Have you ever cut yourself?

Not for a long time and all of a sudden twice this year within 2 months apart. I must remember to keep both eyes opened when handling sharp objects...
 
when I was about 6, I was carving my name into a tree in the backyard with one of those national park non-locking folders, I think from Yellowstone, anyways, it closed on my hand and cut my first to fingers to the bone! Thats when I learned about lock-blades
 
pooperpoopypoop said:
when I was about 6, I was carving my name into a tree in the backyard with one of those national park non-locking folders, I think from Yellowstone, anyways, it closed on my hand and cut my first to fingers to the bone! Thats when I learned about lock-blades
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ditto. almost.

But yeah, guys, thanks for sharing the photos. They are very sobering.
 
blade_scrounger said:
Wow, I must say those pictures are impressive Saunterer. Bet that hurt like &*$^!
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You want to know how bad it really hurt? My wife works at the ER that sutured me up. She had just pulled a tough 12 hour shift, and then went to the middle school to help me with the school dance. I left about 15 minutes early to come home. Within this 15 minutes, is when I decided to fillet my finger. When she arrived home to see me with a bandaged finger stating that we need to head to the ER, that is when it really hurt. The ride to the ER I meant. She let into me; "I've been working in the ER all day", "I leave you alone for 15 minutes and you go playing with your knife", "there is blood everywhere in the bathroom" "I haven't been home in over 15 hours"... Well you get the picture. :p

It was a long 10 mile ride to the ER. That really hurt.
 
-Stinger- said:
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.
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I tried to take the end of my index finger off with the ol' angle grinder. I was being stupid: 1- trying to adjust the debre shield with the tool running (eh-hem, takes too long to let it wind down with that big grinding wheel acting like a fly wheel:rolleyes: ) and 2- working with power tools while on heavy duty pain meds.
I lost count of how many times I said "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" at myself :o

Jim L.
 
just did it again... while polishing with sandpaper... ow ow ow

the first thing i did was post on BF about the experience. i should have cleaned and dressed the wound considering my hands were covered with honing oil and metal shavings. there is one advantage to cutting yourself often though, it's that you have a very quick response, putting pressure on the wound, getting it to seal up and wrapping it tightly and comfortably. other people seem to just stare gape mouthed and (sometimes, heh heh) go into shock.
 
I just cut a neat little 1/4" wide 1/2" long strip of skin off the tip of my thumb with my brand new CF caly 3 in the zdp-189 laminate. lucky for me its so damn sharp i cant even feel it. heh...
 
Just cut my thumb wile i was sharpening a Opinel 6. the lil bugger was so sharp (and cut quite deep) that I dint knowtiest till my hand was becoming red… not bad enough to take a picture thought
 
I've cut both of my thumbs, and messed up nerves. Various stabs, and cuts on my knuckles and fingers, not too bad, a few stichs here and there. Had a 6" spike come through my foot one time,.... that hurt. haha, grazed my Big toe with a 2.5lbs axe, that was scary :D
 
I had one of those medium sized night watchmen with the hidden blade.
(unscrew the handle then but it back together)
Well, I was scraping some labels off of a steel bin (because it works great for that, OK), I went to scrape and it hung on a label due to too much
adhesive build up and when it slipped free I jabbed the thing into my
thumb on the other hand. It went in to the bone. At least it stopped
there. When I pulled the blade out, my thumb shot a stream of blood
out about 3 feet. Everytime my heart beat it shot out again. I clinched
my thumb and went to a sink and ran it under cold water so I could
temp bandage it. It healed up nicely and the watchmen and I are friends
again. It has become the anchor for my enormous set of keys I have.

mike
 
Ive cut my self a few times , got scars on most of my fingers from slices and fillets , a few in the palms of my hands from slips n stabs

Lately tho , I have been lucky , most of my blade grinding is done freehand with a 5 inch angle grinder , a nasty one with no guard .

I have a few knicks from that too .

I have done more damage to my hands as a panel beater tho than I ever did making , playing with or sharpening knives .

OTOH , my mum asked me to sharpen her knife , and then promptly laid her finger open to the bone .

My brother was watching TV and cutting a piece of carpet withhis boning knife , he slipped and stuck the full blade length into this thigh barely missing his artery

He used to get mad when he watched van dam movies after that where the hero pulls a knife out that was stabbed into his lg or arm and continues fighting using the weapon ... he reckons its all fake cos it hurts too dam much to do that , he knows , BTDT , just without the fighting .

the worst cut I got was from a car I had just opened up with a cutter , I took a 1/2 inch of the back off the third joint on my index finger to the bone , the guy working with me asked what was up , I showed him my finger and told him "check it out , real bone !!" then blood sort of gushed out and he puked ..

My boss yelled at me for bleeding on his floor , bawled the other poor guy out for puking in a customers car and went off swearing at us in greek ( when he got realy angry he forgot his english )

I wrapped it in a rag and eleectrial tape and went back to work , my fellow worker went home sick tho .
 
just did it again! you know it's sharp when you don't notice, go on working, and it takes you five minutes to notice the blood...
 
Yes, of course I have cut myself!! But, none of my cuts have required stitches.
 
I once whittled a good slice off the back of my thumb with my 110. It didn't even hurt because the blade was good and sharp. It left a 1 x 1/4" strip of skin dangling off... Mr SuperGenius here decided the expedient thing to do was just snip it off with a scissors. That hurt. It's a pretty ugly scar, 20 years later.

I agree with you guys that A) it's not really yours till it tastes your blood*, and B) I'd rather cut myself with a sharp knife than a dull one. Seems to me the dull rip/cut would hurt more and take longer to heal.

*cutting yourself on purpose doesn't count, that's just weird.
 
I always find myself testing an edge by holding a fine hair between thumb and index finger. I just cut my hair so this practice has become chancy. At least twice I have cut off the tip of my thumb and index. I hate the feeling of the blade slicing through nail but they usually heal pretty well without medical interference
I have been cut by every blade I own. The little buggers seem to like the taste of blood
 
Fonly said:
you are lucky then my friend, are you sure you are really a knife collector??:D
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Yes, I am indeed I am. I have been carrying/ collecting knives for 33 years.:D I had a cut that COULD have used a stitch or 2, but I got to stop bleeding, and all was well.:thumbup:
 
Lots of times (partly because I used to purposely "self harm"). A couple of times reasonably badly, the worst would be:

'Bout 14; I was "sharpening" a knife on a steel, and (this is the bit I learned from-well sort of. I do still do it, I'm just more careful) resting the end of the steel on my knee. Obviously I went past the end of the steel and well into my knee (just touching bone). Ended up at casualty with the doc's thinking I'd done it on purpose using a scalpel (I was somewhat pleased that they thought it was that sharp I'll admit); they said I was rather close to the femoral artery and was damn lucky I'd not clipped it or I would be dead (I'd had to phone my Mum to come home from the vicar's house, a couple of villages away, to take me in).
Incidentally, it hadn't hurt at all until the doc kept snapping off the suture while trying to stitch it-then it was quite nasty.

Other than that I've slipped a few times while working on various things, sometimes badly, mostly just little nicks.
 
Worst cut I have had so far was not from a knife but from GLASS! Injured by a window-pane,almost cut the tip of one finger right off and cut the wrist so that the tendon was severed, you could HEAR the blood whoosh out:D

I think somebody should design a medal for us to wear with pride,battle scarred by blades or glass;)
 
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