Holy Sh!t, I Have Just Cut My Finger, OFF !!!!!!

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No, not really, but I was interested in the worst injury you have ever inflicted on your self, of course it has to be using a knife.

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You type very well for a nine fingered man!

Worst cut? left index finger, sliced her through to the bone, back of the finger, from the first joint to the next, diagonally, had to have the tendon sewn back together before stitching the slit.
A small Ken Largin butterfly knife, no I wasn't flipping it around, I was trying to cut a notch into a strip of plastic and the knife slipped off and into my left hand. Man did it bleed.

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You type very well for a nine fingered man!
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Maybe he started out with eleven fingers?
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Oh, you mean like the Count in Princess Bride?

I thought about that but quickly dismissed it.
G2
 
Actually, I thought we as a forum were getting along rather well without profanity let alone using it in a subject header. The worst cut I ever got from a knife was probably on my thumb from an x-acto knife.
 
My worst self-inflicted knife cut occurred when I very impatiently attempted to force a Khukri into it's sheath. It had become stuck about 2/3's of the way in, so I sat down, held the knife & sheath in a tip up position, and jammed the handle to the ground. HARD. Most stupid thing I've ever done.
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The blade tip went completely through the sheath and into my right hand, entering the fleshy part between the index finger and thumb. The blade tip came out the top of my hand.
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No tendons cut, thank God, but I did severe a nerve, which required an afternoon under general anesthesia with a reconstructive surgeon. Re my comment about not cutting a tendon, and I have severed several, though not with knives, you guys out there with "experience" know it's far worse than breaking a bone as far as recovery goes. This happened 14 years ago, and my thumb still does not have complete feeling in it. Haven't cut myself since.
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Before I was into knifes I had a straight razor in my back pocket, and when I reach in the pocket the blade was open. I cut the tip of my index finger to the bone. That's when I decided to either learn what to carry or stop playing with sharp objects,
 
Two stab wounds, both above the knee on my left leg inflicted five years apart. First was a woodcutting accident, ugly and bled a lot but not too bad. The second when I was doing blade katas/forms with two long panga knives. One slipped out of my hand and I caught it in mid air point down and kept going. As I walked into the house my leg felt warm, I looked down to see blood everywhere. That sucker wasn't as deep as the first, but it sure hurt the next day!

I still have the "idiot of the year" trophy upstairs.

Matt

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For my 13th birthday my Dad gave me the Samurai sword he had brought back from WW2 in the Pacific. It was the military blade, mounted in a leather covered wooden sheath. I was already a sword and knife fanatic and had managed to see a couple of Japanese movies, Seven Samurai, Sanjuro, etc. I went out in the back yard and started trying the fancy draws and resheathing I had seen. On about the fourth attempt I lost control of the full sized katana and pinned my left foot to the ground. Luckily the blade passed between the bones. I knew if I told my parents the sword would be gone, so I pried it loose, stuffed a ton of tissue paper in my shoe and tried to pretend nothing was wrong. This lasted about 10 minutes after I got back into the house. A trip to emergency room and some interesting stitches handled the wound. I didn't lose the sword, but my Dad mounted it to my bedroom wall in such a way that it couldn't come down or be drawn, which is where it stayed for antoher 2 years.
 
I pounded a knife I was testing into the side of my knee once. Did not want to try it twice since the knife had already passed the "test"
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On an offshore drilling rig I was bunking with a Superintendent who took what appeared to be a Barlow he was sharpening and suddenly stabbed it through his pants leg into his calf. I have many witnesses. Then, as several gasps faded he pulled it out and said how tough you had to be blah,blah, blah.

Later that night I saw him remove his prosthesis... it had many stab wounds.

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Freind of my dads used to pull the same trick. Never got to see it though. Kinda takes the fun away when you KNOW it's going into plastic

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That does not sound smart. I think I would rather stab myself in my left leg than my right leg. Flesh will heal, but a good prosthesis is expensive. I had my first one snap off when I was deep in the woods and all alone. Not a fun crawl going home.
 
The worst I can think of is when my Endura opened in my pocket and stabbed me in the leg. I had it in a very large cargo pocket (my first bad move), and I jumped over a fence. Gravity got a good pull on my knife, and opened it enough to stab me in the leg. I still love my Endura. I just don't carry knives clipped to cargo pockets anymore.

One great way to cut your finger off is to close your Cold Steel XL Voyager as you would an Endura or Delica. Just kinda fling it most of the way closed. The choil won't hit your finger; the edge will. I've done that a few times now. Come on! It's habit-forming!

Howie
 
I used to build plastic models when I was a lot younger...8 or so. I was trimming a piece of plastic with an exacto knife, and being the dumb kid I was I didn't know not to put my finger in front of the blade no matter how sure I was the blade wouldn't slip. Sure enough, it did, straight into my thumb and to the bone. The REALLY stupid part is I did it again a year or two later, same way.
 
Worse I ever had was the 10 stitches I got 2 weeks ago, had a tanto in the vise with the blades covered for safety, Dropped a tool, bent to pick it upm stood up an got a gash 5 inches long that spread to about 2 inches wide. Needless to say I felt like a fool. Now I tape all blades that go into the vise.

Jake
 
Hi you fellow knifemakers...

i've never injured myself...

BUT: *smile*
if you wannaa see nice kuts...
visit http://rotten.com
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not nice but it's a lesson to be carefully....

yours sincerly
W Dell member of the german knifemakers guild...

 
Back in 92! My right thumb was injured and I had to have 2 surgerys' on it. Left my thumb 80% damaged after that, no feeling from the middle thumb joint to the tip of my thumb.

Got a one hand opener, I think it was a Benchmade knife of some sort.....well, I was showing off to a friend of mine how I could open and close it with only one hand, my bad hand at that. Needless to say on the closing of the knife the blade came down and cut the tip of my bad thumb off. I wouldn't have known it though if it weren't for the blood that was pouring from the cut area.
Yeap, I felt like an outright idiot
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Never showed off again like that!

Mark



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Wow, there are some pretty good incidents out there. The closest I came to cutting off my finger was while I was doing some winter grafting at work and a kitten with really damn sharp claws decided to jump into my lap under the table and put all of them into my leg. After a good jerk from the little attention seeker I realized the tip of one of my fingers on my left hand was kind of...dangling...and bleeding...really bad.
 
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