First Knife that Gave You a BAD CUT

Emerson CQC-7b....almost all the way down the left thumb and 1/4 inch deep...lotsa blood...still healing. Hope there's a nice scar! :thumbup:
 
I've carried a knife everyday for the past 35 years, and I've never had a stitch. No doubt, I've just jinxed myself. Crap.
 
martoonisotu said:
I've carried a knife everyday for the past 35 years, and I've never had a stitch. No doubt, I've just jinxed myself. Crap.
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my worst cut was from cuting a, are you ready for this? a bannana with my freshly sharped LEEK, I was cutting it in my hand and slipped...9 stitches and 2 hours later I was home, and the worst part was the bannana was too ripe. :D
 
The first knife to give me a really bad cut was an x acto knife. it was about 2 years ago, we were making boats out of cardboard to take to the community pool to race them. As i was cutting i ran the blade across my thumb. Pretty bad, took alost 2 hours just to stop the bleeding. good thing i hit the bone, if it were any lower i would have taken the tip off.
 
My 1st Barlow bit me two times. Once when I needed proof that you shouldn't pry with your knife,it folded up on my fingers when I was prying out .22 bullets from the target backstop. Stuck there well enough my Aunt had to pry it back open to get it off. Nothing a couple of bandages wouldn't fix though. Of course being about 8years old I was fairly tramatised for a few hours :) The second time it bit me(or did I make it bite me?), I was cutting a notch in a plastic ruler for a better rubberband launcher. It slipped off the end of the ruler and slashed my left index and middle fingers. Apparantly it was time to get some understanding of the don't cut towards yourself rule. I was cleaning the wounds when Mom walked in. She dang near fainted but made it to a chair to sit down. Dad walked in and sees me at the sink and Mom apparantly white as a ghost. He starts yelling at me and I explained what happened. He's gotta see himself and we're almost looking for another chair!!! Apparantly parents don't like to see their children's blood :) There were a few other lessons as I got older but those were the ones that I still remember vividly.
 
I drop my buck Vanguard Friday evening and nicked my first toe. It bleed like hell for a while. My wife just look at me like I was an idiot or maybe she was trying not to laugh, probably both.
 
Nothing too bad, but I'll share my stories.

Sitting in a hotel in Georgia with my older brother, I was playing with my first knife, a Vic Classic. Sliced my thumb open pretty well and it bled for a few minues. I think I was 4 or 5.

Recently when I was chopping up some wood with my Manix, I slipped and hit my thumb. I would of taken the tip off it I hadn't landed into the nail. I cut off a good portion of my thumbnail on the top left corner and it bled for about an hour. Seems to be okay now, the cut healed great and the nail I pulled off. Wondering if it will re-grow, looks like it will.

I don't have many knife accidents really. I use SAKs primarily too. I'm pretty mindful when using knives.
 
When I was younger I was playing whit my first knife ever a razor sharp Vic Camper. A wooden stick was getting a nice point and was already looking like a good spear. Till I somehow cut in my hand, and where…

The flesh between my thumb and index finger was cut badly, around two millimetre deep and five centimetres long. The tissue that connects the two fingers was cut one centimetre deep so it was and had to be stitched together by three stitches. The rest was of the wound was closed by special Band-Aid. My luck was that there where no important tissue was damaged so it health without complications. A nice scar is the result!
 
So there I was, in my high school auditorium on a saturday, making a hangmans noose. No, I'm not suicidal, I was making a prop for the drama club's latest play. The rope I was using was a 1 inch natural fiber hawster, which was fraying pretty badly. To keep it from all coming apart, I whipped the ends, and was using my Smith and Wesson swat knife to cut off the unused pieces of string. Someone accidentally bumped into me from the back and caused the knife to change direction as it was cutting the string. It's new path happened to chop a neat slice off of the middle finger on my right hand. Nearly took the entire fingerprint. I bandaged myself up with a paper towel and some electrical tape and then went back to find the severed piece.

Surprisingly the only scar was a small bumpy patch where the edges of the wound came together as it finished healing.
 
Ten years old, using the point of a small Ka-Bar hunting knife to drill a hole in a soft pine board that was braced against my thigh. The board split, the knife went in. Through the artery, to the bone. Blood squirting everywhere. My father, a combat veteran, applied a tourniquet and compress while my mother went looking for a doctor (this was at night in a rural area). My mother saw a houseparty in full swing and stopped there. It turns out it was a party for the medical staff at the local military base. She came back with three army doctors half in the bag but they sewed me up.
 
It was over 50 years ago, but I still remember it. I was whittling with a Boy Scout knife. It slipped and cut me on the first joint of my left index finger down to the bone. Camp counselor put on some special Japanese army first-aid tape he brought back from WWII. He lit the glue with a match, let it burn for a few seconds, then put it around my finger. Hurt like hell, but healed OK. Scar's still there as a daily reminder.
 
The first really bad knife cut i got was from a damn Bushido katana, i was cleaning the damn thing and it sliced right through the rice paper and right into that fleshy meat right under my thumb joint, talk about ouch, i still have an inch long scar and at the time i thought i severed a tendon. moral of the story? be careful with katana! they are a lil sharper than your average knife! :grumpy:
 
I really can't remember my first cut, but here are three that I recall....

Me and my brother were playing in the cane patch, making spears and "swords" out of the cane poles, and we were cutting the cane with a machete.
Well my brother starts play attacking me with the machete, so I told him to stop screwing around and I grabbed the machete by the blade....and he quickly pulled it out of my hand, cutting two of my fingers before I could let go.
I chased him with a cane spear all the way back to the house!


Another time I was cutting a thick plastic zip-tie off of a storage container with a Victorinox Electrician, using the sheepsfoot blade.
I was holding the container with my left hand and cutting with my right hand.
After applying lots of force it finally cut through the zip-tie and landed right in the web between my left thumb and index finger.
That one got me five stitches from a PA friend of mine.


And then there's the time I discovered just exactly what the "spine whack test" is all about...
I had been hiking that day and I had lots of dried mud in the tread of my boots.
So I pulled out my trusty CRKT Mirage, locked the blade open "snap!", and proceeded to use the spine of the blade on the bottom of my boot, you know...to loosen the dried mud.
Well, the very first tap caused the blade to fold like it had no lock at all!
It cut me right on the back of my hand.
After attending to my cut I checked out the knife again.
I thought that maybe it had not really locked for some reason.
So I locked the blade open and everything seemed totally secure and solid.
I then, carefully but firmly, tapped the spine on the floor carpet and, sure enough, it folded with a snap!
It was then that I became a believer in the "Spine Whack Test".

Allen.
 
On a christmas day a few years ago, my daughter asked me to open a locket.
Despite the fact I had elivated blood alcohol levels, I took on the job. I was useing the small blade of my swiss champ which slipped and went into my left index finger cutting an artery and nerve. They drove me to the ER which was packed as usuall and waited for hours. It took a couple of years, but I got most feeling back in the finger. The lesson learned here I guess is knives and alcohol don't mix, just like black powder and alcohol don't mix.
 
Karambit for me. Stick my in my wrist. It wasn't the knife's fault. It never is. I was just being stupid.
 
Single blade Sheffield with a picture of a mountie on it. Saved my allowance for two weeks to buy the thing I think it cost $6. 30 years later you can still make out the scar on my index finger.
 
Aside from a few minor "love nips" on my fingertips from my assortment of Scary Sharp Spydies (in particular, the Dodo), i've been lucky (so far) and haven't had any nasty cuts...

ironically, the nastiest cut I've recieved had been from a PowerMac G4 Mirror Drive Doors tower case, I was removing a RAM module, and my finger was angled *just right* (just wrong?) to be gouged by the metal frame of the case, a good 1/4" crescent shaped gash on the right side of my left index finger, the skin flap was a good 1/8" thick

a quick trip to the ER and some dermabond, and it was sealed up well
(hey, it was my first gash, computer cases aren't exactly the cleanest things, and i was afraid i'd need stitches to close it), the scar it left is relatively minor....

had i known then what i know now, i would've simply flushed the gash with saline solution and layer on the Dermabond

that Dermabond is great stuff, the scar is barely noticeable
 
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