For what it's worth, it looked like you were doing a realy fine job on the restauration, and like said befor short razors can work wonderfully as well

Quote Originally Posted by Maximilian View Post
That's a crap shoot. It's only happened once years ago. I know the feeling. Good thing you didn't try to catch it cause that's looking for trouble and something we would normally instinctively try to do.
When I let things fall down I usually try to "catch" it with my foot, it still falls on the floor after but it makes for a softer landing, this instinct has safed numberour glases and such.