Anyone scared of that knife that cut them?

wec12 said:
Scared at first then love Caly 3 still.

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Be careful, everyone.
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God damn... Worst cut I got was with my SAK Farmer, cutting an orange.

With my palm as the cutting board.

I deserved the pain, and have since learned. Nothing too bad since then.
 
I have an old 2-blade Case folder. My grandma confiscated a bunch of knives from my dad and my uncles when they were kids and she kept them hidden all these years. One night I was visiting her at her senior living apartment and she asked me if I wanted any of her old jewelry or anything. I jokingly told her all I wanted were all the old knives and bb guns and slingshots she snagged from Dad and uncles. She surprised me when she told me to go fetch her a tupperware bin from under her bed! She gave me a bunch of cool old knives.

This particular Case belonged to my Uncle Gary. The tip was broke on one of the blades, the thicker of the two, and I repaired it. I offered it back to him, but he told me to keep it. It cleaned up really nice. The other blade is kind of long and thin and super sharp. My friend from Montana, old elk hunter, told me that was a boning blade. I figured it would work pretty good for filleting fish too if I didn't have anything better.

Anyway, that boning blade is BLOOODTHIRSTY! I've cut myself on it several times, no matter how careful I try to be. I've learned my lesson and go reallllll slow when I'm closing it now because no matter how careful I am with that blade it still seems to bite me here and there. Part of the reason is that it kind of snaps shut once you fold it past a certain point and the other part is that it's scalpel-sharp. I treat all blades with respect, but that one gets an extra measure of caution from me.
 
Ya, I have been cut by knives, enough to draw a lot of blood to be freaky but the cut its self never requires stitches or loss of mechanics of the arm, etc..

When I am cut by a knife accidentally, I will never get rid of. it It is as if the knife and I have bonded and it will treat me well, as long as I treat it well. It has worked thus far. Sort of like an old viking ritual with steel......

Have you guys ever read tolkiens books and the way blades take on their own personality, very cool to read... he had a nak for steel...
 
I've had plenty of bits from my blades. One recently made me a bit leery to even touch it for a few days.
I had sharpened an Endura 4; and did not think iwas upt to sharpness. I checked the edge and went to put it on a table. I put it right on the edge without looking and the blade fell straight to my calf and stuck in almost straight up in my leg.
Blood was everywhere. It eventually fell out. I staunched the bleeding about an hour later.

As a true knife knut, I was stopping the bleeding while thinking of the rust that will form on the blade from the blood ;)
 
i had my share of cuts when i was litlle boy,even then i was more mad at myself then scared of knives(in my hands);)
 
Funny this topic should come up. I just got a Cold Steel Voyager in a trade a couple of days ago and that knife has cut my fingers twice already. I've got plenty of knives that should be a lot sharper than this (including a Krein regrind Sere 2000), but this one has bit me twice. I still love it and carry it more than a lot of my other knives - it's probably the cheapest knife I own, but I love to carry it.

Not afraid of it. I'm just afraid of my own stupidity.
 
Not scared, but some definitely make me more cautious than others. I have a couple knives that seem to swing closed a lot more freely than they open, those have got me a couple of times and tend to make me a bit more wary. I tend to have issues when I'm closing those knives without looking at my hand as I do it. I have an Emerson that comes closest to scaring me, so I really have to pay attention when I close it, as I got a really unpleasant cut from it once. That suck really dug in causing me to drop it on the couch making a very nice hole. The part that makes me hesitant is thinking how much worse it could have been though. I later noticed with that one, my finger slides up onto the wave during the closing cycle which causes a brief but quick change in how fast the blade is closing.
 
Several months ago when I received my Kershaw Leek, I laughed at the instructions which advised to "practice opening the blade with the blade cover on". My joviality ended when I opened it using the thumb-stud for the first time and sliced my thumb open. It quickly became a display piece up until a couple of weeks ago. The feeling came back to my thumb (and my guts) and I started carrying it again. Haven't used the thumb-stud to open it again however.
 
I once had a really kewl 80s vintage aluminum and rosewood Manila Folder with a Seki 440C weehawk blade that I oversharpened on both edges. I nipped myself a few times, but after it jumped out of my hand and tried to kill me I thought it would be best if I sold it at a loss. It was that or lock it in a cage. This knife had an unknown history and I'm fairly certain bad things were done with it. It gave you this odd feeling just from holding it in your hand, and I didn't much care for it. That was the only knife I ever owned that scared me.
 
I find I don't really "like" my knives until I've been cut by it. Of course, I'm considering a nice chainmail glove, hopefully I can find one in titanium.
 
Bah! If you're scared of getting cut you're on the wrong forum. If you're into knives there are three truths. You will get cut, you will have patches of hair missing from various places on your forearms, you will cut more paper than you use. :D At least this is how see it.
 
Tony8179 said:
Bah! If you're scared of getting cut you're on the wrong forum. If you're into knives there are three truths. You will get cut, you will have patches of hair missing from various places on your forearms, you will cut more paper than you use. :D At least this is how see it.
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Well put! :thumbup:

I've slipped up and cut myself with several of my knives to some degree or another and I still use them.
 
Once I start drinking the sharp things get put away;).On the serious side,I guess I'm most careful with my daggers,because of two razor sharp sides instead of only one to look out for.Yes,I have been bit,more than once.:o
 
A knife is in inanimate object. To be scared of them you may as well be afraid of the boogie man.

When I was a lad fishing with my dad, I remember him asking for the fillet knife in the tackle box. I pulled it out and unsheathed it, not realizing my thumb was near the blade. It cut deep and there was much blood. However, my dad taped it up with piece of cloth and duck tape until we reached shore and he took my to the local hospital to get stitches. On the way home he asked me if I had learned anything. I replied yes, to make sure my thumb was away from the blade when removing it form its sheath.

I used to have a fear of snakes until one night my wife found a rattlesnake in our tent while camping. I told her not to move, cut a limb with a fork in in it, quickly trapped the snake with it and then killed it with my knife. The fear disappears when a member of your family is threatened.

Fear destroys reason. When using and handling knives, simply learn to be careful, respect their sharpness and you rarely get cut.
 
The Cold Steel Kudu that 'bit' me is now with a family member...not because I was scared of the knife, but because I continued to struggle with the damned locking mechanism and knew I'd hurt myself again. The first one was six stitches.
 
Worst cut I've gotten probably required stitches but ended up using super glue to fix it up. I had just caught the Rough Rider bug and picked up a yellow handled canoe. While playing with it and just looking at the fit and finish, I accidentally closed the smaller blade on my left index finger. The trouble was that it closed all the way and ended up slicing through a good piece of my finger. I started bleeding all over the table, and wherever I went for the next hour or so while I put pressure on it to keep it from bleeding. Once it stopped bleeding, I superglued that sucker shut and applied it as necessary.

Worst part? It was at my fiancée's parents' place. They saw everything.
 
Play with knives, and you are gonna get cut.

I won't stop playing with knives, so I see the result as the price I pay.


Most avoidable has to be the time my Spyderco ZDP-189 Mule fell of the coffee table, right into my bare foot, between the last two toes. I was lucky it didn't do any tendon damage. That one smarted.

I still have nerve damage in my left hand, a Livesay something or other opened the inside of my hand, the second finger, to the light of day. I saw blood moving with the rhythm of my heart, and didn't let go of my hand until the doctor was looking at it.


Marion
 
Incahiker said:
Ya, I have been cut by knives, enough to draw a lot of blood to be freaky but the cut its self never requires stitches or loss of mechanics of the arm, etc..

When I am cut by a knife accidentally, I will never get rid of. it It is as if the knife and I have bonded and it will treat me well, as long as I treat it well. It has worked thus far. Sort of like an old viking ritual with steel......

Have you guys ever read tolkiens books and the way blades take on their own personality, very cool to read... he had a nak for steel...
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my new OKC SP42 and i consummated our relationship, today. tricky typing with bandaids on two different fingers. who knew flipping a razor sharp knife, w/a 7" blade, end over end and catching it with each hand could be dangerous :confused:

and like one other poster said - i hadn't fully got the bleeding stopped and i was already trying to get the blood off the polished edge of that 5160 out of corrosion fears :D
 
Why would you fear the knife, it is you who got yourself cut right?
When I cut myself, I think why I did it and then be more careful.
Lesson learned.
 
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