TTO safety tip

[MUSTANGMANAHS]

Good Morning

First I’m 5 months in so not sure if I’m still a newbie.

Yesterday I learned a valuable lesson while shaving my head.

I was using a 61 Gillette Fatboy. Setting 1.

For those that use a TTO, that last quarter turn after the gates close is super important. I learned this as head shaving requires frequent changes in direction and my palm managed to turn the base a little. So the aggressiveness went from 1 to about a 10.5 and the blade almost dislodging.

Now I have a bandage on my head and am taking antibiotics.

Please be careful. Learn from my mistake.

Hope y'all have a wonderful day.

 

[thombrogan]

Please heal quickly

 

[Eric_75]

Sorry to hear this, sir. Heal up quickly.

 

[Fordfather]

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Good Morning

First I’m 5 months in so not sure if I’m still a newbie.

Yesterday I learned a valuable lesson while shaving my head.

I was using a 61 Gillette Fatboy. Setting 1.

For those that use a TTO, that last quarter turn after the gates close is super important. I learned this as head shaving requires frequent changes in direction and my palm managed to turn the base a little. So the aggressiveness went from 1 to about a 10.5 and the blade almost dislodging.

Now I have a bandage on my head and am taking antibiotics.

Please be careful. Learn from my mistake.

Hope y'all have a wonderful day.

That's a bummer

Thanks for the PSA. Good luck

 

[dotKomo]

Hope it heals quickly.

It never hurts to re-emphasize things with new members!

 

[The Blackadder]

Wow, terrible experience. Something similar happened to me in my first shave with a Progress. I couldn’t understand why I ended up with so many cuts, then I realized I hadn’t twisted the knob completely so I was shaving with a higher setting than the maximum

 

[Alexland]

Head shaving has always terrified me.

Hope no bits of brain were affected.

 

[dmshaver]

Thanks for the reminder, sorry you had to learn the hard way!

 

[MUSTANGMANAHS]

Head shaving has always terrified me.

Hope no bits of brain were affected.

Only my pride. Not my first bad cut head shaving. I just hate that it was because I was careless in tightening the gates. I head shaved with cartridges too. I usually head shave 2-3 times a week. I think in the future I’m not going to use an adjustable on my head. I only ever use setting one up there. Probably just going to stick with a Gillette Tech dedicated for my head.

 

[DesertIguana]

Ouch.

 

[MUSTANGMANAHS]

Thank you for the well wishes. Through frequent application of Muciprocin in combination with oral antibiotics, the skin has healed over and presently there’s only a little discoloration and some localized swelling. Going to stay with electric head shaving for about a week until the swelling goes down. I feel I’m going to have a dedicated Gillette Tech with an Astra Green from this point forward.

 

[gpjoe]

Ouch...we all get complacent, so thanks for the reminder.

 

[Welder310]

I scalped myself last week the same way with a flair tip super speed. My better half had to put a piece of gauze and medical tape on the worst spot to keep me from bleeding all over myself and it took four days to heal enough for my next shave.