forty days and nights of cutlery disasters.

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It's 1:30 am, and I was doing some work with a few of my knives. Guess what happened. Here's a hint: 0 sleep + sharp knife = pain. Suffice to say, I cut the $h!t out of my digits. A sizeable chunk of flesh is now missing from my left index finger. :eek:

Blood everywhere. Workbench looks like a war zone.

Alright, here's the deal. I know everybody out there has at least one bloody story involving their precious knives. Is it ironic? Is it funny? Is it a testimant of your stupidity? Everything goes. I want to hear it all.

For forty days and forty nights, let us share our most horrifying tales of cutlery catastrophe.

Have some fun with this. :D

TheSurvivalist (still in pain) :(
 
Few months ago on the forums, Wade put up a video showing how fast he is to draw his Axis lockers. One part is where he draws and slices clean thru a piece of paper and then closes the knife in a fluent motion. Let's just say I could have used a little more hand-eye coordination when I tried it for my own and my left thumb was missing its tip jus above the nail ;) G'damn does a paper towel feel like 36 grit sandpaper against an open wound like that with all the nerve endings of your finger :rolleyes: Cuts are just part of the "game" with knives :D
 
back when i carried my old cheap leatherman (age 15ish), i was sitting in a chair talking to someone, just absentmindedly stroking the thing...

then i realized in a moment of white light that i was stroking the serrations of the main blade... i felt very dumb. :(
 
1: couple of month ago i was demonstrating to my younger brother why the Spyderco Police stainless steel handles are not the best choice in "sweaty" situation. I explained to him that in a high-adrenalin situation or similar your hands will get moisty and slippery on st. steel handles. my brother was eye-balling me like I was full of it, so I did a little demo with my Police: held it in my right hand and started pulling on the blade-hole with my left-hand, underhand, to demonstrate I could pull the Police from my right hand............in that particular case, I couldn't...and slipped.....flesh near joint of my left hand's index-finger sliced up to the bone and bleeding like crazy. while I was casually reaching for the bandaids, me and I my brother were both actually quite in shock of the events :eek:

2: couple of days ago. was working on my "custom Buck-Strider" which was a mangled folder which I turned into a fixed-blade with cord-wrapping. I was using 2 Torx-drivers at the same time from both sides to get the pivot as tight as i could. imagine that, i slipped because of all the force the drivers weren't straight on the screws anymore, so both drivers slipped into my both hands. nasty wounds i tell ya! yuck... :barf:

here's another fun one, although if I think hard for a few minutes I probably got , like, 10 first-hand stories for your of knife-stupidity of the last few months :D ......: I like to juggle with my knives. you know, play "chicken" and such. toss up the knife so it makes one or two, sometimes 3 rotations, and catch it in the hammer-grip again. usually I keep a close eye on the knife to see whether i can catch it, or that I should leave it falling to the ground. here's one that went wrong: was doing this with one of my Spyderco-folders, can't remember which one, probably the Police. gave it a toss with only 1 rotation. saw that I shouldn't catch it because it was a poor toss. I thought "let's be tough and catch it anyway!".......caught it at an angle, blade-first. nice slice that bled like there was no tomorrow...... :rolleyes:


my personal experience with "knife-hobby-injuries" is that I usually get the most hand-wounds because of screw-drivers and such. blade-cuts are the minority actually........

dennis

PS. let me give this some though, i have LOADS of stupid stories like this, all my personal 'mistakes'. ;)
 
I think my dumbest cut was when I tried to catch a BM-31 that had slipped out of my fingers and been launched up to about eye level. Instead of thinking "Hey, that's pointy and sharp!", all I could think was that it was brand new and about to make contact with the hard tile floor. So I reached out and caught it; tip first, straight into my right palm. It actually didn't go too deep, but it did leave a nice blood spray on the wall as I jerked my hand away once it got stabbed. Balisongs are fun. :D
 
yeah, i loved bali's as well when i was a kid. the interest has revived lately and this very mornng i received a spanking new bm31, oh yeah! compared to the made in taiwan crap i used when i was a kid (i was actually pretty good with balis...) this knife is great quality, very nice!

i have the bandages all lined up beforehand in the kitchen-drawer :D

by the way, about falling knives: it's best to imprint a new instinct into your brain to "when a blade falls, let it fall".

although i must agree Roadrunner, in your case i would have caught that bali as well. imagine if the tip broke or the clip got damaged :eek: , catch it! :)

dennis

PS. here's another one from my personal records: 2 days ago i was performing some latch-drops with a made in china crappy bali. all went well until i slipped out of concentration for a brief moment.......; now you'd think, "yeah but those things are crap and have almost no edge on it and they have this plastic <420-crap steel"........; well, i had ofcourse sharpened it razor sharp right after i bought it, couldn't resist. got cut nicely (puncture/slice) :p
 
Not knife related, but..
My was table sawing some CHEAP aluminum that we couldnt use milling machine to hack in half. Well, it kicked back and hit his ring and pinkie pretty deep. He nearly fainted.
Me: Tried to chop a bottle in 1/2 down the neck with my Gerber LST. It slipped into my ring finger.
 
What about that one time with my oppy? and then once or twice with your own?

I had a mora that was razor sharp... I was cutting through the packaging of the Christmas Ham when I slipped... it was suck a light touch, but it split my left ring finger in half, 3mm's down.
 
When I was 13 years old, I stuck a knife in the wooden floor of my room while I was working on building a model rocket. I was barefoot, stood up and began to half run-walk to answer the phone that had been ringing for a while with no one else in the family apparently home to answer it. I drug my second toe across the edge of the knife stuck in the floor -- cut through the tendon and bone both. My toe was now attached to my foot by little more than a piece of skin.

It took two surgeons and three hours at the hospital to attach my toe properly. I spent six weeks in a cast that totally imobilized my foot. After spending the summer in this cast, it took me almost another 5 months to learn how to walk without a limp.

Now at age 57, I've not had any knife related cuts worse than the average paper cut since I was 13 -- I learned to use due care with knives the hard way.

As Chris Reeve's motto states -- think twice, cut once. I'll add don't include yourself in the once.
 
Charlie Moore said:
I drug my second toe across the edge of the knife stuck in the floor -- cut through the tendon and bone both. My toe was now attached to my foot by little more than a piece of skin.

Took two surgeons and three hours at the hospital to attach my toe properly. I spent six weeks in a cast that totally imobilized my foot. After spending the summer in this cast, it took me amost another 5 months to learn how to walk without a limp.
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gross, ouch!, this is by far the nastiest cringing reply i've read :barf: :eek:
 
Great topic! I figure that as my first post on this forum (this is really a great forum by the way) that I'd admit to something humiliating...

I was at a knife and gun show with a gun collector friend and my wife... we were looking at a display of Cold Steel knives and as I was holding one I noticed that the serrations were different looking than what I was used to on most of my other folders. So I'm like lightly touching the serrations with my thumb and remarking sagely "this appears to be a different serration pattern than usual" when I quickly close the folder, replace it on the table, and walk away from the booth.

My wife thought I had been insulted or something it was so quick. Nope, I was just embarassed as hell.

You could follow me by the blood trail my thumb left on the ground all the way to the bathroom at the expo center where I eventually got the bleeding to stop. I think my gun collector friend would have paid to get that kind of laugh. He liked it better than the show.

Hmm, different serrations... sharp, though. :eek:
 
good story Drider. I had something similar about two years ago. I was in this shop with this salesman, and I was fondling a Gerber Air Ranger that he just picket out of the display for me to check it out. within a few seconds I somehow had cut my finger with it. I told the guy that I liked this Gerber's sharpness, but would appreciate a bandage as well :D

no prob. said the guy, here you go. we have that happening all the time. heheh, I bet they're used to incidents like that :)
 
Ok here is my humiliating story. I had got a Benchmade 42 for Christmas. I had flipped cheep balisongs when I was younger. So of course when I open the box the first thing I do is start flipping it around. My mom starts to freak saying "Your going to cut yourself, your going to cut yourself". Well... I just had to show here how the back of the blade is dull. I was sliding it across my left hand when the point went through the webbing near my thumb. You could see the fat under the skin. Not nearly as bad as other stories on here though, it was the worst cut I've had by a knife. It was my own little Christmas Story just like the movie. Moral let the other people see how the back of the blade is dull :D .


JamEs
 
I've been pretty lucky with my cutlery, save for the odd cut here or there. One exception to this track record occurred this past holdiday season. The in-laws had just left after a lengthy visit, and I was unwinding infront of the television, sharpening my Ghromann #4 on my Spyderstone. I was holding the stone between my left thumb and index finger, drawing the blade up and away from me (this is the sort of thing I'm always doing to relax after work). Unfortunately, on this occasion, I became distracted, took my eyes off the stone, and drew the blade too far up; the result was that the last few inches of the knife's belly were drawn right across my index finger, cutting it to the bone. The thing is, the knife was so sharp at the time that I barely felt the cut until I changed my grip and blood gushed everywhere. Ouch.

Of course, as a true knifeknut, my mind was torn between thoughts such as "I'd better get this bleeding stopped before my wife kills me for ruining the carpet" and "Damn, now THAT's what you call 'scary sharp.'"

Cheers,

Mentor
 
Practiced indexing at 2 am with my new Yojimbo on which I had put a wonderful highly polished edge...a real razor. It slipped and fell to the floor. I was immediately concerned about the tip of the Yo, but it was ok...I was so relieved! Shortly thereafter I noticed why: The tip had neatly sliced through my pants and had gone right into my leg about 4 inches above my ankle...and only then fallen to the floor. The cut was DEEP and about 1.5 inches long, nicely opened and showing the flesh. But the cut was so clean that it didn't hurt, it didn't bleed much either and it healed in no time after I pulled it closed with a few layers of athletes tape...but it wasn't a pretty sight.
 
Got a lot of them but here are two, was at the Del Mar fair and saw this nice 10 dollar kitchen knife made by spyerco. Well I bought if for my mom and was demonstraiting the tomato slicing, needless to say I drug that damn thing accross the top of my thumb, right through the nail and a major chunk of flesh. Its been bout 20 years and I never have seen that knife again. :rolleyes: The next was actually with a large rigid ratcheting PVC cutter I was picking up after a pipe repair in the yard and had it drop out of my hand walking back to the garage. well it fell straight down and stuck into my teva sandal, unfortunatly my in step had already slowed its fall.

Steven
 
my story is pretty minor, i thought it would be fun to take a cheepo (and i mean cheepo, i thought it was a pos before i was interested in knives) and grind it into a blade with a sharpened straight clip point (didnt know that was what it was then) with my dremel. Fun fun, except when i went to close it, this was a really stiff slipjoint. I just pushed my palm down on the top of the blade while holding it with the other hand, and because of the resistance, my palm slid forward and sliced about a 1mm deep into the meet of my thumb. Ever since i have hated the thing even more. Now its for me to learn to freehand on.
 
Last Christmas, my wife asked to borrow my knife to open something. I handed her my LCC and she opened it, placed the back of the blade against the object and started to push against the edge with her finger to get more leverage. I suddenly realized that she couldn't tell the edge from the spine, so I told her to be careful. It seemed like she caught herself and she stopped. That's why I'm so confused as to why a minute later she followed through and pushed her finger hard against the edge. :( At least it didn't hurt too bad since the edge was razor sharp.
 
I posted about this one a couple weeks ago, but one night I was trying to separate some frozen tuna steaks. I decided to try and wedge my Spyderco Military between them and pop them apart. While I was holding them I might add. Well, the knife went through the steaks, and hit my pinky. Drop the knife and the steaks, run upstairs and get a cloth so I can wrap up my pinky. Then I drive myself to the hospital to get stitched up. Still dont have full movement or feeling back in the tip yet.
 
I'll share the two times that left scars.

Most recent was at work in front of the boss, I was cutting a bagel with my rescue jr. I had cut through most of it while safely holding it from behind where the blade was. For some reason I moved my thumb to in front of the blade edge right before the last cut (at the time I was trying to get a better grip so it wouldn't slip) and proceded to go right through it and into my thumb. Had to rinse bagel bits out of the cut which was clean and deep and bleeding profusely.
It didn't stop bleeding for about a week. It still is slightly numb around where I cut.

The first time I cut myself was on a Leatherman supertool. I had used the saw to get some small branches for cooking hot dogs and then the knife to sharpen up the tip. I pulled the saw back out so I could put the knife blade away but it didn't fully unlock. Unfortunately I didn't notice until my sweaty hand had slipped over the point. It went nearly all the way through about an inch below my pinkie fist knuckle. That one bled for 2 weeks or so and because of where it was I went through 5 bandages or so a day.

Doctor said both would have needed 3-5 stitches :D

N2
 
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