Got any scars?

steve-in-kville

steve-in-kville

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I was sitting at the computer, hanging out at BFC, while playing with my Kershaw Scallion, and guess what? I cut myself really good on the end of my thumb. Thankfully it didn't bleed much, but it took a huge chunk of skin off.

Got a nasty scar on my left hand from a $7 bowie I bought many years ago at a farm market. Don't remember what I was doing when it happened, but the knife slipped and left a nasty scar on my palm.

How many scars do you have as a result of your hobby?



steve
 
4 inch scar on the outside of my left thigh and the distal 1/3 of the vastus lateralis (big muscle on the outside of the thigh) missing. The different shape of the missing muscle is most noticable when I'm riding my bike or climbing, when I'm using these muscles to push. Otherwise the leg works fine.

Plunged my near new SRK right into the thigh. Still get an ache in my leg when I think about it.
 
More times than I care to remember. Actually about four times that I had to have stitches all on my left hand since I am right handed. My wife hates when I play around with my knives. A couple of weeks ago when hurricane Lili was approaching the Louisiana coast, I was sitting on the sofa watching TV and opening and closing my Spyderco Military. My wife looked over and said," We don't really want to have to go to the emergency room during a hurrican, do we?" I put it away.........

She is no fun. But then again she is the one that has to drive me to the hospital and sit around till I get stitched up. :o
 
Let's see...
1. Left hand, forefinger: I hit it with an axe years ago.
2. Left hand, forefinger: Took puukko out of sheath and made nice, quite big cut, at the same time. I was young boy back then.
3. Left hand, thumb. Cut half moon scarf on it; don't even remember when, how or why.
4. Right hand, forefinger: LM Side Clip's knife blade closed on it. I was puncturing with it and the handle wasn't closed...

I think that's all so far... ;) :)
 
Mines not a bad one...just a scar across my left index finger from a dull kitchen knife that slipped while cutting some ham...that happened about 10 years ago.
 
Here are few that come to mind..

1. Sliced my pointer finger when I slipped and fell with a machete in my hand. The machete stuck in the earth and my hand slid down the machete. Ouch, that one hurt.:eek:

2. Reached into a drawer and cut my middle finger on a butcher knife. I no longer store knives in drawers.:rolleyes:

3. Three inch scar on my thigh with a box cutter. What was I doing? Cutting boxes, of course.:(

4. Stitches in my big toe when a 9 inch Henckels fell off the counter, flipped once in the air, then nailed me. Lots of blood on that one.:D

5. I was getting used to my Benchmade 705 and cut my finger pretty good while slicing an apple toward me. I quietly excused myself from my coworkers and held a big old chunk of gauze on my hand to stop the bleeding.:p

6. After sharpening my mother's kitchen knife she told me it was too sharp. I scoffed at such a statement and then cut the tip of my finger off while preparing chicken. Maybe she was right.

Sent my wife off to nursing school a few years back and now she works in the local ER. I'm ready for the next stupid knife trick!;)

Akwack
 
I was watching a Keating video and following along with it and not paying attention to the knife in my hand.I cut off the tip of my ring finger on my left hand(21 stitches).The knife was a Spyderco Police model,serrated edge.The tip is now void of any feeling.

Ouchhhhhhhhhhh.............
 
Not very many visible scars. One on the back of my right index finger (wrong handle of my bali), and a 3 inch, barely visible scar on the right side of my abdomen, from nicking myself drawing my LaGriffe. :grumpy:

The rest (one under my right eyebrow, one on my right buttock, several on my right thigh, a couple in the middle of my gut, and one on my left elbow [though that one was from a mop, actually]) seem to have all disappeared, which is strange, since I still have a scar on my leg from when I was 3...
 
Do operations count, where you paid someone (hopefully a doctor) to cut you??? If so, I have a few good ones. I guess these don't count since they were not a result of my hobby.
 
Ive been cut a few times but left no big scars,The one bad scar I have is from a bar fight after a rodeo,me and a couple other bull riders were havin some beers and we had a argument with some team ropers,well to make along story short I was fighting with one guy and his buddy decided to use his Emerson across my ribs,it was a 6 inch slash,He ended up with a pool stick over his head I ended up with butterfly stitches and my buddy gave me the guys Emerson:D
 
I've got a good one on my left index finger from an axe. Not to may from blades but I have lost a couple square feet of skin to bicycles.:)
 
Every new knife usually brings a new scar, which means to many to count.

Let's just say last time I was arrested as a kid when they got to the part about any unusual tattoos or scars the LEO processing my got to frustrated trying to document them all, and finally said, none, let the next cop count em'.
 
one top left corner of my mouth (busted in the chops in my teens) one back of left hand (box cutter), left palm (barb wire), two inner left elbow (jumping off a castle wall and a fight), tip of left index finger (dropped a bacon slicing machine blade on it) and right calf (fell through a barn roof). A few nicks and dints on my scalp as well from being a daft not-doin-as-ya-dad-teels-you-to kid.
All part of the process I guess.
 
I have a nice scar (luckily fading) left over from a biking incident over 5 years ago. I was going too fast and didn't quite realize that the turn was that sharp. Took a spill, my elbow took the worst of it, but thank God for helmets! The other nasty scar I'm going to have is on my right hand on my first finger. I was cutting with my serrated cricket lightweight when my hand rode up onto the blade. This was a week ago last Tues. It is healing nicely, held together by steri-strips.
Matt
 
I bear many scars, most of which have peculiar origins. The most noticeable are those which remain from stitching up.

- Scar above forehead, where my mother dropped a board while building a shelf :rolleyes: :mad:

- Knee, while running early in the morning without waking up properly. I tripped, fell, and landed on a sewer grating which happened to catch on the skin of my knee, my momentum carrying me forward with predictable results :rolleyes:

- Cut exactly on the eyebrow where someone hit a aluminum can at me with an aluminum baseball bat. No hair grows there. I have a striped eyebrow.

Most recent: Cut while cleaning out a cheap SAK type. The blade closed across two fingers, right where the nail meets skin.

...among others. If I were to document each scar noticeable on just one leg, this post would take another 2 hours. An additional 2 hours for each limb.

:D

Products of an active childhood. And more to come...
 
In my early 20's, I dove through a plate glass window to escape a structure fire at 3 in the morning. Severed tendons and arteries. I almost died. It took well over 300 sutures to close my wounds, not to mention the countless micro-sutures involved in reconstructive surgery. Yeah. I have scars. The little nicks from my knives? Got a handful of those too, but they're nothing.
 
I was walking down the street when I saw my "buddy" Levar. I had a new buck 110 and he asked to see it. I handed it over and he refused to give it back. Now this guy is thearting me with my own knife. I try to grab it and he stabbed me in the hand then I grabbed him from behind and he reached back and stabbed me in the shoulder. I belly to back suplexed him, then I mounted him and wrenched my knife out his hand. Jabbed him a few times with a hand full of blood. Moral of the story is don't give up your knife unless you can really trust the person you give it to.
 
No knife related scars I can remember but....

Split the web of my right hand open with a break-open single shot 12g several years ago. Have a scar where a Beretta 70s .22 broke me of the hold I had used on revolvers. Have two NICE burn scars from the welding shop! Got one on my chin where it met a telephone pole when I was just a pup.

That's all I can think of right now. I guess I'm just too damn careful with my knives!!!
 
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