Well, after three, ever improving, shaves, I finally got my first nick...on my EARLOBE. Didn't even feel the touch, but there was the scarlet rivulet that told me of the deed. These things are tres sharp! The flippin' stypic (sic) pen hurt worse than the nick. Bled like a stuck pig for about two minutes, and since I didn't pass out from blood loss, I finished the shave. BTW, the cut might have been a sixteenth inch long, so no fencing scars....yet.