Have you ever cut yourself?

I get cut more often than I'd like to admit,I was stroping a new mora yesterday and cut myself twice,Up to that point I'd never cut myself sharpining.The worst was taking a good slice of the side of my left index finger with a old cv case stockman,one of the 4 1/4 in ones with the nice thin sheeps foot.I had just sharpened it and it barley hurt but it took weeks to heal,and my finger is still a little flat on that side!

I've also cut my self pretty much to the bone while cleaning an electric knife,and got myself pretty good with a hatchet once while spliting kindlin.
 
tholiver said:
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!
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That's the sort of story that happens to me in nightmares. Like showing up to finals having forgotten to study (even though my last final exam was decades ago!).
 
One time my uncle sliced his leg while whittling with an exacto knife. He went to the hospital got stiches & came home & did the exact same thing on the other leg. Went to the hospital & got the same doctor who asked my uncle to let him know when he was going to do this so he could have his students practice on him.

I've cut myself pretty bad a couple times using utility knives, but not too bad with real knives. I'm extra careful though because I've only got 4 fingers left (& 1 thumb :) ). Blew off my left hand when I was 14.
 
Another balisonger here! I also work in the shop a lot and make knives from time to time. Watch out for the edge of that belt! My fingers are a maze of long, thin scars!
 
After 30 some years of knife ownership, one of them decided it needed some blood to drink. I had a lockback blade snap shut on my middle finger back in February this year. If it wasn't for bone, I would have probably taken it off. 9 stiches from side to side.

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This is almost 4 weeks later:

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Still today almost 3 months to the day, I still have no feeling on the tip of my finger. The knife is now retired to solitary confinement.

Just goes to show, no matter how much you mess around with a knife you still have to be careful.
 
I've had a few minor nicks here and there, nothing major. *knock on wood*

I once stabbed my fingertip with a CRKT Rollock trying to close it by pushing down on the tip! I just wiped the blade down and didn't want to get any fingerprints on it. :D

Another time I was halving an apple with an Opinel 6 and using my palm and a cutting board. The blade started to bind on the core so I used a bit more force and push cut right into my palm. It wasn't too deep or long but it surprised the hell out of me.
 
Saunterer said:
After 30 some years of knife ownership, one of them decided it needed some blood to drink. I had a lockback blade snap shut on my middle finger back in February this year. If it wasn't for bone, I would have probably taken it off. 9 stiches from side to side.

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This is almost 4 weeks later:

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Still today almost 3 months to the day, I still have no feeling on the tip of my finger. The knife is now retired to solitary confinement.

Just goes to show, no matter how much you mess around with a knife you still have to be careful.
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All I can say is OUCHY!!!!!!!!!!! hope this heels for yah.
 
when i got my first butterfly/bali-song knife i got a little cocky and the knife slipped out of my hands and about 6 inches around my forearm. i ended up just using superglue to close the wound.
 
I don't think I have cut myself more than a couple hundred times ;) .

The three that got stitched were from a sprinkler head, a Stanley folder and a baseball cap. It must have been the ballcap, there weren't any holes in it and the cut in my scalp took five stitches to close. (Pressure cut from standing up under one tine of a forklift. Note to self: forklifts do NOT give :rolleyes: )

Got the Stanley cut sewed up because I cut a small vein and couldn't get the thing to stop bleeding with direct pressure alone.

On the bright side, I haven't drawn blood with a knife yet this week! :D
 
Yesterday!!! Not badly.

Here is an even more painful scenario...you are playing with a new knife...your wife says, "Stop playing with that, you'll cut yourself!"...you cut yourself.

Never happened to me, mind you, I've just heard that it has happened to some other people...
 
More times then i want to think about. lol. I have a BUNCH of scars on my hands, arms, knees, one that is on my ankle from when I was like 6-7 years old, all kinds of them. Worst cut was probaly when I slipped with a smith and wessen and slit my left middle finger to the bone on the first knuckle, hurt like heck. SUPER sharp knife though, so it healed good. no stiches, and one heck of a scar. I think before I do something stupid with knives now. ;) But I also make knives, so I cut my self a LOT in the shop. and flip balisongs, so that adds to it. lol.
Jeff
 
Yes sir. Been lucky with my 2 fixed blades.. but not the luckiest of the bunch with my folders. Mistakenly cut my knuckles on my right hand and now I don't have any feeling in my four fingers.

I have a balisong, so messing around with it has inevitably caused a scar or two on my arm.
 
So...pine derby time came along and my folks took me to the Boy Scout Counter in Marshall Fields and bought me my manditory blue cub scout folder. We went out to dinner and I played with that knife until I ran my finger down the blade to see if it was sharp. Next cub den meeting I wore a fresh bandaid on my index finger...as did Tom and Nick. Jimmy wore one on the index and another on his middle finger. Keven's Dad purchased him a nice heavy, brown, Boy Scout knife, plus three stitches, and a much bigger bandaid.....I learned last week it is really a good idea to duck tape a blade before wrapping the grip with paracord!
 
I was reading this thread at work tonight and not more than 30 minutes later, wham - slit the tip of my pinky open with the Manix. :o It's not very bad, just looked horrible at the time because of the way it bled.

Wow, I must say those pictures are impressive Saunterer. Bet that hurt like &*$^!
 
I normally only give myself a few silly cuts every few months. When I buy a new knife things change a little. It seems that every time I get a new knife I inevitably cut myself a few times within a week or two of laying my hands on it, and then things go back to normal.
If only familiarizing yourself with a sharp object wasn’t so painful.
P.S. Thank you NGK, those band-aids have been put to good use.
 
I've cut myself several times, the worst being when I failed to avoid a falling khukuri and when I cut off the very tip of my index finger while doing a sharpness test. I consider it part and parcel of being a knife nut.

The worst though is when I get paper cuts. Now those hurt! I don't know what it is. Maybe the paper holds more bacteria than a blade or maybe paper just isn't that sharp. Whatever the explanation paper cuts seem to hurt more than a cut from a knife.
 
Just did the other day, being careless, tried to hurry putting the edge on a knife I just made, wife was calling me for dinner and I was tired, forgot to put the brass rods on the sharpmaker and missed the stones and sliced the back of my hand to the bone! I had never seen blood squirt out 6" like that before. I recommend using the brass rods! DUH!!!
 
my body has a natural defense against sharp objects, any flesh in danger of being cut spontaneously moves out of the way. Unfortunately, the skin moves away from the blade in both directions, it just looks like I cut myself.
 
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