Ever been "cut" by a Dia-Sharp? Good one here with pic

[Gotsouthern]

Weell got my new Dia-Sharps today, been having some fun with them. Got a Spydi Tenacious to hair whittling, first time ever!! HA stropping equipment is a wonderful thing. Seriously. Anyhow, onto the good part...

So Im working this Calphalon 10" slicer (big, cheap practice knife haha), horrid factory bevel, prob. close to 60 deg inclusive. So Im working this thing on the D8X, trying to put it down to around 33-35 deg or so inclusive as a dedicated meat slicer, (I know, I know, I'll throw a small micro bevel on it when it chips out lol) and after about 15 min, Im pretty well where I wanna be, and notice some blood on my wiping towel. Im thinking I sure didn't feel a cut, and as course an edge as that was I knew I'd have felt it. I get to looking and its my thumb, right where it rides on the stone!! Didn't really feel a thing at first, though after a few min it did get to stinging pretty good lol. Bled good enough I had to put a band-aid on it to keep from getting blood everywhere. A long long time of riding the stone with my thumb on hard Arkansas stones and such, guess I'll NOT be doing that anymore with the DMT X. Lesson learned

 

[Jason B.]

WOW! that is really odd, the stone cut you?

Your not pressing too hard are you? just the weight of the blade and your fingers guiding it is all thats needed any more and you will damage the stone. I too will let my fingers slide across the stone as I am sharpening but have never experienced anything like that.

 

[bgentry]

Ummm... I'm guessing the knife cut you when your thumb rode up a little higher than you thought it was? I can't imagine actually cutting myself on a sharpening stone...

Brian.

 

[samhain73]

Oh yeah, I've done that with a D8XX. Sanded the skin right off my thumb.

 

[Gotsouthern]

Oh yeah, I've done that with a D8XX. Sanded the skin right off my thumb.

Exactly. I wasn't using much pressure on the knife, just my thumb as a guide really. And sure enough, after about 10 min on that D8X, it got me. And it don't feel good I assure you....think I'd rather have had a cut lol. Anyhow, makes me feel better I didn't discover this method to bleed ones self

 

[Gator97]

Happened to me once... DMT 8X, I was putting bevel on Aritsugu Yanagiba, took hours. 65+HRC steel, 300mm long blade. I never realized till it was too late

 

[Gotsouthern]

Happened to me once... DMT 8X, I was putting bevel on Aritsugu Yanagiba, took hours. 65+HRC steel, 300mm long blade. I never realized till it was too late

Well I wish I was working on a bad-a** Japanese knife lol, woulda made for a better read. But yeah, it amazed me how much I didn't feel it, then bam, too late

 

[THG]

Weird... My fingers have gotten raw before due to constant rubbing of an XC stone to rinse metal off under the faucet, but no actual cuts.

 

[Brutus013]

Weird... My fingers have gotten raw before due to constant rubbing of an XC stone to rinse metal off under the faucet, but no actual cuts.

Had you got on for a bit longer, you would be in the OP's condition.

Just to clarify, the OP isn't talking about the stone cutting him or tearing the skin instantaneously, he's talking about the stone gradually grinding through the skin until it was all of the way through the first layer.

 

[Skimo]

I've had the same thing happen, but on sandpaper while putting a mirror polish on a set of steel liners, 2000 grit wet sandpaper, didn't even feel it till it was too late. Days later I learned you can't just sand off finger prints permanently, though the ridges seems lower now.

 

[THG]

Had you got on for a bit longer, you would be in the OP's condition.

Just to clarify, the OP isn't talking about the stone cutting him or tearing the skin instantaneously, he's talking about the stone gradually grinding through the skin until it was all of the way through the first layer.

Oh, same thing, then. It sucks, too; it feels exactly like a burn.

 

[Macchina]

Yup, 10 minutes on a stone is like 1/10 sec on a belt grinder. Happens to me at work quite often. Abrasives will eat anything...

 

[Gotsouthern]

... it feels exactly like a burn....

Ten four that. And takes forever to heal too. These diamond stones don't play, especially when new. I can tell after a long session just from rubbing across them a lot to clean them off and spread liquid soap it gets my finger tips a bit raw.