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Modoc ED

Modoc ED

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There have been quite a few posts lately about people not being happy with the sharpness of their new knives as they come from the factory and there have been further discussions about how sharp is sharp enough.

Well, while I was preparing to take a picture of my brand new, Case CV Mini Trapper with Yellow Derlin Handles, I was opening the blades to set the knife up for the picture when the wife said something from the kitchen. As I turned my head to see what she wanted, I slid my thumb down the spey blade.:eek: My oh my! Opened my thumb up like a split plumb.

After we got the bleeding stopped, I made a small Butterfly Bandage, squeezed the cut together and the wife put the bandage on and then a couple of band-aids. It probably could have used a couple/three stitches but I'll be danged if I was going to wait in the Hospital Emergency Room waiting for hours to see a doctor.

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Believe me!! A Case CV Mini Trapper with Yellow Derlin Handles is plenty sharp right out of the box.

This oughta show the nay-sayers just how efficient "Traditional Knives" can be in this day and age.
 
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I feel your pain and can commiserate. Glad it wasn't any worse.

Several years ago I was cleaning and polishing the head of this 'hawk when my wife walked in the door after a day of teaching kids at the Montessori school.

The moment it took for me to say hello was all it took to open up the back of my right thumb which led to my saying goodbye real quick on the way out the door to grab 15 stitches at the doctor's office.

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It's those momentary lapses (and the women in our lives) that'll get you every time.

Live and learn. :o
 
freedoom said:
Yet both of these could have been prevented had you not gotten married.
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Exactly my point. (But I had to be a bit cryptic as my wife was sitting on the couch a moment ago while I was typing. :eek: ;) :D)
 
Come to think of it, all my worst blade related injuries have occurred in the presence of (or because of) women.

My first week in college in 1970 I had the tip of my left index finger sutured and grafted after I interceded in an incident in which a woman was being menaced at knifepoint by an assailant.

And a year or two ago, (again), my wife was present when I was distracted while opening my (bear trap strong) 70's dots Case 6347 for a little maintenance. That one I was able to doctor myself.

Maybe men aren't meant to be in the presence of, or fiddling with sharp things when women are around. (Or at least some men...) :p
 
Hi,

An inconvenient nick for sure! CV comes with a fine edge that leaves a really smooth cut doesn't it. :)

The few Case knives I have did come decently sharp. But I don't get too hung up over a factory edge. They are what they are

I hope you heal up quick!

dalee
 
Well at least the knife hobbyists are able to render proper aid and live to tell the tale.
You hardly ever hear any of the wife interruption stories from the chainsaw collectors!
 
Sorry about your mishap modoc ED, but nice knife you have there. Does the Case mini hunter have half stops?
 
navihawk said:
Sorry about your mishap modoc ED, but nice knife you have there. Does the Case mini hunter have half stops?
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Yes. Both blades on this knife have half stops.

freedom said:
Yet both of these could have been prevented had you not gotten married.
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Yeah, but I like to eat -- a lot and the wife is a great cook.
 
Man, I feel your pain. If you play with knives, eventually you get cut. I've had my share.

The kind I like though are the ones that slice the top of the skin on the thumb joint. Those seem to be the typical ones for me. The blades are usually sharp enough that it is a clean cut and the skin is still on the blade!

Anyways, I can not blame any of these on women but my own inattentive self. Like the time I was trying to sheath a RAT RC-5 fixed blade and I was holding the sheath with one hand and not looking to see that I was actually inserting the blade in the sheath and instead shoved the blade point right into my palm. :o
 
Darned if we haven't all "been there, done that"! Not only do you cut yourself, but the worst part is that for the next week or 10 days you can't handle your knives the same way you're used to - got the stupid band-aids on and you can't grip or open your knives like normal. :grumpy:

"I slid my thumb down the spey blade" -- man, that hurts just thinking about it!
 
The way I look at it is, if I get cut on a particular knife, I've just bonded with it.
Its like a sign from the knife Gods :D

BTW... Congrats on the new MT. Its a great pattern :thumbup:
 
Did that too a few weeks ago durring finals. Was cleaning my Case 6392 and my girl came and yelled something at me. Turned to see what she said and BAM slit my right thumb open. Was a pain doing tests and not being able to write right.
 
told this story a few months ago but here goes. It still makes me cringe -----:eek:I had to cut myself on purpose. A few months ago I was out fishing by myself. I had a very sharp hook being held in one of the eyelets of the rod and it was way to tight, as a matter of fact the tip of the rod was bent so I knew it was wrong. (duh). I took the hook out of the eyelet with one hand and it slipped and shot forward into my other hand. To be exact, into the finger tip of my middle finger on my left hand. Well it went to the bone. I had to get that thing out of my finger so I got the sharpest knife out of the box and very slowly and carefully cut down into my finger so I could get the hook out. It took me about an hour to slowly cut down into my finger. As soon as I could I then had to clean that mess out and butterfly it up. Yes I know it needed stitches and I was dumb as a board but I was out of work, didn't have any dough, had been hit by 3 hurricanes in a couple of years -- well the resources just were not there for an extra doctors appointment. A few months after that I did go to the doctor for a 1 yr check up and showed him the finger and the story, and really caught hell from him. He said i could have cut a tendon and really done some damage to my finger. So if ya cut yourself really bad it is probably best not to play surgeon like I did and go to the doctor. Oh yea and don't keep so much tension on your fishing line. Jeez that hurt.
 
I was ten years old, with a little 1" pen knife for sharpening pencils
And I was sharpening it with a little carbarundum stone
Don't ask how I slipped, I still don't understand.

Cut myself to the bone on my finger and still have the scar.
It hurt!
And I had to hide it from my mother.
So all I did was put a Band Aid on it

The knife was sharp!!!
 
Modoc ED said:
. . . my brand new, Case CV Mini Trapper with Yellow Derlin Handles . . .
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Well, brother, you couldn't have done it with a better knife! ;)

The most painful & ugliest cut I ever had, was when I re-profiled & sharpened a roofing hatchet I had just bought. I thought that the obtuse edge wasn't fine enough to cut yet, and ran my thumb along the edge. That nasty, toothy edge bit me, but good. Two shots of gin, two soaked towels, neosporin, and a lot of bandages & tape & superglue later I was finally able to get on with my day.

At least Elliott could say he was distracted. I did it on purpose - and my wife & kid didn't let me live it down, either.

thx - cpr
 
It's a good idea for all of us to keep a good supply of quality bandaids and skin tape, along with a small bottle of tincture of benzoin.
Paint a small amount of the tincture on area of skin around the cut. allow to dry until very tacky, then use steristrips, sticking each one down on one side of wound and draw wound edges together as you stick down the other end of the strips. then cover with a waterproof tape. this will stay put for days even if you work with your hands, shower, etc. remove in 3-5 days and wound should be healed well enough to need only a light cover for protection.
sutures can slow down healing. the benzoin under steristrips holds wound edges together almost as well as suturing.
the commonest time for me to cut myself is when positioning blades for a picture, and i do not have a wife.
roland
 
"orca8589" mentioned "Super Glue" in his post. "Super Glue" works well for keeping a cut/wound together in place of sutures or a Butterfly Bandage. There is a nurse at our local hospital that is in the Army Reserves and has been to Afghanistan. She says that "Super Glue" is used routinely in the field for just such purposes.
 
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