Hi Alex,
I had to chuckle at the way one of us exactly duplicated the other's adventure with a shavette.
If you always get nicks have you tried,
a. Using either olive oil or Art of Shaving Pre-Shave oil (in tiny amounts) - they certainly reduces the incidence of nicks from average soaps and average shave creams, or
b. Tried King Of Shaves - Azor Advanced Shaving Gel? Amazingly, with a DE blade I got zero stings from an Alum block after I used the gel, and my best soaps and creams always give me alum stings (even if I have no visible nicks).
I did a write up of Australian Shave creams in a thread at Badger&Blade,
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthr...sed-Down-Under
Have you tried the Windsor and Natio creams that I'm really impressed with?
Cheers,
Renato