Thread: Does anyone else cut themselves frequently while honing?

Touch wood, I haven't cut my self while honing.

Not actually while honing.
Rather when I clean a blade it happens frequently.

I never have cut myself while honing. Not even while holding a barbers hone for touch ups. Been close during restoration projects, close enough to do hand inspections anyway.

No cuts while honing, but several while hand sanding. An ex SOG knife man once told me with horror NEVER to watch TV while honing, after hearing that I do that sometimes. I stopped before losing a finger, fortunately! Do you have any distractions going on while honing? I don't even listen to music now.

Not when honing... have cut myself wiping down blade or doing some resto stuff. Usually it is just me not paying attention to what i'm doing.

Croaker I'm listening to the TV then but its usually on.
What I can't have is someone meowing or talking to me in the meantime.
Then I put the blade down and take care of it first.

Never honing ..... yet.... but I got a good one in my thumb once while rubbing a W&B wedge down with Semichrome and a paper towel.

Never yet while honing, usually while hand sanding with the higher grits.

I posted a thread about my finger and its stitches while honing a kitchen knife, but never on a straight.

I have been handling knives since I was knee high to a grasshopper and I get a bad cut maybe once a year. Now that I am older and supposedly wiser I just get a really bad on once every 5 years.

I hand hold hones sometimes, but I am always aware of where my fingers are and when I wipe I do so with the edge away from me. I saw a coworker wipe a 15" fish slicer blade first and run the ENTIRE length of the blade across the web of her thumb. Took 20 some stitches and a few staples. She missed severing the tendon by mms. I ALWAYS wipe the blade away from me and/or wipe the blade with a towel on the table.

I was thinking of so many things to say here and then thought the best thing to say would be:

Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

Lynn