Thread: Respect those small blades! #$@&!!!

It seems everybody is always worried about the bigger blades, even I sometimes feel nervous on the real big ones. but to date they've been much friendlier to my face. I got the worst cut yet this morning (two actually, but one is a scratch and one is a frickin CUT!) from my little 5/8 C-Mon spike. I'd been real careful, was making the easiest of passes, straight down the left cheek. must have stopped making my "lips to the right stretchy left cheek" face or just shifted angles slightly. ZWIP, felt is silp right in. isn't it interesting we can never stop the movement fast enough. that pain to hand nerve signal is a bit slow. got a 1/4" gash. and I'm talking deep. lots of styptic, still bleeding, tissue, still slightly bleeding. wept for 15 minutes.

got a couple of pics I'll put up tonight. only later did I notice another scratch about 1/2" away from that one. not a good shaving morning. BUT it's smooth!

anyways gents, fear not the large blades, the little ones'll get ya.

Big Red

Red, a 5/8 is not a little blade in a normal sized hand!
I've got a little 3/8 Heljestrand. It's beautiful. A perfect razor, only in miniature. That little bastard cut's me every time!
Heal fast, my friend.

No doubt! My Red Imp is not imposing at all compared to some but seems to remind me of it's abilities whenever I get a bit careless! It does, however, provide some of the closest shaves to date.

Remember the Vitamin E!

Joe

Did the same the other day with a Shumate spike...bastard got me good on the left jawline...what's ironic is that i was just doing some finishing, touching-up with it. Think im about done with the spiked toes....
Sorry about your cut Red. Here's to your quick recovery.

Mac

The only razor to ever cut me was my 4/8 Bowdins wedge..twice! Left side cheek where the toe dug in.

Neither were bad, but little marks still remind me every day.

Dave

5/8 isn't small!

Damn near my whole rotation is below 5/8.

Heal up fast.

Red, was is the spike's point that cut you or somewhere else located along the edge?

I have both spike/square points and round points and shave with both kinds. I like them all. Some people love spike points pretty much exclusively.

I gotta say, I can get away with much more using my roundpoints than I can my spike points. I'm just sayin. Maybe it's being able to get away with a sloppier technique? Maybe.

Chris L

I don't know that it is sloppy technique as much as simply becoming accustomed to making an arcing sweeping stroke with a round point that will almost always bury the tip of a square or spike point into the cheek.
One can make the same stroke with a square of spike point, it just requires attention to keeping the toe square to the blade. Don't ask me how I think I know that
OK, on second thought, it is sloppy technique.

I can't believe the timing of this thread. I aquired a 4/8 W&B about 2 months ago, and haven't shaved with it since, due to the fact that it wasn't shave ready and I had never honed a wedge. Since then I have picked up a couple wedges and honed them. So Saturday I decided to dig out that little W&B and give it a shot. I honed it up and shaved with it on Sunday morning. Not only was it the first time I have cut myself in months, but it was a nice 2" long weeper about 1" away from my mouth. I couldn't believe how it happened. Those little razors are evil.

Red, on second thought, maybe you were fortunate to get a cut from this little guy versus the "whale" that might have cost you an ear or something worse.

Joe