Thread: 5th shave was a sad shave

I wipe the blade with my finger then rinse my finger. Never cut my finger yet!

I'll hone the blade free if you need me to. Pm me.

Michael

I did the exact thing too a few years ago. It somehow feels better to know you aren't the only one...

I still use water running slowly into the sink to rinse the blade. This is mostly due to a complete lack of counter space on which to perch a sponge or towel or similar. However, after having nicked an edge that first time, I now find myself being extremely (!) careful of the edge and have not come close since.

The good news is that it honed out beautifully and I was able to chalk up another wet shaving learning experience.

here's the damage

Oh heck, that's not too bad. OK, it's not *good* but compared to the chunk I took out of mine, I think you can be confident that it will hone out nicely.

That's not too bad, a rehone will fix

I rinse mine under running water and also wipe on a towel... I just need to remember to be careful to keep the spine pointed at the faucet

G'Day Nick.
The damage doesn't look too bad.
I have always just 'swished' the blade in the sink to remove the lather.
The one thing I make sure of is the the spine is the only part that can make contact with the sink ie. upside down (so to speak).
If you want to spring for return postage, I'll touch it up for you - gratis.

Originally Posted by mjsorkin

I wipe the blade with my finger then rinse my finger. Never cut my finger yet!

I'll hone the blade free if you need me to. Pm me.

Michael

thank you for the offer but I think ill try to stick with someone in Aus (keep the cost down as I'm now an even poorer uni student from all my recent shaving aquisitions lol)

Originally Posted by Havachat45

G'Day Nick.
The damage doesn't look too bad.
I have always just 'swished' the blade in the sink to remove the lather.
The one thing I make sure of is the the spine is the only part that can make contact with the sink ie. upside down (so to speak).
If you want to spring for return postage, I'll touch it up for you - gratis.

I think I will definitely be using a wet sponge of towel from now on. As for your offer, I may take you up on that! I have a balsa strop with paste coming with my new poor mans strop within the next week or so and was thinking to try that and see how it fares. I read in another post were glen/gssixgun mentioned its worth a try but then also said that he has never tried without a stone.
I also really need to stop spending all my time on everything shaving as I have assignments coming out of my ears and have literally run out of time for some of them :-S

this may mean a few weeks break from the straight road...sigh.

I'll be back!