Hendrix, maybe you need a knife permit.... "I have stabbed myself in the chest many times stripping so cord"
Always cut away from you....
As for gashing the finger after cutting pipe, I have done that so many times that there is a build up of callused scar tissue there! But in the last few years I have gotten so lazy that I break out the bansaw for every thing - even a few cuts on 1/2 emt.
Mark Heller "Well - I oughta....." -Jackie Gleason