Thread: If you want blood...

I'm lucky I have never cut myself with a straight. I'm bragining.

I can't recall exactly how I got my bad cut shaving with a straight razor. Likely just newbie's poor technique.

However, I once got a VERY nasty slice in my index finger when I was having a tough time unwrapping the paper off a DE Merkur safety razor blade.

OUCH!

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First and thus far worst cut: I had been hand sanding a junk razor while watching TV, and gently sipping a glass or three of Port. Bowl of water in my lap for keeping the sandpaper wet and catching drips.

Between one sip and the next I glanced down and though "I don't remember spilling port into the water bowl"...

I had given myself an impressive slice across the pad of my thumb, despite the fact that I had knocked the edge off the blade. I didn't even feel it, though the port may be to blame for that

What a coincidence that I read this thread this morning... I got my first cut from a straight last night.... While using my new W&B "the celebrated" spike point, it decided to pull off a surpise attack on me. It jammed it's spike into my flesh right below my ear lobe. I felt it sink right it, and it even had the guts to make a nice little "PLINK !!!!!!" sound as I removed it from the inside of my face.

I took 2 deep breaths, got right back on that horse & finished the shave, which ended up being a pretty darn good one, even If the bleeding only stopped well after I applied the aftershave.

A tip to everyone: Don't shave right after your wife proposes something to you that's, uhm, interesting.... I guess being excited is just as dangerous as being in a hurry.

I did the big no-no a few years ago...Dropped a Henkels and sacrificed the body to save the blade from hitting the sink...Cut both hands...deep...ended up looking like mikey mouse walking around with big white bandaged hands for a few days.

My worst so far was a while back, sanding the blade on a W&B whilst sitting on night shift watching tv, as I wasn't paying much attention I got a start when I felt a searing pain in my thumb, upon checking I had removed a lump of flesh from the tip of my thumb

Geek

When I worked in restaurants we used to say "A falling knife has no handle."