Anyone else buy band-aides since they started collecting knifes?

Band-aids are for little kids scraping their knees.

Real men that cut themselves with their own knives use Krazy-Glue.
 
Thanks for the words of wisdom about super glue. After a day of wearing a band-aide on my flayed finger I removed it and applied Gorilla Glue. Amazing result.
 
I like to lick the blades. Just put enough hot sauce on them to dull the edge a wee bit.
 
More like, have any of you started accumulating scars and stitches since collecting knives?

Yes, yes I have.

Not so much the collecting but the using.

All my fault though, so no confirmed incompetence save for my own.
 
I remember one time early in my relationship with my wife....she was in the kitchen washing dishes and I heard her say, "Son of a b####!." I knew that something was not right because she rarely used language like that. I think that may have been only the second or third time I ever heard her say anything along those lines. When ask if she cut herself, I learned that she had grabbed a kitchen knife resting in the bottom of a sink full of dishwater. Just wrapped her hand around the blade.

As a medic, my first thought was to grab my medical aid bag but, I had retired from the Reserves so that was not an option. Next was to look in the bathroom medicine cabinet. No luck there. Did this woman not have any band-aids? Who does not have band-aids in their kitchen or bathroom? My wife, apparently. After finding band-aids in a location only known to the Almighty and my wife, I was able to dress her wounds.

Now we have band-aids in the bathroom, a first aid kit in my Jeep Cherokee, and a trauma bag as part of the bug out gear.
 
I once heard someone say that a sharp knife is safer than a dull knife. I personally disagree. I sliced my finger really bad the other day, probably should’ve gotten stitches. If it hadn’t been razor blade sharp it wouldn’t have been too bad. My fingernail honestly saved me from much worse.
 
firefighterguy said:
I once heard someone say that a sharp knife is safer than a dull knife. I personally disagree. I sliced my finger really bad the other day, probably should’ve gotten stitches. If it hadn’t been razor blade sharp it wouldn’t have been too bad. My fingernail honestly saved me from much worse.
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I agree, it might be true for non-knife folks. But most of us knife nuts keep everything sharper than a straight razor, and something that sharp doesn't require much force at all to make a deep cut on your hand or fingers.
 
I'm the guy who started the thread not too long ago about wearing safety gloves when handling knives. The mods moved it to some obscure forum so I don't think too many people saw it. However, those who did basically laughed at me (all in good fun, of course). Sounds like some of you guys ought to consider using them:D.

By the way, as I type this I'm wearing two band-aids on my right hand. Cut my self while looking at a knife in an antique mall, after which I bought the knife. You know, as others have said, it's not yours 'til it bites you, and conversely, if it bites you it's yours.
 
firefighterguy said:
I once heard someone say that a sharp knife is safer than a dull knife. I personally disagree. I sliced my finger really bad the other day, probably should’ve gotten stitches. If it hadn’t been razor blade sharp it wouldn’t have been too bad. My fingernail honestly saved me from much worse.
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A sharp knife is safer from the aspect that it takes less force to cut something. More often than not, I cut myself when I have a blade slip due to applying excess pressure. Hence, a sharper knife should be safer in my hands. And yet, some people prefer a knife that is not very sharp (the wife being one). She complains when I sharpen the kitchen knives. Even to the point of telling me to leave one certain knife alone. Go figure.

Although, I will admit, you can really do a job on yourself when cut by a freshly sharpened knife. I've done it more than once.
 
I've cut myself 3x, once almost putting a knife completely through my left hand. Most of the cuts have not been bad, and when I really goofed it required stitches.
 
91bravo said:
I wonder how many of those, that have actually used super glue to seal their cuts, have sealed in an infection?
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As long as they give it time to bleed first, it's usually okay unless the blade was filthy--or if it had particularly "sticky" microbes. A lot of the spore-producing microbes also do quite well in a suddenly anaerobic environment and can screw you up, along with the mycobacteria (think tetanus, gangrene, rabies). The blood flood washes out the bad stuff in a quick slice, but punctures are another ballgame. Cat Scratch Fever is an actual thing, thanks to those filthy little claws poking holes in your skin that seal up right after. Once you seal with superglue, you are pretty much going to need oral antibiotics if anything goes wrong.
 
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bobobama said:
I'm the guy who started the thread not too long ago about wearing safety gloves when handling knives. The mods moved it to some obscure forum so I don't think too many people saw it. However, those who did basically laughed at me (all in good fun, of course). Sounds like some of you guys ought to consider using them:D.

By the way, as I type this I'm wearing two band-aids on my right hand. Cut my self while looking at a knife in an antique mall, after which I bought the knife. You know, as others have said, it's not yours 'til it bites you, and conversely, if it bites you it's yours.
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I'm not sure if I trust those gloves to not get cut clean through. I've seen someone do that here or a different formun. Proper chainmail, I trust a lot more. If not plated armor.:thumbsup:
 
C'mon, all of us who use and toy with sharp objects (specifically knives) cut ourselves from time to time. :( It may be because the knife (sword, etc.) is VERY sharp or not sharp enough; the fact is that we use/play with them a lot and "get bit". :rolleyes: Band aids and such are part of the equipment, kind of like sharpening stones. Buy 'em, keep 'em around, use 'em and accept the fact that it's part of the hobby; or collect beanie babies. ;)
 
Ironbut said:
For a while last Spring or Summer DLT Trading was sending a small pack of black DLT branded band-aids along with each knife order, which I thought was very appropriate. It's heartwarming when our vendors have our medical wellbeing in mind.:)
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Those dlt bandaids saved me several stitches on one occasion (playing with a busse) because I was able to pull it out about a second before the red started flowing.
 
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I don't recall using many bandaids at all since becoming an adult. I just don't tend to have too many "booboos" that need kisses and pieces of absorbent tape that don't really do much.

I tend to need super glue or stitches, or just spit on it and rub it on my jeans. :D Lol

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