Thread: If it were easy....

Learning to be patient can be a real problem. Just savor the moment and fully enjoy it.

Good to hear you're having improvements. Did you have to use the styptic on the nicks or did cold water do the trick?

Originally Posted by sensei_kyle

Learning to be patient can be a real problem. Just savor the moment and fully enjoy it.

Good to hear you're having improvements. Did you have to use the styptic on the nicks or did cold water do the trick?

stypic only on one--one of the previous cuts.

This new dovo has a stainless blade. I understand that it may be a little more difficult to get just right, so I'll keep messing with it.

Hey guys the styptic is a great wake up call for morning shavers. :P

just a tip: be careful about shaving over old cuts that havn't healed yet. Reopening a cut, or cutting yourself there again, is what will cause scar tissue to build up. So unless you like the look of "I got into a knife fight and severly lost", don't shave over cuts that havn't healed.

Originally Posted by ronski

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Spikes are NOT the preferred razors for noob's (I remember someone telling me that, but did I listen??? Nooooo!) :roll:

You can bet I'll be a little more timid before the next attempt, and I'll try the roundpoint--duh. :lol:

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If you were to look at spike blade that is properly honed under magnification, you'd see the point is really sort of a baby round nose. The spike is preferrred by quite a few guys for getting into the tight areas, around the nose for instance.

One problem you have to pay attention to is as the razor visits the hone a couple of times. That baby-rounded-point on the spike can get squared off......that's not good.....so to fix that, I use the side of the hone (4k-6k is ideal), with the razor standing on it's square end, then move down the length of the stone using NO PRESSURE AT ALL. After, I look at it and if I decide the pointy-point is gone, I'll give the whole edge a few more licks on the stone to finish that phase of the sharping.

But I will say, the spike looks scarier than the round blade ..... that helps keep the prices down ink: 8)

Watch out for those earlobes with a nice spike razor..... ink: Lynn

Originally Posted by adjustme69

Watch out for those earlobes with a nice spike razor..... ink: Lynn

maybe not such a bad idea! the ear ring hole in my earlobe closed up long ago....

I am so glad you said that Lynn. I thought I was the only one to have cut my earlob when I was shaving :shock:

Watch out for those earlobes with a nice spike razor..... Lynn

I opened my ear a bit last weekend. Just touched it. Dident feel a thing. I just got lazy, most of the time I hold my ear out of the way to get under it. :roll: