#2 - under the tap in warm water. Since I can't keep the lather warm, may as well have at least something warm.:tu
Bruce
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#2 - under the tap in warm water. Since I can't keep the lather warm, may as well have at least something warm.:tu
Bruce
I use a barber towel from Classic Shaving. You'll never ding a blade on a towel. :)
One option that I think you didn't mention is the "delatherizer" that one of our vendors sells. It's a rubber cup with a slit in it; somehow I think it works like wiping the lather off with your fingers.
Josh
I did #2. Then I hit the edge against the faucet. Now I do #1.
I rinse it under running hot water during the shave and only wipe it with a towel when I've finished the shave (after a final hot water rinse).
#6
I fill my sink up with hot water, wipe the blade with my finger & thumb then clean my fingers in the water.
When I first started I used the tap, but I dinged my blade on the faucet once (put a dent on my edge), and never tried that again.
I also tried swirling in blade in the basin, but I found that I'd hit the bottom if I was not super careful.
Yeah, I quit doing #2 for a while because of the dings, but now I'm just careful and don't move the blade around a lot.
I give it a couple of wipes on the ball of my thumb - is that barber's style?
James.
That indeed is barber style
A clarification:
I do the #2 faucet flush routine because I want to get the lather off the razor and don't want to do it with my fingers or thumb on my off hand. The reason being when I switch hands I don't want the switch-to hand the least little bit slippery. I can easily watch where the razor is relation to the spigot, but when I grasp the razor with slippery fingers, I have no idea where things may end up - and this may include into or through digits which could find their way instinctively trying to catch the flying razor. Wet fingers are bad enough, lather lubed digits are a real caution - at least for someone like me who is blessed with a handful of thumbs.
Bruce