Does your knife tell you... WARNING !!! GRAHPIC PICS !!!

Razdrazchelloveck said:
Alright alright, story time. The knife that cut the tip of my finger off was my Benchmade Bedlam (since sold). I was doing a cut test by cutting hairs while holding them between my finger and thumb, needless to say I missed, and it passed the test.
Since then I have developed a healthy understanding of what my knives are capable of and take much more care in my handling of them, NEVER USE ONE HAND TO STABILIZE AND ONE HAND TO SWING A BLADE. Never ends well, I always cringe when I see someone chop their knife into the pit of an avocado while in their hand, after this incedent I don't fuck around like that. All it takes is a few inches and you're missing a finger.

This is what it looks like today, it took about six months for my nail to grow back all the way, the hand surgeon I went to said it most likely wouldn't grow back. Well I sure showed him!
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Since I was young my father always told me that you never cut something that way lol I'm reluctant to ask but do you have pictures of your finger after the incident?
 
I definitely understand how you feel Razdrazchelloveck. After I cut to the bone with my Pacific Salt I gained a whole new respect for how I handle my knives. I always have had a respect for knives, but a real bad cut puts it into real perspective and literally every singe time I pick up a knife I think about that cut.
 
Ulf Krogstad said:
Knife juggling accident i'm guessing.:D

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i was told in rookie school that is an officer who let his guard down and the guy pulled a knife. which is why we do the quick draw drill compared to the "knife weilding person" running 21 feet. supposedly one of the top slashes cut his vest straps which is how the lower one got there. of course these vests aren't going to do anything to stop you from getting stabbed, except the trauma plate.
 
Razdrazchelloveck said:
Yes, that is the tip of my finger.
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Sweet f****** Jesus on a pogo stick!

Worst cut I got was when I was screwing around with a fixed blade and like a MORON pulled it out without noticing that my finger was right in the path of the edge. Cut the side of my index finger to the bone. Took the wound about a month to close up, two months to be usable, and about an extra 3 to fully heal. Tissue didn't grow back all the way so now I just have a small divet in the side of my finger where the scar is.
 
I can't top the finger tip photo, but here's my scar that my Spyderco Ambitious gave me one day when I was trying to cut through a heavy duty zip tie (the wrong way, of course). It took six stitches and 5 hours in the ER:

 
wesessiah said:
i was told in rookie school that is an officer who let his guard down and the guy pulled a knife. which is why we do the quick draw drill compared to the "knife weilding person" running 21 feet. supposedly one of the top slashes cut his vest straps which is how the lower one got there. of course these vests aren't going to do anything to stop you from getting stabbed, except the trauma plate.
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Pic has been around for years and IIRC it was an industrial accident, no knives involved.
 
Wow, I'm sorry but how do you cut yourselves like that? The only times I've cut myself with my knives was once when I was carving and I sliced into my right index finger with my multitool, and the other 2 were from my Cara Cara 2, one was into my right thumb tip (horizontally across the front) when I was cutting cardboard and trying to cut a piece in 2. Another was when I was closing it one handed and the blade split some of my skin on the top of my finger until the fingernail stopped it, if it was the curved part of the blade that hit me my finger would be a tanto shape.
 
Worst I can recall was on the job site cutting open a box of nails. I had the nylon bonding strap in my left hand and I cut up. It took way less effort than I expected and I Stabbed myself in the top of my hand right between my middle and 4th finger ligaments. The cut didn't hurt near as bad as the stab did. It felt like someone beat the top of my hand with a Hammer....

Shiva is a very interesting and mellow man with a solid head on his shoulders....
 
Never maimed myself with a knife.

I worked at a hardware store when I was going to college and had a 4x8 foot sheet of glass fall on me but I got mostly out of the way minus the edge of the sheet clipping my right index finger (knuckle). Sliced my knuckle open damn good. It went to the bone and I had this flap of skin that was at one time my knuckle that was about an inch long and finger wide. Luckly, no tendon damage (since I could still move it fine) so I washed it out, dumped bunch of disinfectant on it then got some superglue off the shelf and superglued it shut. Wrapped it up with some waterproof bandages and went back to work.

Looking back at it, it was prettys stupid not to go the ER with it given it could have gotten badly infected or maybe I could have missed ligament damage.
 
Cut myself just five days ago slicing super industrial zip-ties on a cargo crate at the San Francisco Airport. The most embarrasing part was my wife was standing there when it happened. She warned me when I cut the first tie that I had just missed my thumb when the tie gave way. She doesn't like knives so I ignored her. WRONG! Cut straight down into the side of my thumb when the next tie parted. Bled all over everything. Finally got it stopped by applying pressure to it for 5 hours while driving home to my local doctor because I probably would have waited that long in an ER and It would have been more expensive in the ER.

Got 3 stitches. Not a big deal but the first non-surgical stitches this 63 year old body has ever had after 58 years of using knives. (Yep, got my first knife when I was 5.) Lessons: The thick blade on the Utilitac II makes a wide and deep cut. LISTEN TO THE WIFE, especially since you have been married to her for 40 years this August.
 
jbass said:
Cut myself just five days ago slicing super industrial zip-ties on a cargo crate at the San Francisco Airport. The most embarrasing part was my wife was standing there when it happened. She warned me when I cut the first tie that I had just missed my thumb when the tie gave way. She doesn't like knives so I ignored her. WRONG! Cut straight down into the side of my thumb when the next tie parted. Bled all over everything. Finally got it stopped by applying pressure to it for 5 hours while driving home to my local doctor because I probably would have waited that long in an ER and It would have been more expensive in the ER.

Got 3 stitches. Not a big deal but the first non-surgical stitches this 63 year old body has ever had after 58 years of using knives. (Yep, got my first knife when I was 5.) Lessons: The thick blade on the Utilitac II makes a wide and deep cut. LISTEN TO THE WIFE, especially since you have been married to her for 40 years this August.
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Nothing is worse than when the wife warns you not to do something then something bad happens to you. Not only do you feel dumb for hurting yourself but once the bleeding stops the wife will feel the need to say she told you so...lol. :D
 
wesessiah said:
i was told in rookie school that is an officer who let his guard down and the guy pulled a knife. which is why we do the quick draw drill compared to the "knife weilding person" running 21 feet. supposedly one of the top slashes cut his vest straps which is how the lower one got there. of course these vests aren't going to do anything to stop you from getting stabbed, except the trauma plate.
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One of my knife fighting instructors from a few years back told me that this was an attack by a person who didn't know how to fight with a knife, that's why he didn't get through the muscle and in to the organs. Lucky for this officer they were rushed sloppy slashes because if those 3 would've been in a different place and done correctly, it would've taken that officers life! It's a great picture that we all learn from
 
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