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

Holding onto a package while attempting to cut the zip tie with a big fixed blade. When the zip tie finally broke the point of the blade slipped into bottom of my thumb. ouch!
 
I get tagged mostly when I'm playing around with new knives, especially ones with strong detents. After reading this entire thread in sheer horror I think I'm gonna be very respectful of these little rascals going forward.

I have a proposal. Let's adapt the 4 rules of gun safety to knives. I'll take a first stab at it (no pun intended, hehe)

1. Treat all knives as if they are about to slice your finger clean off.
2. Never open the knife unless you are about to cut something.
3. Keep your fingers away from the flipper tab, thumb stud, etc. until you are ready to cut.
4. Be sure of what you are cutting and what lies behind it.
 
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I haven't cut myself yet on my own knives.. wait till I start to learn whittling though lol! Just at work when I was a butcher.. never from cutting, but cleaning the blades not paying attention. Couple times called for who knows how many stitches. Thank God for gorrilla glue and tape.
 
I should confess, when I read the thread title my mind immediately added "with a knife you made".
Therefore in retrospect my previous reply is woefully incomplete.
I tried to grab a paring knife from my blind, autistic cousin's hand. I have absolutely no idea why it was in his reach (he was maybe 6, so it's not a huge task to secure things like that), but he luckily had this brand new Henckel by the handle though was waving it around close to his face. I, being the Heroic Older Cousin of 10, tried to take it without thinking and got a gash from the heel of my left palm to halfway up my ring finger as my reward. There is still a faint scar visible in the inside of the knuckles of the finger, but I think it ended up only needing 10 or 12 stitches along the top 2/3 of the lesson.
 
Was using my Edge-Pro Apex sharpening a ZT 0456. The blade was resting on the sharpener anchored by the magnet ready to sharpen.

Reached to the rear of my bench to grab my stone water bottle and the meat of my palm caught the blade and sliced me open like a pig in the slaughterhouse.

Went and had four inside and 6 outside stitches to hold my meat together.

Bled all over the house.
 
SlideRacker said:
I get tagged mostly when I'm playing around with new knives, especially ones with strong detents. After reading this entire thread in sheer horror I think I'm gonna be very respectful of these little rascals going forward.

I have a proposal. Let's adapt the 4 rules of gun safety to knives. I'll take a first stab at it (no pun intended, hehe)

1. Treat all knives as if they are about to slice your finger clean off.
2. Never open the knife unless you are about to cut something.
3. Keep your fingers away from the flipper tab, thumb stud, etc. until you are ready to cut.
4. Be sure of what you are cutting and what lies behind it.
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NEVER !!!
I'm a knife juggler always will be.
 
mushka said:
22rimfire, never try to catch a dropped knife or gun. Lettum go.
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Oh I know.... it was my gut reaction at the time because I didn't own the knife and didn't want to take a chance on breaking/damaging it inside the store. Pretty much felt the fool. The store wanted to take me to the emergency room. Lots of blood. But you are of course right. I would try to catch a gun however.
 
Worst cut I ever got was from an electric hedge trimmer. Luckily didn't cut the top of my index finger tip off. :eek:

Stopped an an urgent care center a few miles away but they said they couldn't handle it. Then had to drive myself to the ER about 10 more miles away to get it sewed up.

Blood everywhere until I staunched the flow w/some paper towels. The finger healed but the tip is still numb to this day. :(

Cut myself a few times mishandling balis and while cutting food in the kitchen but nothing to compare w/the hedge trimmer. That was classic. LOL!!!
 
I've cut the tip of my right thumb off twice, and once dropped a multitool onto my big toe while wearing flip-flops. :eek: Lots of blood in all three cases, but fortunately no permanent damage.

I learned a good lesson every time, too -- it's just that with my thumb it didn't stick the first time. o_O:D
 
I used to cut hair out from the vacuum cleaner roller thing with a Stanley knife. One day, digging at a stubborn snarl of hair that wrapped itself around the roller, I managed to accidentally slip and disengage from the hair, and nearly sliced through the tip of my thumb, that was keeping the roller stationary. Maybe 1/32 inch? It was a nice flap of skin.
 
A couple of years ago, when I first got into the hobby, I was opening a packaged from I believe ebay when I used too much force and jammed the tip of my Boker Kalashnikov half an inch into my left hand. Just got back home from a late shift and was happy to open a bunch of packages that were waiting for me. There was a lot of blood and I believe a lot of hydrogen peroxide. It's the most visible scar I have on my body, resting between my index and thumb. Reminds me to not be an idiot and cut away from me whenever I look at it.
 
SlideRacker said:
I get tagged mostly when I'm playing around with new knives, especially ones with strong detents. After reading this entire thread in sheer horror I think I'm gonna be very respectful of these little rascals going forward.

I have a proposal. Let's adapt the 4 rules of gun safety to knives. I'll take a first stab at it (no pun intended, hehe)

1. Treat all knives as if they are about to slice your finger clean off.
2. Never open the knife unless you are about to cut something.
3. Keep your fingers away from the flipper tab, thumb stud, etc. until you are ready to cut.
4. Be sure of what you are cutting and what lies behind it.
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Most intelligent thing I've read in days.
 
Not my story but a friend of mine's. Long ago (think 20 years ago or so) he was slicing sausage or ham or something in the kitchen, alone. He had the left hand on the cutting board holding whatever he was cutting and whith the knife in the right hand sneezed SO HARD that due to the abdominal crunch and general body muscle flex... he chopped INTO HIS LEFT HAND on the cutting table.

At first he didn't feel much, but saw blood and a little worm like white thing on the wound. He pinched on it with his right hand, pulled on it and lifted his left hand index finger. He had chopped that tendon and nicked two more. He almost passed away, put a rag over the wound and managed to open the door of his house to ring the neighbour. He was taken to the ER and wore a cast for the best part of the summer. I know because he came to the scout-like summer camp with it. Not funny. The scars are... amazing.

Since then I try to put down whatever I am holding if I feel I am going to sneeze... just in case.

Mikel
 
As a chef it was an occupational hazard. Only once in 30 years did I require medical attention. I recall they cauterized it.

But the absolute worst, is hand slicing button mushrooms and taking the tip of one of your digits clean off. It can’t be found because it’s perfectly camouflaged.
 
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I had a ZT that had terribly early lock-up, like most that I've experienced. I kept disassembling the knife to set more liner lock tension. About the 3rd or 4th time through reassembling I went to check the lock; right hand grabbing the handle, left had torquing the blade. That was the last time I made that mistake. The second mistake was not tightening the pivot screw, allowing the lock to work loose. The third mistake was not trusting my presumption that the lock geometry wasn't safe.

I had just sharpened the damn thing too. The result was a blade under tension suddenly releasing and flying towards my index knuckle. It cut deep enough to see fatty tissue. It wound up nicking a tendon, a lot of blood that night. When I woke up the next morning, the knuckle felt numb. I did a little research, and damn near fainted. The facts were showing a chance of permanent loss of feeling. Its been about a year since the incident, and I'm happy to say I have about 90-95% of the feeling return to the area. Sometimes you learn the hard way.
 
Lost part of the tip of my left index finger. Has a nice concave circle in my finger tip now. Was cutting up meat to make stew (or something) late at night and too tired and got careless. I went to my doctor neighbor to ask if thought it was worth a trip to the ER to re-attach. He said they wouldn't bother since I'll still have full use of a finger.
 
Worst cut I ever saw was my mom. I was around 5 yrs old and my Mom was slicing open a bagel before I went to school for the day. She slipped in the midst of this and managed to drive a good sized kitchen knife all the way through the palm of her hand and out the backside. Missed all the bones but nicked what I can only assume was an artery or large vein in her hand. Her initial reaction to this was to instantly pull the knife back out (wrong) which essentially turn our kitchen into a horror scene. I can still remember the blood arcing through the kitchen vividly 30 years later. She still has a pretty gnarly scar on both sides of her hand. Oddly not her worst injury. ER visits run thick in our family. :confused:

As for me, I am a machinist so my hands have pretty thick skin. It takes a pretty good cut to even draw blood. No major cuts from knives for me.
 
My worst buried the spey blade on my 301 stockman deep into the Web of my left hand when piece of walnut broke when carving,was going to go to er but I had a 75 min drive to pickup a friend from work,drove with it pressed to cold windo rest of the day
 
When I got my protect tr4 I decided to split a bagel with it. I was so use to my crappy bagel knife that the bad habit of letting the blade touch my palm carried over. Tr4 hit my palm and split it right open :eek: that one stung.
 
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