Cringeworthy Blade Misuse

Ikitagawa357

Ikitagawa357

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Hi All,

I want to find out from all of you what the worse misuses of blades you ever seen.

I’ll start it off with this: my sister (when we were very young) decided she wanted to help out with cutting a cake. So she took the long bread cutter and pressed down hard, with the blade facing up. There was that breathless moment where the blood started, but no screaming as we all looked at her hand. Needless to say, she was rushed to the hospital. They saved her hand, and all she has is a scar to show for it.

- Ikitagawa357.
 
A handed one of my coworkers my opened Sebenza Insingo to cut a piece of pizza. She held it upside down and applied a lot of pressure directly to the cutting edge with her thumb. When I looked down, it was already too late. She was bleeding pretty badly but didn’t need stiches.
Note to self: Knives aren’t self explanatory to everyone, especially ones with non traditional blades.

I used my Busse Boss Jack as an ice pick to clear out a ton of ice buildup in and around the freezer compartment in my mini fridge. I don’t know if that’s technically considered misuse for a Busse, though.;)
 
I just finished up an experiment 1095 blade that was full flat grindound all the way to the edge, no bevel or anything so it was very thin needless to say. I showed my wife my new prized tomato slicer and went to take a shower and clean up. As I come back down stairs and round the corner to the kitchen I see her mom(in laws staying with us as they transitioned houses) using my new baby as a prybar for a can of who knows what. It took everything i had to save the marriage that day....I mean not go off on her mother! The tomato slicer ended up getting a few nicks so it now has a 15* bevel but will still cut tomatoes paper thin and has been really fun to use. It’s soo Sharp I find myself using it on all kinds of stuff I shouldn’t be.

My wife has also taken a knife I gave her to test and tried using it upside down. She handed it back to me and said babe this is pretty but it’s not sharp at all! Luckily she didn’t apply pressure to the sharpened blade so she wasn’t cut but her ego took a hit after I stopped rolling on the floor in laughter and explained to her how a knife works!
 
Gave my brother an HK Mini Axis for his birthday. He brought it up to the house to have me sharpen it.

It looked like he'd run over it. The scales were chipped, the blade had insane play up, down, left and right...

He explained that he'd been throwing it. "Hey, it's a perfect shape for throwing!" he says. :rolleyes::mad:

I took it away from him, got it tightened back up and sharpened, and gave him a Tac Force knife to play with.

I think the Tac Force lasted a week in his possession. I made him promise to use the HK sensibly, then gave it back.

Throwing a folder has got to be one of the most cringeworthy blade misuses I can think of.
 
I gifted a manix 2 xl to coworker, he started flipping it open and closed 10 min after I gave it to him by holding the lock back. He cut himself pretty deeply when he put his finger in the path of the blade and flicked it downward to close it :eek:

Then there's my buddy who shanked himself in the arm trying to slit a deer throat. :D
 
When we were all buying the CRKT "Drifter" for the kick of it, I had to have one. Not a bad knife! Sharpened it up and took it to the job.

So I was carefully using the point to lift up long runs of caulk on a brick/mortar repair. Lift up the end of the caulk, and pull and it came out like a string. If it stuck, I cut the caulk with the knife. No harm to the knife. Showed my helper how to the same exact thing, and he was completely on board.

However... I came back about 20 minutes later and he was tired of the slow pace of removing the caulk and was using the knife backwards, digging the spine side of blade point into the crack containing caulk and just ripping it out. He was getting after it so hard I thought he was using a screwdriver... imagine my horror to see my knife! It was scratch up pretty good and the tip was remodeled, but light grinding and some sanding (and a lot of sharpening0 got it back to where it should be.

It reminded me of two things; 1) the reason I NEVER lend anyone one of my knives, and 2) not to carry any of my expensive knives to the job site "just in case". Even though it is an inexpensive knife I was really pissed off, and clearly, he just didn't get it.

Robert
 
The first couple post remind me of a co worker who was using my pm2 and when it came time to close it, i was trying to show him how a compression lock worked. But he jerk it away like he didnt need help and tried closing it backwards like it was a liner lock.

So needless to say he sliced his index and middle fingers. He was the one who even opened it and used it, so he had to know where the blade was.:confused:
 
midnight flyer said:
It reminded me of two things; 1) the reason I NEVER lend anyone one of my knives, and 2) not to carry any of my expensive knives to the job site "just in case". Even though it is an inexpensive knife I was really pissed off, and clearly, he just didn't get it.
Robert
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I stopped handing out my knives at work as well, at least as long I don't know what it's used for. People ask for it sometimes to cut fruit and stuff like that, I'm fine with it, some vague answer like "I just gotta cut something" results in "Oh sorry, don't have it on me" since a coworker was trying to use one for prying and I had to smack the back of his head and hand him a screwdriver for the task.
 
Got a few stories, mostly from work, but will share one for now. I work in a grocery store, back in the meat market. Manager had me training a new guy for the market, I had him throwing away some stuff as I checked the counter. Come back in to find him hacking away at a plastic container like he had a cleaver and hitting against the metal part of the cutting table with my knife of all things. Quickly took it from him to find the edge messed up and in need of repair. He didn't last a month after that and my knife still has signs of the edge damaged 3 years later despite use and sharpening
 
The dumbest thing I've seen one of my friends do was run my freshly sharpened knife across his palm, because he didn't believe me whenever I told him it was sharp. The blood gushing out of his hand proved him very, very wrong, haha.
 
i see misuse daily with knives at work. all of those folks have a common theme...their father and/or grandfathers never taught them how to use a knife or any tools properly and/or safely.

so they have no knowledge on the subject. one would think its common sense but appears that has to be taught to many a bit as well......;)
 
I have a ton of these stories but I'll keep it short. My brother-in-law almost cut his thumb off cutting a deers throat with a gerber fixed blade i had as a teenager.

I guy asked to use my knife years ago and before I handed it to him I said " be careful it's very sharp " his response was" I carry a box cutter it can't be that sharp" . Before I could say anything he hits his arm edge first with my knife. You wouldn't believe the surprised look on his face when the blood started pouring out.

Last week the superintendent of the job I'm working on ask if I had a knife. Since he had a box in his hand I thought he needed it to open the box. Oh no, he put the box down and tossed a piece insulation on the concrete floor and started cutting away! Of course it ruined my edge but nothing the stone couldn't fix.
 
If cringe= idiocy then boy do I have a story to tell.
After buying my first knife (CRKT drifter) and using it and loving it, I found out about dullness and sharpening (keep in mind that the knife was still factory sharp and lightly used). So I bought myself one of those terrible carbide sharpeners that you have to drag across the blade. So as I tried to sharpen it without looking, I misplaced my hand, and got a pretty cut on my thumb. 5 stitches later, and a return to amazon, I had learned my lesson. But I do miss that knife
 
Mr.SATism said:
After buying my first knife (CRKT drifter) and using it and loving it, I found out about dullness and sharpening (keep in mind that the knife was still factory sharp and lightly used). So I bought myself one of those terrible carbide sharpeners that you have to drag across the blade. So as I tried to sharpen it without looking, I misplaced my hand, and got a pretty cut on my thumb. 5 stitches later, and a return to amazon, I had learned my lesson. But I do miss that knife
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What did you return to Amazon? The knife? The sharpener? Your thumb? I'm confused.
 
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