Arthur the aardsnark!

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Silverthorn said:
There but for the grace of god go I. My Candiru cut was 1/16th of an inch from that I think. Just a slightly different angle and slower reflexes and that would have been my pic. I have the freakin shivers now.
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I came close with my Dozier Bushcraft knife. Was washing it and the knife slit right through the wash rag and zapped the tip of a finger. Scalpel style.
A centimeter or so back, and I would have a much flatter finger these days.

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Did something similar with a Becker kitchen knife. They come sharp out of the box.

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and....just gave myself a little scratch sharpening my Zing.
Bsmith hasn't posted much here in a while, I was wondering what he was up to. Hopefully not more of the same. That was UGLY. Nothin' ta sew together....ain't no stitches gonna fix dat! I'm thinking some sort of G10 prosthesis after it heals.
 
I originally built both of my wheels, and relaced them both once. For me trueing them is the easiest part, I could get them dead straight in less than 10 minutes if it's really bad.
 
Dexwithers said:
Mine too.

I'm excited about the new camp lore line they have as well.

I just wish the standard ESEE scales weren't so flat. BK's have really spoiled me to palm swells.
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The new ESEE Camp Lore scandi has roundish scales.
 
granitestateofmind said:
Waow....I was living across Lake Ontario in Rochester until '86....worked at a shop that had been in business for 50 years even then: Geo. Rennie's Cyclodynamic Specialists. Georgina Terry was an acquaintance, before her custom business took off. Learned nearly everything I know about bikes working there, including wheel building.

still never used one, and never had one fail.

Build about 10 in a row - that's all it takes. Lot of great info on that stuff on the late, great Sheldon Brown's site.
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Mike, we NEED to talk! lol
 
Hand/arm injuries are scary. I never suffered a cut quite like that, but I did take a few fairly serious nicks that exposed bone and/or messed up tendons. (Meat grows back, but it's just plain gross to get a bird's-eye-view of the innards of your own knuckles... take my word for it.)

There were two in particular that took years to heal, and severely messed with my ability to, y'know, make a fist without a bunch of pain or hold a pencil at all... they get pretty achy when the weather gets damp or cold nowadays.

The only reason I can still use those appendages is, the blades that caused 'em were very sharp, and I was a teenager/early twenties when they happened. I was too damn stupid/stubborn/cheap to not just patch myself up and keep using 'em and "physical therapy" myself back to full strength. (I do not recommend that approach, BTW)

Frankly, I suspect there's a fair amount of pure luck involved in the fact that I can use my hands at all, LOL... If anything like that happened to me today, I'd be pretty well screwed... my healing powers are not what they were a couple decades ago.
 
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james terrio said:
The only reason I can still use those appendages is, the blades that caused 'em were very sharp, and I was a teenager/early twenties when they happened. I was too damn stupid/stubborn to not keep patch myself up and using 'em and "physical therapy" myself back to full strength. (I do not recommend that approach, BTW)
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I jammed one of my own knives into my knuckle about a year ago... I got lucky, but still felt awfully stupid in the emergency room while they stitched it up.
 
A friend of mine did that in highschool to his middle finger while chopping. To this day he is still missing the first 4mm on his left middle finger.

My last bite was an awkward one..... you always attempt to catch what you drop...I know with knives to just let them fall... well... It was a new knife and the instinct took over and I ended up catching it between my pinkey and ring finger on my right hand. Unlucky for me being a Canadian I was on vacation in Florida when it happened. Having to pay out of pocket for the repair kind of sucked :P (worked its way out to be just over $100 a stich and I got 5). I planned on using that cash for some more new blades. Nice thing was I submitted the receipt when I got home and got most of it back!
 
I did that with a Kershaw Storm once. Sitting on the bed, flipping it, just got it that day... Slipped out of my hand and I watched it fall in slow motion to land edge-down on my left leg just below the knee. After I got the bleeding stopped (which took a long time) all I could think was how glad I was that it missed my kneecap! The scar still hurts if it gets a decent knock or really cold.
 
I sheared off a good part of my thumb like BSmiths when I was younger was not quite as much though. Was out installing a fridge for a customer, shut off valve broke, water was spraying everywhere. Sent one guy to turn off the main while I tried to just connect the water. Whipped out my kershaw blur to make a cut to the nylon hose, cut the hose, but also hauled off a good piece of thumb and fingernail. I was sitting behind a fridge in a customers home in a pool of bloody water, with blood all over the fridge, soaked trying to make it stop. Finished the install, had to clean it all up. Even found the end of my thumb with part of the fingernail still attached lol. I thought the lady was going to freak but she was super super nice. It grew back but just have a weird bump where it did and no feeling there. Sadly I have quite a few of these type of stories. You live and learn... either by trial and error... or by chopping off part of your body... :D
 
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No offense dude, but, ummm... that's pretty lame. You call those cuts? I can only assume you were being ironic. My wife - hell, my daughter - would laugh in my face if I showed 'em something like that.

Beginning guitar players (much less knifemakers) get "wounds" like that on a daily basis... until they develop callouses. :rolleyes:

:p
 
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