Thread: Hello from Utah!

After each pass I dip it into a basin of H20 and wipe it on a towel. It helps me to see the edge of the blade for the next pass.

I'm a rinser. Always have been, probably always will be, even after that time I whacked my Greaves wedge against the faucet. The heavy blade kept moving, darn momentum!

One benefit of rinsing is that you can monitor how wet your lather remains. As long as it's rinsing easily, you can count on it for nice shaving. As it dries and sticks harder to the blade, you can bet it's not doing as much to help you any more, and it's time to rinse your face and relather. I'm in western Colorado, probably similar humidity to yours in Utah, so this matters.

I don't remember who provided the observation about how easily the lather rinses; it was someone in the last couple of weeks. I considered that one of the great nuggets I've read on the forum.

Razors are tools for wet shaving. That said, they can be gotten wet. You just have to be careful to dry them when you put them away. I have enough issues to manage while shaving (get nice shave, don't maim face) without worrying about getting my razor wet.

I only wipe on a face cloth folded on the sing; but I like Birnado's sponge comment; Of course you can wet your razor, but I prefer not to. May get one. I'm just minimising the risk, that's all. If you look a lot at old razors (I do a lot of razor looking) you'll almost always see the most amount of staining and patina around the pivot. Sometimes it's not patina it's actual rust. I think water in the pivot area is really hard to dry out 100% every single time. So I negate the possibility of leaving water there and don';t introduce water to the equation at all.

Thanks you guys! All of your input really helps, I've definitely got a lot of good ideas from you all and I think I'm gonna go with the sponge method, it seems like the safest, easiest, and fastest method of wiping the SR. Kype that is quite the nugget with the Lather, thanks for that !

Well, well, well! Look who decided to join in again! I thought maybe you'd fallen victim to an overzealous, under-used blade!