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

Closing my brand new Queen Gunstock to show my wife that a halfstop protects the fingers from being cut.....turns out that if you have your fingers close enough to the pivot....it doesn't.
 
1: I had a SAK style penknife when I first started scouts. despite my parents, scoutleaders and others wories, I never cut myself with the blade on that knife. I did, however, achieve to put a small hole in my thumb with the corkscrew..... so much for the blade being the dangerous bit.

2: I decided to test how well the mora clipper guarded against your hand slipping onto the blade. the answer: quite well, but if you push hard enough it will slip. fortuneately I got away with nothing but a papercut-like wound on my right index finger.
 
Wasn't paying attention while chopping with a hatchet, popped the tip of my thumb right off, to the bone but not including the bone. Never severely hurt myselff with a knife yet, other tools, frequently, but no knife.
 
I was at the in-laws' place sitting at the kitchen table after finishing breakfast. Just the other day, a new knife came in the mail, and I was opening and closing it. Well, I accidentally closed it too close to my left index finger, and ended up having to clean it up, wrap it till it stopped bleeding, and then supergluing it shut. Needless to say, my fiancee's parents saw me in a different light that day.
 
YayILikePie said:
I was at the in-laws' place sitting at the kitchen table after finishing breakfast. Just the other day, a new knife came in the mail, and I was opening and closing it. Well, I accidentally closed it too close to my left index finger, and ended up having to clean it up, wrap it till it stopped bleeding, and then supergluing it shut. Needless to say, my fiancee's parents saw me in a different light that day.
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I do that a lot when I get new axis locked benchmades (usually griptilians). It is just so damn smooth that you open and close them without thinking, and them *snip* there goes the callus from your finger tip :D
 
I decided that it would be a bright idea to show off my BRAND SPANKIN NEW very sharp Mini Grip on the side of the basketball court. That set me up to have a wayward basketball slam into my hand and have my grip go clattering to the ground. I immediately was worried my grip had suffered damage, but it appeared ok. Then I noticed some weird red stuff on it, that was quickly covering my hand. I sliced the knuckle on my right ring finger. Still have a scar from it..
 
I have two:
The I was cutting chicken that my thumb was under with my minirukus and I cut throug the chiken and into the tip of my thumb. The only thing that made me realize that i did that was me feeling the side of the knife rubbing the skin. I didn't feel the actual cut until about 5 mnutes later.

And the 20 or so times when I tried to catch a failing arial insted of letting my bali hit carpet. The stupidy of this is subjective depending on who reads it. In my defense I couldnt tell i failed until i felt the knife tip pierce my skin, oh and I did have the blade taped.
 
I once sharpened my Opinel #8 and was testing how sharp it was. So what I did was hold a string, which was only a few inches long between my thumb and index finger and with the other hand tried to chop through it. Very stupid idea. I hit my index finger and sliced right into the bone.
 
I accidentally stabbed a wharncliffe knife into my left forearm after doing a bottle cut test, I have no idea how I did it......
 
I ordered a bunch of Care Bears for my little girl a few years back. When they arrived the box had tons of thick packaging tape on it. So......I grabbed a custom David Dempsey tanto that I had just received and started cutting through the tape. I gripped the knife with my left hand and had my right hand on the box to provide some stability and leverage.

I wasn't paying attention and was actually cutting towards me and the knife blade sliced right through the tape and into my wrist. It was "suicide deep"!!!! I am in the medical field and my wife at the time was an R.N. I refused to go to the ER and finally got some of the surgical superglue from the hospital and my wife took great pleasure in trying to seal the wound up. She kept telling me it needed stitches and it actually bled for several hours. I refused to get stitches and still have a nice little scar on my wrist.

The funny thing was that my wife and I were separated at the time and I could not find her initially. I went to the hospital where I worked to get supplies and my co-workers accused me of trying to kill myself over my marital separation. They were quite concerned about my well-being!!!
 
The most recent was stupidly holding a log while I wacked it with a knife to start battening. The knife hit a soft spot and followed the grain of the wood right down to my finger. I thought I chopped it off. The thread about it is currently heading to the place were all old threads go to rest.

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The other happened to the same finger about a year ago and left it numb on one side. Which may be why the battening accident didn't hurt as bad.

I was trying to pry some frozen salmon patties apart with my Shallot. When the patties came apart the knife went through the under side of my finger, up next to the bone and slightly out the top.
 
RxEnergy said:
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...
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Ha, that is a good one.

I actually fell asleep on my bed once as a kid, holding a sword up in the air (just kind of balancing it with the hilt on my chest).

I woke up because I though some one had punched me in the face. I had nodded off, and the sword fell over and whacked me in the forehead. Luckily it was the flat of the blade (the sword had blunt edges, but would have cut anyway on the head because of the weight alone).

That one was funny.
 
Well, I just recieved my first spyderco tenacious (great beater never afraid to carry because its cheap), and for some reason, I hooked the blade to my molle gear and didn't close it. Wanted to show it off or something. :confused:

Well, the next day, I go to my closet, and forget about the knife blade pointed at the ground. I reached down to pick up a fallen shirt, and as I stood up, the blade went right through my shirt and into my arm lol luckily I was wearing a black shirt, so the blood stains dont show. The gash was only one inch deep and a little less than one inch wide.

Note: Never store blades open to show them off :P
 
just cut myself about 5 minutes ago rapidly opening and closing my CQC-10 like an idiot. caught the tip of the thumb.
 
I cut the index finger on my left hand from tip to below the nail while using a SAK to cut an apple.

i cut the same finger in the same way while cutting a tomato with a laguiole six months later.

this of course is the knifes fault and not mine. nope, not mine. its the knife, and the second knife too.

i'm an idiot. :)
 
I was putting a new switch on a large bench grinder an while shaving some wires with a case stockman (sheep foot blade) I sliced my left pointer finger open (long ways up an down) about a inch clean to the bone
 
I just remembered something not a severe injury but still funny. When I first joined the Cub Scouts, My mom brought me home my first pocket knife, the Camillus Cub Scout Knife that everyone got. It was a very cool day for me, I was seven or eight, and I immediately took it outside with a warning not to cut myself with it, first thing I did, I mean within five minutes, was to close the thing on my hand. Doh. Gave me a little cut, not stitch worthy, at least if I remember correctly I ran and washed it out and stuck a bandaid on it, when inquired about it I said I tripped and cut it on a tree. Too embarrassed to admit that I'd cut myself with it. I'm still that way. Took me three years to admit that I'd broken my finger when I accidently stuck a power drill into my knuckle. Unfortunately, there was no way to cover up my hatchet wound, everyone saw me do it.
 
unky_gumbi said:
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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I have this problem as well.. when things fall I instinctively move to catch them. That's the only way I've ever cut myself. I've done it a couple times in the past but I've since learned my lesson. Now rather than flick my hand out to catch a falling knife, I use the time more productively to move my feet out of the way. I have to say it's working out much better for me :D
 
I got a Paramilitary a couple weeks ago and I was experimenting with the compression lock. Not paying attention I pressed the lock with my index finger, closed the blade with my thumb but had my middle finger across the handle where the blade fits into. Sliced right down to the bone. It left me with a nice little half inch or so scar.

Another time about 15 or so years ago during pumpkin carving in grade school a girl was passing me a steak knife, handing me the blade side. After having a somewhat firm grip on the blade she decided she wanted the knife back and pulled it out of my hand. Middle finger went right down to the bone and other fingers were pretty deep. The only scar left is the one on the middle finger. Not really my fault, but I should have known better than to take a knife by the blade.
 
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