Do you mind knives that cut you?

gustav said:
LOL.... maybe its the flu i am recoving from. What I meant was if a knife cuts the hand that should be holding it its surely carelessness on my part and sometimes also that the handles that are slippery. I had a knife that had a lacquered handle that i put away because of it. I tied rubber bands to it but it would not stay in place. Rasping the handles would work but it would do damage to the handle.

I have a kitchen knife that due to design handle tend to have the blade facing upwards more often than others and has nicked me a few times because tend to be was facing upward. Being right handed, I can understand its reasonably easy to cut the other hand but if it cuts the hands that suppose to hold it and i am not juggling with it, it could be something isnt right. Its users fault almost all the time but design of the knife sometimes plays a tiny part that results in a big gash.:)
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Well there's your problem bud! You've got the blade pointing in the wrong direction....;)
 
If it won't cut on the slightest touch, it's not sharp enough.

So I've gotten lots of cuts. I'm proud of my little steel friends. Even though they bite.
 
musashi said:
I've cut meself on most of my knives, so that's over one hundred minor cuts right there :) The only knife I'm a bit wary of is my little khukri, it's cut everyone that's ever picked it up!

I had to glue three of my fingers closed after it slit the sheath to get a bite at me. Was telling the missus what happened and it bit her too, same for two of her cousins and my brother. You could say the knife is blameless and the sheath was faulty, but the sheath didn't want to be sliced open either! :eek:
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THAT is the knife to lend out when somebody asks to borrow a blade.
 
I've cut myself with soooo many of my knives (hence the name) I guess I'm a bit clumsy. The worst was on a Jamaican (actually South African) Okapi that it required surgery to repair the nerve in my thumb. But I don't mind, I love knives, it is a primal tool that suggests self sufficiency to me.
 
I generally manage to give myself a nick or two with any new knife I get, it's just something that happens with un-familiar knives. After that I go years without a cut (from that knife).
 
a good bite now and then ensures respect for my knife and the way i use it.
besides, 'I' made the mistake, not the knife.
 
musashi said:
I've cut meself on most of my knives, so that's over one hundred minor cuts right there :) The only knife I'm a bit wary of is my little khukri, it's cut everyone that's ever picked it up!

I had to glue three of my fingers closed after it slit the sheath to get a bite at me. Was telling the missus what happened and it bit her too, same for two of her cousins and my brother. You could say the knife is blameless and the sheath was faulty, but the sheath didn't want to be sliced open either! :eek:
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If it were to be mine,i would remake the wooden scabbard in the sheath or at least wind some stainless wire around the scabbard. It could have split at the joint or being cut through, Sometimes its the leather exterior that has loosened, loosening the fit of the the 2 wood.

winding 2 to three sets of stainless wire around the scabbard would certainly help and unsheathing it with your hands at the spine so that the edge isnt facing you would help too. Im sure your fingers would thank you. :D

Cuts inside the fingers sure hurts and there are quite a bit of veins there.
 
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Knives don't cut people... People cut people....

I don't think I have ever sharpened a knife when I wasn't drunk (or at least partaking)and absolutely all of my best knives have been Christened with my blood.
 
If I get a cut that requires stitches, it goes to my sister. It leaves me an excuse to buy another knife, and gives my sister a nice knife to work with. It does not happen often, but she does have a couple of nice knives. She uses them often, so it is a pretty good deal all around.
 
gustav said:
unsheathing it with your hands at the spine so that the edge isnt facing you would help too. Im sure your fingers would thank you. :D

Cuts inside the fingers sure hurts and there are quite a bit of veins there.
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This is the way you're supposed to unsheath and sheath a Khukri, everything else is just asking for sliced up fingers.
 
I've cut myself more than a few X's.Everytime it was my fault.

I don't really get your question friend?

Do you mind your guns that shoot you:eek:,or any other inanimate object that you have hurt yourself with?Like a rake,hammer,axe,or shovel??:confused:

You see where I'm goin' here?;)
 
Last I checked knives are inanimate objects, incapable of cutting on thier own, so if I do get cut by one of my knives I don't hold it to blame.
 
Cut that bleeds a little and just needs a bandage? I don't think I'd have very many knives left to use :D. Not that I'm particularly inept.
Bad enough to break out the Krazy Glue and apply serious pressure so none of my family would faint? Twice, both immediately followed by " you stupid #^#^*%@#****%%$#%%$#@@^(^)^!!!!", because they were 100% my doing. Then after I've stopped the flow of A-positive, reflection on just how sharp those blades were, and happy it was a clean cut.
 
1. I don't mind washing blood and applying pressure to myself, but getting dried blood off a knife is hard if it gets on the handle. So I usually clean the knife first unless I need stitches.
2. When I do need stitches, the doctor keeps insisting on a tetanus shot, and that's more annoying than the cut itself. It makes me think the doctor thinks I keep rusty, dirty knives.
3. Getting stiches in my hands gives me an excuse to not help with the dishes for about two weeks.

So no, I don't mind so much.
 
It's a lot like guns. People just don't understand that if there were no guns, there would be no shooting deaths...that if there were no nukes, there'd be no nuclear wars...that if there were no blades, no one would be cut.

On the other hand, if there were no criminals, there would be no shooting deaths....etc.
 
I used to cut myself as soon as I got the knife. Just a little slice on the shoulder to let the knife know who owns it. Good thing I stopped, as with the amount of knives that I now own, I would have no blood left and a scarred lump where my shoulder used to be.
 
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