...what Lynn said! In spades! I picked up a really long blade and wound up with a gash that looks like the one Lawson showed, except mine ran from the edge of my jaw almost to my mouth. Just told everyone I had a scuffle in a bad bar. Like the man says, watch anything over 3". They all tend to heal well but damn it's embarrassing!

To me it really doesn't matter if the tip is round, square or spike, I just go into a Zen state and sort of meld with the blade (I think Lynn wrote that someplace). At this point I think I may have tried out just about everything shy of a hunting knife with good results. It's those times when my mind wanders that I bleed. But I'm still thinking about keening up a really good quality hunting knife and trying that out.... :-)