Cut myself!

You guys obviously weren't Boy Scouts... ;)

Back in the mid-90's, I was checking out Kershaw's newest innovation, the spring-assisted opening mechanism! Never having handled one before (and not knowing what it was), I placed my right thumb on the opening knob and gave it a little pressure. The blade whipped open and locked hard as my thumb (moving in the same arc, but slower) caught up with the blade. I SAW a bit of my thumb fly off and land on the glass display case. Luckily, the shaving was so thin, it did not bleed. It just shaved off a few microns of skin in the shape of one of the scallops in the blade!

I put the knife down, and had NOTHING to do with Kershaw or spring-assisted opening knives until a couple years ago when I broke down and picked up a Chive. However, with the new "flipper" design, it isn't an issue anymore.
 
Great thread. Reminds me that I need to go make lunch. :D

I got all prideful and took a dare that I could throw a Buck 119 and make it stick. It did - in my side. (It bounced back and hit me, and took a little time falling down from where it hit me - maybe hung up in my shirt & apron, maybe.)

Somewhere, in some file in the bowels of the hospital in Seattle, there are pics of my Darwinesque stupidity. :o The docs had to open up my side to make sure no internal damage was done. A half-inch cut was well over two inches when they were done.

~Chris
 
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Don't mind me...just pretend I'm one of the idiots on the freeway that have to slow down to 10mph to view the carnage involved in the accident on the other side...
Love the pics,
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Ouch that looks nasty. Got myself a bit last week.
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I thought a thread like this would be busier here ;)

Feel like an absolute baby posting it, given the pictures already in this thread but...


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Did this one in January of 15'. I was sharpening a homemade machete and testing it with thick foam at work and it slice cut threw 6" of foam and a pair of Tillman leather work gloves and went to the bone. Severed all the nerves on the right side of my finger and over a year laterror and the feeling is still not back
 
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Did this one in January of 15'. I was sharpening a homemade machete and testing it with thick foam at work and it slice cut threw 6" of foam and a pair of Tillman leather work gloves and went to the bone. Severed all the nerves on the right side of my finger and over a year laterror and the feeling is still not back
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Way more manly than mine. I had a very similar cut in about the same location as yours. Cutting out carpet with a utility knife. Went down to the bone on my index finger and I also still have some feeling loss.
 
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Then 2 weeks later I smashed my middle finger on a high speed tool grinder and did this. So then I was down to 3 fingers on my writing handhand
 
Hahaha....funny man

You have no idea how hard it is to eat McDonald's fries with your ring finger, pinky and thumb only:grumpy:
 
All stitched up...
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Before...but after it was treated and cleaned and the blood started to coagulate. Directly visible was the bone...as I assume you can tell from the shape of the laceration.
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This little incident wasn't a knife. Didn't take a picture of the two times I've really gotten myself good with a knife though.
 
Ok, now you win...haha

If you turn your head it kinda looks like one of those faces you make with your fingers but with a eye shaped hole...lol
 
When I was a young lad, my dad showed me his SAK and turned his back for a second only to turn back and see a slit open thumb.
 
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