Quote Originally Posted by fccexpert View Post
One caution on the Red Imp; These razors are notorious for having a spike point that will get you if you are not very careful how you use them. They are great shavers, but they demand respect.
I bought my first str8 from my barber back around 1960. It's a Hess with a spike point, and when he honed it for me he suggested that I should let him draw the point down the hone a couple of times to chamfer it. This is what most barbers did with their spike points, and rounding off the point just a little has made a lot of difference in not having it dig in and leave scratches.