Did you cut the hand holding the razor or the hand holding the hone?

A friend of mine used to have a plaque in his office that read "No man is a complete failure in life...He can always serve as a bad example for others."

I will serve as that bad example once again...

I have occasionally repositioned a blade and cut my thumb on the heel of the blade. Don't do this, the whole point of sharpening a razor is to sharpen it, so don't press your thumb against it. Three times over the course of several years I have stupidly held a hone with my fingers above the top plane of the hone and cut my fingers on (wouldn't you know it?) the very first stroke. The safest way to hold a hone is in your open palm, with the hone simply resting on top of your palm. If you choose to hold the hone by its sides with your fingers, then keep those fingers below the top of the hone. It's kind of obvious, ain't it?