Thread: What's your most ridiculous shaving injury?

Respect the blade, eh. It has been said before, but always know where every part of the business end of the razor is in relation to your all your appendages at all times Gentlemen and Ladies.

A few months ago my W&B slipped out of my hand while stropping and started tumbling toward my foot. I jumped back in one whole hell of a hurry and couldn't shave with the razor for two months because it landed spike point down and earned a chip. Better him than me. I repaired it eventually and it's a great razor once more. My foot still has all its toes too.

Do you believe we did this thread before too? This is from almost exactly two years ago. I remembered Josh's ear piercing.

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Well I haven't actaully gotten more than a couple of nicks shaving but last night I nearly did the most STUPID thing ever.

I'd been honing all afternoon and evening on my old, ebay razors and was stropping on linen, paper, ashed linen and leather and inspecting the edge through my new 30X jeweller loupe to see what difference this was all making.

It was late, I was tired and wasn't thinking straight, and when I went to put the loupe to my eye to inspect the razor I accidentaly put the razor to my eye to inspect the loupe.



Luckily some part of my brain noticed in time and no damage was done.

No more sleepy sleepy stropping for me then!

A couple of years ago I was on vacation with my family and my sisters family. I was in the bathroom about to shave commando with a W&B freshly honed by Lynn when the door started to open. I guessed it was my little niece so I quickly pushed the door closed, while doing so I also pushed the razor into my right cheek and made a nice 4 inch slice in my cheek. So there I was naked, bleeding and holding the door closed feeling like a real dope with a bloody razor in my hand. Oh well, I tell people its a dueling scar...

Once when I was replacing the blade in a DE, I dropped the blade. bent down to pick it up and whacked the top of my bald head on the corner of the bathroom cabinet on the way up!

Bled everywhere and I was seeing stars.

Does that count as a shaving injury?

Along the same lines, I once broke a bone in my foot putting the floor mats away AFTER judo, broke a bone in the other foot watching snooker on the telly and dislocate my knee walking through a dance at a ceilidh!

Gareth

I cut my thumb this morning because I wasn't paying much attention when passing the razor from one hand to the other...

Originally Posted by AusTexShaver

My most ridiculous shaving injury was several years ago when I was still using a Norelco electric and somehow managed to cut myself up pretty good while trying to get that last little holdout hair. You have to be pretty talented to cut yourself with an electric!

With a straight I somehow managed to close the blade on my fingers and cut a couple of them pretty deep.

If ever I have to use an electric I`ll usually cut myself along the line where my lower lip meets my chin - if it`s a rotary shaver then it`ll be a dead cert that I`ll end up with battle scars.

Managed to take a nice chunk out of one of my knuckles last night shaking the water off a double edged razor.

Worst face injury: came down at the wrong angle on a cheekbone doing a WTG pass...didn't feel anything...then blood..no scar (let's here it for sharpness!)

Dumbest injury: I have a TI 6/8 Stamina and I had finshed shaving and was wiping the blade down, when I noticed that the round point end look uneven. So, like an idiot, to touched it with my thumb...blood everywhere.....apparently, in sharpening the blade, the TI folks got a nice sharp end on the round point.

Cosing the razor with my finger in it!

er, that would be during a "rooster" shave... managed to nick my taint. I'll never use a spike point for that again...

Actually,causing a major blood letting with an ELECTRIC razor happened to me. I had one of those "micro-screen" type Braun's. I used the razor strickly at work.

One morning, reporting off-duty working the midnight shift, I proceeded to the locker room for clean up for an early morning court appearance. The "micro-screen" had actually worn through-kind of connecting the dots on the screen. This left a WICKED wire-type edge that I proceeded to rake all over my right cheek, lacerating the S*&T out of it. I'm not talking a little nick either. It was so sharp, I didn't feel it-INITIALLY.

I stick to wicked sharp Str8's-thank you very much