How often do you cut yourself?

I usually cut myself on my newest knife, within about a week of getting it. After that, I never cut myself on them again. Its usually one that bleeds like a mother, but there's little pain and never any permanent damage.
 
My last bad one - and the one that finally turned me off to junk steel knives - was back around January 3rd; I had just sharpened a "new" Chicago cutlery kitchen knife, and it dulled again before I even finished slicing one apple. On the last cut, it started binding up, and like a twit, instead of pulling the blade out and starting the cut over, I pushed harder. The blade crashed through, and darn near cut the end of my left thumb off. I Soaked half a dozen paper towels, and it hurt like he!! for days.

The upside to this is I finally started testing better brands of kitchen knives. I'm really enjoying that . . .

thx - cpr
 
Best (or worst) cut I've had was from stepping on broken glass in a muddy river. That was a couple inches long and a 3/8 deep on the heel of my foot. It kind of looked like a gill I guess.

I probably get cut about once a month, but it is usually from plastic or boxes. Occasionally it will be from tooling around with knives.
 
Confucious say " A man with many knives will surely get cut". If I can go a month without getting cut I consider myself lucky.
 
Not very often, but my worst was when I didn't get my thumb out of the way when I closed my scary sharp Blur--almost gave me a flat thumb. Haven't cut myself for around 3-4 months now.
 
I generally cut myself on dumb things other than knives or sharp-edge devices. When I do cut myself on knives, it's always in the kitchen. The last time was with a really big and REALLY sharp Santoku.
 
At work, I cut myself on sharp bits of wire and such, sometimes on rough, unfinished edges of the steel boats I work on.
When I cut myself with one of my knives, it's usually when I've neglected to treat my tools with the proper respect that should be exercised around any potentially hazardous equipment. Coincidence? ;)
 
I had one bad one earlier this year with a spyderco endrua vg-10 right out of the box 1 day old , 3 stitches inside and 9 outside. whole finger is still numb and they said it probablly wont come back oh well at least it moves. watch out for the spydes there shaaaarrrrpppp!!!! kinda made for a sucky superbowl sunday LOL,
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I think I am reminded to pay more attention (aka cut myself) about once every 3 - 4 years. Never needed stitches, have used the flesh adhesive.

I will agree that all were preventable but everyone (no matter who you are or how long you have been around knives) have lapses in attention span or choose to bypass safety procedures.
 
puukkoman said:
At work, I cut myself on sharp bits of wire and such, sometimes on rough, unfinished edges of the steel boats I work on.
When I cut myself with one of my knives, it's usually when I've neglected to treat my tools with the proper respect that should be exercised around any potentially hazardous equipment. Coincidence? ;)
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I think so. :o
 
Well I just dropped my BM 975 pse which I am trying to sell as I write. I dropped it behind the computer and somehow it came open. I think when I tried to catch it as it fell. Well its dark behind the computer and just reached back to pick it up and jammed my thumb onto the serrations. I do not think I have felt sharper serrations than this one. Man what a bite on my thumb. Now I know why on some knives I like serrations! keepem sharp
 
I cut myself every once in awhile but it always is just a paper thin amount of skin and it almost never bleeds, but i did cut the nail of my pointer finger last year.
 
Been lucky...haven't cut myself for a while. Occasionally I would nick myself playing with a new knife but haven't for awhile. I just got three custom kitchen knives from Japan however and they give new meaning to the word sharp so I am sure in the next week or so I will probably nick myself...adds flavor don'tcha know. Last good cut was back when I was laying carpet for a living...somehow I put a box cutter in my back pocket open (use it to trim the carpet when installing) and as I pulled it out I opened up my right rear cheek rather impressively. Needless to say I was the "butt" of many jokes after that one.

I will illustrate what happens when you blow up a H&K USP in your hands tho...this was taken right before they started stitching...

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Helping to remove 10 year old electronic equipment with my buck 305x

I cut 2 tendons on the top of my right thumb, surgery and 4 months of therapy later, the thumb is back to 60%, and as good as it will ever get.

Many interesting stories from the hand surgeon on tendon damage to the hand.

Lesson learned, carry a decent sized blade!
 
Absintheur said:
Been lucky...haven't cut myself for a while. Occasionally I would nick myself playing with a new knife but haven't for awhile. I just got three custom kitchen knives from Japan however and they give new meaning to the word sharp so I am sure in the next week or so I will probably nick myself...adds flavor don'tcha know. Last good cut was back when I was laying carpet for a living...somehow I put a box cutter in my back pocket open (use it to trim the carpet when installing) and as I pulled it out I opened up my right rear cheek rather impressively. Needless to say I was the "butt" of many jokes after that one.

I will illustrate what happens when you blow up a H&K USP in your hands tho...this was taken right before they started stitching...

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LMFAO - I could only imagine the amount of jokes you got for that one. Bet you learned your lesson :eek:


Holy Hell dude - what happened to that HK? That looks like a law suit..... Unless, of course, you were doing something stupid like putting it in your back pocket:D
 
That was one of the first USPs in 40S&W to hit the country. At the time Accurate recomended Acurate #5 for reloading the cartridge, let's just say they don't anymore. This was a common blow-up with that powder there were quite a few Glocks that suffered the same fate. Funny thing is I attended the H&K Armorer School and they still had my USP in their service dept, the instructor made sure everyone who saw it knew it was mine...lol.
 
"That was one of the first USPs in 40S&W to hit the country. At the time Accurate recomended Acurate #5 for reloading the cartridge, let's just say they don't anymore. This was a common blow-up with that powder there were quite a few Glocks that suffered the same fate."

Yup I was using Acurate #5 and over the course of thousands of rounds I blew the extractors off of 2 sigs before I quit reloading.


Mitch
 
about within a week of buying a new knife i will, just did with my new leek (side of my left index finger, no idea how i did but i was trying to see where the torsion bar has a bias in direction and ya)

normally it is a stupid slip that i never repeat

and this was a great freaking way to end a crappy day (just got a notice that i have to take a drivers safety course cause i got a ticket and am under 20 or else my license gets suspended, but if i was 20 i could just let the points sit on my license for 2 years... but i digress)


ooooo sweet i just noticed in the process i was able to half shave off a top layer of my thumb skin but still stay attach (not even to the point of a scratch)... thats a gooooooood knife
-matt
 
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