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D2 cuts skin very well
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I took the edge off my first finger off with my 941D2 the second week after I got it. My wife hates it when I go around playing with my latest knife, so she died laffing when she heard. 
Frodo
PS It bled like crazy too. Amazing how well a nice clean cut will bleed.
Frodo
PS It bled like crazy too. Amazing how well a nice clean cut will bleed.
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Cuda MAXX clip point in D2 will ruin a finger if you are not careful. Had it in my back left pocket when it came open and when I reached back my little finger on my left hand got Cuda bit! It does make a nice clean and even cut. A butterfly bandage held it together nicely. I would much rather get cut with a sharp knife rather than a dull one!
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LOL, yep skin doesn't stand a chance 
Heal fast....another knife is just around the corner
Heal fast....another knife is just around the corner
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Try flipping the BM 46-01 (Spearpoint D2 Steel Balisong).
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Originally posted by crosman177
Try flipping the BM 46-01 (Spearpoint D2 Steel Balisong).
It's not that bad...flipping it and allowing the back of the blade to bounce off of your hand "feels" like you're cutting yourself.
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DEA -- I know the feeling, a couple of months ago I realized why my mother always put the steak knives in the dishwasher blade down. I reached down to grab something and a steak knife tip sunk itself about 1/3 inch into the webbing between my pinky and ring finger. Felt pretty damn stupid after that.
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2 years back, I pulled my brand new unused Dozier Pro Guide's Knife out of the kydex sheath to show a friend. Handle was in my left hand, sheath in the right. Unfortunately, the web of my right hand (between thumb and forefinger)was covering the opening in the end of the sheath. I pulled the knife out quickly and it immediately cut to the bone between the two fingers.
I knew what happened immediately and put the knife back into the sheath, shoved it under my arm to carry home, held my right hand together tightly with my left and ran home (luckily I was only 30 seconds from home) screaming for my wife to get me to the hospital. Almost passed out from the pain. Plus, I was a real baby in the ER. I insisted on Morphine or something stronger before I would even remove my left hand from the wound. No dice though. I eventually relinquished and they shot novocaine directly into the incision. Talk about pain! Then the Dr pried apart the wound with some Medievel type of torture device with a thumb screw and 2 nasty looking toothed pieces! OMG!!!!
The general misconception about cuts with sharp knives is that they bleed like crazy. Not true! There was almost no blood due to my cut. Reason is that since it's a quick clean cut of the arteries, they react immediately, being very elastic, by retracting back into the muscle tissue. And hence, are capped off and blood flow stops. Jagged cuts, however, bleed like crazy.
Anyway, I had micro surgery next week. That was a year and a half ago. Still don't have 100% feeling in my finger tip.
Every time I think back to it, I get queasy.
I swear I saw white bone directly after the cut.
Also cut 2 muscles and I"m sure a tendon or 2.
Lenny
I knew what happened immediately and put the knife back into the sheath, shoved it under my arm to carry home, held my right hand together tightly with my left and ran home (luckily I was only 30 seconds from home) screaming for my wife to get me to the hospital. Almost passed out from the pain. Plus, I was a real baby in the ER. I insisted on Morphine or something stronger before I would even remove my left hand from the wound. No dice though. I eventually relinquished and they shot novocaine directly into the incision. Talk about pain! Then the Dr pried apart the wound with some Medievel type of torture device with a thumb screw and 2 nasty looking toothed pieces! OMG!!!!
The general misconception about cuts with sharp knives is that they bleed like crazy. Not true! There was almost no blood due to my cut. Reason is that since it's a quick clean cut of the arteries, they react immediately, being very elastic, by retracting back into the muscle tissue. And hence, are capped off and blood flow stops. Jagged cuts, however, bleed like crazy.
Anyway, I had micro surgery next week. That was a year and a half ago. Still don't have 100% feeling in my finger tip.
Every time I think back to it, I get queasy.
I swear I saw white bone directly after the cut.
Also cut 2 muscles and I"m sure a tendon or 2.
Lenny
People are amazingly tough, but we cut easy. Bummer. Someday maybe we'll figure out a way around that, but not any time soon.
To me, knives are scarier than firearms by far. Harder to accidentally hurt yourself with propper firearm safety! Knives require some muscle and can slip, even when you use them well.
Stay safe guys, and glad you didn't do worse Lenny.
Todd
To me, knives are scarier than firearms by far. Harder to accidentally hurt yourself with propper firearm safety! Knives require some muscle and can slip, even when you use them well.
Stay safe guys, and glad you didn't do worse Lenny.
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i am now VERY queasy after reading what happened
i think why all these small incidents take place is because we get too familiar with the knives we have and don't give them the proper respect
i mean, after you've done the dirty with your EDC folder, you get very confident, but who's to say you won't screw up from time to time while flipping it open?
i've dropped my scallion once or twice because of the aluminium grip, and i've made sure to take extra care with that knife from then on
haven't cut myself
yet....
i think why all these small incidents take place is because we get too familiar with the knives we have and don't give them the proper respect
i mean, after you've done the dirty with your EDC folder, you get very confident, but who's to say you won't screw up from time to time while flipping it open?
i've dropped my scallion once or twice because of the aluminium grip, and i've made sure to take extra care with that knife from then on
haven't cut myself
yet....
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My accident was very preventable. And I was only using 154CM.
I was practicing arnis with BM710 (how appropriate ) while using the toilet and was pressed for time because I had to pick up dinner for my wife and me. Doing an upward, diagonal angle, I sliced cleanly into the top of my left knee (I'm left-handed so it was on the outside). Managed to use my right hand to clean the knife, wipe myself, wash the hand in question while applying pressure to my bleeding knee.
I hopped to the medicine closet, put Neosporin and a bandage on the wound, taped it down, and told my wife that I was off to get the chinese food. I hopped to the car, got the chinese food (all while bleeding out here and there), got home, and told my wife that I was going to go to the hospital for a bit and that I'd be back soon.
When my wife questioned me, I told her what I had done. She was upset that I went off to get chinese food instead of medical care and didn't tell her when I initially cut myself. Well, when we were waiting forever for a doc to stitch me up, she felt lightheaded from stress and from not eating food (so I think I was right to go to the store. Besides, you have to take the eggrolls there). Also, you never realize how dumb you've been until you've had to explain it to the sign-in clerk, the nurse, and then the doctor. The doctor asked me several times and in several ways (my wife later told me this was to make sure that I wasn't using an illegal weapon or that I wasn't covering up something like a domestic disturbance) while novacaining and sewing me up.
The great part, for me, was that my brain can't register pain while I'm fuming over what an imbecile I am. The other great part is that my tetanus shots have been updated and I'm safe (except from myself) until 2012!
A few months later, I ordered some diamond Sharpmaker sleeves and a 941BTPUR from New Graham Pharmacy. We had a great chuckle when we found the adhesive bandage dispenser emblazoned with "You're gonna need 'em!"
Anyone else have an othewise great doctor or medic that skimped on the stitches?
I was practicing arnis with BM710 (how appropriate
) while using the toilet and was pressed for time because I had to pick up dinner for my wife and me. Doing an upward, diagonal angle, I sliced cleanly into the top of my left knee (I'm left-handed so it was on the outside). Managed to use my right hand to clean the knife, wipe myself, wash the hand in question while applying pressure to my bleeding knee.I hopped to the medicine closet, put Neosporin and a bandage on the wound, taped it down, and told my wife that I was off to get the chinese food. I hopped to the car, got the chinese food (all while bleeding out here and there), got home, and told my wife that I was going to go to the hospital for a bit and that I'd be back soon.
When my wife questioned me, I told her what I had done. She was upset that I went off to get chinese food instead of medical care and didn't tell her when I initially cut myself. Well, when we were waiting forever for a doc to stitch me up, she felt lightheaded from stress and from not eating food (so I think I was right to go to the store. Besides, you have to take the eggrolls there). Also, you never realize how dumb you've been until you've had to explain it to the sign-in clerk, the nurse, and then the doctor. The doctor asked me several times and in several ways (my wife later told me this was to make sure that I wasn't using an illegal weapon or that I wasn't covering up something like a domestic disturbance) while novacaining and sewing me up.
The great part, for me, was that my brain can't register pain while I'm fuming over what an imbecile I am. The other great part is that my tetanus shots have been updated and I'm safe (except from myself) until 2012!
A few months later, I ordered some diamond Sharpmaker sleeves and a 941BTPUR from New Graham Pharmacy. We had a great chuckle when we found the adhesive bandage dispenser emblazoned with "You're gonna need 'em!"
Anyone else have an othewise great doctor or medic that skimped on the stitches?
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The moral of all of our horror stories is:
Don't imitate Kliff Stump's drinking test if you've posted your story in this thread!
Don't imitate Kliff Stump's drinking test if you've posted your story in this thread!
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Believe me, you don't need D2 to cut skin. I obviously can't be too specific, but within the last few years I was directly involved in an incident where a local male lured a female associate of his to a derelict building & laid into her with a POS kitchen knife.
As I was at the hospital bagging her blood-drenched clothing (a colleague was so nauseated at the sight just of the clothing that s/he had to leave the building...), a member of the medical staff briefed me on the victim's condition with the memorable words, "All that's holding her head on is her spine."
Amazingly she survived.
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As I was at the hospital bagging her blood-drenched clothing (a colleague was so nauseated at the sight just of the clothing that s/he had to leave the building...), a member of the medical staff briefed me on the victim's condition with the memorable words, "All that's holding her head on is her spine."
Amazingly she survived.
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I wonder if this officer used a D2 blade?
Detroit officer severs woman's finger
Cop says he was cutting coat to cuff her
January 7, 2003
BY JIM SCHAEFER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
A Detroit police officer with a knife cut off the finger of a 45-year-old woman he was trying to handcuff in a parking lot on 8 Mile.
The police, who were in plainclothes, said she was resisting arrest. The woman, Joni Gullas of Detroit, said Monday that she thought she was being carjacked.
According to police reports obtained by the Free Press, Officer Anthony Johnson pulled out a knife Sunday morning to cut off the sleeve of Gullas' oversized coat so he could put her left hand in the handcuffs.
Johnson, of the 9th (Gratiot) Precinct, has been placed on desk duty, a typical move after officers use force during arrests. Gullas has not been charged with a crime.
Cmdr. Ralph Godbee Jr. said only that internal affairs was investigating the officer's behavior during the incident, which happened about 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Though the department does not issue knives, many officers carry them for, among other things, cutting seat belts to free accident victims.
Johnson and two other officers were riding in an unmarked car on a special burglary patrol when they noticed Gullas' van in a parking lot near the Huddle Lounge near 8 Mile and Gratiot.
Gullas said she had just left the bar and was waiting for others to come out so they could go together to breakfast when a car pulled up and someone shined a spotlight in her face.
A man approached, said he was the police and demanded her identification. Gullas said she could make out only a silhouette and asked the man for police identification.
"I just thought I was getting hijacked right then and there," she said. After some heated give-and-take between the two over IDs, Johnson approached the window and demanded Gullas' license.
He wrote in his report that Gullas smelled of alcohol but refused to produce her license, saying she wasn't doing anything wrong.
She shifted the car into reverse and began to back up, he wrote. Gullas denies that she moved the car.
Johnson wrote that he reached inside to open the door, and Gullas pinned his hand with her knee and began moving the car backward again. Johnson wrote that he hit her in the face, opened the door and pulled her outside onto the pavement. He said she was pulling and pushing away from him violently.
He cuffed her right hand, but couldn't get to her left hand, which she had tucked under her body. He pulled on her coat sleeve and she pulled her hand inside, he wrote. Gullas denied doing that and said the sleeves on the coat normally hang over her hands.
Concerned that she might be reaching for a weapon, Johnson pulled out a pocket knife and cut the sleeve off "to speed up cuffing process," he wrote.
He severed her left ring finger at the top knuckle and deeply cut her middle finger, she said. Police at the scene recovered the fingertip, but it could not be reattached.
At her east side home Monday, Gullas nursed her bandaged hand, which required surgery at Detroit Receiving Hospital.
"I wasn't fighting. I just didn't know what the heck was going on," she said. "Oh, my God, it hurts. I might as well have cut the whole hand off."
Contact JIM SCHAEFER at 313-223-4542 or schaefer@freepress.com.
Detroit officer severs woman's finger
Cop says he was cutting coat to cuff her
January 7, 2003
BY JIM SCHAEFER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
A Detroit police officer with a knife cut off the finger of a 45-year-old woman he was trying to handcuff in a parking lot on 8 Mile.
The police, who were in plainclothes, said she was resisting arrest. The woman, Joni Gullas of Detroit, said Monday that she thought she was being carjacked.
According to police reports obtained by the Free Press, Officer Anthony Johnson pulled out a knife Sunday morning to cut off the sleeve of Gullas' oversized coat so he could put her left hand in the handcuffs.
Johnson, of the 9th (Gratiot) Precinct, has been placed on desk duty, a typical move after officers use force during arrests. Gullas has not been charged with a crime.
Cmdr. Ralph Godbee Jr. said only that internal affairs was investigating the officer's behavior during the incident, which happened about 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Though the department does not issue knives, many officers carry them for, among other things, cutting seat belts to free accident victims.
Johnson and two other officers were riding in an unmarked car on a special burglary patrol when they noticed Gullas' van in a parking lot near the Huddle Lounge near 8 Mile and Gratiot.
Gullas said she had just left the bar and was waiting for others to come out so they could go together to breakfast when a car pulled up and someone shined a spotlight in her face.
A man approached, said he was the police and demanded her identification. Gullas said she could make out only a silhouette and asked the man for police identification.
"I just thought I was getting hijacked right then and there," she said. After some heated give-and-take between the two over IDs, Johnson approached the window and demanded Gullas' license.
He wrote in his report that Gullas smelled of alcohol but refused to produce her license, saying she wasn't doing anything wrong.
She shifted the car into reverse and began to back up, he wrote. Gullas denies that she moved the car.
Johnson wrote that he reached inside to open the door, and Gullas pinned his hand with her knee and began moving the car backward again. Johnson wrote that he hit her in the face, opened the door and pulled her outside onto the pavement. He said she was pulling and pushing away from him violently.
He cuffed her right hand, but couldn't get to her left hand, which she had tucked under her body. He pulled on her coat sleeve and she pulled her hand inside, he wrote. Gullas denied doing that and said the sleeves on the coat normally hang over her hands.
Concerned that she might be reaching for a weapon, Johnson pulled out a pocket knife and cut the sleeve off "to speed up cuffing process," he wrote.
He severed her left ring finger at the top knuckle and deeply cut her middle finger, she said. Police at the scene recovered the fingertip, but it could not be reattached.
At her east side home Monday, Gullas nursed her bandaged hand, which required surgery at Detroit Receiving Hospital.
"I wasn't fighting. I just didn't know what the heck was going on," she said. "Oh, my God, it hurts. I might as well have cut the whole hand off."
Contact JIM SCHAEFER at 313-223-4542 or schaefer@freepress.com.
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Worst cut from a knife I received was from a Kit Carson folder. If I remember correctly it had 154CM steel. I had just gotten this knife and decided I wanted to sharpen it a little more...first mistake, as Carson knives come already hair-popping sharp! I laid it on a dresser behind me with the blade open and was turned around facing the other way and getting my Sharpmaker set up. I reached around to where the knife lay on the dresser top and closed my hand around the blade instead of the handle. I did this so fast and actually had the knife up off the dresser and in my hand when it registered in my brain what was happening. I was very lucky as I had applied most of the pressure with my pinkie finger and almost severed about 3/4's of an inch off. I slung my hand and naturally the knife went flying. It ended up hitting the floor which was carpeted and did no damage whatsoever to the knife. I think my wife got sorta upset when I insisted on cleaning the blade of the knife and checking it over for any problems due to the slinging of it before I would consent to go to the emergency room. Hey it was a CARSON!! Anyway the doctor seemed to be the most interested in why I even needed to sharpen a knife that so cleanly and nearly took the tip of my finger off.