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HIJACK! I'm actually no longer in Rochester. Got a new teaching job in the NYC burbs that is keeping me quite busy. But I try to pop on now and then to at least see what's going on.

What Shooter said; just tame the tip if you can't work your technique around it. You could give it a light mute by lifting a bit to hone the toe up a smidgen or just dull the very tip on some glass....