Always be sure to completely tighten the doors shut on your TTO. If you don't you will look like you been in a fight with a cat. Then you will come here and post and everyone will laugh at you. I thought I got a bad blade after closer inspection I realized the doors where not all the way tightened down allowing the blade to move around.
That's one thing I haven't done yet but only because I'm paranoid about doing it. I have nightmares about bad cuts. Not even kidding.
I cut myself so bad I have a Divot under my ear where it took out a BIG CHUNK of Flesh. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Been there, done that-on my neck. later I found a hang-tag on a 1941 Aristocrat, it offers directions to adjust the razor for a closer shave. One of the earlier adjustables.
I think we all have some war stories. Here's some stuff I learned the hard way. I have at least one old Gillette where the barn doors will loosen as you use it. I now check the doors mid-shave on all my TTO razors. I'm also careful about installing or removing the head on a 3-piece razor. Wet fingers can sometimes slip across the exposed blade edge. Now I either dry my fingers or cover the head with a hand towel when I'm spinning the head on or off. If a blade edge snags the thumbnail of my hand used to stretch the skin, I either replace the blade immediately or proceed carefully until I determine if the edge is still OK. When I insert an SE blade into my Mongoose 3-piece razor, I make sure that the bottom plate, blade, and top plate are matched perfectly when they are attached to the handle.
Why are you changing blades with wet hands? If you know you get X number of shaves from a blade, change it after X-1 shaves, when your hands are dry. Then you're not discovering the blade is shot while you're making your fifth stroke into your shave...with wet hands.
I think you notice that on the first stroke? -- Pitralon forever - Real pens have a nib - If it doesn't tick, it's not a watch.
I don't change blades mid-shave. That would be stupid, right? In fact, I handle blades as little as possible in order to avoid cuts - no blade flipping, palm stropping, or drying the blade between shaves. The point of my post was to illustrate some things I've learned over the time I've been wet shaving.
