How often do you get cut badly?

Actually I rarely get cut. I got lazy a month or so ago and left some pieces unsheathed after drying and oiling. I reached into the box and slid my knuckle across a machete and the same finger the next day across a hawk. Two fairly shallow but irritating half finger length cuts. I had to laugh because I almost never get cut and I did those two virtually back to back. Lesson learned: don't be lazy, resheath.
 
Hello,

When I was younger I would carve what ever scrap wood my dad had around the house. If I got in trouble or did something wrong my parents would take away my "toys". Knives, bb guns, fishing rods, magnifying glass, you know all the things a young kid needs to become a man. Well one time I was bored because all my "toys" got confiscated so I decided to search my dads tool box for something to play with. I founds his drywall knife, the hook bill kind that looks like a karambit. With in a minute of starting my carving I made a mistake and buried the blade into my pointer finger down to the bone. I panicked and ran into my next door neighbors garage. Eventually my neighbor noticed the blood trail and he found me trying to stop the bleeding with the sleeve of my shirt. He helped me stop the bleeding and told me " Im not going to tell your mom what you did but Ill go with you when you tell her". We went back home and I showed her, oh was she mad! Had to get 10 stitches and a tetanus shot. Within a week my "toys" got confiscated again and I cut myself again with the same drywall knife. Had to get 8 more stitches. That was the last time I had to get stitches because of a knife, it was probably 17 years ago. I get cut maybe one time a month but they are small.

Have a good one,

Chris
 
I get serious cuts rarely, I usually go years in between them. Now little nicks are another story, I get those regularly, especially since I sharpen regularly.
 
Three times in 24 years
Almost cut off the fingerprint from my left ring finger with a mora viking when i was little
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Stabbed myself in the left thumb meat with a stainless mora viking when i lived in the big city
And just a month ago i almost cut off my fingerprint from my right index finger with my PP Hanwei Wakizashi
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Man that hurt, i almost fainted because of all the blood leaving me
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I might have cut my thumb sometime.... vague suspicion
At least i am doing better than grandpa, he cut half of his ring finger off with a wood processing saw

I get small nicks and scrapes almost every day, mostly on the side of my left index finger, obviously, since i am right handeds
 
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When I get cut, it's typically not a knife that did it. Usually it's a piece of sharp sheet metal or something hidden deep in the recesses of something I'm working on.

I did get a nasty bleeding wound from a golf club once. Almost drowned in my own blood on the way to the hospital.
 
Last time I got a "squirter" was from a pair of hedge trimmers. About 10 years ago I shaved off a good chunk of skin from a finger tip. Aside from that - pretty much never.

(knock on wood)
 
I'd say I need to patch myself up once or twice a year. No stitches yet...knock on wood.

When you play with knives it's bound to happen sooner or later.
 
I skin my knuckles with regularity, minor scrapes and cuts happen, but nothing really bad. The worst blood bath I had was with an infection from Chron's and it took 4 blood transfusions to balance my system in the ER with more once I was admitted, but I was so sedated I cannot remember how many.
 
Most of my bad cuts have been on my left index finger. The other night I managed to cut my toe pretty well but nothing that needed stitches. Most of my worse cuts have been caused by things other than knives.

Also, I don't understand how a knife can be sharp enough to shave, or make little curlies off of a chin hair, but then when I accidentally brush my finger against it it manages to stop JUST before it goes well into the skin. On the other hand it seems like a cut from a dull knife is always worse.
 
I don't get bit very often, but when I do it's usually from a folder. As a fixed blade kinda guy, I am not as smooth with folders as I used to be. Got bit three days in a row with my father's XM18.
 
Just nicked my thumb this weekend messing around with my Delica after a few brews. Not too smart...
 
Seems like way too often, needed stitches at least 3 times with a knife and once with a tuna can. I hate when I get nicked or smashed or scraped when immediately prior I say to myself " If I keep doing it like this, I'm gonna hurt myself....".
 
Thankfully, the only time I've been cut was a few years ago when I was cleaning a Millie with a paper towel after slicing an orange. Got the fat of my finger pad pretty good. That's it really.
 
I never cut myself with knives. I've had a machete get me once when I dropped it and tried to catch it (bad idea) but other than that, it's always the random stuff that gets me. I've cut myself with cardboard and paper, screwdrivers, wood, a piece of bamboo I was carving (figured it would be the knife, but nope! Dry bamboo takes a mean edge, apparently. That one hurt.) saws, shovels, you name it.

agile_1 said:
Last time I got a "squirter" was from a pair of hedge trimmers. About 10 years ago I shaved off a good chunk of skin from a finger tip. Aside from that - pretty much never.

(knock on wood)
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I've got a matching set of scars on the top and bottom of my left pinky from an old pair of hedge trimmers... Nothing like seeing your finger dangling from a strip of skin to scare you at age 3.
Lesson learned: When dad is trimming stuff, don't try to help with your safety scissors.
 
Grease said:
I never cut myself with knives. I've had a machete get me once when I dropped it and tried to catch it (bad idea) but other than that, it's always the random stuff that gets me. I've cut myself with cardboard and paper, screwdrivers, wood, a piece of bamboo I was carving (figured it would be the knife, but nope! Dry bamboo takes a mean edge, apparently. That one hurt.) saws, shovels, you name it.
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A buddy of mine was an amature taxidermist years back. He used to do up some big Walleye that we'd catch in a local river. Some of them were big, really big. One time he was rushing to drill a mount with his hand drill and he sent it through the wood and into the palm of his hand. It really messed him up for a while.
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