Thread: Thank god for Septic Sticks

Well I have been shaving straight edge/double edge for a little over a month (thanks to everyone here and lynn for honing my Dovo) and today was my FIRST Misshap!

When in a rush -- I turn to my double edge to quicken the process. and while going on my 3rd pass---sideways on my chin.lower lip....I felt a snag. WHOAH! After the brief Psycho shower drain re-enactment I reached for my trusty Septic Stick...and after a few minutes of burning sensation -- poof -- it stopped! THANK YOU SEPTIC STICK.

All I have to say is thank GOD it did not happen with the straight edge!

The moral is -- even when you think you have something down pat---$hIt happens. Always be prepared (which before reading this forum -- I never owned a septic stick).

Super glue works too. (This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA) At least I hope it does since I had to reattach the tip of my chin this morning.

At the risk of (once again) being called the ‘grammar police’, it’s styptic stick. Septic being something entirely different and in this case undesirable in the discussion of wound closure.

We use a styptic pencil and hope the lesion does not become septic.

Let's be carefull out there...

LG Roy

Thanks Library Guy for the Grammer lesson -- I work in hospitals and I am around the OTHER Septic more often than Styptic so my mind was elsewhere when typing.

Hmmm Super Glue on Wound Closure -- Maybe worth a Try! lol

Yeah, bad things can happen anytime. After years of off and on straight razor use, I thought I had this stuff down. Pride goeth before the fall.

So, this morning I peeled my chin like an orange and bled like a Russian prince. Kinda ruins your concentration after that.

Know thyself (or at least your blood type.)

LG Roy

I read somewhere that the Super Glue (cyanocrylate) was invented by USA for the Vietnam war as a tool for keeping soldier's wounds together untill they received hospital treatment. Maybe that is why superglue is better at gluing your fingers together than anything else. I thing Bill mentioned supergluing wounds in his grinding video, and I know Stevie Ray Vaughan (famous blues guitarist) glued back his torn fingertips (he used VERY heavy strings) with superglue...

Nenad

Oh yeah there is nothing like heavy bleeding in the morning to start your day. I have made very good use of my styptic pencil. It stems the blood flow pretty well. I would never start a shave without one in the bathroom with me.

Interesting -- it made me look on the web--and I found this article

"HISTORY OF SUPER GLUE
The glue is made of cyanocrylate which was first devised in 1942 in a search
to make clear plastic gunsights in World War Two.

It was developed by Professor Vernon Kreible of Trinity College Hartford,
USA, in the 1950s and first captured the public imagination in a TV game
show in 1958 when one drop was used to lift a man up off the floor.
<<William: Remember the old hard-hat commercials>>

Professor Kreible's glue, which was first known as "liquid locknut" and then
Loctite, was put to more practical use on the age-old problem of loose nuts
and bolts in machinery. He was soon crowned "the man who beat vibration".
<<William: I wonder if this is why it's so popular with some hikers?
Because it tighten down loose nuts. :-) And no I am not referring to
anything obscene. Just the obvious in a community of individuals.>>

Superglue has also proved to be a life-saver. During the Vietnam War
soldiers were issued with tubes to seal stomach wounds in the battlefield. A
redefined formulation is now used to seal post-operative wounds worldwide. "

So that settles it --- next time I get a serious cut---I will Super glue it back into place!

(After that I researched the origins of the Sandwich -- VERY INTERESTING--comes from the EARL of SANDWICH and HAWAII was once called the sandwich islands!)

Axion #2 in straight shaving is if your in a hurry don't do it.

No matter how experienced you are you always have to have respect for what a razor can do to you if your not careful. Even though I've been using one about three years now I'm periodically reminded of it. But like all things as you become more familiar you become careless and its those hopefully little accidents that brings it home.

When I used to fight in the ring and I was training really hard for a match I would use liquid bandaid to hold together my knuckles. We did mostly full contact so body parts and bags would rip the skin clean off eventually. The liquid bandaid is basically superglue, but its really easy to apply. The stuff is great it lasts for days and really can hold together your skin even in the extremes we put it through.