Have you ever cut yourself?

Cut myself more times than I care to remember, only a couple bad, and never while using a tool the way it should be.

I once cut a nice slice off of my left thumb while testing a newly sharpened knife on an index card. After going to bandage my finger, I came back and found the bit of my thumb still stuck to the side of the blade.

I hit myself in the left index finger while holding a piece of kindling in my hand and splitting it with a hatchet. Actually, I did it twice, about a year apart. After that I learned.

I only cut somebody else once. A guy handed me his BM720 and held out a piece of paracord, with his fingers about 1/2" to either side of where he wanted it cut and asked me to cut it for him. It went right through the cord and into his thumb. I've never cut somebody else with one of my knives, though.
 
Chopped myself in the leg with a hatchet when chopping firewood. Stabbed myself in my finger with my *very* sharp para-military. I can't even count the cuts from playing with my BM42 and Morpho. A countless number of assorted cuts and nicks while opening boxes, cutting cord, being stupid...

well, at least I've never cut anyone else. That's good, right?
 
once cut myself by the knife I just uploaded. The wound looked like T. Erdelyi but a little lower. 1/4 of the nail was gone. I tore that piece of meat out of my finger tip, bandaged the wound and kept working in the kitchen:D. Luckly I am fully recovered now.
 
In more than 55 years, very seldom and never seriously. Good thing I'm not superstitious. Otherwise, a major injury is on the agenda. :eek:
 
Sliced the pad of my thumb open a few weeks ago while practicing a quick draw with a Spyderco Delica. When you thumb a knife open, it naturally ends up edge-up in your hand.... thus it requires fine finger work to re-position it in the hand. Since those fine motor skills will be gone under a Self-defense scenario, that's not going to work.

Since then, I only carry Waved tactical folders. They require zero fine motor skills to open and properly position the knife in your hand.
 
When I was 9, I was sharpening a small penknife on a whetstone and cut my finger to the bone.
The knife was very sharp and the cut was very clean.
I wrapped it a handkerchief for a day till it closed.
When my father found out, he confiscated my knives.
I had to steal them back and hide them!
 
had quite a few minor cuts but when i was younger i cut myself opretty good. Being a knife noobie at the time I was using a dull bear mgc folder. The majority of the blade was quite dull but the top inch or so was pretty much razor sharp. Anyways, i used this knife mainly for whiddling on wood and was just doing that before the accident happened. I was carving away on my new walking stick and was just cleaning up the top of it. There was a tough little knot that i had a hard time cutting through so i was pushing opretyty hard and it gave way. The kniofe scliced through and i felt it nick my left hand. I didnt look for a couple seconeds and when i did there was blood everywhere. I quickly bandaged up my finger real tight and the cut didnt heal for a couple weeks. I needed stiches but i didnt want my parents to find out that i cut myself good and lose my knife. Anyways, it did eventially heal and my parents never knew how bad the cut was=) I was about 12 at the time.
 
The first fillet knife I ever made from an old band saw blade "bit me" really good. I was finish polishing the blank blade and sitting on a chair. I was holding the tang in my left and polishing it with upward strokes while gripping the long, thin, and very pointy :) blade between my fingers with a cloth and buffing compound with my right hand. Well, on one of these motions, I pulled the bade out of my left hand, and the....dropped it with my right hand at the same time. Instinctually, I tried to catch the falling blade and my hand came down over the top of it the same moment the rear of the tang hit my thigh (remember, I was seated). I impaled my hand (clean run-through with about 3 inches sticking out the other side) in the fleshy part between my first finger and thumb but thankfully missed the tendon.

I now stand when I do this. :)
 
I believe that I have cut myself with just about every knife that I have ever carried (there was one that didn't last that long). My dad was the same way. My mom hated to send us out to do somthing because she knew that blood would be spilt! I try not think of it anymore, because if I do I will be tempting fate, it has been several days now...... Steven
 
Me, just the usual stuff, but when a friend of mine was about 12 his dad gave him a slipjoint of some type. The same day, he trys to open a can with the blade which closes on his fingers severing his pinky and cutting into his ring finger. They managed to sew his finger back on OK, except he has not been able to flex it ever since. The funny part is when we're working out in the gym. Always makes me laugh when I'm spotting him on the bench and he's pushing almost 500 pounds with his pinky sticking up in the air like he's drinking tea with the Queen of England. Fortunately, he has a good sence of humor about the whole thing, especially since he's pretty much built like a silverback.
 
I got careless/stupid and was holding the log with one hand and chopping with the other. Blade glanced off the wood and took a chunk out of my thumb. Everything is healed up and working fine, but I have a fine scar and a lesson learned: Keep your free hand clear and tight to your body.
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Fairly frequently...due to over excitement at handling them:D

Yet here's an irony: The other day doing the washing-up, there an ordinary steak knife thing that had got dried gunk on it, I absent mindedly slipped whilst scrubbing it and a nasty gash from a DULL SERRATED edge right to where the finger nail begins growing:eek: Bastard! Plenty of blood in the sink, lot of swearing and trying to open the plaster box with those bloody hands aaarrrghh!

Kitchen cutlery is damn dangerous:thumbdn:
 
Sometimes i think a new knife is not truly your own until it has tasted its owner! lol.
You use knives eventually (or more accurately frequently) you will be cut. Sort of like how a carpenter will inevitably/eventually hit his thumb with his hammer.
Luckily most of my cuts have been superficial, none requiring stitches.
Now i have seen a few bad cuts usually done by non-knife people. The brother of a friend of mine decided to pry apart frozen hamburger patties with a ten inch chefs knife. Of course he was holding the patties in his palm. Sure enough he separated the patties and passed about 2 inches of the blade through his palm and out the back!
 
Lots of small cuts over the years. Stuck a knife in my leg with a really bad mumble peg throw as a kid. Stuck a dagger 2 inches into my arm when I had it in a vise. I reached over it for a file. Good lesson when I was a newbie. Now my biggest problem is when the push stick slips on the grinder. No stitches, nothing there to stitch, just a bare spot that bleeds and hurts.

Gene
 
Quite a few months back I was attempting to unsheath a cheap Chinese POS fixed blade. It got stuck and I tried to force it. When it came out it had that classic kick-back motion and stabbed me in the index finger. I severed the vein and only stopped after hitting bone. It was NOT a pretty sight.
 
Funny you should ask. On average I probably get a fingertip cut about once a year. This year's incident was last week. I was trying to get two muscrat blades to open just so for a museum exhibit, and cut the tip of my thumb pretty good. Last year's cut was from trying to use my knife to shave off some wiring insulation at work.

Neither were anything that couldn't be fixed with some electrical tape. :)

-Bob
 
About a year and a half ago I did something very similar to the first pic in this thread to my right index, no stitches tho. My finger is now mis-shapen with a permanent numb spot around the scar. One of several bad cuts over the years.
 
I accidentally cut myself moderately often, but I have never needed stitches. Either I am not as good a sharpener as some of you people or just a bit more careful.
 
Hey Guys..
speaking of flipping balis... LOL

Cut myself twice in the Exact same spot Twice in the same day with the same Spyderfly..... :)

Yaa I get cut ,stuck, and sliced All the time...

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
 
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