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Its healing up no problem thank you :) despite been pretty deep it was a nice clean cut and knitted together very well, I suppose if your going to cut yourself a razor blade is a good thing to do it...

My shave yesterday didn't go so well and I ended up with a small cut on my top lip, nothing major and that hemo stick stopped the bleeding. It came about because I was forcing the blade, it just...

I had another go today and made a couple of adjustments as suggested.

1: I limited myself to three paSees Max on any area.
2: I tried to use as light a pressure as I could manage. I think this in...

After my first shave yesterday I thought all was good however today my face seems a bit sore.

It was fine after the shave in that I didn't notice any more "stinging" than normal but today my right...

Well I've just sat down after my first ever shave with a straight razor and I'm hooked, I really enjoyed the ritual laying out all the gear lathering up, stroping the razor (20 strokes on the canvas...

Yes i bought one with the canvas back allong with the razor :)

So just strop as suggested and all should be good ?

Well it looks like i might have to have a go at refreshing the edge a bit sooner than i thought due to the following that happend last night:

The Mrs: Can i have a look, ive never seen a cut...

I ordered it from here Introduction to razors

The razor and all the other stuff (12k hone, strop and stop bleeding stick) arrived today and I must say what a beautiful tool it is.

One thing...

Thank you all for the advice it is appreciated :o

So the canvas side is used for a Pre strop to prepare the blade for the actual strop. I think I'll have to try and find some more info on that...

Hello all, firstly I must apologise if any of the questions I ask have been covered before (I’m sure they have).

I have finally taken the plunge and awaiting delivery of my first straight razor....