Thread: Pass me a dunce hat!

How many of you beginners, like me and seasoned straight razor shavers have dropped, broke or damaged your best or favorite razor? I bought a new dovo special when I first got started over a month ago and have dinged and dropped it 4 times. Seems like the more I try to be careful with something the more crap happens to it. I bought a nice Hess 44 last weekend at a gun show and I'll be @#$& if I havent dinged it up already and cracked one of the handles, of course it's the side with the logo on it.

DOH!! Poopy happens when you least expect it..

Well I for one am shocked! How could you be so clumsy? No one else on this forum has ever dropped a sharp razor.

I shave naked all the time just to demonstrate confidence to my blade.

Originally Posted by jaswarb

I shave naked all the time just to demonstrate confidence to my blade.

Now you're just bragging...This assumes that if you drop your razor while shaving it will actually hit any part of you

It will obviously cut me all the way down to the belly button and then bounce into the sink.

Good save...this is, after all, a family oriented forum

No need for a dunce hat IMHO
I have a theory with two options
1 are you being too tentative while handling your razor allowing it to slip from your grasp?, or
2 are you being over confident when moving the razor around which allows ot to come into contact with things it shouldn't?
I was recently guilty of the second one when I cut just below the fingernails on two fingers while in a hurry.
Bled like a ba$^#rd for ages.
Just something to think about FWIW

there are probably more commando shavers around than you think.
http://straightrazorpalace.com/shavi...othed-not.html

Originally Posted by syslight

there are probably more commando shavers around than you think.
http://straightrazorpalace.com/shavi...othed-not.html

suddenly my mind is full of images I can never erase......

For those of us getting long in tooth and those already there we know holding on to things can be problematical. I always keep that in mind when I handle any shaving gear these days.