Accidents and mistakes you've made with your knife

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Let's hear some silly and/or stupid mistakes you've made while using your knives, or even accidents you've seen or heard about. Whether the mistake was cutting yourself or cutting too deep into a precious package.

While trying to style my brand new Izula with some paracord, I started to pull on the sheath and the cord to make it tight (yea, I was doing it backwards) and I held my middle finger right where the blade came out of the sheath. 6 stitches and blood all over my nice new shirt was the result. There was also this one time that my mother had ordered an expensive pair of headphones, and cut right through the cord with a kitchen knife while trying to open the package.

Let's hear them stories.
 
I showed my kids, long ago, how to cut with a knife and push the blade away from your body. Never pull the blade toward you. Well, I pulled instead of pushed and we went and got stitches in my thumb. Was a brand new Buck knife back then, about 1970.
Sonny
 
Use to carry a balisong tip up instead of tip down.
Knife opened in my pocket and sliced my little finger open

"Practiced" flicking my Crkt reverse grip gravity style.
Lost my concentration and it flew out my hand past my heel and cut it next to my achilles tendon.
A half an inch right I may have crippled my self from injuring my tendon

Put too much oil on the pivot of the same knife mentioned above.
Held it wrong, lost my concentration, slipped and cut my left thumb open skinning the muscle a tad.

Weed eater broke so used a 7" hunting knife as a machete to lop the stray grass.
Held a bunch of grass wrong, lost my concentration (again!!!!) and cut into. My left index finger tip through my finger nail.
Lucky finger tip mended together
 
Cut a huge gash into my cousin's brand new mattress with my waved delica while cutting through a clam package. Thank goodness for two sided mattresses! :D
 
young, stupid and easily impressed with gimmicky tacticlol stuff, was wrist flicking a cheap stiletto with the tip down, ended up stabbing my left calf with half an inch of the tip.
 
Was cutting up some cardboard with a construction-type utility knife. Of course I was pulling instead of pushing. Cut right through the side of my wrist. Never got stitches, but I should have. Bled for a long time and It still isn't right. I cut through some ligaments in the process.
 
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A friend of mine handed my knife back to me, and I thought he had closed it, so I flipped it around into a reverse grip in my hand when the handle cleared his hand. Unfortunately the blade was still open, and it sliced his hand a little, and almost cut my wrist as it came around.
 
I was 18, was locked out of a motel room and attempting to jimmy the cheap window lock when the NorMark knife I had (had high, exposed lock release) folded on me and cut my pinky pretty bad. Needed a stitch or two but never got them. Then just a few years ago I was inside of a cabinet used to house a PC and large LCD, trying to extricate some of the cabling which was all zip tied. I was leaning at a bad angle, holding my weight with my left hand and tring to cut a zip tie with a sodbuster when the blade slipped and I stabbed straight into my left index finger's second knuckle. Pretty sure I damaged something because I have a raised bump on that knuckle.
 
I was holding a lockback with a loose pivot, pushed the lock with my thumb, the blade swung down and cut into my index finger.
 
bdmicarta said:
I was holding a lockback with a loose pivot, pushed the lock with my thumb, the blade swung down and cut into my index finger.
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I did this with an Axis lock. :(
Since then, I make sure the pivot is tighter.

I loaned a coworker a knife a long time ago, be was cutting cardboard on the sidewalk, dragging the blade across the concrete. Ouch. Good thing it wasn't a Umnumzaan.
 
I feel like there has been so many times I should have had stitches but never got them... maybe just the way my parents did things, if you weren't dead, you didn't go to the hospital, lol..
I've had exposed bone from dog bites and some nasty cuts... luckily I'm still here, although I have a few fingers in some weird conditions, the dog bite one healed all weird, couldn't bend that finger straight for the longest time, lol.

I've done a few stupid things....
Cutting some paper after I sharpened a spyderco dragonfly... sliced right through a nice portion of my index finger.
Flipping a karambit around and stabbed myself in the palm with it.
Flipped a balisong closed on my finger once when I was younger and trying to figure out how to flip it around like I'd seen people do before.

It happens... usually when I get a new knife that I'm not used to and I'm being stupid... luckily the accidents have gone down since getting into knives. :)
 
First, last, and only knife cut I ever had was when I was maybe five or six. Obviously, this has been a lifelong interest for me. It was one of those all-steel mini-multitools that they sell for nail maintenance. The blade wasn't very sharp, and that was probably the problem. I wasn't supposed to have it, either, and so when I jabbed my finger and had to go to the parents for first-aid, it was big trouble, for me.

It didn't cure me of my fascination with knives.

Thus far, my few other bad experiences have been far worse for the knife than for me. I've learned the hard way how to cut zip ties, after getting my knuckles busted a few times. I had a small, cheapo knife that snapped it's pivot pin after a short trip to a concrete floor, and I bent the tip on my Kershaw Needs work. I was disappointed about the cheap knife, and pissed about the Kershaw. If you're going to call it the "Needs Work", it should damn well be able to cut drain hose!

Unless they mean that the design of the knife needs work.... Anyway, it's waiting to take it's turn at the grinder for a modification, and I still have the parts of the cheap knife, waiting for some day when I feel brave enough to drill the pivot out for an English size pivot pin.

Thanks, guys. Hearing about other people's "duhs" always makes a person feel better!
 
Looks like I'm not the only one who ended up on the wrong side of an inverted inertial opening gone bad. Got 10 stitches in my calf.
 
my worst was when i was paracord wrapping a new Izula... i was nearly finished and went to pull the cord just a little tighter and pulled the knife from the sheath i was holding on to. cut my left index and middle fingers to the bone.
 
I've recently cut myself a couple of times closing two different folders with one hand. The Bedlam clipped my pinky nail off and sent it flipping off as the knife cut into my nail bed. Then with my Leek, I closed it with my right hand the other day and it caught my thumb on the pad area slicing out a divot.
 
sharpening a knife i lost my concentration and missed the sharpener. A little pocket graphite sharpener. and cut my index finger to the bone
 
Some time ago I was working in a now-defunct sporting-goods store. All the knives had typical factory edges, and the edge is often a liability in trying to sell the things. A couple of us improved the edges, which also improved sales. A half hour after sharpening up a CRKT MiTigh, I was showing it to a customer while simultaneously trying to get some impatient sort his ammo. The customer says "thanks," and while talking with other customer about ammo, hold my hand out to receive the safely folded knife. Not so.

He stuck it point first into my palm, sees the blood and wanders away. Required a couple of stitches, but was a valuable reminder to meself about multitasking with dangerous items.
 
bdmicarta said:
I was holding a lockback with a loose pivot, pushed the lock with my thumb, the blade swung down and cut into my index finger.
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I swung an Endura into my index finger. I'd had a Delica for a month or two before and it just didn't have the blade mass to swing that hard.

After that I was careful to have my index finger in the choil before attempting the daring swing. :rolleyes:
 
A friend who shall remain nameless and i were bored...

So we decided it would be a good idea to throw a midsize cardboard box back and forth, opening our knives quickly and stabbing the box before it hit the ground. He was using a midsize fixed blade of mine and i was using my paramilitary 2. It all went well for about 5 rounds of throws. I drew my knife quickly, flicking the blade open. As those of you who have a P2 know, the ball bearing detent holds the knife closed and re-engages as the blade is about 10 degrees from fully open. I realized the detent had prevented the blade from locking as my hand was moving towards the flying box. The knife folded on contact with the cardboard, i thought i had been unscathed until i withdrew the knife from the box, and realized my hand was leaking, lots. I reflexively threw the knife towards the ground. Splattering Adin-juice on the floor. At the hospital they told me i had hit bone which prevented my finger from being lopped of altogether. This was a little over half a year ago and if i knew how the sharpen then how i do know i would be down half a finger. 5 stitches in my right index later, i know open my knife with two hands, most of the time.
 
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