Accidently Cutting Yourself

Blood_Grooves

Blood_Grooves

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Well I was playing with my busse GW and i accidently cut my left indext finger. this is the first time this month. I've done this once each month for the passed three. Am i just a bad knife handler or is this a normal thing. I would like to know how many times you do this a month.
 
If a person has good knife handling skills, they should never or very very sparingly get cut. Be sure to focus on the edge and what helps me the most, "Think twice, cut once". Also, don't make the mistake I have before by fondling your folder very fast while not looking. Dumb dumb dumb.
 
Fitting name :D
I cut myself for the fist time about 2 months ago. (I was so mad at my self!)
 
What is your idea of 'playing' with a GW? I was taught never to play with knives. They were tools to be respected and used with care. The accidental cutting should be kept to a minimum if possible. That being said, the more time you spend with knives, the greater the chance that an accident may occur. I have seen some exceedingly nasty cuts in my time. Not only are they painful, but the ER bill will raise some eyebrows.

Note: try to keep the drinks away while using cutlery.
 
I cut myself pretty good three weeks ago. Nearly took the end of my thumb off, with a kitchen knife. All better now.

My fault, not being aware of the edge.

thx - cpr
 
I get cut very seldom, even when playing with my knives while drinking. Yea, I know. shouldn't be doing that but what can I say, I do it. If I do get cut, so what, patch it up and move on, it's only skin after all. I don't suppose I'd go to a hospital unless it was very serious. Sitting there for 5 hours to get a few stitches is kinda crazy when crazy glue or tape work just as well. It's not for everyone, just what I do. As said by Capt. Carl "pay attention to the edge at all times", if the knife falls, let it, don't try to grab it from a fall, it's impossible to know where the edge is at that point. Have fun. Try playing with a larger Busse like the Hell Razor. Much more fun. Oh and something else, I practised in the back yard using a leather wrist guard and leather gloves just to get to know the knife better before going blade to skin.:D
 
I've only once in my life accidentally cut myself with a knife. Getting cut once a month isn't a sign of proper handling.
 
I work in a place where there's boning/flensing; during down times I have to help around with it, and while I like knives it's not the nicest way to pass the hours. Some of my co-workers don't know how to sharpen with a rod at all; some do passes with the edge pretty much perpendicular to the rod (cringe). One guy cut himself good using this method.

I've never accidentally cut myself around work, I've been cut by cardboard countless times in shipping though heh. Then again, I play around with balisongs--you should try to pick it up. Maybe then you'll laugh at yourself if you ever get cut by an FB again :D
 
I nicked the tip of my index finger closing a knife about a week ago. It was dumb, I wasn't paying attention. Lesson learned, I doubt it will happen again.
 
How many times a month? Really? None. Maybe once a year, at the most, usually in the kitchen chopping something too quickly. Never cut myself on a pocket knife.

Sounds like lots of folks never went to Boy Scouts. Be careful now. Cuts hurt.

:)

Now, shop accidents... different story. The occasional gash or nick is gonna get in there no matter how careful you are. Cut myself badly on a chisel once. That needed a hospital visit, where they used some of that new-fangled skin glue instead of stitches. Apparently it's essentially the same as "Crazy Glue". Ask any doc'. Now it's part of my first aid kit when camping.
 
I usually cut myself if I'm closing a folder with one hand and am preoccupied with the project I'm working on. I have a couple little nick-scars on the back of my right index finger from doing that. Not frequent, but it happens.

Another time, I cut my palm takin a new fixed blade out of a stiff factory synthetic sheath. When it released, the edge drew across my palm- so sharp and painless I didn't notice I was bleeding or cut for a minute. It wasn't that deep and healed on it's own. No biggie should have been more careful.
 
If you are aware of the edge and are careful to cut away from you it just should not happen very often. I've carried and used knives for about 47 years and I think the number of times I have cut myself is maybe half a dozen. That makes it once about every 8 years.
 
I only cut myself twice this summer, and only 1 was anything to look at, if you practice good knife handling then cutting yourself shouldnt really be a problem, best solution, dont rub the blade against yourself, test sharpness by push cutting paper away from you, and cutting away from you in general. Keeping your knife sharp is also very important, dull knives can sometimes be unpredictable.

My worst cut was this summer when i wasnt paying attention wehn resheathing my yard dog and caught my thumb it was ugly and i was in the middle of nowhere so just controlled the bleeding till the next day. Always happens when you get careless
 
Oh gosh, if you don't see some of your blood from one cause or another at least once every month or so, then your life is way too boring. Made a quarter inch slice in one of my fingers just this week holding a Kabar MK2 like it was a writing pen while slicing open a taped package. Just too durn lazy to go in the next room for the little folder when the Kabar was right there on the desk. Forgot I had 'enhanced' the edge of the (no longer) 'false' edge. Realized my error in seconds.

It is absolutely amazing the brilliant ideas a human can come up with once supplied with enough alcohol. Dumbest night of my life was about 30 years ago when I had one or 4 beers too many and decided at least one of the kitchen butter knives should have a razor sharp edge on it. Job done I proudly went to bed as the sun came up and over the next few days forgot what I had done. A few weeks later after reaching into the kitchen drawer and grabbing a butter knife to butter a slice of bread in my hand while watching a TV I had sudden occasion to remember. That thin slice of sandwich bread offered no resistance at all to the razor. Durn near cut my palm in two with a single stroke.
 
Nicks and shallow slices nearly weekly. Not always from a knife but metal, paper, etc. Only had deep cuts maybe 3 times. Once I was whittling when I was real young and cut a chunk out of my pinky near the nail. Once cutting the plastic to the toilet paper and was distracted by a coworker. The last time I can't remember what happened.
 
I'm not sure. You might be a bad knife handler. I think you should just send me all of your knives for safe keeping ;)
 
Between mechanic work, sheet metal work and knife work I literally can't count how many scars I have on my hands - I always lose track around two hundred. Knife scars are a small minority, and only one has ever required a hospital visit. I nicked a small vein that time and couldn't get it to stop bleeding by myself.
 
One time a few years back, I was notching a stick to put in a bird cage for a perch and the blade slipped and hit my left hand with good force. Laying my thumb and index finger open to the bone. I remember seeing white bone before blood filled the cuts. Had to go to the hospital and be sewed up.
Well, anyways that taught me a lesson as it should have. I'm much more respectful of sharp objects now and haven't had anything happen since. I put the little Buck up with the dried blood on it and haven't used it since- just as a reminder to be careful.
 
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