Thread: [Query] Best way to blunt a point?

I have muted several tips, especially if they bit me! Just go slowly, remember that you can't add metal back once you take it off For most of my spikes it just took a couple of quick drags across a 1k hone to tone it down enough to avoid nicks.

Thanks for the advice all. Perhaps this point got particularly pointy due to the fairly long setting process, necessitated by the initially rather ragged edge.

Please understand that you do not need to change the profile of the point. You merely need to dull it, and that takes just a light dragging of the point on the side of the hone.

To beat the idea to death, a spike point does not need to be rounded over to make it safe. If that point is dulled, then it loses its bite without losing its appearance.

I've found that different razors require slight adjustments when shaving. Perhaps you have not used the razor enough times to adapt to its.....ah, razorness....weight, grind, width, etc. Personally, I've found that cuts and nicks are learning multipliers.
Personally I would take a pokey point as a challenge to shave without blood.
Good Luck and welcome to SRP.

To bring a point back you have to remove material from the whole toe end, the whole edge or round the tip, which can look funky.

So the least you round or mute, the better, it does not take much to mute the tip, a single light stroke, on a high grit stone will do it

It's better to just be careful, but if you must mute, rubbing the spike against some glass works well. No metal will be removed, but it will dull the spike. A rehone in the future should bring it back to the original condition. Hopefully.

I have an Aust with a square point that bites me on the curve of my neck. My barber said to run the tip over a glass jar 3 or 4 times. That will dull it but not ruin the edge. I tried it with a old razor and it works well. I then honed it and got the edge back.