Thread: The show stopper

Cut the dickens out of my middle finger yesterday while wiping the blade after shaving. Still don't know exactly how I did it, went right through the bath towel I was using. At least I was finished shaving...

Originally Posted by LikesBBS

Anyone else have their shaves abruptly ruined by a bad cut? well today was my 4th(th) shave with straight. Just got my nortons flattening stone in after the store forgetting to ship it with the 4/8k so i honed up my razor stropped it and went for a shave.

The shave was good, best I've had since started. Everything was going good until i did a blind razor swap from 1 hand to the next and sliced my middle finger wide open... leaving me unable to stretch my skin so alas my shave had come to an end and out came my cartridge.

Just curious as to how many folks have had their shaves come to an end from a bad cut?

Cheers

Oh those memories! Two months in to straight shaving I concentrated so hard on technique that I sliced my thumb down to the tendon switching hands. That was so discouraging. It was funny to the doctor at the walk in clinic. He was laughing at my little snafu while sewing four stitches on my thumb and telling me to watch out.

At the same time I was trading e-mails with someone whose wife ordered him to quit straight shaving after he cut his thumb and had to have five stitches.

But the very next morning with a heavily bandaged thumb, I was back in action. Three years have passed and I guess I can say I paid my dues, so to speak. DE shaving really solved my problem with multiblade razor irritation but I have always been fascinated with straights and that fascination continues to grow. Guys like us have even gotten James Bond to "man up" when it comes to shaving. I read where Dovo said the use of a straight in the Bond movie shot the demand for straight razors through the roof!

You're not an accomplished straight shaver until you can perform the "blind hand to hand swap" behind your back.

Maybe not, but I can count to 10.

Originally Posted by CaliforniaCajun

Maybe not, but I can count to 10.

which is exactly the amount of fingers I'd like to keep thank you very much.

Reading these horror stories, it seems I'm a very cautious man. Apart from some red lines on my face and a tiny cut in my nose going XTG on my upper lip, nothing bad has happened to me since I started almost a year ago.
On the other hand, my girlfriend has a DE and nearly passed out some time ago when she managed to scrape a 10x10mm piece of skin off her leg. That was one ugly wound.