Admit it... how bad have you cut yourself ?

Turbobaer

Turbobaer

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So the other day i was fidgeting with my rescue 3 not paying attention and jammed the spyderedge info my knuckle and drew some blood. That got me thinking of how bad have you guys oop’sd.

My worst was when I was a young whipper snapper building model airplanes, slipped the exacto knife right into my left pointer finger. Have a nice 1” scar i look at daily.
 
RAT 1. Blazing sharp. Managed to make all the skin north of my thumbnail look like an open Pez dispenser. Super glued it. Taped it up. Said prayers to various deities. Wondered for a couple night if I should have gone to the hospital. Thumb healed up just fine and now I get pins and needles whenever I handle a RAT 1. So I don't. Great knife though.
 
Tried to Jimmy a door with my Protech TR3 and I closed the button lock on accident. Blade slammed shut on my finger and about half of my finger went numb. Three (I think?) stitches took care of me and like 2 years later my finger has all of its feeling back except for a small part near the knuckle right where the cut was at; like the size of a pencil eraser.
 
Had a Pro-Tech Dark Angel open directly into my palm due to, um, mishandling on my part :rolleyes:
 
I’ve never been cut bad by a knife, but I have been cut a lot. I’m a hobbyist knife maker, so it’s painful but not unusual for me to get sliced, poked, or filleted at some point.
 
I worked in the warehouse portion of a Service Merchandise. I was cutting with a box cutter in my right hand cutting right to left, and sliced myself on the left hand. Had to get 7 stitches and cut an artery. I kept the T-shirt I was wearing for years because it had a line of blood spray shooting over my shoulder.
 
I don't remember the knife. It could have been a SOG Flash II, Ka-bar Mule or some cheap Smith and Wesson branded knife I would've been carrying at that time in my life. I was topside cutting tape and plastic off shore power cables and got my right thumb real good starting from back behind the nail and a nice crescent to the front. Real deep. Blood everywhere. Tried to find Doc but he was off the ship. By the time he got back it was too late for stitches. I was lucky there was no lasting damage.
 
Thirty years ago I cut my thumb pretty extracting a Gerber Guardian series knife (the little camo boot knife that came with a camo nylon sheath) from its too-tight sheath. I've sliced and diced my hands occasionally when I wasn't being careful while whittling, though never seriously. I also had a Shun hawkbill paring knife bury itself the better part of an inch in my forearm when it fell from a knife block that had been idiotically moved to the top of our refrigerator. It bounced and landed lawn dart style in my arm, whoops. Blood all over the kitchen that time, looked like a murder scene.
 
When I was 8 or so, closed a SAK on my finger by accidentally holding it reverse. Still have the scar to prove it.

In my early 20s, tried to open a coconut with a kitchen knife. Needed microscopic emergency surgery in the middle of the night to sow the nerves in my hand back together.

These days, I have a slight cut every week or so ... Nothing major, usually I attribute it to the knife's character :)

Roland.
 
Worst cuts I’ve ever had was i slice my pointer finger straight down the middle from the tip with a Leatherman Surge blade trying to cut out some copper and aluminum coils more than a decade ago and the last one that went deep was learning to to simply open and close the Kershaw Lucha. I learned that day why the bite handle is called just that...

Other cuts here and there but those two were the 2 that stand out off the top of my head
 
In all my years of, let's face it, playing with knives, I've only had the odd nick here and there from my pocket knives.

Where all my serious cuts have come from, is kitchen knives. The worst of which happened while I was washing one and it slipped, severely cutting my right index finger. I tried my damnedest to patch it up myself to no avail. The next morning I headed to the ER for stitches, and I still have the scar and a hard section of scar tissue on my finger to show for it.
 
I was trying to chop a branch from a ladder, because I was an idiot and didn't want to go buy an extendable pruning tool. The soil was saturated with rainfall, and after a few swings it underwent liquefaction. The ladder tilted and I got my left thumb in the way of a BK9. I cut a piece of my glove off along with a dime-sized chunk of flesh. I had to go get better first aid supplies with my hand wrapped in a bloody towel. I have tried to avoid serious dumbassery with sharp objects ever since.
 
Not actually my worst, but best reaction. Was sitting on my bed...on top of my wife's brand new "white" duvet cover. Fidlin' with a knife as usual. My daughter was across the room on the couch. My daughter stood up to leave the room, right as I cut into my finger. Must have hit something with a pulse, because blood spurted across the white down cover. Daughter saw it and went down. Really hesitated calling out for the wife's help. Not sure if she would be most angry at bloodsoaked down, making girl pass out, or me standing there holding my finger together.
 
I stabbed a Buck M9 bayonet into my palm requiring numerous stitches. Also I cut the tip of my thumb off closing a ZT 0566.
 
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Latest crazy knife related injury: I stood up off the couch and my kershaw 4kxl fell off my lap, popped the blade open on impact, lodged itself a quarter inch into the bottom of my bare foot. I butterflied and glued it and limped for 2 days. I'm still blown away by the odds that actually happened.
 
I stabbed myself halfway through the hand with my friend's Katana while I was sharpening it. It didn't hit anything serious, thankfully. A couple stitches later and I was fine.

With a knife, I was gifted one of those cheap S&W folders, one day it slipped its framelock and collapsed on my index finger when I was twisting on it. It wasn't fun, but no real lasting damage.
 
OP - there is the bladeforums hall of meat thread :D

Several small nicks to my hands (and one on my thigh:oops:) but the worst was from testing lock slip of a framelock folder with two hands. To my surprise the lock slipped so easily that the darn thing cut almost to the bone of my hand. Took maybe five stitches. From that day I swear if a framelock knife has early lockup, it must have strong detent but the most important lesson is (1) never assume a lock won't slip under negative pressure and (2) should use the correct method of testing.
 
booze and fidgeting with a knife have resulted in some good ones, closing on fingers, slip and nip, dropped one and it stuck in my foot, had a nice one with a machete into a shin...most of em alcohol was involved but most scars have healed...cutting myself has been fairly common since boy scouts...these days thou I'm too old and the knife steels are too good to be so dumb and careless
 
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