First time you cut yourself on your Spyderco?

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Neller418

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Well, after 3 days of heavily using my brand new Endura C10FPBL (Flat Ground Blue Handle) I have finally drawn blood. It bit me about 5 times, very deep and very painful, but no blood. About 5 minutes ago, I was closing the knife and it came across the top of my finger and it drew blood for the first time for about 2 seconds. When did you first accidentally cut yourself on your Spyderco?
 
I have 20 spydies and just cut my self for the first time with one the other day. I am a chef and am no stranger to a sharp knife but i was playing with my brand new para 2 while watching tv and it up and stabbed the palm of my hand, guess i should pay more attention.
 
I had the blade of one mine out when i was cleaning and hit it with my elbow on the table. Cut my elbow, knocked the blade off the table and cut my leg. Bad and stupid day, now I put it farther away and tape it when I have them apart...
 
Breaking down a branch for fire making right after I recieved a new firesteel.

I bleed like a stuck pig, hours and hours, probably 2 oz. in about 30min.

It really didn't hurt muck, it was later that was horrific. I foolishly put gauze over the wound, terrible mistake.

I decided I should change the bandaging, as it was soaked through with blood. Well the gauze fibers had fused into the wound, same level of stickiness as superglue, seriously.

Took me maybe an hour to get it off, unbelievably painful. About 1000x worse than a catheter. Ended up ripping out another mm of flesh.

Healing took weeks, was incredibly annoying as I'm sure you all know, digit injuries are terrible.

Healed fine, numb now though.




 
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I got my first spyderco yesterday, a black waved Endura, since this was my first experience with both the deployment hole and the wave i ofc had to play with it.

after examining it at my desk and deploying it a cpl times using the hole i thought id stand up and try the wave, i fail deploying it all the way 2 times and i decide to go full power, 1 second later and my officechair is the victim of accidental stabbing.

I "fix" the chair with some black tape i had around and try to cut the tape with my new knife and cut my left indexfinger badly, just behind the nail.

2 hours later, my girlfriend comes home and wants to try the wave, she fail to deploy all the way just as me, but in the middle of the motion she gets scared of it or something and drops(read: throws) it onto my right foot where it dug in nicely.
 
First time I cut myself with Spyderco was 2 seconds after I took my friends one to my hand. This was about 10 years ago. I was not used to that smooth action and released backlock and blade "fell" to my hand.
 
Many years ago I had a brand new PE Endura. First time I used it, I was attempting to cut a plastic cable tie on my car. Blade slipped and went across the middle section of my left hand ring finger. Deep cut but the blade was so sharp it didn't bleed much at all until I flexed it open to gauge the depth. Healed rather fast too since it was such a clean cut. I almost can't find that scar amongst the others I have inflicted over the years. :rolleyes:

Didn't stop me. I still use that knife. Or did until recently when I replaced it with a new Endura, just because I could.
 
I nearly sliced off the tip of my thumb whilst closing my FFG Delica. That was the first and last time I was cut by a Spyderco. My Izula on the other hand, bites every chance it gets. Mind of its own, I tell ya.
 
Knock on wood, with a spydie, never. My kershaw lahar however came open in my pocket and gave me a little bite when I reached in... one more reason I am a firm tip down guy....
 
Yikes...I know I have cut myself multiple times, but never anything really serious...oh I guess the worst was when I was trying to cut through something with my UKPK, and the blade folded on my finger.. I wasn't gripping the choil right, so that was the main cause of it.
 
The first time I cut myself was the day I received my Delica. I was so excited, and I went to try the one handed closing method of depressing the backlock, and shaking the blade shut. I meant to catch the unsharpened portion of the blade with my finger, as the blade came down. Instead, I miscalculated, and sent the blade straight down into my finger. Havent screwed up that technique since. A lesson learned.
 
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The first time I cut myself was the day I received my Delica. I was so excited, and I went to try the one handed closing method of depressing the backlock, and shaking the blade shut. I meant to catch the unsharpened portion of the blade with my finger, as the blade came down. Instead, I miscalculated, and sent the blade straight down into my finger. Havent screwed up that technique since. A lesson learned.
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Lol I just cut myself tonight on my way to work the same way. I was trying to get used to closing it one handed and bam. I got hit right at the first knuckle with the serrations. Bleed like crazy until I got out my emergency bag in my truck. I put band aid on and then blk electrical tape for pressure. About an hour later I took it off and and I looked at the damage, it wasn't to bad. It didn't bleed at all after that so I put another band-aid on. Lessoned learned.
 
Never cut myself on the one handed closing method, I'm paranoid about that blade coming down on my hand plus I've had plenty of practice with that playing with the knives on display at my store (plenty of Spyderco's).
 
Back in the early 80s I bought an unusual knife that was making noise in what few knife oriented publications that were available.

I believe it was a C01 Worker, this knife was phenomenal, it had this bizarre looking hole in the blade that you push on with your thumb to open it, better still you could pinch the hole between your thumb and pointer finger, give the handle a slight downward snap and the blade was open.

This was the first nut the last.

The worker had like a 5/8" false edge on the needle like tip and of course I had to bring it to a magical hair scarin'' edge and I did.

I had set it down on the coffee table where I was sharpening' it, with the blade open and sticking' of the table, well when I had come back from the kitchen I forgot the knife was open and waked right into the needle like point it went in a good 2 1/2".

It was the first Syderco that ever to bit me, but certainly not my last.

Sorry no pics, (it was nearly 30 years ago, no cell phones or affodable digital cameras).
 
Can't remember my first one but my last one was from a CPM-M4 mule team. I was touching up the edge and when I stopped to inspect the edge I lost grip of the knife. I caught it but used both hands, one grabbed the handle and the other moved too quickly and I stabbed the palm of my hand right below the middle finger. It hurt like hell and bruised almost instantly, from the size of the cut I guessed that around a 1/4 of the blade went into my hand.

Its been about 3 weeks and it healed nicely but I can feel tightness from the scar tissue. No damage to the blade though so were good :)
 
Have been carrying Spydercos for almost 20 years. Had a single incident about 2 years ago. It was early in the morning and the kids were driving me crazy and i wasn't paying enough attention. Cut open a bag of cable ties with my D4 in ZDP189 with SE. Was in a hurry, so i sort of flicked the knife over the top of the bag, thing was, i went over the palm of my left hand and 3 fingers. I just touched myself with the edge, felt a bit of a sting, saw the blood seeping out. Dumb ass I though, clenched my fist for about 1/2 hour and the cut closed up by itself.

Sometimes a little cut is all you need to switch on again and to learn to have respect for your tools. And best of all, I like that knife so much i have been EDC'ing it ever since :)
 
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