How do you define weeper, nick, cut, gash, etc?

[SiBurning]

Do you DE and Straight veterans have consistently bloodless shaves? seems a little confusing without a clear disctinction between weeper, nick, and cut. The wiki has a definition for a weeper. What about nick and cut? And what do we call a deep cut that's still bleeding profusely after the shave? Or something so bad it requires stitches?

To start off, this is from that same thread:

it's not really a cut if it disappears the moment alum or witch hazel hits it.

 

[82R100]

I think the wording of the original post is pretty clear. Bloodless disallows any of the things you've listed.

I think the distinction between a nick and a cut is strictly one of length. If it has some length to it, it's a cut. If it's a "spot", it's a nick.

And I disagree about the alum comment. Bloodless is bloodless.

- Chris

 

[kingfisher]

To me a weeper is when there is a little bit of blood but no obvious nick or cut. Sometimes after the warm water rinse I'll see a tiny bit of blood on the neck but if I wipe the blood off there's nothing visible there. These are what I would call "weepers."

In reality, they must be very small cuts, otherwise why would they bleed? But mine usually stop with just a cold water rinse. If it requires more than a cold water rinse and witchhazel to stop, it's probably a nick.

 

[SiBurning]

I think the wording of the original post is pretty clear. Bloodless disallows any of the things you've listed.

I think the distinction between a nick and a cut is strictly one of length. If it has some length to it, it's a cut. If it's a "spot", it's a nick.

And I disagree about the alum comment. Bloodless is bloodless.

- Chris

Even a better reason to have a separate thread for the blood categories. Maybe the progression should be irritation-free, bloodless, weeper, nick, cut, gash, transfusion, and certain death.

 

[_JP_]

A weeper is nothing to cry over, but you don't want a knack for nicks either, so cut out leaking all that blood!

 

[RBE17]

I generally can shave w/o letting blood escape my body. I've only had one nick bad enough I've had to use my styptic pen. I've had maybe two small weepers. I consider a weeper something the stops bleeding pretty easily. A nick is something that has removed a tick more skin and requires a styptic pen. A cut is an incision.

 

[michiganlover]

A gash is when the razor blade embeds itself into the skin, causing a wound that profusely bleeds for a good 10 minutes.