cut to the bone.....

[bigjim]

Spent several nights changeing the angle by hand on a old cheap bucklight 422 just to see how sharp I could possible get this blade given unlimited time and effort. The results left me with a very delicate edge but so sharp it right up there with straight razors and scaples.

I was tieing some lanyards this evening and had it open on the desk, I had just used it to cut a piece of cord. I just brushed my finger tip against the blade and almost did not even feel the cut. Barely even moved the knife.

I did not think I had even managed to break the skin..... then I moved my finger, the cut opened and blood started to flow.... very deep cut. I think I need stiches. I have the bleeding stopped with a tight bandage now.

Sharp knives are cold hearted cruel creatures that do not forgive.... LOL

 

[Psychopomp]

I've had my Sharpmaker for a few months now, but I don't want to lose my free hand sharpening skills. So a few weeks ago I got out my Sebenza, which hasn't seen much pocket time lately so it could use a touch up.

Out come the stones and strops and half an hour later it was insanely sharp. So I played around slicing freely hanging newspaper and whatever I could find. Then the phone rang and I set the knife down, still open, on my desk next to my trackball.

Sometime later I sat down at the computer and put my hand on the trackball, moved it back just a bit and felt a sting. I looked down and there was a lot of blood, then I realized that I'd left the knife sitting open there. It wasn't a deep cut but it was a bleeder. Left a nice two and half or three inch cut on the little finger side of my hand. It healed pretty quickly since it wasn't deep, but it hurt a bit the next day.

Knives aren't forgiving, but it's the stupidity of the operator that always gets you.

 

[Gollnick]

If you have cut down to the bone, then you need to go to a doctor. If you nicked the bone, then the bone can become infected. That's very serious because your blood is actually made inside your bones, so a bone infection can become a blood infection. And your blood goes all over your body and affects everything. So, a cut that actually touches a bone needs to be attended by a doctor every time.

 

[DGG]

See the doc for a tetnus shot, antibiotics, and stitches. Don't mess around with your hand, not worth the risk.