Thread: Does one have to pay (in blood) to play?

I've been 'straight' shaving for a little over two months. The first 6 weeks were with a shavette with 1/2ed DE blades. I would get at least one nick per shave (usually around mouth), but they were always very minor. Two weeks ago my Dovo Special 6/8 arrived. I got a very tiny nick the first day, but nothing since. ... Hope the streak continues ...

Next to never at this point (knocks wood). Got a few stinging reminders to slow down during the first 6 months or so, very minor. Its interesting though, I can tell when Ive been nicked even before the blood shows up or I feel anything, something in the way the razor moves.

Dave

I think you always need to be mindful of the razor. That said, triple anitbiotic ointment works wonders on healing up the nicks, both small and large.

Kind of like riding a bike after a fall. Slow and easy.......

Lynn

Yup, mindfulness is always a good thing. I got a couple of nice slices when shaving with a bandaged strong hand thumb. The combination of the bandage additionally tipping the razor with having no feedback through the bandage combind for a bit of loss of my "vital purity of essence". (Thank you Dr. Strangelove)

These things are as remarkably unforgiving as they are remarkable shaving tools.

I still have a 1 inch scar on my arm a few weeks ago. I was stropping; the knife slipped and boy did my arm bleed. I got a few scratches near my temple when I was first learning. Yesterday I had to use the styptic 5 times. This one place on my chin would keep bleeding every time I went over it.