Thread: Learn from my mistakes

I just shaved with one of the first razors I aquired and after having a good close look at it I thought of a couple of points that I wish I new when I was a newb.
1) If your razor is a bit loose at the pivot pin, or just doesnt close very straight and it has a tendancy to come in contact with the scales when opening and closing, Be Very Carefull opening and closing it! I used to think, what is a plastic scale going to do to a steel blade?, but now under magnification I can see a few microchips in the toe end of that old blade.

2) Keep water away from the pivot pin area when rinsing during shaving, just rinse the blade. That was another thing i was very relaxed about in the early days. Water trapped between the scales and the razor dosent dry in a hurry and now I have some corrosion creeping out from that area.

Both these things are fixable but if i had better habits from the beginning fixing would not be necissary.

Hope that helps somebody.
Grant

Good points,Grant.Should help some of us,thanks.