Thread: If you want blood...

I'm pretty good at absorbing distractions, it might be worth having a bit of music on or something so you've always got something running through your mind.

My worst cut was when I was moving to rinse the razor and bringing up my left hand to check smoothness and they had a bit of a meeting in the middle, ah well.

I normally lock my door when I am shaving in the morning or at night. One night my wife went to a friends house and my daughter had been asleep for about an hour. I went in my bathroom and started my shave. I had just completed my first pass and as I set my razor down to relather for a second pass my daughter grabbed the back of my leg and scared the out of me. I was very lucky because I had just set my razor on the counter so there was no cut involved but I make damn sure my door is locked now, or at least shut so no one can come in with out me hearing them. A 4 year old can be very quiet if they want too.


I have not had any bad cuts just a few small nicks (ok I may have a little scar from one that might have been more than just a nick but who's counting right)

My first cut....
Finally I can have the pleasure of adding something to this post

Wanted to grab my razor on the shank and had it upside down. So my index finger landed on the blade near the shoulder. SWOOOSH like buttah! Thought clean cuts wouldn't bleed that hard, but there was the old krovvy going drip drip drip.

My first cut...

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.