How often do you cut yourself?

You know folks, they make kevlar gloves. If you can't keep from cutting yourselves, perhaps you should invest in a pair. I say this only partly in jest.

I worked at one plant where much work was done with razor knives. There were so many accidents with them, the company finally worked out a deal with the local Union. Anyone found using a blade without wearing kevlar gloves was fined. Repeat offences by an individual caused the fine he had to pay to increase. No more accidents.
 
myright said:
I did this two nights ago. It doesn't look all that bad in the picture, but you could see down, inside my finger toward the knuckle. I've never actually had a cut hurt this bad before. It still bleeds when I bend my finger too much or hit it. My wife is a nurse so even thinking about stitches is out of the question....:o

You'll notice the freshly healed scar just above the new one on the same finger.. Guess I don't learn. I tried to draw a line from the text to the healed scar, but for some reason the arrow saves in a different file.

I did it cleaning a kitchen knife. It blead out pretty good!

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Um, looks like you cut yourself while shaving your knuckles??:D
 
yeah i dont cut myself to much ususlly when im sharpening a knife and on avegage id say once about every six months do i cut myself, now bleeding or getting hit by lartge flying objects is a different story
 
Very, very rarely. Maybe twice in the past four years have I cut myself with knives. Other things (barbed wire especially) will get me fairly frequently, but knives rarely bite me.
 
I've only cut myself once...but it was almost to the bone and cut the tendon and nerves on my left little finger. After surgery and hundreds of hours of physical therapy...it functions 75% at best.
 
Reading this thread is definitely a good reminder to respect the blades.

The most predictable knife cuts I've ever seen were long ago when I worked at a store that sold SAKs and displayed them with all the tools open and fanned out so you could see what they had inside. Customers would ask to handle a model and invariably close all of the tools. Before we returned the knife to the display case, we would open the tools all back up again. Nobody did that particular job very many times between cuts and a few smarter employees refused to do it at all (I was not one of the smart ones).

I recently returned to that store to buy a replacement spring for a SAK and the clerk was having trouble opening the stock cabinet. It was secured by cord, so he removed a large folder from the display case to cut the cord and proceeded to stab himself deeply in the thigh, causing quite an emergency and a trip to the hospital.
 
I never really cut myself. I know when I get a new knife, I am somehow bound to cut myself with it, it may be the day I get it, it may be two months out, but somewhere along the way, I cut myself just once.

I know after I get done sharpening a knife, I feel the edge (along the blade) which everyone tells you not to, but I do. It is the best way (IMO) to test sharpness. But I never get cut so...:D
 
Grampa said:
Often enough that I always carry bandaids in my wallet! :D
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Got a few in my wallet! I am a maker, and manage to get bit by just about every knife I make. At least once. Everything is healed up again. For now.

I keep bandaids, polysporin, and alcohol in my shop. Every once in a while I get a belt cut. Those need to be cleaned, disinfected, and closed to keep from getting dirty and becoming infected, because I don't quit working.
 
When I saw this thread earlier today I laughed and said to myself "What are these people doing to cut themselves!?!?"

Guess what happened today. Yup. Cut myself :(

I was was just about done sharpening my M16-10Z. Bunch of strokes on the sharpmaker, and then one on the backside of the chisel grind to remove the burr. Now I could have put the knife in my left hand and pushed away from myself, but nope, why do that when it's already in my right hand and it's just one stroke towards myself right?

Cut the finger of my left hand and immediately thought to myself "Wow, that was stupid". I blame CRKT for that stupid left handed chisel grind :grumpy:

While I'm on the subject, why has nobody made band-aids that come in easy to open packaging!?!? It's a little hard to get one of the damn things out using the pinky fingers of each hand while i hold my bleeding wound closed :mad:

Speaking of bleeding wounds, could we make it a policy around here to link photos of digusting wounds? Or at least warn somebody. It's a little unsettling when I'm just trying to check out a thread and BAM, wallpaper sized pic of a mangled limb covered in stitches. Just because I'm into knives doesn't mean I'm into gore :barf:

rugershooter16 said:
I know after I get done sharpening a knife, I feel the edge (along the blade) which everyone tells you not to, but I do. It is the best way (IMO) to test sharpness. But I never get cut so...:D
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If you're running your thumb down the edge of the blade and it's not cutting you, you might want to get your knives sharpened by somebody else ;)
 
LOL - Dekz

I found that Steri-strips work amazingly well to speed along the healing process.
 
Dekz said:
Speaking of bleeding wounds, could we make it a policy around here to link photos of digusting wounds? Or at least warn somebody. It's a little unsettling when I'm just trying to check out a thread and BAM, wallpaper sized pic of a mangled limb covered in stitches.
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Sorry about that Dekz.


You should see the shots my friend took before I had the silly thing closed up.
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Every time I sharpen my knives I cut myself. First, I make little tiny cuts on my finger tips while I test to see if the edges are there yet. You know, it's sharp when it shaves off fingerprints. :o) Then I cut off hair.

It doesn't really hurt, but my finger tips always feel raggedy for a day or two.
 
This didn't happen from a knife, but I did get a frantic call from my wife this afternoon. She was going to take the trash out and had overfilled the plastic bag. She had to grab it kind of hard to pull the plastic bag out of the can from under the sink and when she did, the lid to a soup can sliced REALLY deep into two of her fingers. She wouldn't let me get a pic to show you guys, so all I got was the bloody paper towels. She probably could've used stitches, but our doc had already gone home for the day and the ER would have been a couple thousand dollars, so I fixed her up with some liquid skin and heavy duty adhesive strips. Finally got the bleeding stopped. Phew!!:eek:
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Fortunately very rarely. I have good dexterity and concentration I guess.
 
jonnymac44 said:
She probably could've used stitches, but our doc had already gone home for the day and the ER would have been a couple thousand dollars
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I'm glad I live in Canada and don't have to choose between medical care and money :D
 
i used to cut myself a lot more when i was fiddling around with my knives. almost always it happened when i closed the folder on my fingers! this was when i was relatively new to knives.

i've since gotten more careful and have not cut myself in a long time.
 
The last time I remember cutting myself was when I was searching blindly through my fanny pack and found the partially open blade of an opinel. Very minor poke.
I have been more likely to cut myself with other bladed tools such as chisels or planes (trying to trim too small a piece by hand, without clamping).
 
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