Thread: Well, I'm alive...

Originally Posted by DMcLean

This is true, however if/when i have kids i plan on teaching them the "real" way to shave as well as the modern way. My family all start shaving around the age of 13 but i was never "taught" how to shave properly. So as i re-learn everything with my first straight i'm excited that one day i'll be teaching future generations of DMcLeans, and i already ahve a few friends interested !

For the tree-hugger leaning folks, you can talk about it being "sustainable" and "eco friendly" since you are not tossing all of those spent cartridges into landfills.

I won't be touching the spike, just will have to learn that it's there and watch out for it, that's all. My wife's at her Mom's for a few days with the kid, so she hasn't witnessed the results of my experimenting yet. "Honey, I went to the bar one night while you were gone and got in a knife fight!"
Yeah, that's how I got little cuts all over my chin and neck.

Hey Gugi, can you post a picture of a "spike", and a "non-spike" for us nubies?

Thanks for the post flybyu44. Ill be posting the same, hopefully with out the blood , but not counting on it.

For some reason I have that feeling like I just scored a Elmo (you dads out there know what im talking about ) a few years back, and im waiting to get it and give it to my son. Im almost giddy waiting to try this for the first time.

Originally Posted by Basher052

Hey Gugi, can you post a picture of a "spike", and a "non-spike" for us nubies?

Thanks for the post flybyu44. Ill be posting the same, hopefully with out the blood , but not counting on it.

For some reason I have that feeling like I just scored a Elmo (you dads out there know what im talking about ) a few years back, and im waiting to get it and give it to my son. Im almost giddy waiting to try this for the first time.

Hi Basher,

I don't know if you have looked at any pics of many razors yet, but if you do you will notice that the end of the blade differs on some razors. A spike blade refers to the end of the blade, on a spike blade the end of the blade is 90 degrees to the edge of the blade, making a perfect corner that is sharpen right up to the end. Other blades have rounded tips, so there isn't a sharp corner or spike on these blades. Hope that explains it for you. I'm just learning all this too, Wikapedia has a good section on straight razors, that is where I learned about the different blade shapes.

Thanks. Heading to bed now, but I will be heading that way tomorrow to do more learnin

Originally Posted by FLYBYU44

Hi Basher,

I don't know if you have looked at any pics of many razors yet, but if you do you will notice that the end of the blade differs on some razors. A spike blade refers to the end of the blade, on a spike blade the end of the blade is 90 degrees to the edge of the blade, making a perfect corner that is sharpen right up to the end. Other blades have rounded tips, so there isn't a sharp corner or spike on these blades. Hope that explains it for you. I'm just learning all this too, Wikapedia has a good section on straight razors, that is where I learned about the different blade shapes.

Yep, here's the link again: http://straightrazorpalace.com/buy-s...ius-spike.html
I have the original images as well, but even on these you can see that the point has a very slight roundness (the one with the profile of the blade).
Actually I am not sure spike is the correct term - 'square point' is probably it and spike would be slightly protruding like the end of a spanish point (look at the show&tell for my custom razor to see what I mean).

Ah, well, I may just post a close up picture of it. The first one is the point of my wonderedge and the second is the krusius. I changed the contrast a bit so that you can see it more clearly. Unfortunately the white letter on the case in the background is almost obscuring the point and it seems that that's where the camera focus is. But if you look carefully you'll notice that the angle between the edge and the tip where they meet is not perfectly 90 degrees, but sort of rounded ever so slightly (again the out of focus blur makes it hard). On the wonderedge it is.

I just finished giving my second attempt at shaving with the Krusius, I'm happy to tell you all that there was nearly no blood shed and it went a lot better. This time I did 100% of my face with the straight razor. A few things I did differently were; I rubbed my face a lot with a hot, wet facecloth, then I used very little water with the soap and applied the lather rubbing it in a lot. I only did a portion of my face at a time to keep it warm and flexy. Also I think last time I had the razor at too steep of an angle, and that is why it waas catching and cutting me so much. This time I held it so the spine was only a little bit off my skin and it seemed better. Not the greatest feeling shave, but I started with some serious razor burn from my electric razor this morning and also my skin was sore already from being pretty sunburnt today. I have to shave every day for work, last night I didn't get home from work til 11:00pm, so that is why I shaved this morning with the electric razor, usually I like to shave up nice the night before, that way I have less razor burn during the day.