Going Out With A Bang

[azmark]

Well I've been DE shaving for over a year now and just began picking up stra8's last month and shaving with them. Until today, I've never even had a weeper and nick. Well this morning I rang in the new year with a cut underneath my ear. Crap it hurts!!!!!

Any of you long time users ever get nicks or major cuts?

 

[ek.310]

Yikes!!
keep applying cold water or keep a bandaid with neosporin on it

 

[gurana]

Though I'm not a long time user, I've sliced my fingers twice in the last two weeks.

I've become a fan of tegaderm... if you can get some that'll cover the area you cut, put in on over some neosporin. It is pretty discrete, and lasts for a while.

 

[FiveOhNine]

Not a long time user by any stretch, but I did catch myself a bit on my ear lobe. You know your working with serious sharpness when you don't draw blood on a cut like that - it's like it cauterized while cutting!

As a noob myself, I think the most dangerous period of learning the art of the straight is right after you feel comfortable with it, but before you have enough experience to be comfortable/capable.

 

[gurana]

Not a long time user by any stretch, but I did catch myself a bit on my ear lobe. You know your working with serious sharpness when you don't draw blood on a cut like that - it's like it cauterized while cutting!
As a noob myself, I think the most dangerous period of learning the art of the straight is right after you feel comfortable with it, but before you have enough experience to be comfortable/capable.

+1. Though I don't know about the cauterizing theory (this isn't a light saber ) ... if your ear lobe didn't bleed, my thought is that your edge is so keen, it literally went inbetween whatever blood vessles were in that area...

 

[JPM]

I'm a newbie with the str8, but I have a blood transfusion machine in my bathroom.

 

[bradyarz]

if you chop off an earlobe there will be blood, but with smaller stuff than that, it shouldn't bleed. i had my ears pierced when i was in college and no bleeding occurred when they shot the stud through. no bleeding through the whole gauging process either, but that's another story for another day. (they're grown back in now, no earrings at work...)

 

[Prince]

Though I'm not a long time user, I've sliced my fingers twice in the last two weeks.

I've become a fan of tegaderm... if you can get some that'll cover the area you cut, put in on over some neosporin. It is pretty discrete, and lasts for a while.

So you shave your fingers?

 

[FiveOhNine]

+1. Though I don't know about the cauterizing theory (this isn't a light saber ) ... if your ear lobe didn't bleed, my thought is that your edge is so keen, it literally went inbetween whatever blood vessles were in that area...

Now THAT would be BBS.

 

[azmark]

It's where the lobe attaches to the cheek I guess. Good thing it was a round point because I think the spike would have really cut into it.

Been putting HP and Thayer's Medicated and feeling pretty good.


Edit: no not Highland Park. Hydrogen Peroxide

 

[Luc]

I didn't get any major wounds so far but I still get nicks and weepers here and there...

 

[Bertilak]

My advice is to know your blood type. It will speed things up at the emergency room.

 

[ek.310]

Lol @ bloodtransfusion machine in yer bathroom!!

 

[gurana]

So you shave your fingers?

Well, I have these last two weeks anyways. Based off the experience, I don't think I'll be purposely keeping this practice up.

 

[mark3d]

lol i'm glad i'm not the only one to have cut my fingers - it was the worst cut so far (when changing hands with the razor, i didnt grab it properly and ran my thumb along the edge). otherwise i did slice into my cheek but it wasnt too deep, it looked like a scratch. other than that, it's just a few weepers.

.

 

[Dharion]

The occasional weeper still occurs. Still, fingers crossed

 

[WhosYerBob]

Any of you long time users ever get nicks or major cuts?

I DE shaved for quite awhile back in the 70's and have been doing it again for several months, but only received one major cut in all that time.

I've had a few nicks here and there that could be addressed by a styptic pencil, but the cut was from a Futur loaded with a new Feather blade and dialed up to 6+, when it slipped in my soapy hands and carved a deep divet out of the upper part of my right smile crease. It's a scar now.

 

[minstrel]

I have managed to catch my earlobe, other parts of the ear, and my nostril with the tips or heels of straight razors. It's a good way to learn to be mindful of where the entire blade is, not just the part you're using to shave with at the moment... The good thing about those cuts are that the edge is so fine that there is virtually no scarification of the cuts, they just heal very neatly.

 

[SRock]

Lol @ bloodtransfusion machine in yer bathroom!!

+1 That's why I haven't tried a straight yet.