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    How often do you advanced/experienced shavers nick yourself?

    How often as a beginner did you?

    Time period it took to where you were not getting the high number of nicks and cuts?

    And for fun: The worst gash you have ever experienced or seen from SRS?

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    I think you will get very different answers on that question

    I started with a feather DX, disposable straight.
    That thing cut me more often than not.
    It did, however, teach me about pressure, or lack thereof.

    The first 3-4 months I got a nick or two every now and then.
    Nowadays I don't get them anymore unless I get sloppy or disturbed while shaving.
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    Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years....


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    I have a bump on my chin that will weep a drop of blood from time to time if I'm not really careful, but I haven't nicked myself in a long time. Of course, I shouldn't have said that and naturally will pay for making that comment. Such is life and shaving with something that makes scalpels seem dull.

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    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...

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    When I first started, it looked like someone threw a cat at my face...Now, rarely.

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    Cuts or nicks have become kind of rare these days. Once in a while I'll pull out a particularly wicked Chandler spike and catch my left ear lobe, other than that the bloodletting is limited to the occasional weepers.

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    A tiny nick every now and then but nothing serious in many years. I rotate razors a lot so I never get that intimate with any one so I'll pick one with an extended spike for instance without realizing it and wind up with a red mark on my neck or a tiny nick near my ear.
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    A couple of minor nicks at first, no worse than I had experienced with a DE, one or two worth mentioning and pretty much nothing to speak of since. I realized how long it had been since that was a concern when my wife asked, as we were heading to our daughter's wedding (which I was officiating at) if I had shaved with a straight that day or dug out a mach 3 to play it safe and I realized that it hadn't even occurred to me.

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    I sometimes take the top off a little spot, but actual cuts are rare maybe once a month or less and that. None have been anything more than a bit of a line and its always of I'm not concentrating or rushing. There were a bit more common when I was starting but only a bit.
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    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.
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