Have you ever cut yourself?

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I know that most of you guys know how to handle knives. But still, if you use them everyday your almost bound to have some small accidents.

Let's here about them. How, and how bad you cut yourself (maybe others?) and what you learned from it.
 
Here's 1 of at least a dozen.
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When I worked at a knife store I cut myself ALOT just because I was around them all the time. I have needed stiches from times a few times but most cuts are not tooo deep. I used to average once a week but thats down now.
 
Asking that question on a knife forum? :D I've cut myself more times than I care to remember.

David
 
A couple of times, mostly with knives I hadn't used a lot and was a bit unfamiliar with. But never seriously enough to need stitches or anything beyond "Ouch, damn, my finger!" ;)
 
as a butcher using really super sharp knives I take a great deal of consideration when using my knives.

Worked in this field for 4-5 years and cut myself to the point of drawing blood maybe 3 times, and twice I should've had butterfly sutures but didn't cause I'm hard as nails.

But at home I cut myself all the time, although only half the time draws blood.
 
I don't own a single knife that I haven't accidently cut myself with and I have a good size drawer full. Crazy thing is that I've started making them and I'm seem to cut myself more making them than using them. LOL

No big horror stories but when I was about 10 or so I was cutting apart some little plastic paint cups that came with some arts set I had. I slipped and laid my thumb wide open. Mom was asleep (worked nights at the time and I wasn't supposed to be dong what I was doing). I went into the bathroom and man did it hurt. I started shaking my hand, like you do when you smash a thumb. Didn't think about the fact that I was bleeding and proceeded to sling blood all over the bathroom. It was everywhere. Got it a bit of trouble for that one (for the mess, not for cutting myself).

My pappaw gave me my first pocket knife when I was 6, a Camillus scout knife which I still have and cherish greatly. It would shave. Pappaw's philosophy was simple, "He'll cut himself a few times but he'll learn how to handle it." Well, he was right. His obsession over a dull knife has rubbed off on me. Can't stand a dull knife.

Charles
 
Several times. Always as punishment for carelessness. Once bad enough to close with superglue. That was an interesting lesson itself - the superglue was not nearly as neat or fast-drying as the medical versions.
 
The worse cut was when my hand slipped off the handle off a mora in an ice-pick grip and cut both tendons and some nerves to my right pinky. To this day when I close my fist I have to use my ring finger to close the last joint of the pinky up because it doesn't move.

I've learn to be more careful when I handle my knifes, really pay attention to grip/ guard options when I buy something new.
 
I have cut myself twice and it is the reason I don't like the slippery handles on the now discontinued Becker knives. In both cases I was holding a Becker knife with the blade pointing up, and inadvertently loosened my grip, at which point the slippery handles immediately slid down my hand and allowed the bottom of the blade to cut my fingers. After the second occurance I stopped buying Becker knives.
 
Twice. The first time was when I was using one of th eoriginal crock-stick "V" sharpeners, before they put extended grips on them and before they put the guards on them. I was sharpening an old Buck Esquire and the blade slipped off the "V" and laid open a very deep cut about 3" long just below my left thumb. It took 10 stitches to close the damned thing, 4 internally and 6 at the surface. The second cut was the result of playing with my then new BladeForums Blue Native. That was one of Spyderco's scary sharp out of the box knives and I prompltly sliced the index finger on my left hand, fortunately not badly enough to require stitches.
 
Nothing too serious as an adult. Just a couple of semi-bad cuts as a kid doing stupid stuff.

My dad had a nice folding fishing knife with the yellow derlin scales and a fish scaler for the other blade. I think the main blade was about 4 inches and it would take a wicked edge. One day I was sent to the garden to cut up the old corn stalks so they would decompose more over the fall and winter. Instead of using the garden knife and a block of wood I was using the knife as a scimitar as I held the stalks in my hand. I had my thumb stuck out along the stalk and got a little too close. Whacked a little off the end of my thumb. Didn't really hurt until I got to the bathroom to try to wash it up and get a bandaid on it. Fortuantely my mother thought the bad cut was punishment enough so I didn't get the whupping I probably should have for not being careful.
 
No, never. I have never, ever cut myself, not once in my life. A couple of my knives have jumped up and sliced me, though. All the knives' fault, not mine.
 
When the Buck cross-lock first came out, I was admiring it in the wal-mart car lot. I went to close the knife and slices off a good chunk of my thumb.

Another time I was flipping a Bali-song and it clipped one of my fingers. I did not know it until a tick peace of skin landed on my leg. It seems the sharper the knife the less it hurts :confused: .

I have had a few stiches from a lever lock auto knife that was jamed into my palm. I think it may have been one of my worst cuts, but with stitches I can hardly see the scare unlike the unstitched wounds.

John
 
johnwaynesandw said:
When the Buck cross-lock first came out, I was admiring it in the wal-mart car lot. I went to close the knife and slices off a good chunk of my thumb.


John
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Ok this is just too scarry!!! Too many times, so I'll just give you the most recent.................................................uh bout 5minutes ago!!!!!! In fact while sharpening, 1st time ever while doing that, actually wipping the blade clean of residue between switching grit size.

And the most memorable, and this is the scary part: same exact thing happend to me as described above, only it was inside a pawnshop while admirring my newly accuired crosslock (no safety detent click) and promptly sliced the top 1/4inch off mine.

Oh and my name is also John.
 
Are you kidding? The only "knife" people who never get cut are the ones who keep their blades dull! ;)
 
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