Have You Ever Been Proud Of Cutting Yourself...

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iksdc

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...on a newly sharpened edge? Stupid question I know. But I had finished sharpening my Cat and don't ask me how but managed to cut my finger. About an inch long and deep enough to see the bone if I went digging. Lol. Anyways, after cleaning it up, I thought to myself...u did a good job sharpening! That's a nice clean cut.

Anyone else ever have that thought? Or is it just me?
 
No but I do have this equally weird thing about accidental cuts. I feel they bond you to the knife. A friend cut himself on one of my Bucks. I instantly gave it to him. Also I sharpened a Victorinox before planning to give it to my father in law as a gift. I cut myself accidentally and kept the thing ordering him a new one...

In my defense, I do in fact realize it's crazy ;)
 
NetshadeX said:
No but I do have this equally weird thing about accidental cuts. I feel they bond you to the knife. A friend cut himself on one of my Bucks. I instantly gave it to him. Also I sharpened a Victorinox before planning to give it to my father in law as a gift. I cut myself accidentally and kept the thing ordering him a new one...

In my defense, I do in fact realize it's crazy ;)
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I do the exact same thing.
 
I agree 100%. Yea I cut the sh$t out of myself one time...1.5 inches, around the base of my thumb, but on the opposite side from my palm, literally to the bone. Required 5 stitches lol. BUT, it never hurt, and the scar looks like a good plastic surgery scar. Very fine, and just a little lighter than myskin. Why? Cause that knife was, and still is, shaaaarp. I couldn't bandage it with one hand, and I couldn't drive and keep pressure on it with the left hand. So stupid lol. After the call to 911 (lol again), I sat and looked at it for a while. A darn fine cut, with an edge I made. It never actually hurt once, except when the ER doc stabbed me with the stitching needle before the Novacane kicked in.

NetshadeX: Exactly! My girlfriend cut herself while whittling with a HEST folder that I'd brought camping, as a backup to my main knife. I had ordered a second one for her, but it wasn't there in time for camping. Turns out it came the day we got back. When it came in, I took it to her and told her I always felt a knife was "mine" when it bit me. I bought you this new one, but mine bit you. Which one would you like to keep? She thought for a sec, and reached for the one that bit her. THAT's when I knew she was a keeper. ;)
 
Kind of haha...it's gotten a little annoying though, you don't notice until you see the blood. *sigh*
 
Took a huge chunk out of my thumb one time with a hatchet. Got careless and it ricocheted off the wood and hit my hand. Took 3 hours to stop the bleeding. I wasn't so proud of that one.
 
I always clean up a knife really good before I send it out, even though it's already clean and "new." But I have managed to cut myself a couple of times when doing this final cleaning of the blade. Dumb, but not deep.
 
Yes. It's gratifying when the little accidental bumps or grazings manage to cut deeper than you thought they should've. My wife will be acting annoyed at the damage & I'll be proudly admiring how it made such a deep, clean cut with such weak, glancing contact.
 
Knife no, axe maybe. Lets see, this was on this past Thursday. I was doing the initial bevel with a twelve inch mill file and it felt like I just touched touched the edge when I was inspecting the edge. I assume my finger As usual, it didn't hurt right away but it felt...funny. I almost can't describe the feeling because there is no feeling. Just a knowing that something is wrong. Sure enough there was a small cut, less than 1/2", on my left pointer finger beside and behind the nail. When I touched the edge, my finger must have run along it just an teeny tiny bit. Still enough to cut me though. Not sure I was proud but the sharpness did impress me.
 
Southern14 said:
Are you emo?
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Not sure if you're referring to me...had to wiki "emo". Don't think so...still learning to sharpen and I guess I'm just proud of how sharp I managed to get my edge. Btw- not a good "test" for edge sharpness...still think shaving arm hair and slicing phone ok paper is a better and safer way of determining sharpness.
 
No, but I did snicker a little when I stabbed myself not once but twice, with my new fighter WIP and its not even sharpened yet. I think its trying to send me a mesage.

Yet the Sharpfinger I revived behaved and has not cut or stabbed me even once.

Go figure.

Larry
Tinkerer
 
iksdc said:
...on a newly sharpened edge? Stupid question I know. But I had finished sharpening my Cat and don't ask me how but managed to cut my finger. About an inch long and deep enough to see the bone if I went digging. Lol. Anyways, after cleaning it up, I thought to myself...u did a good job sharpening! That's a nice clean cut.

Anyone else ever have that thought? Or is it just me?
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Yup. Same here. I started doing it as a way of getting my wife and kids not to get upset at the sight of a little blood. It worked - now on those extremely rare occasions when someone draws blood, it isn't a major event. And it is cool to see how well the knife slices. I don't want to make it sound like it happens often - it's more like a couple of times a year divided between an eight-person family - but it does occasionally happen.
 
Good subject lol...

Yes one time, I had just recently upgraded my gear (I had just got my first few DMT stones) and I was practicing on all my kitchen knives and cheap knives and I wasn't yet good enogh that I had to learn not to test my edges by touchin them (like I know now). Anyway I must of done that one knife really well cause I just barely touched it and it cut me pretty freakin deep. Not long after that is when I learned to stop testing the blades on my finger.
 
I received my first Spyderco Military a couple of weeks ago and was getting used to opening and closing it one handed. With the blade open, I found that when I push the lock over with my thumb and break the blade over with my trigger finger, the detent ball makes considerable resistance to the edge of the tang end of the blade. I found if I placed my trigger finger at the right spot on the back edge of the blade I could snap the blade closed similar to how a flipper uses the detent to snap open its blade.

On one of my closing attempts, I got my pinkie finger in the way and cut it pretty deep. As I was trying to stop the bleeding, I looked over at the Military and thought "Man I love that knife".

I am not sure it made me proud, but I think it did make the heart grow fonder. Weird.
 
I made a dead fall trap and cut myself 3 times while doing so. After i was done i said to myself it was worth it!
 
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