How bad have you cut yourself with a knife?

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Okay I went to http://www.survival.com and bought Ron Hood's ATAX, it was a cool looking thingimajig and was always curious at its potential for tactical application. At this point, I just took it out of the heavily oiled sheath and haven't tested it for sharpness yet(usually doing a "line cut" using thick paper -- of course I know all knives should be treated as very sharp and dangerous).

Well, so I was playing with it and had it in my right hand, getting used to the "feel" and how it fit good in my hands. I must've gotten distracted and turned my head away, when I felt a sharp pain on my left arm. I accidentally grazed my left arm with the ATAX while I was holding it. At first I ignored the cut, thinking it was just a "scratch" until I saw blood dripping from the 1" inch long cut. Some cotton dressing and scotch tape took care of it after I grimaced at the hydrogen peroxide. Okay I was stupid to be playing with a knife without giving it my full attention, I learned my lesson, these things can be a big inconvenience when safety is taken for granted. Anyways, I have a small scar to remind me of my stupidity. :rolleyes:
 
Before I learned to clean cottontails by skinning them, cutting the two back "loins" away from the backbone, and totally ignore the innards of the critters, I cut myself fairly good cleaning rabbits once.

I think the knife I was using was near sharp enough when I attacked the 1st of the 3 rabbits I had shot that afternoon. Cutting through the joints to remove the feet probably wasn't all that great for the ege. Anyhow, had no problem with the 1st rabbit, and little with the 2nd. But, by the time I got to the 3rd beast, I was finding it fairly heavy weather. If my IQ matched my hat size, I'd have stopped to get another knife or sharpen the one I was using. But, I was tired of looking at rabbit guts, and just wanted to finish.

Somewhere along there, I tried to force a cut the edge really wasn't capable of making. The knife slipped, and I cut one of my fingers to the bone. If my father hadn't been raised on an Eastern Montana homestead, I'm sure they'd have taken me for stitches. But he was, and they didn't. I don't mind other people's or animal's blood in the slightest, but seem to set a higher value on my own. The sight of my blood gushing into the rabbits cavity, mixing with the rabbits blood and assorted entrails took me as close to fainting as I've ever been. I climbed the stairs from the basement up to get help. I was unable to see anything except this real silvery darkness.

My worst cut, from a knife.
 
Spyderco serrated cricket...Middle finger left hand...Blade folded when I accidently unlocked it.(liner lock)..Entered just behind the first knuckle...went down the bone andinto my fingernail..snatched my hand back so fast the knife went across the stock room and almost hit my manager...12 stitches
 
I haven't posted this story yet.
Anyway, this happened to me about 4 months ago. I bought a really long knife (12" blade) that is actually more of a small wakazashi than anything. And it came with a wooden sheath that fit a little to tight. So, with the back of the blade away from me, I pulled and pulled and pulled and pulled. Now I had taken the sheath off before, and I knew I could get it if I tried hard enough.
In a moment of desparation and thoughtless, I turned the blade toword me, which would allow me to get more leverage. I had the knife pressed against my belly, and guess what. SWOOSH out comes the knife and across my belly. I knew I had been cut, but I was really afraid to look down. I thought I might see my intestines.
Fortunetly, it wasn't that bad. I had about a 5" cut across my belly. (yes, I've got some padding under there) Although I was only cut kind of deep for about 2". I should have gotten stiches but I didn't. I only saw subcutaneas tissue, nothing more (thank G-d) Now I've got a 2" scar with me forever.
 
I was resheathing my Hayes Typhoon (3.5 inch jap style damascus tanto) and i missed the sheath and put into my left hand. Just a tip nick but it sliced about .75 inches long and 1/4 inch deep onto my palm near the thumb.

And I almost lost the tip of my middlefinger on my right hand from a LCC when I tried to flick it open.
 
Stiff Kiss MDP
Wrapping with cord
stabbed 1/4 deep in the edge of palm
5 sutures
 
I decapitated myself a few months ago with a Spyderco Delica, I'm all better now though!:p

However I cut myself with my Spyderco Matriarch the day I got it, I was playing with it getting the feel for it. I realised it was rather close to my hand and out of instinct pulled away from it, however the re'curve s shape pulled my thumb into the kill zone and a nice clean cut was the result...

Oh yes, it hurt a lot after...:cool:
 
Just finished sharpening a Kershaw Boa to a nice thin edge. Brushed my thumb across the edge to check it and it caught and sank into my flesh a bit. Nothing serious, stopped the bleeding with a tissue and sharpened up the knife even more. I just get these cuts that barely go past the skin every once in a while and that's as bad as it ever gets.
 
My worst cut?
Which time?

I'll give ya a couple for now.
First, I was sharpening a Muela re-curve Bowie with my Lansky sharpener one fine day. I got distracted and the knife slipped out of the clamp and fell point first into my bare right foot. It was standing straight up in my foot until I reached down and pulled it out. The pain was a little bad, but the next day, I got out of bed and fell down when my feet hit the floor. Total agony. I ended up going down and getting a few stitches and some pain killers and antibiotics. Owie got better.:)

Another day I finished sharpening a knife and stuck it in a post in my shop. When I went back to get it, as I grabbed it I tripped on a piece of cardboard and my right hand slid all the way up the blade. That cost me ~ $10,000.00 worth of microsurgery to re-attatch the nerves and tendons and other tissues in the right index finger. Now, two years later, I am unable to close that finger all the way to make a fist and it stays half numb all the time. Any knife, folder or fixed, for my right hand now has to have a fairly substantial finger guard/cutout as my grip has been sorely compromised.

I have other incidents, but I'll save those for another time.;)
 
I can really only think of two times I've cut myself with a "knife". First time I was in gradeschool - I forget which grade exactly, but I know it was before 6th. Had a cool little Ka-Bar lockback and somehow "whittled" the tip of my pinky finger off. Probably should have gotten stitches or something, but I was afraid my mom would take the knife away so I hid it from her (she's legally blind, so it wasn't as tough as it might sound). I have a pretty good scar there to this day.

The other one was in high-school. I was hot-gluing something together and kept getting these little "spiderwebs" where the glue stayed attached to the gun. Took a Stanley utility knife and swung through one -- right into the meat of my thumb. I'm tend to be especially careful with knifes now -- especially Stanley razor-blade style ones.

Mike
 
Here's a couple:

Cutting up bait one day, and the filet knife hit a fish scale, causing it to slip. Cut into the side of my thumb, and about halfway into my thumbnail. Nail is still healing after a few weeks.

Playing with my Spyderco Rookie a few days ago, and dropped it open onto my bicep. Left a nice little half inch long hole that's now a scar.

Running through the woods after a rabid raccoon with an Ontario Survival bowie in my hand:eek:. Brushed by a tree knocking the tip of the knife into my neck. Quite a bit of blood, but nothing major.

Tried to grab a butterknife from a friend of mine by grabbing the blade(WTF!!) He jumped back, pulling knife along the bottom of my index finger, cut until I could just see the bone..

Playing with the same Ontario Bowie, flipping it in the air and catching it, when I missed once and it stuck into the second toe of my right foot. Thankfully I was wearing thick leather boots, probably saving my toe.

I can't even begin to count how many times I've veen cut, or cut myself, but I'd like to think that I've become a little more careful with the sharp pointy objects I love.
 
Took off the very tip of my left thumb with a Chicago Cutlery utility knife that I'd *just* sharpened to a polished edge. You can still see where it's missing (1/16 of an inch).
 
Can't think of a good one for myself but I watched my brother, who was working as a butcher at the time, have a major brain freeze. He was busy and had a customer who wanted a couple of T-bones. Well they were frozen. He proceeded to take his boning knife and pry the two steaks apart. They came apart suddenly and the boning knife went swiftly down in between his third finger and pinky. The blade sank in about 2". Of course reacting quickly he pulled the knife upward and out of his hand. Total damage 3 tendons cut two surgeries to repair and loss of pinky function.

The worst thing I've done is force one of my fingers onto a fresh 36 grit belt on my big grinder after the steel bit and went shooting across the shop!
 
This is not a knife story, but closely related.

A couple of years back, i was wandering around with a pitchfork type tool, stabbing it into the ground in front of me (i know, i know). Took a big step, swung a little far back and hey presto - 2 of the tines are passed completely THROUGH MY FOOT!!!

A nice ride down to the ER for some stitches - I somehow managed to miss everything important!

James
 
I was playing with a BM 710 in the dark, I tripped, and I somehow smashed my left hand into the blade that was in my right hand. I was lucky because at least I didn't put the blade into my gut, but I cut the back of my left hand very deep, It took 176 stitches, the gash was in the shape of an eyeball, it was such a clean cut that the skin just split open, the doctor told me it was the cleanest non surgical incision he had ever seen. I could see tendons and all kinds of neat things in my hand. I didn't have very good movement in my hand for about 6 months.
Kyle
 
HERE'S A FUN ONE. I WAS SITTING ON THE COUCH IN SHORTS AND BARE FEET WHILE PRACTICING (PLAYING) WITH MY BENCHMADE SS BALISONG.THINKING THAT I WAS PRETTY COOL & GETTING PRETTY GOOD,I SPED UP THE ACTION AND OF COURSE,LOST CONTROL.THE BALISONG HELICOPTERED (AUTOROTATED?) DOWN AND STUCK UPRIGHT IN MY ANKLE. IT SORT OF HUNG THERE FOR A FEW SECONDS AND THEN FELL OUT.I DID THE ONE LEGGED BUNNY HOP AT LIGHT SPEED TO THE BATHROOM SO THAT THE RUG WOULDN'T GET TOO BLOODSTAINED.FORTUNATLY,NO STITCHES AND THE APARTMENT MANAGEMENT NEVER NOTICED THE SPOTS ON THE RUG.
 
Once my whole shoe was full of blood.......they rushed me in ahead of everyone....but the worst one I have seen was when Ken Onion was shoe shine sanding the handle of a completely finished drop point hunter.....clamped in a vise tip down........SHARPENED....and he stood up...........THE WHOLE STINKING BLADE WENT INTO THE TOP OF HIS KNEE.......he was on cruthces for over 1.5 months........OUCH!!!!!
 
My stories aren't as good as some of you guys but here goes. I was sitting in my favorite chair watching tv playing with my BM Axis AFCK. I hadn't had it but 2 or 3 days so it was still kind of new feeling to me. I tried to thumb flick it open and it did come open but it also came out of my hand and stuck in my leg. It kind of feel out real slow. It wasn't too bad, I didn't get and stiches.

The other time I was trying to sharpen a friends POS knife for him on my Lansky and I again wasn't paying attention and when I was trying to tighten up the clamp I run my finger across the blade and cut the tip of my index finger off. It was kind of a funny cut because I only cut the left side of it off, all the way up the my fingernail. It bleed a lot. :(
 
A few years ago I was wrapping cord around the handle of the Stiff Kiss I had just purchased. While tugging on the cord to tighten, I yanked it right out of the sheath, sclicing my right thumbtip with pretty much the entire edge. Laid the thumb wide open. 14 stitches, and it does look a little funny now
 
I was taking the garbage out. At the time we had a dumpster, so I'd drive the garbage up there, and toss it in. I didn't notice the steak knife blade poking out. I swung the bag off the back of our Suburban, then felt a very solid thunk, followed by pain. The knife had cut me three inches long, and penetrated 2 inches deep, thankfully skating along the muscle, and missing any tendons or anything. It took like, 24 stitches to close it up. Really sucked.

BryanH
 
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