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Boats said:
I don't swear in front of my kids. Believe it or not, all I said to my eight year old was, "OUCH! OUCH!! OUCH!!! Will you look at that, that was pretty stupid. Go get me some paper towels willya? Oh, and the phone. Go get the phone.":D
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Impressed. You should get an award for that one! I don't I think I would have even had the chance to say one word before I passed the F**K OUT!
 
ShawnaTX said:
Impressed. You should get an award for that one! I don't I think I would have even had the chance to say one word before I passed the F**K OUT!
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I have had practice.:D When my ship was in the yard at Pearl Harbor, I was using a pneumatic angle grinder to remove some rust that had gotten beneath the non-skid deck. I got tired of depressing the actuator all of the time, so I tied it down with a piece of paracord.

Two weeks I got away with just kinking the hose to stop the grinder, until one afternoon I was trying to move and someone walked on the hose and I lost my kink and 9500 rpms of metal grinding wheel hit my left wrist and sprayed powdered leather gauntlet, flesh, blood, and some of the lunate bone from my wrist all up the side of my head.

That motherfu__er burned like hell, but I still had the presence of mind to dump the string so as to not wind up at an Article 15 hearing, the good old "Captain's Mast.":p

So the docs at the Army hospital got to debride that wound and I got to work with it under a waterproof, breathable bandage for a month with nothing stronger than pain candy (advil) and off duty drinking.:D
 
For the curious, look at how the RC-4 profile is apparent in this shot:

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The knife was edge towards me, so the spine and the tip cut are towards the end of the finger, and the belly cut in at just above the knuckle.
 
SuicideFO said:
Dude you should've gotten a pic with it left stuck in ya :D
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You know, the thought crossed my mind for the briefest instant, but my son had blanched and I thought he was going to go into shock or something, so I sent him away for the paper towels and the phone rather than the camera so I could pull the knife out while he was in the kitchen.:D However, he had recovered and wanted to see after all.
 
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I hear that. I threw my son over my shoulder and ran back up to the house. Left a nice blood trail that any sort of a halfway decent tracker could follow. He was really worried. I don't think he has seen someone bleed like that yet.
 
Mine had tamponaded so that there was just a leak of blood where the tip went through.

I think the very unnatural look of having a knife "through my hand" was what gave my son pause. I didn't believe it myself for a split second. Did I really just do what I am seeing there?!? Then it hurt like hell as the reality check and my son's gasp snapped me out of it.

Not my finest father-son moment for "Here's how we're gonna do it. . . " I remember moving my hand when I reoriented the knife when sizing up the cut to be made, but the picture doesn't lie, I needed to move it another half inch out of harm's way.

Mors Kochanski would give me a "tsk, tsk, tsk," I am sure. His knife handling demonstrated in Northern Bushcraft has been my touchstone for years now.
 
Boats said:
Mine had tamponaded so that there was just a leak of blood where the tip went through.

I think the very unnatural look of having a knife "through my hand" was what gave my son pause. I didn't believe it myself for a split second. Did I really just do what I am seeing there?!? Then it hurt like hell as the reality check and my son's gasp snapped me out of it.

Not my finest father-son moment for "Here's how we're gonna do it. . . " I remember moving my hand when I reoriented the knife when sizing up the cut to be made, but the picture doesn't lie, I needed to move it another half inch out of harm's way.

Mors Kochanski would give me a "tsk, tsk, tsk," I am sure. His knife handling demonstrated in Northern Bushcraft has been my touchstone for years now.
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I hear that I have his "Bushcraft" also. Definetly need to read over it again. As for my son, I showed him how not to do it. I consider it a great learning experience :D
 
Boats said:
I don't swear in front of my kids. Believe it or not, all I said to my eight year old was, "OUCH! OUCH!! OUCH!!! Will you look at that, that was pretty stupid. Go get me some paper towels willya? Oh, and the phone. Go get the phone.":D
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Bravo! Very impressive.

By the way, the bar exam still is no fun, in case you're wondering!
 
gcgcgc said:
Bravo! Very impressive.

By the way, the bar exam still is no fun, in case you're wondering!
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You just need some prettier women up on the bar and a better flashlight!
 
That had to hurt like a son of a gun. I hope you heal up quickly.

Makes me feel "wimpy" now with my 5 stitches from a bow saw last Thursday.

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Boats, that is one exceptionally clean slice! Nice suture job too.

Heal fast!
 
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