I’ve always heard dull blades are the most dangerous, but whenever I nick myself shaving my legs it’s always with a new blade. Does the dull blade thing only apply to kitchen knives and not razors?
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Dull blades being the most dangerous is kind of a roundabout way of mentioning the actual danger.
It’s true, with a sharp blade, like a razor, it’s very easy to get small cuts, and even bigger ones if the knife isn’t handled properly. For those small cuts a dull knife would definitely be safer.
Where a dull knife becomes unsafe is in that you have to put a lot of force & pressure behind the tool, which are qualities you trade in for control.
A sharp knifes slides through what it’s supposed to cut, it might nick you, but there’s seldomly much force behind it.
But to get a dull knife to cut through what you want to cut you have to use a lot of force, and if you’re pushing hard on a knife, and it slips, it could easily make it’s way into your body, while still retaining a lot of the force initially applied, making the risk for much much worse wounds a lot higher than with a sharp knife.
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