Embarrassing knife stories?

I bought my first hinderer a few weeks ago 3.5 skinny slicer
I tried taking some quality pictures of it on the first day on a wooden fence.

It fell and instinctively I tried to catch it.....and I did, tip down into my palm. This was right before vacation

But the knife is still flawless and my hand is almost healed, so maybe it was the right call
 
pikemaster11 said:
I bought my first hinderer a few weeks ago 3.5 skinny slicer
I tried taking some quality pictures of it on the first day on a wooden fence.

It fell and instinctively I tried to catch it.....and I did, tip down into my palm. This was right before vacation

But the knife is still flawless and my hand is almost healed, so maybe it was the right call
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You know you're a knife knut when that's your reaction to being stabbed in the palm. Phew, at least the knife is okay! :p
 
A few years ago, I used my large Uncle Henry stockman to change a roll of plastic on one of our machines. Keep in mind that it is against company policy to use personal knives on the job. After I did the prep work, it was time to push the rather large roll of plastic in place that required both hands. However, I didn’t bother closing the knife and placing it back in my pocket. Instead I left the spey blade open. When I placed my hands on the plastic to give it a push, I jammed the tip of the blade into the roll shoving the edge across my thumb filleting a chunk off of it.
It took a few seconds for it to start bleeding, but when it started, it gushed. I stuck my hand in my pocket and went straight to the bathroom. I rinsed my wound off and wrapped it in a paper towel then headed to the medical closet. Blood was soaking up the bandages too quickly so I ended up wrapping it in gauze. When the bleeding was finally contained, I had to walk around cleaning up blood trails I left around the machine that occurred before I made the decision to stick my hand in my pocket.
Needless to say, I never did find the chunk of thumb I sliced off. Not only did my ignorance cost me a chunk of my thumb and blood loss, but I soaked a perfectly good pair of underwear in blood when I stuck my hand in my pocket.
 
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This doesn't involve me or my knife but I was responsible so here it goes:

I was at a saioc seminar / course, and there were many people from many different places and disciplines. There was this guy acting cool with a small crowd gathered around showing off his cool knife.

It was a perfectly good Buck nighthawk that had been ground to a point of no return to make it blunt, and the tip had been destroyed. Now as you know, this can't be used as a training knife anyways, because it's still heavy and the tip still too narrow, that's why toys and training knives are used. He called me to show off and me being the quiet discreet lover of knives I am and the disgust show offs make me feel (this was a grown man) I couldn't hold back.

"hey there. That's an interesting knife you got there. Judging by the lack of holes in the blade I suppose this is a buck nighthawk, not the more common tops. A total classic and discontinued as well. It's quite valuable in the second hand market, it's a pitty to see it in such a sorry state. I wonder what happened to it ". I told him what it was worth. He looked at me but I smiled and left, didn't tell him it was useless for the class, but no need, because the guy teaching quickly told him to put that away.
 
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I have a Columbia jacket with those elastic string tightners on the side. Well one time was at the store with my better half and the elastic string got caught on the corner of a metal shelves as i was walking and snapped back catching my boos blade smoke by the tip of the pocket clip and launched it over isle and out of sight when I heard a scream. My first thought was that I just impaled someone and my stomach dropped. Ran around the isle and the blade was opened and laying fully locked on the ground. Thank God she was just startled and it wasn't worse. I apologized for what I'm sure they thought was some crazy guy throwing knives payed in CASH and swiftly left.
 
I made a separate post about it the other day, but I guess it belongs here.

My daughter (6) is really getting into knife and multitool collecting. We were sitting on the floor and going through so my knives, I was showing her how they all work.

I was demo-ing a big switchblade in my left hand when she asked a question about a different knife. Somehow, I reached my right hand over the left and ran my pinky along the blade; sliced it open pretty good. I decided in the end that I'd rely on band aids instead of going to urgent care.

I tried to turn it into a lesson: "See? This is why we have to be careful with knives... Daddy was not paying attention for a second there, and now there's blood everywhere and my pinky will be messed up for a couple weeks."

But it backfired. Now she's afraid of them and doesn't even want to open a knife blade. She just wants to play with the tools on the multitools and SAKs.

Oh well, at least she has a healthy respect for a sharp edge now...
 
By far not my most embarrassing knife story, but this happened recently and it'll do. Grabbed one of my nicer folding knives from my "box of knives" with a sheath and put it on my belt one morning before going fishing. Did some fishing prep with the knife before leaving with my brother. Had a great time fishing - caught a bunch. Went to clean them but only had an empty sheath on my belt. Figured I had managed to lose it fishing and was rather bummed to have lost a nice knife. Found it on my desk when I got home. Getting old kinda sucks sometimes.
 
DB_Cruiser said:
By far not my most embarrassing knife story, but this happened recently and it'll do. Grabbed one of my nicer folding knives from my "box of knives" with a sheath and put it on my belt one morning before going fishing. Did some fishing prep with the knife before leaving with my brother. Had a great time fishing - caught a bunch. Went to clean them but only had an empty sheath on my belt. Figured I had managed to lose it fishing and was rather bummed to have lost a nice knife. Found it on my desk when I got home. Getting old kinda sucks sometimes.
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At least it wasn't lost for long! :-)
 
Yes, it was a happy reunion and I was relieved to know I hadn't lost it. But was pretty PO'd at myself for not paying attention. I really beat myself up for losing that knife. Turned out I only needed to beat myself up for being absent minded.
 
DB_Cruiser said:
By far not my most embarrassing knife story, but this happened recently and it'll do. Grabbed one of my nicer folding knives from my "box of knives" with a sheath and put it on my belt one morning before going fishing. Did some fishing prep with the knife before leaving with my brother. Had a great time fishing - caught a bunch. Went to clean them but only had an empty sheath on my belt. Figured I had managed to lose it fishing and was rather bummed to have lost a nice knife. Found it on my desk when I got home. Getting old kinda sucks sometimes.
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That is about as bad as forgetting your firearm when you're going deer hunting.... Some might wonder how in the hell something like this could happen, but in the coarse of getting ready (packed) with multiple trips to the auto/truck.... you can forget just about the most important tool. Happened to my Dad.
 
DB_Cruiser said:
By far not my most embarrassing knife story, but this happened recently and it'll do. Grabbed one of my nicer folding knives from my "box of knives" with a sheath and put it on my belt one morning before going fishing. Did some fishing prep with the knife before leaving with my brother. Had a great time fishing - caught a bunch. Went to clean them but only had an empty sheath on my belt. Figured I had managed to lose it fishing and was rather bummed to have lost a nice knife. Found it on my desk when I got home. Getting old kinda sucks sometimes.
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Look on the bright side, at least your still on the sod instead of under it. ;)
 
22-rimfire said:
That is about as bad as forgetting your firearm when you're going deer hunting.... Some might wonder how in the hell something like this could happen, but in the coarse of getting ready (packed) with multiple trips to the auto/truck.... you can forget just about the most important tool. Happened to my Dad.
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Well, I didn't forget the fishing pole. So I had that going for me.
 
I usually take along a spare "pole" and keep it in the pickup. On a boat, it takes the ride. Same applies to knives.
 
I just grabbed a bottle of water and went to slice the label off because I have all these knives sitting in front of me and the tip sliced one of the ribs sending water all over said knives and my keyboard:confused:. Bet you didn't know a keyboard can hold upto 8 ounces of water and still keep umm Keyboarding. Yes I can be a real :poop: head after 3 Knob Creeks and Coke:confused:
 
Night Rider said:
I just grabbed a bottle of water and went to slice the label off because I have all these knives sitting in front of me and the tip sliced one of the ribs sending water all over said knives and my keyboard:confused:. Bet you didn't know a keyboard can hold upto 8 ounces of water and still keep umm Keyboarding. Yes I can be a real :poop: head after 3 Knob Creeks and Coke:confused:
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I always cut the bottled water package open after carrying it in the house. Never cut one of the bottles open until recently. I just thought "yep, sharpened this knife good".
 
Letting a customer handle one of my knives and watching him cut himself deeply while closing it. I felt the need to give him a knife (not the one he cut himself with, but one with a slower, safer action.)
 
The day I got my ZT0450 I tried cutting the plastic off of a case of water bottles and cut through six bottles. Sharpest knife I’ve ever had out of the box.
 
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