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10-02-2007, 08:47 PM #11Senior Member
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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.
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10-02-2007, 09:30 PM #12Razorsmith
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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.
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10-02-2007, 10:07 PM #13Senior Member
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I did #2. Then I hit the edge against the faucet. Now I do #1.
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10-02-2007, 10:39 PM #14Senior Member
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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).
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10-02-2007, 10:41 PM #15Member
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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.
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10-02-2007, 10:54 PM #16Dapper Dandy
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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.
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10-02-2007, 11:31 PM #17There is no charge for Awesomeness
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I give it a couple of wipes on the ball of my thumb - is that barber's style?
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10-02-2007, 11:32 PM #18Senior Member
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That indeed is barber style
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10-03-2007, 12:19 AM #19Cheapskate Honer
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same here,
Originally Posted by bjrn
I waste less water this way too.
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10-03-2007, 12:25 AM #20Senior Member
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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
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