how badly did you cut yourself by accident with the knife you carried

The last time a knife of mine drew blood was 30 years ago, in college. Yep, I'm careful much more than non-knife people. I mean, non-knife types keep telling me how they get cut badly with sharp edges. Funny really.

Having said all those, the knife that nearly cut me in recent times was my gigantic GEC 23 pioneer. The strong spring and strong half-stop can be tricky. Never put both blades in full open position or half stop. They're the devil to close.
 
This thread could get gory :), but I did this trying to figure out how to open a Svord Peasant one handed:

 
The most common knives that I get cut by are my balisongs when I'm learning a new trick( especially when I try an arial), but the worst cut by any type of blade was when i was slicing potatoes on a mandolin and sliced a big slab of my thumb off.
 
I dropped my opened knife once and by reflex went to catch it. All I caught was the tip to my palm. Left a good quarter inch deep hole in my hand.
 
11362116964_fb30cd4709_o.jpgFour stiches, courtesy of my BM Griptillian, carelessness and not cutting away from myself.
 
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Oh ....................... where would I start ? I've been carrying and using a knife since I was about 6 years old . So by sheer volume of use there has been blood lol . Lets just say that at this point it surprises me that "most" of my left index finger still has some feeling in it .


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HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS ! :emot-yarr:
 
this is a really bad cut. you can actually see the meat --"muscle"--- underneath the skin

I am referring to "NEVERDIE36"
 
I had a cheapo balisong open in my pocket. It did a real number on two of my fingers when I went to take it out of my pocket. No pix of it though, This was before we all had camera phones.

No more cheap bali's for me! (actually haven't bought another since)
 
In 2001 (11-1-01 to be precise) while on the job: I was lead driver/trainer running teams in 18 wheels cross country,shortly after my co-driver took over the night before (yes...Halloween night :p ) and promptly hit an elk along I70 in Utah (just past Richfield). The next day (was a Sunday) the boss and I came to an arrangement for me to labor the radiator swap,and a shop to finish the job the next day. While leaning WAY over in the engine compartment cutting on a busted radiator hose (yeah yeah,I know...dumb,but was getting frustrated at not being able to get to it,LOL),my 5'2" tall,4' round co-driver came up,her not knowing I was cutting,bumped my hip hard and said "wahtcha doin'?". Sliced my left index finger into two length-wise,severed everything (nerves,bone,knuckle,tendon...). So knowing the local hospital to be 6 blocks down (had another co-driver wreck me at that very exit a few months earlier...and yes,this trip I speak of was the last I was willing to run teams,OR go through that stretch of Utah),having no luck getting a ride or cell service,and having wrapped it up as tightly as I possibly could,I started walking,made it 4 1/2 blocks before passing out from blood loss and a nice Morman lady stopped and gave me a ride (I have no memory of it),where they surgically repaired/replaced everything. Still have the knife (Smith & Wesson H.R.T. Urban,only replaced it as my EDC a couple weeks ago),a really nice scar(s),and the memories of it (which,thankfully,time has dulled the sense of pain when remembering it,LOL!).
 
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Gave my Coast Guard BIL a Spyderco Pacific Salt serrated for a wedding present. When I opened it to inspect it, I released the lock and the blade swung down quickly and heavily, biting my finger to the bone.
 
jeffwithaj said:
....I seldom get bit, and when I do I keep it to myself.
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Why? Handle and use knives frequently often enough, and you will get cut. Pick up whittlin', especially dense/hard wood. The learning curve often involves a slice or two. It's amazing how obvious a mistake is after you slice yourself.

For those few knifeknuts who have never been cut (or who won't admit to having cut themselves), keep one thing ever in mind --- there are those who have been cut and those who will be cut.
 
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Okay... don't laugh.. I cut myself once with the clamshell packaging of a knife I was trying to get out. I think it was a piece of turd Gerber knife. I cut the clamshell open just enough to get the knife out, and as I reached in, it caught my just right. Not a bad cut, more like a papercut. But man... using a knife to get to a knife to get bit by the plastic. :(
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My most recent blood letting was from the clam shell plastic of my Spyderco Baliyo.
That stuff can be very sharp.
 
Back in the mid 70's I found a "folding bayonet" at an auction. I was around 19 at the time and was a scrimshaw artist...pertains to the story. The knife was old and rusted in spots on the blade but worked...the blade stuck out from the handle by 3", if I remember correctly, when closed and the hilt was on a pivot, it was a really cool knife. I got it for free because my girl friend worked the food counter and her aunt and uncle ran the auction.
I took the knife to work thinking I could clean the blade up in the shop where we cut, shaped, sanded and polished the ivory and whale tooth for jewelry and carvings. I was polishing the blade on a large electric buffing wheel with a 12" by 3" wide buffing pad loaded with tan compound.

As I was polishing the blade I caught the tip just wrong on the buffing wheel and it slammed the knife down on my right index finger. If not for the blade hitting the table, where the buffer was mounted, and stopping it would have severed my finger at the second joint. As it was it nearly cut it to the bone and was bleeding profusely. Because I was at work and was using the buffer without permission or even telling the boss I was in deep double crap. I bound the wound with paper towels and tape and had to go back to work as if nothing happened. It continued to bleed for a while which seemed endless and the day seemed to take forever to end.

All in all I wound up with a nice scar but no lasting damage, thank goodness. No one ever found out but boy did I learn a lesson.
I've nicked, etc. myself hundreds of times over the decades since but that memory never fades...I can still hear the "tock" of the blade slamming on the table...whew.
 
Peeled the top of my ring finger off, when cutting a stupid zip tie with a ZT301, had just sharpened it too. I seen the top of the bone, and nearly fell over. Fortunately it healed up nice!
 
Last year I was customizing my Becker BK2. I stripped the coating on the blade and made custom scales for it. I was tying on a 550 cord lanyard. I had the blade in a vice but didn't do a good enough job tightening the vice. As I was pulling the knot tight I pulled the blade from the vice, the blade flipped up and cut through my lip from top lip to nose. After several hours in the ER room, I ended up with six stitches on the outside of my lip and five stitches inside my mouth. Stupid mistake and a big scar. I can say I really didn't feel much pain with the cut though, glad my knife was sharp!
 
I was cutting the tip off a BB gun ammo container, with my finger on the other side.
Cheapo knife, so it was dull. And Chisel ground.
Finally went through the container and the side of my finger.
No pics but I have a scar.
No medical work.

I cut myself probably 5 times with my Griptilian while checking for bladeplay with sweaty hands and having the blade slip through my fingers. I had lots of bladeplay issues with that....
 
I don't have any photos. But my worst cut to memory was from an Emerson CQC-15. Don't ask me what happened. I was closing the knife and suddenly it was on the ground and blood was gushing from my finger. The thing was flapped pretty good. And I likely should've gotten stitches. Two days later it started bleeding whenever the bandage was removed. Kept it bandaged for over a week. Cut was to the bone.
 
Does sharpening a lawn mower blade count? Had it as sharp as any knife I ever owned too!
 
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