Thread: Patterns of blood.

Hey all I've noticed two spots that I've cut a number of times. I'm new to straights and I'm wondering if the sharp smile makes it easier to cut my cheek, I think it happens when I'm shaving the the left side of chin with my non dominant hand. I'm just using wtg and light short passes. Low blade angle.

Should i Learn to shave with it?
This is the razor I'm learning to hone on, I just started light rolling strokes and it's biting me. . I could re set the bevel back till the tip touches the stone with the rest of the razor. Or I could give the light rolling hone strokes a break

The other pattern is the knicked mole. Hard to stop before them. How do you all handle them?
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Here is the razor. Thanks for the info!

Your razor is not honed properly.

A razors edge runs continuously from heel to toe. You can't hone the toe, then the heel. The bevel has to be uniform from heel to toe, perfectly. Anything else is not excepted, and any further honing on higher grits, will be for nothing.

As for the cuts....too many variables. Moles n such.....shave around them, or have them removed is all I can say.

Maybe shave with your dominant hand, instead. Lots of us do, including myself.

Your still new to all this, it take's time to become proficient and comfortable using a straight. Honing, is another animal some can never tame.

Mike hit this right on the head here, take like 20 steps back and re-evaluate. Also PM a member about getting a razor. You are going to be blown away the difference in the edge if you haven't tried one yet. Trust me.
-Laramie-

I third what the guys have already said. If I cut myself it’s usually because I had a lapse in attention to what I was doing or my razor needed to have its edge refreshed.

You won’t believe how much easier and more comfortable it is to shave with a properly honed razor. Send it to someone who knows how to properly hone a straight.

A vary generous member is sending me a razor.
Sounds like I should leave the correction to someone who has done a few.