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

Early this year I just got a Blackhawk Crucible fixed blade and the sheath was tight on it cuz it was new. I didn't want to rip the knife out of the sheath too hard so I tried to control it. So I ended up pulling the knife out and when I tried to stop the knife from moving too far back my hand "rebounded" and stabbed the sheath holding hand on my index finger. Went in, hit the bone, and came out. Bled for a while lol.
 
. . . concerning a falling knife???

That's right- don't try and catch it! Especially when that knife is one of the old Timberline Emerson/ Nealy Specwar Fixed Blade knives, which combines all that's best of both a prybar and a razor blade!

Well, my brain knows this, but when you have trained lightning-quick, subconscious reflexes through twenty-plus years of martial arts, your body (or, in my case, my right hand) tends to forget the FIRST RULE!!

I was sitting at my desk drawing out a custom sheath I was going to have made for what I consider to be the finest fixed blade knife I ever owned (the Specwar). The knife was lying unsheathed on the desk and I reached over to look at the angle of the guard once again and accidentally bumped it and caused it to begin to fall off of the desk. My right hand shot out and my brain screamed NOOOOOOOOOOOOO inside my skull! Well, my right hand must have been thinking the NOOOOOOOOO was my brain asking my right hand to save my prized knife from hitting the floor because Old Righty grabbed that thing right out of the air.

Unfortunately, Old Righty grabbed the blade-part of the knife, and that thing began to do its work! Now, had it not been sharp as a lightsaber or as heavy as one of Steven Seagal's jowles, I might have caught some luck- but this was not to be. As usual, it was only bad luck coming down the tracks.

I can remember that thing humming a tune as it slid down between my thumb and index finger, and I can remember the smell of burnt flesh- or was that just the sensation? Either way, it went to the bone as if it had never left!

Blood everywhere, with me frantically trying to find something to actually STOP the bleeding as opposed to just SOAKING UP the blood! Tied a tourniquet around my neck and the bleeding slowed down a bit. Still can't feel my legs.

Sold the knife a week later.

Just couldn't trust her.

And that's my story!

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Never done more than scratched myself with my own knives. I've had worse paper cuts, and didn't drip or anything so I didn't bother bandaging with even a band-aid.

However... I worked in a restaurant kitchen for a summer once, and one day cutting carrots with an amazingly dull knife a carrot rolled instead of splitting and sent the knife across my index and thumb on my other hand (holding the carrot).

Of course I had also donated blood just that day and had been working in a hot kitchen for a few hours, so while I stopped for a minute to clot the blot with paper towels my vision went black as I was standing. I think it was more of a combination of earlier blood loss with dehydration and shock setting it than just blood loss, because it wasn't bleeding that much and I felt very calm about it.

Didn't fall or anything, just had to be guided to a chair to sit for a moment and have some water and a bandage. Was totally fine after 5 minutes and went back to work.
 
Here's the dumbest thing I have done with a knife a few years ago.

We were playing basketball, and during the break I acted like a A-class dumbass by attempting to cut off the net with my folder. When you jump up and cut, your arm moves back...with the edge of the blade to my forehead...

Yeah...small gash on my forehead, but good thing wasn't my eye. I still feel dumber than a rat for that stunt.
 
You know how some pistachios don't have a large enough split to open them easily? And you know how when you're at the bottom of the bag you feel like you really need to get those last ones open? Don't use a benchmade. Still have a scar in my pistachio holding finger to remind me of that one. Not the worst cut, but afterward I couldn't really picture why I thought that was a good idea.
 
I was drinking at a party about 15 years ago, and I tried to cut a broken string off of my guitar with a Cold Steel Super Edge. Actually, I succeeded in cutting through the guitar string. I also succeeded in bringing the knife up and into my temple- where it stuck. I missed my eye by less than an inch. Boy howdy, did I ever bleed like a stuck pig. Stupid! I have a nice scar there, to this day.
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The ultimate stupid of stupid.

After using one of my canvas micarta handled knives, as the handles were covered in raw chicken goo, I left it in the kitchen sink which already had some warm and soapy water in it - the bubbles were thick enough that you could not seen into the sink.

Long story short, I forgot about the knife and then went back to start doing the dishes - I reached my hand in the still soapy water to feel around for utensils to pick up and it bit me :grumpy:

It is one of my biggest rules never to leave sharp knives in the sink - I just dont know what I was thinking that night...

Other than that I'm lucky enough to have never stupidly cut myself - actually I sliced my hand pretty bad the first day I got an emerson with the wave feature...
 
Oh, I've got this one, hands down. I'm nine years old. My dad, just changed jobs and and is having his big cheese boss over for a bbq. Now my dad is a private quiet guy so my mom must have twisted his arm to do this. Mom makes me go out and set the picnic table. So, setting the table, I look at the butter knife. Slowly I stroke it across my thumb. Nothing. Stroke it again. Nothing. Do it five times in a row, real fast. Nothing. So now my dad comes out with the boss and starts to introduce him to me. Running up to the two of them I shout, "Look, dad, how dull this butter knife is! You know what's coming. With just one stroke I slice my thumb a good inch. Blood comes spurting out. IIIIEEEEE!!!! WWAAAAAHHHHH!!!! I really don't remember much after that except I don't think my dad ever had any boss for a bbq after that. :rolleyes:
 
thantos1858 said:
Early this year I just got a Blackhawk Crucible fixed blade and the sheath was tight on it cuz it was new. I didn't want to rip the knife out of the sheath too hard so I tried to control it. So I ended up pulling the knife out and when I tried to stop the knife from moving too far back my hand "rebounded" and stabbed the sheath holding hand
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Probably a common occurrence . Voice of experience. :grumpy:
 
This happened when i was 7 years old, i was using an exacto knife "helping" my brother finish his woodworking project. Well being a young kid i had my hand in front of where i was cutting to hold the wood down... Well the knife slipped up towards my hand and sliced right into my left index finger cutting right into the bone, it got stuck i screamed and shook it out. I ran around my house trying to find my mom. She screamed at me asking what i did, i said it was a paper cut >.<. she said there is no way that is a paper cut! Called my dad and got my siblings together and went to the hospital. Went in and as we were sitting there waiting with a towel wrapped around my finger, a lady screamed at us because we were called next yet she was waiting there longer.. my mom then yelled at her saying that her son has a cut into his bone and needs help right now! the lady sat down and shut up... The doctor then looked at it and put a butterfly bandage on it. not sure if that's what its called. It looks like ((---)) and its just to keep the cut together. Well i still have the scar and when i hit my finger accidentally it feels like I'm hitting my funny bone. >.< Ya and after that i for some reason loved knives and asked my dad if i could have one of his, he said i could use it but it couldn't be mine. It was a small pen knife with his initials on it.
Ya so that is my story :)
 
I carry a little Gerber multitool, with a fairly dull blade, to open boxes and packages. Not long ago, on a Monday, I received a custom dagger from one of the makers that sells here. Was busy that night so really didn't have time to check it out much. On Tuesday I happened to get another knife in the mail. All excited, I decided to use the new dagger to open the package on my new new knife. If I was a dog my tail would have been wagging at supersonic speed. Being accustomed to a small dull blade for this duty, I wasn't prepared for the dagger to slice through the packaging like cutting through warm butter...and sink the tip into the back of my thumb to the bone. It was a bleeder. My wife saw the whole thing, was shocked and concerned for a moment, then quickly transitioned into giving me one of those "what a dumb @$$" looks. Threw some antibiotic on it, wrapped it up. Figure the scar will be a good reminder to be more careful in the future.
 
Reaching under the bed for an old lockback I droped...found the blade...with by left pointer finger....5 stitches later Ive got a nice scar
 
I almost had a good one of these today, using my BK-7 at work to lop off some branches of a nasty looking weed/tree, I was trying to chop the remainder of one of the big stems through because I couldn't fit my axe on the other side to get it to fall. Then it fell, towards me so instinctively I put my hands up, and poked myself in the forhead with the tip. Luckily I immediately jerked it back when I saw it coming so there was only a little speckle of blood, like a shaving cut. That could have been pretty stupid, especially if I had caught the top of my head with the edge; with the kind of edge I keep on that thing it would have been a bad day.
 
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