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

i cut my right pointer to the bone right outa high school, i was working irrigation at the time and just opened it up and poured irrigation glue in it... it worked but it definitely hurt like a sum beach
 
Yeah I know my feet are dirty, spent a little time in the garden today... that’s a 25+ year old scar from the time my big toe bone stopped a sickle. Parents didn’t have insurance so super glue and a whole lot of gauze was good enough. Not even an antibiotic script, fortunate to still have the toe.
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Two times...

1. My uncle Lacey gave me my very first knife...a tiny one inch blade with pearl scales.
I was 7 years old and my back itched.
So, I scratched my back with my knife.
Uncle Lacey kept that blade sharp as heck...and I sliced about a 4 inch laceration on my back.
But Mom and Dad still let me keep the knife after my Dad convinced my Mom that I had learned my lesson.

2. I was cutting a zip-tie off of a plastic trunk with my Victorinox Electrician (using the small sheepsfoot blade).
I was cutting with my right hand horizontally from 3 o'clock to 9 o'clock.
I was holding the trunk with my left hand so it wouldn't slide while cutting the zip-tie.
Well, the blade cut through that zip-tie like a hot knife through butter.
It cut through the zip-tie and then right into my left hand just between the thumb and index finger.
A PA friend that I work with stitched it up and she did a great job (thank you Margaret!).
Just a tiny scar remains.
 
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Latest incident: I was messing around with my CJRB Gobi 2 weeks ago while sitting in a chair with shorts on. While closing it, it slipped and the tip punctured my inner thigh and the belly landed across my right big toe. Instant blood with both. :confused: It all happened so fast I wasn't sure which to take care of first. Luckily the inner thigh puncture wasn't too bad and missed any major arteries. The toe is still healing and will have a nice souvenir scar.
 
vjb.knife said:
You know that web of skin between your thumb and forefinger? Most of that on my left hand got cut off. I got 38 stitches.
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Damn! how did that happen? I have sliced that open real bad before accidentally slipping while using a screw driver. Not nearly as many stitches as you.
 
Cutting some nice big French ham after drinking quite unreasonably for a friend's birthday, the super duper pointy tip of my ruike p831 slips on my pinky.
Never bled as much as this day, not the longest scar but was quite deep.
Of course the ham was messed up and full of blood.
 
When I was 8, got a new knife for my birthday. Decided to see what was inside a golf ball. The knife slipped and went through my left hand between the thumb and forefinger. We spent most of the rest of my birthday at the emergency room!
 
Years ago, I had a temp job landscaping/pruning. Was cutting some small stuff down with a Thai machete. Went to push a limb away with my leg, and ended up banging my knee into the blade. Ouch. It was sharp.

I gave my brother a cool 10" hill tribe knife from Thailand, in a nice wooden sheath with rattan wrapping, I think. The wooden sheaths swell and stick sometimes. He held the sheath in his hand with the blade edge toward his palm. Cut right through the palm of his hand when pulling it out.
 
I can’t and won’t read this thread, I’ll faint (I once fainted out of a chair getting a haircut because they had ESPN on and they were talking about an injury, I’m a big puss). But I did put a G&B hatchet through my knee about 2 miles away from any road while teaching my kid how to make a snare. That was fun. Still can’t believe it happened the way it did. Blah... All turned out fine, and my kid thinks the scar is cool.
 
Cutting a zip tie last February I jammed the knife I was using at the time into my palm right below my left thumb. I held off on going to the hospital for as long as I could but was still bleeding 6 hours later. 5 stitches and a tetanus shot. Worst I've done with a knife...
 
Not the most serious injury that I've done to myself, that one involved alcohol and I don't care to discuss it. Other than that, my most dramatic knife mishap was when I hit a glancing blow with a machete and cut right through my boot, with the client standing right there. He didn't see that I had cut myself, so I went to the truck and put gauze and duct tape over my sock, pulled my boot back on and finished the job. Later I had to admit my mistake to the cobbler when I took my boot to be repaired.
 
Had a Kershaw cqc get stuck half way open in my pocket. Reached in, it snapped shut on the last knuckle of the middle finger of my right. If it hadnt cut on a slight angle I would have lost a third of that finger. The doctor that stitched me happened to be a knife guy, and was carrying a Spyderco leafstorn.

The Kershaw was not mine, I'd never tried a waved knife before. I was carrying my ZT 0801.
 
i am proud of my scars, shows im either a knife user, or stupid, maybe both, but in reality, you will eventually cut yourself, regardless how deep or small --- that being said, the worse time i cut myself i was practicing martial arts in the hallway of my house, and overshot and stuck the knife in the wall and my curled left index finger slid up the blade and immediately, red everywhere, huge drops and spills all the way to the sink, an ER stitches trip was in order
 
I sunk the entire blade on a falkniven F1 into my thigh once while skinning an elk. Had a few cuts over the years too but stabbing myself was the pinnacle.
 
First non-nail nick knife I ever owned... Bought it at Punkin Chunkin in the early 90's. It was a little Gerber with a thumb stud. I cut my thumb right down the middle, trying to be a cool guy... First day with the new knife...
 
Worst knife injury ever was to my wrist when it slipped trying to cut an apple with a SAK when I was about five years old. Lots and lots of blood. In retrospect I probably should've gone to the ER for stitches. Will likely have the scar forever. These days I actually don't cut myself very often at all. If I do it's usually from snapping a lockback shut on a fingertip trying to close it one handed.
 
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