I thought I'd dig out this threat and post. I'm pretty experienced at straight shaving now, so yesterday was a day like any other. I was happily shaving away, daydreaming about something and as I went to change hands with my razor (a beautifully honed TI SRP LE) I managed to slice a filet off the tip of my left thumb. It wasn't just a nick either, it was a real deep filet right through the dead skin layer and into the meaty stuff. It came clean off and flopped into the sink, and the blood erupted like a waterfall.

I tried a few things to stem the bleeding but it just kept coming, so I wrapped some paper around my thumb and carried on and did my second pass as usual - pretty tricky to hold the razor with part of my thumb missing.

After I finished up it still kept bleeding. The only thing that stopped it was for me to bite hard on a towel, and then press the open wound directly onto a styptic pencil.

Jeez it hurt, but after a couple of minutes the bleeding stopped and I dripped a big blob of Proraso styptic gel onto the missing chunk of skin, and left it to dry. Then stuck an elastoplast over it.

Seems to be healing nicely now, I'm wondering if I'll be left with a triangular scar to match the filet that washed down the sink.

By the way, I can safely say this razor passes the thumb pad test - bigtime.