As I stated in a previous post I was making a replacement blade for a hollow grind that I'd over sharpened into a wedge. Anyway the blade was ground and the polishing began thursday evening, by Friday it was ready for a test.(Forgot to mention I was making this one a dedicated wedge from the off.) So after a quick hone on the slate it was upstairs and get the face prepped before the final stropping. Stropped the razor and approached my face in the usual way and just as the razor touched the skin felt that cold feeling of steel on skin yet somehow it felt different so cursing and swearing decided to make sure I had'nt nicked myself so on moving the lather I was glad to see there was no blood but on closer inspection could see a nice red line developing across the bottom of the sideburn. And this from a razor that had only touched the skin without even starting to make a stroke, is this normal from a blade or is it over sharp? This made me very wary and the shave took about 15 mins longer than usual while all the time thinking maybe I should finish off with my other blade, especially round the neck area but no I persevered, and after checked wether it needed going over with the other blade.But no everything was ok apart from little burn on the right side of my neck.
Thanks for looking.
Mark