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Siggyhk

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Well, I cut myself pretty bad last night. My knife (desert dagger) was falling off a speaker so I decided I should try to catch it before it hit the floor. That was a pretty bad idea as it cut the inside of my finger almost to the bone:( . (And the knife still hit the floor too.)
This isn't the first time I've cut myself either. I've actually cut myself to the point that I need a minor opperation to repair nerves and tendons (spec plus combat knife), as well as a childhoood accident in which I stabbed myself with a spyderco Jess Horn model that went right through my jeans and stabbed into my leg 2.5 to 3 inches (pretty much the whole blade).
-I'm wondering if I'm just accident prone and need to be more careful, or has this happened to others to one extent or another too. I guess it's obvious I need to be more careful, huh?
 
I think it happens to everybody,when I was 15, I sat on a Kershaw Amphibian! :eek:
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I think no matter how careful you are, if your a knife nut, your bound to get a cut once in a while. I slipped while cutting a piece of styrofome a few months back and gave myself 5 stiches on the inner thigh. (Kershaw ET).
 
Siggyhk said:
My knife (desert dagger) was falling off a speaker so I decided I should try to catch it before it hit the floor. That was a pretty bad idea as it cut the inside of my finger almost to the bone:( . (And the knife still hit the floor too.)
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That kind of accident happens to jugglers a lot. They'll sometimes instinctively shoot their hands out to grab any falling object around them, which is bad news if that object is a sharp knife. :o

I've heard that also happens with hacky sack players, but they try to "catch" falling objects with their knees and feet. :eek:
 
I cut the hell out of myself back in June with 2 of my knives...Took 9 ($2000) stitches to close both wounds. I'm still paying on that bill.:D.
 
I'm deffinately in need of some medical attention myself, but I don't think I can afford it. I'm still trying to pay off the bill from the combat knife incident.
 
One thing I learned a long time ago. If you have a knife in one hand remember where your other hand or body parts are in relation to the blade.
I did a wrap on a small all metal piece ( Naked) because it nicked me a couple of times. While doing a serving on the handle I pulled the undercord harder with one hand then the other. It came out of the kydex and went to the bone.
Nerve and tendon surgery made me think that I needed to pay more attention. That was the first bad laceration in 50+ years. I have seen some bad things in combat, but the worst was a man cleaning a moose with a large very sharp piece. He has little use of the hand he did not know where it was it relation to a strong joint split. Be careful out there.

Floyd
 
I'm deffinately in need of some medical attention myself, but I don't think I can afford it.
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If you definately need medical attention and cannot afford it, you need to go down to your county's health care clinic.

Leaving it be or trying to nurse it yourself(provided you need stitches or soft tissue repair) may well cost you far more money than it would if you took care of it now. Think gangrene and prosthetics to replace what they had to amputate.

Late last year, I dropped a knife on my foot. I tried to care for it at home for almost two months because it just would not heal. Despite my best efforts, it got BADLY infected. I was on Levaquan(a very powerful antibiotic. Next step up from there is an IV) for nearly two months. Shortly after that stab wound finally healed that same foot developed a potentially life threatening case of cellulitis which quickly spread up my leg.:eek: It was traced back to the original wound. Another two months of Levaquan and threats of hospitalization from my Dr. got me on the road to recovery.

Deep cuts and stab wounds are very serious matters. Don't put off going to the Dr. till it's too late and you lose function or something even worse.:(
 
The worst I've done so far (knock on wood) was to nick myself with my brand new, and still shaving-sharp CRKT S-2. All I was doing was cutting open a small plastic bag. Cardinal mistake with a knife: I wasn't paying attention to the direction the knife was headed vs. where my other hand was. That coupled with applying much more force to the knife than I needed--my muscle memory still being in tune with small, inexpensive, dull pocket knives.

Scary sharp, that knife was out of the box. I wasn't even 100% sure I'd got myself, at first.
 
Statistically, if you play with knives, you'll end up cutting yourself.

Just don't put knives on vibrating things like speakers.

I was in a bar once and the bass was so high the tables were shaking, and ours was not leveled. We dropped 2 beers :(
 
I've had people cut themselves with my knives cuz they didn't believe me when I said they were SHARP. :eek:
 
Well when I was young @ 12 I cut into my thumb pretty deep with a Boker Top-Lock while trying to open up a baseball (darn spherical shape makes for a good slip, lol) I still have the scar, besides that when I got into Balisongs and got my 1st BM42 I got plenty of cuts and every now and then I still do...Likes its been said already if you like knives as much as we all do eventually you will get cut...
 
Well, it's good to see I'm not alone. Well...Maybe it's not "good" considering the topic.
What acually happened was I set the knife on a wall speaker. It was sheathed, but I had it set up for IWB carry so there was nothing retention wise to hold the knife in the sheath. The speaker was off, but the knife was off balance. I went to stop the knife with my right hand by grabbing the sheath. The knife slipped right out and I tried to grab it with my left like an fool. I think I was unlucky enough to get nailed by the serrations judging from the shape of the wound. It actually cut two of my fingers, but the one cut is minor in comparrison. -Next time I think I'm going to just let it fall.
My 42 has got me plenty of times too.
 
Don't feel so bad this issue comes up every now and then and its alwasy the same story, knife was falling and I tried to grab it, its ok we all do it...well at least I know I have...Good luck healing serrated cuts are always harder to heal than clean cuts from a straight edge...
 
Don't try and catch falling knives! I expect you know that now. At catering college we were taught to jump back and with legs wider than shoulder width, land. I still do it now. Good exercise to practice it too. :)
 
I have never cut myself (or been cut, or cut someone else) with a knife or a saw and I work with them every day. I was once told by an old carpenter that you wern't really a carpenter untill you lost part of a finger, but it seems to me you arn't a good carpenter if you are careless enough to get cut. I know I just jinxed myself here.
I should add I have been injured in just about every other concivable (and some that almost don't seem possable) way including countless stabs to the hand with the tip of a drill gun and getting cut by just about anything that isn't a blade but is even remotely sharp and I don't know why but about once a month something catches some article of my clothing on fire... damn, I need to be more careful.
 
after my cousin cut me a long time ago, and a dumb incident with a box cutter and my wrist that could have been much worse before that, i've been pretty careful and have been pretty lucky

i hadn't bled at all since then until a couple months ago i caught a bit of my fingertip in my Native when i closed it, but i wasn't bad enough for a bandaid even

of course it took the gf no time to cut herself with the Mini-Champ i got her

what part of "cut away from your self" did she not understand? ;)
 
Last time I cut myself well, (if that is the correct term) I caught the cooking knife on the way down--point first into my palm.
A few days later my dentist dropped a tool and I noticed he just watched it on the way down with no 'catching' movement at all. He said it took a while to learn but now he catches nothing at all. I've been practicing since then.
Greg
 
Raining said:
I've had people cut themselves with my knives cuz they didn't believe me when I said they were SHARP. :eek:
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Some people are not very smart...and they don't listen.

While in Iraq, we had a detail to cut up sections of old firehose for use as bumper material. One of my privates said as he was pulling out his knife, "I guess it's time to saw this F*** in half." I gave him my blade and said, be careful it's sharp. We ended up taking him to the medics and having 4 of 5 fingers on his left hand stitched up.

I guess some people don't comprehend what SHARP means.
 
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