Quote Originally Posted by ace View Post
It's a necessary rite of passage. As they say, "the first time is the hardest". Knife honers know that one always cuts one's self AFTER not before the knife is honed. Razors usually get dropped just as you are finished working on them.
Two words: Rubber mat.
I hear you...but my Hart square point cut right through that rubber mat, and the linoleum under.

The only cure is to NOT drop it....second to that simply celebrate that you did NOT try and catch it and got all your parts out of the way and let it fall