In my 10 months or so of using a SR, I have never cut myself--except on the face, and that plenty of times, at first! But today I got careless and forgot I was holding my Japanese SR, right after stropping it. I reached hand-over-hand to get something off the shelf and basically dragged the tip and leading edge of the razor through the meaty part of my palm, just under my thumb.

It was deep, an angled cut about two inches long and at least an 1/8th of an inch deep. It didn't bleed much but I will have limited mobility with my right hand for a week or so. I could say that this Japanese straight razor is so small and light that it fooled me, but in truth, I got careless, forgot what I was doing, and paid the consequences of that.

Got a great two-pass shave after the bandaides were on, though!

Dan