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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
    The old adage that you will be more likely to cut yourself with a dull knife than a sharp one applies to razors AFAIC. Of course proper technique is requisite to a good shave. Read my sig below to see how to avoid nicks and cuts with a truly sharp straight razor. In any case, if the razor is truly sharp and shave ready, and the user has the proper shaving technique, the razor won't pull on the whiskers or catch on loose skin. Pulling on whiskers and/or catching on the skin is failure of the razor, the technique, or both. IMHO.
    That sig actually i first read quite long time ago and it helped me SO much, so thanks for putting it down there. By then, I though that I have to be more persistent with my strokes in order to get a BBS and everything was going well until I put that blade on my face for a 3rd pass: Then, it felt like I'm scratching my skin off and of course after the shave I was looking like Mr Pimples.

    So now I can shave my sideburns to perfection and play around on my face with the blade much better after holding the razor the lightest I can. That way is something like having a razor with suspensions, huh

    I still find my spartacus dreadnought very unforgiving though, its finished on a Naniwa 12 professionally, and despite the fact I have smoothened the tip, the days that i cant concentrate that well or Im in a hurry, I get full of nicks, so I will have to improve my technique more than that, or its the heft of the blade..

    just my thoughts
    Last edited by Dalton; 02-28-2011 at 08:29 PM.

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    Just an upgrade: Eventually I got that bout from the vendor, sorry for the pics' quality: Its a selected grade, clean yellow with a hint of violet-purple(?) inside


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    again thank you all for the precious help

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