Thread: This has to have been asked before but.....

I'm at my one year point this month and just nicked myself on Monday. I would guess it's been about three months since the last one. I can only remember three this year.

Neither of my razors have been honed since I bought them last October and November.

I haven't nicked myself since about........dammit! I knew I shouldn't be posting and shaving at the same time!

Originally Posted by Ryan82

I read about the blood baths some guys experience when starting out. I feel for them, but at the same time I'm glad it didn't happen that way for me. I've had a couple bleeders here and there, but I could easily count on one hand how many times I've had to use the styptic.

Nowadays I might get a weeper or the odd nick, but not very often. Every SR shaver will donate some blood at some point, but in all honesty I think the danger of shaving this way is generally overstated.

I can say the same as you Ryan.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Not too many nicks over the years, but the ones I have had have been fairly spectacular. I still have the scar on my left cheek from that whacky old dovo (since deceased - had an accident with a hammer...).

The best one I ever did: We went on holiday and I took my big 8/8 Friodur. First morning of the holiday I was shaving my head. I cannot remember why it happened, but about the 3rd stroke in I cut the top of my forehead above the left eye. A big 2 inch cut, right where everyone could see it. Only superficial, healed in a week or so, but bled a lot at the beginning.

Have not really cut myself like that since - I think something like that focuses the mind. Nowadays it is more small weepers or rash from shaving tests on badly honed razors...

James.

James,

I guess the dovo learned the hard way not to go dancing with Thugly, the hammer. So much for the "I'm OK, you're OK" philosophy, hmmm?

Gentlemen, I have cut myself twice, once with a 4/8" Hess 44 and again with a 5/8" C-Mon. I've divorced them.

the first couple times, I cut myself once or twice each time. then I didn't cut myself at all for a month... then I cut myself 6x in one go. haven't cut myself since. *knock on wood*

more often than i care to admit.... this is 3 nights ago... in bathroom making ATG pass.... 100 pound rottie thinks she needs to see what daddy is doing = longer higher cut..... then 115lb rottie thought he needed to see what daddy and sis were doing = smaller cut on neck....

now i put them in the bedroom while i shave....

I have been on straights since Christmas and it was around 6 months before I stopped nicking myself regularly.
Probably 2 months since my last little nick.

Once you are comfortable with your regular strokes and stretching routine then it becomes second nature.

As a novice I started only a week and a half ago.
my 2nd shave gave me stubble halfway through the day, and I decided to strop my 4/8 Boker xtra hollow grind with green paste
the stropping was very succesfull I might add.
The morning after I gave myself the smoothest shave ever!!
the only drawback is that I nicked my right cheek.
there is a nice, almost horzontal, inch-and-a-half scar showing now.

have been very carefull since!
butit hasn't put me off to SR shaving

goodluck&Enjoy

I'd have to say I probably nicked myself about every other shave my first month, but none that were real bleeders except for the first time I touched my Genco's square point to my earlobe accidentally. That bled real good.

I have a really sensitive neck and will get a weeper or two every few days, but I can't remember the last time I really nicked myself. Though last week, around 3pm I looked myself in the mirror and discovered a red line below my side burn. I'd shaved in a hurry that morning, remembering an early meeting half way through my shave. I remembered touching the blade to that spot and it not feeling quite "right" but that line didn't show up until much later, and was gone within a day.

Peace,
Jim