Dumbest way you've ever injured yourself with one of your knives?

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I was just breaking down a couple of pizza boxes from earlier today when I went to scratch my face with the hand that was holding my knife. Stabbed myself right in the cheek (not very deep or very hard) with my Mini grip.

Anyway, feel free to share some of your less than brilliant knife moments.
 
#1 - How do we rank them :)

#2 - Do you expect us to remember ALL of the dumb things we've done? :confused:
 
My worst injury occured not from the knives i carry and play with on a daily basis, Instead I cut myself the worst with a bread knife cutting a bagel...it was a slight squirter, lots of blood but i saved the bagel.

I also was in a fight with my parents and for some reason i had a large locking SAK. This happened a long time ago...and i in my anger stabbed the knife into my desk...not a good idea with a SAK...sliced my palm open...learned my lesson.

-Alex
 
Rank? I'm thinking in terms of "There's absolutely 100% no reason I should have been doing that". Something like drilling through a piece of wood with the tip of your knife while using your hand as a backstop.
 
I think one of my times was when I was sitting at my desk sharpening my emerson commander. I placed the freshly sharpened knife on the slide out keyboard section and then closed it shut, the knife fell straight down and busted open my second toe on my left foot (I suppose the "index finger" toe :confused:). I felt very stupid and was more pissed at myself for what happened than I was worried about seeing down to the bone. No stitches though, bandaids and lots of medical tape kept it good until it was safe enough to be left alone a week or so later :D
 
Stabbed a solid piece of wood once when I was mad in reverse grip. Cut the tendons in the very tip of my pinky. It sucks, and I will never stab anything ever again.
 
Opened a bottle with the spine of this knife:

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It was before it had a handle. I was sanding the blade and I didn't have a bottle opener handy. Popped the lid off, and noticed the back of my thumb was bleeding. Almost cut it to the bone, never felt a thing. The cut closed up overnight, but I still have the scar.
 
I was closing my new Buck Vantage, when i pushed the liner lock with my thumb and pushed the blade with my finger. Before I could remove my thumb, the blade fell on it, lucky me i escaped with out stitches, though lot of blood. I never close the hard liner lock with one hand now.
 
Catching a falling/dropped knife, done it more than once :o only cut once, but still think I would learn. Guess it comes from all that time working with breakables
 
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uhhh, putting on my pants! :o

piss poor ball detent and a wickedly sharp blade in my pocket=18 stitches on my lower right leg (not to mention an very unwelcome glimpse of my inner anatomy :eek:)
 
The best way to remove the seed from an avocado is to stab it with a knife to remove it. Just don't do it with a fillet knife!:mad: Anyway I needed stitches and my fajitas went to waste.
 
a lot to choose from. For the most damage, I severed the nerve in my right thumb with my first home made knife. I was cutting apples for a group of 2 year olds, and the lanyard on the knife caught between the table and my hip as I was leaning to put it out of reach on the high table. Felt pretty dumb with a bunch of 2 year olds eating snacks at church (nursery class). Had to have another guy reach into my pocket to grab the sheath. to put it away. Had to have another guy take me to the hospital to get it stitched up. Some one else had to clean up all the blood. I have had to have many stitches in my life, that was the most blood I have ever seen from me. First time I have actually had a squirter like that.

The doctor in OR took the wad of paper towels away (3 hours later, when the could get around to me). He looked at it before packing the wad back and looked at me and asked me if I could make a living without using the thumb again.

It works ok, almost a year later, just no feeling in the right half of the thumb yet.

I discovered later that night that the edge had actually hit the bone hard enough to roll the edge.
 
Was playing with my BM 420 while browsing the web late at nite. Dosed off in front of a monitor with a knife open on my lap. Fast forward to morning... Phone rang, I twitched, knife fell edge first, cut my foot pretty deep, took about a month to heal...
 
I've posted this before, but what the heck... here it is again:

Standing in my kitchen holding this Fallkniven Thor bowie...
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I absent mindedly start flipping it around "mall-ninja" style, (that's the dumbass part) it slips out of my hand, cutting my finger as it went. I heard the knife hit the floor, but felt nothing, I tried to take a step and it felt like the floor was caving in under my foot. I looked down at my right ankle and see this...

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Completely severed my achilles tendon. That was 6 or 7 weeks ago, I just got my hard cast off, and got fitted for a boot. It still looks NASTY, and I'm not even close to being able to walk yet.... woopsy-doodles!
 
I was just going to do a quick sharpening touch up of a butterfly knife on a Spydie Sharpmaker. Since it was just a touch up I didn't bother to put in the brass guards. Just as I was thinking, maybe I should pop in the guards I come down on the top of the ceramic stick, it slips off and right down on the back of my left hand. It only took a few stiches but now I now have a 1 inch "reminder" of why they come with safety guards.
 
BryFry said:
I've posted this before, but what the heck... here it is again:

Standing in my kitchen holding this Fallkniven Thor bowie...
various2008-2009077.jpg


I absent mindedly start flipping it around "mall-ninja" style, (that's the dumbass part) it slips out of my hand, cutting my finger as it went. I heard the knife hit the floor, but felt nothing, I tried to take a step and it felt like the floor was caving in under my foot. I looked down at my right ankle and see this...

bryansseveredankle.jpg


Completely severed my achilles tendon. That was 6 or 7 weeks ago, I just got my hard cast off, and got fitted for a boot. It still looks NASTY, and I'm not even close to being able to walk yet.... woopsy-doodles!
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:barf: Ahhh, come on, I almost forgot about that and you had to post that while I'm eating my homemade chicken soup :grumpy: :D
 
Washing a handmade Scandi with a Lauri PT blade. Don't know what I was thinking, but I was moving the blade back & forth between the sponge rather than holding the blade still and washing with the sponge.

Felt the knife just 'stick' and stop moving all of a sudden... it had cut across the back of my left thumb and only stopped moving when it got stuck in the bone. Worked the knife loose, watched the blood gush for a while before applying direct pressure on it. 15 minutes of a death grip and the bleeding finally slowed enough so I could get a bandage and tape around it. Wound closed cleanly but left me a nice scar as a reminder to respect sharp objects.
 
DrivebyTrucker said:
The best way to remove the seed from an avocado is to stab it with a knife to remove it. Just don't do it with a fillet knife!:mad: Anyway I needed stitches and my fajitas went to waste.
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Well, it sounds like that is not the best way!:p I like to sink the belly of a knife into the seed with the cado half resting on the cutting board, and then twist gently and the seed pops from the flesh. I am sure this is what you meant. I could see myself doing what you did. I used to sell avocado trees to orchards.

My worst was a bagel slicing incident with a serrated bread knife. Cutting towards the saddle of my thumb an forefinger. My sons told their class mates that maybe they should take my knives.:( :grumpy: The little bast... umm, sons of mine.:D
 
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