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    Default Impossible with a cartridge...

    So I cut my ear lobe last night. It is about 10% removed from my face now. Ears bleed a lot.

    But, I successfully shaved my neck, so I count it as a WIN!

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    Yes, they do! I nicked my earlobe twice in one shave a few weeks ago when I got my 4/8 round tip. I thought I was gonna run out of styptic powder. However, congrats are due for a successful neck shave.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zts2004 View Post
    I successfully shaved my neck
    With a cartridge, this is impossible. But with a straight razor, all things are possible
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zts2004 View Post
    So I cut my ear lobe last night. It is about 10% removed from my face now. Ears bleed a lot.

    But, I successfully shaved my neck, so I count it as a WIN!
    Your glass is definitely half full, what a great attitude! Enjoy!
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    i am only about 6 shaves in...but any advice on the chin?

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    Well at least it won't be in the way next time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hoglahoo View Post
    With a cartridge, this is impossible. But with a straight razor, all things are possible
    Is anything possible with a cartridge? Not counting bad shaves...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zts2004 View Post
    So I cut my ear lobe last night. It is about 10% removed from my face now. Ears bleed a lot.

    But, I successfully shaved my neck, so I count it as a WIN!
    It's not as impossible as you think. A few years ago, I used to shave my head every day with a Mach 3.

    I would brush my teeth and shave my face first, hop in the shower, and I'd shave my head instead of shampoo. One day I didn't notice that I had sliced the top of my ear.

    I get to work and people were just staring at me. Finally a security supervisor came up to me to ask me what was going on and if everything was all right. (My day job is at a casino, so there's a lot of security) I just looked at him like he was a martian and asked what he was talking about. He told me I had blood all of the side of my face, that I needed to go get cleaned up, and to please let him know if I needed any help.

    When I went to the bathroom, there was dried and crusty blood all over my ear and neck. It looked gruesome. As it turned out I had 3 tiny parallel cuts in the top of my ear. It had been a brand new cartridge that day and I hadn't even noticed. When I went back and showed the security supervisor the tiny little cuts that were responsible for all the dried blood, he was just shocked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zts2004 View Post
    i am only about 6 shaves in...but any advice on the chin?
    I find very short strokes to work well. I'm talking fractions of an inch here

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    +1 on the short strokes take your time and use short strokes. It takes a muscle memory and it will get faster as that improves.

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