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    Default Does anyone else cut themselves frequently while honing?

    I'm just wondering if its just me or if other people do it too. I think my ratio of cuts to razors is about 1/20 or thereabouts. Just cut my thumb when the power went out this weekend and right before that I could swear my other cut on my thumb had just healed over.

    Anyway, am I alone? Or is this "normal"?

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    Leighton: Important Safety Tip. No honing in the dark!
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    Quote Originally Posted by zib View Post
    Leighton: Important Safety Tip. No honing in the dark!
    Apparently. I didn't see my thumb.

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    How the heck are you doing it? Are you cutting the hand that is holding the razor? Alternatively, are you holding the hone in your hand and cutting that hand?

    In answer to your question, I don't recall ever cutting myself while honing.

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    Never while "honing" but I don't hold the stone in my hand...

    I got myself pretty good one time stropping a Wapi by putting my thumb down right on the heel....

    I took a goodly chunk outta my finger once with a Barlow, wiping the blade down after honing....

    Countless cuts while doing restorations of course....

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    Funny this thread should come up. I was just talking with my wife about how I cut myself regularly and often. I handle sharp knives and razors all the time without a mishap. It's the damned equipment I fix that cuts me every frickin time Hell, I'd cut myself with a butter knife just by looking at it funny, but from a straight or knife? rarely happens.

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    I hold stones in my hand to hone and I've never cut myself whilst honing. Not even close.

    But I have cut my fingers a couple of times transferring the blade from one hand to another whilst shaving and not paying attention. Both times I thought "you dick". I mean, who transfers a razor sharp blade from one hand to another without due care? Me apparently.

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    This last time I was holding the DMT holder in place with my left hand. And the electricity was out and didn't notice that my hand was above the stone.

    Actually, trying to remember how I cut myself before I can't remember. In fact....I'm not entirely sure I was honing.

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    I cut myself probably 2, maybe 3 times a year. Usually because I'm working too fast and too hard and something slips. I still have 10 fingers and 10 toes, but had a few slices in the left hand thumb and pointer fingers over the years. It's inevitable that you will get cut when you look at the odds. But I agree with old school - if you are getting cut on a regular basis, you should change something (maybe start with your power source...)

    I got 5 stitches in my shin after a machete I sharpened ended up in my leg - after it had gone clean through what I was cutting (don't ask, and no, there wasn't alcohol involved although it's so embarrassing that I wish there had been....). In a twisted way, I'm very happy about the way the machete performed, and glad my leg was at the end of the stroke, and not at the beginning...
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    I never cut myself while honing. My hones are laid on the table, if I grabbed the hones while honing then maybe I'd the tips of my fingers, eventually...

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