just as hard as I could and much harder than the "book" said I could or should.
The result of all this is that I can now use my left hand as nimbly as my right for a great many things. That includes shaving as a spin off. Since my right hand can't do what it needs to do on the opposite side of the face with certain strokes, the left can handle it.
Oh, and the shooting? Never better. Weak hand shooting is a piece of cake now, and shooting rifle lefty? Better than righty. So the lemon has definitely been turned into lemonade.
But str8s? Better you than me gents. I know my limitations.
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