I fight between a knuckle and a $700.00 Japanese Chef knife who win's?

[wade7575]

I was sharpening my Sukenari 210mm Gyuto last night with my Metallic Bonded CBN stones you guy's always see me talking about on here.

Well the story goes like this I was sharpening my Sukenari and it is made from ZDP-189 steel and have always struggled to get it really sharp I could always get it sharp enough to cut anything really good just not scary sharp and I tried th Metallic Bonded CBN and I went up the 8K one I had and then used a Suehiro G8 8K stone and then a Sigma power select II 10 and 13K stone and then stropped it with diamond paste witch was 1 Micron then .5 .25 and then .10 I was really wanting to go the whole 9 yard and make sure I nailed it this time and I did it's dam sharp now and here's the proof.

What happened was I still had it clamped into my K02 and for some reason I decided to turn my head really fast to look at something and my body turned with me for reason including my hand it slid on about 3 inch's of the blade max and that's the end result,so seeing it was late like 11:30 at night I quickly head for the washroom grab some toilet paper and wrap it up and with in 4 seconds the toilet paper was soaked threw and I did that a few times then when the bleeding slowed I quickly took my my water stones out from soaking so they would not get ruined and drove myself to the hospital and when I got home I was greeted by where were you and why was there blood on the floor in the washroom and showed my finger and nothing more was said.

I know some people are thinking and wanting ask did it hurt when I got cut no it's hurt's a bit more now but not really that bad at all,to honest I felt the knife hit the bone and never felt the cutting of my flesh and I thought oh great that was close one that could have been really bad when I first seen the cut because I was thinking that' was a close one as I was pulling my hand toward's me to look at it and it had started to bleed but then when it started to gush about a fraction of a second later I thought to myself literally while I was quickly getting up oh shit some much slapping a band aid on this one,it took 9 stitch's to me back up.

The Nurse asked what happened to me for her records and the Doctor was standing there and I said to her I got into a fight with my 700 dollar Japanese chef knife and it won and her and the Doctor both stood there looking at me no really I not joking I offer a sharpening service and this time I happened to be sharpening one of my own knives and I told them how about I tell you guy's the whole after we get me looked after,then they wanted to know why I prefer Japanese chef knives and told them it's because how sharp they get if you know how to sharpen them and they asked how much sharper then a normal knife do they get and I said I can slice bread with it and it's not a serrated edge and they did not believe me so I showed them pocket knife and showed them how effortlessly you can shave the hair from your arm's and when I asked want to try there were no taker's.

 

[Blues]

Feel better, Wade. Been there done that...got the stitches.

One knife wound was caused by another party slashing me. That caused my left finger tip to be grafted back together.

The one I did to myself...I was sharpening and polishing the head of an axe when my wife walked in from work and in the moment I looked up to greet her, I was distracted enough to slice the back of my right thumb to the tune of 15 stitches.

It only hurts when I laugh...

Get better soon. (Nice work getting that baby sharp!)

 

[wade7575]

Blues that about the same as me got distracted and next thing I know I feel the bop and no pain at all no even the skin slicing and it's hurt's a bit today but not really that bad at all.
I can't bend i very much yet and I think that's because he skin is tight from the stitch's when they pulled the skin back together,I was told before the stitch's went in to move all the different section's of my finger and was told there was no tendon damage thankfully,all I can say is I'm glad I'm in Canada and have free health care my boss's wife lived in the states most of her life and most of her friends could not afford health care.

Don't get me wrong not knocking the states health care system she just me some nightmare story's her friends and family went threw.

 

[Blues]

Yeah...go easy on the flex of the finger for a while. (I've had some experience with doing things I'm not supposed to do while stitched up and it can set you back.)

It'll feel a little odd for a bit once you get the stitches out and work out the kinks but you'll be good as new.
Thankfully none of my injuries to my hands which required stitches have done any serious structural damage.

 

[Mo2]

Long time ago I cut my hand when I was making sushi with my sushi knife. Was cutting the avacado without a towel in my hand and slice. Blood everywhere. Went to the hospital and 3-4 hours later got in and it stopped bleeding by then, there was no point in going basically. They put some med grade super glue on it and gave me a tetnus shot and charged me a whole lot of money I'm sure the insurance took care of. Guess it was nice to not get stitches but it was a really deep cut, just not long enough to really need stitches. Plus I put pressure on it from the get go.

 

[RadialBladeworks]

Holy shit, Wade hahaha! Glad you didn’t take the finger off. I did the same once, but looks like you got it worse than I did!

Glad you’re all okay, overall.

Look at it this way: you finally got the knife sharp lol

Despite the damage to your finger, that’s the kind of sharpness I like to hear about!

Sorry you got hurt, but once again, another good thread. Thanks for posting

 

[Eli Chaps]

A few weeks ago I was plowing through some green onions. Between sticking to the cutting board and thus not sliding forward and me walking my fingers back and me feeling all bad ass chef, I sliced about half my index fingernail off and took a nice hunk of that oh-so-tender under-nail flesh out with it. I felt it but just thought I'd kicked the nail, then the blood started to flow. It's just now starting to get back to normal.

Hmph...

In my case it was my own fault.

Glad it was nothing serious and wish you all the best. Lots of nerves in our digits so be careful friends!

 

[wade7575]

Most people would be more worried about getting to the Hospital and having someone drive them up there once the got bleeding slowed down a bit not me I was more worried about my Suehiro G8 8K stone and my 2 Sigma power stones getting damaged from soaking to long as they are water stones.

Holy shit, Wade hahaha! Glad you didn’t take the finger off. I did the same once, but looks like you got it worse than I did!

Glad you’re all okay, overall.

Look at it this way: you finally got the knife sharp lol

Despite the damage to your finger, that’s the kind of sharpness I like to hear about!

Sorry you got hurt, but once again, another good thread. Thanks for posting

 

[wade7575]

For some reason I don't seem to cut myself very often using these chef knives only when I got them I would sometime nick myself by putting my hand under the blade and raisng them up to fast and that was sloppy practice from years of using kitchen aid and chicago cutlery knives that you have a really hard time cutting yourself with they so dull and never learned to respect the and it was also a case of old habit's are to break.

A few weeks ago I was plowing through some green onions. Between sticking to the cutting board and thus not sliding forward and me walking my fingers back and me feeling all bad ass chef, I sliced about half my index fingernail off and took a nice hunk of that oh-so-tender under-nail flesh out with it. I felt it but just thought I'd kicked the nail, then the blood started to flow. It's just now starting to get back to normal.

Hmph...

In my case it was my own fault.

Glad it was nothing serious and wish you all the best. Lots of nerves in our digits so be careful friends!

 

[samuraistuart]

I just have to throw this out there to you Wade. I’m not bitching at you, or trying to get on your case, and certainly not trying to piss you off or make enemies with you. You can blow me off, flip me off, or you can even understand what I’m saying and where I’m coming from and take it as constructive criticism. I hope it’s the latter.

I’m certainly not a “grammar nazi”. Far from it. But I have to say it...your posts are always a series of the most “run on” run on sentences I’ve ever come across. So much so, I won’t read them. At all. I would like to, as I know you have good input when you post. I’ve trudged through your posts in the past enough to know you have valuable things to say. I assure you, there are others that will not even attempt to read posts written in such a format. And I do mean it....I won’t read them. They get “scanned” (if even that much) and I read the replies.

We live in a society where it seems that any criticism is taken as a personal attack, and that anyone who disagrees is to be retaliated against in a number of ways that, in reality, only belittle the recipient of the criticism.

Please take my comment as it is meant....as just trying to help you with your “presence” here and make your posts more readable. Sure, anyone speaking the English language can read, understand, and reply to run-on sentences. But it is MUCH easier (and pleasant) to do so when, at the very least, sentences are broken up. From the reader’s perspective, it is easy to just not say anything and let it go, but I felt compelled to bring it up. Again, I hope this comes across as help and not as an “attack”.

Thanks for understanding. Feel free to call me out for my own grammar errors. I’m positive my use of ellipses (...) was wrong!

It just donned on me English may not be your first language. If that’s the case, I’m REALLY, without doubt, very sorry.

 

[Blues]

Perhaps the discussion of grammar and writing is better handled privately via PM. Less chance of misunderstanding, potential embarrassment or ill feelings as a result.

Thanks.

Oh, and Stuart, it's "dawned" not "donned". You had that coming.

 

[RadialBladeworks]

Most people would be more worried about getting to the Hospital and having someone drive them up there once the got bleeding slowed down a bit not me I was more worried about my Suehiro G8 8K stone and my 2 Sigma power stones getting damaged from soaking to long as they are water stones.

Spoken like a true knife knut

 

[Bladegunner]

Wade, Glad your Ok. Been there and done that sliced my thumb thru the tendon had to have surgery to reconnect it. Luckily it works fine now. Wasn't sharpening but cutting open a box of plotter paper at work. Worst accident of the year happened in the office of a concrete and concrete cutting company.

 

[wade7575]

I won't take it personally I had problem's in school and never did well with stuff like grammar and spelling the funny is I can read big words that a lot of people I know who are very smart and struggle with big words but as the same time I have trouble spelling the out.

It's one of those thing's I try to break up sentence's because I know in the past I was even worse at making something one big paragraph I can understand how some people might find it hard to read something not done always the same as others but that's just the way it is with me.

Don't worry ad I'm not upset with you and if you ever do want to ask me anything about something new I'm trying feel free to ask me whatever you want to know I won't ignore you,I always like to try new thing's and different approach's that cost less and give the same result if not better at a cheaper price.

I just have to throw this out there to you Wade. I’m not bitching at you, or trying to get on your case, and certainly not trying to piss you off or make enemies with you. You can blow me off, flip me off, or you can even understand what I’m saying and where I’m coming from and take it as constructive criticism. I hope it’s the latter.

I’m certainly not a “grammar nazi”. Far from it. But I have to say it...your posts are always a series of the most “run on” run on sentences I’ve ever come across. So much so, I won’t read them. At all. I would like to, as I know you have good input when you post. I’ve trudged through your posts in the past enough to know you have valuable things to say. I assure you, there are others that will not even attempt to read posts written in such a format. And I do mean it....I won’t read them. They get “scanned” (if even that much) and I read the replies.

We live in a society where it seems that any criticism is taken as a personal attack, and that anyone who disagrees is to be retaliated against in a number of ways that, in reality, only belittle the recipient of the criticism.

Please take my comment as it is meant....as just trying to help you with your “presence” here and make your posts more readable. Sure, anyone speaking the English language can read, understand, and reply to run-on sentences. But it is MUCH easier (and pleasant) to do so when, at the very least, sentences are broken up. From the reader’s perspective, it is easy to just not say anything and let it go, but I felt compelled to bring it up. Again, I hope this comes across as help and not as an “attack”.

Thanks for understanding. Feel free to call me out for my own grammar errors. I’m positive my use of ellipses (...) was wrong!

It just donned on me English may not be your first language. If that’s the case, I’m REALLY, without doubt, very sorry.

 

[wade7575]

No tendon damage thankfully did you have health insurance,I mentioned before about my boss's wife and her family and friend's not having insurance from what others have told me can really high really fast.

I seen this video it is about a guy called Larry takes a type you don't smoke watch what happens to him,also to the Mods please understand I'm not posting this video for any other reason then I just found this video and found it amazing what happen's this guy and how fast it's got nothing to with me wanting everyone to become a hippie and smoke reefer this is just a heart warming video that really touched me.

Wade, Glad your Ok. Been there and done that sliced my thumb thru the tendon had to have surgery to reconnect it. Luckily it works fine now. Wasn't sharpening but cutting open a box of plotter paper at work. Worst accident of the year happened in the office of a concrete and concrete cutting company.

 

[Bladegunner]

Yes, I had insurance but since it happened it work it was covered by the company's workers comp insurance.

 

[jll346]

I wish you a speedy recovery. I myself was not so lucky. Mine was hand vs wood chipper and I lost!! Luckily I only lost one finger. This was 7 weeks ago. Most painful mistaken I have ever made.

-Jim

 

[ndmiller]

That's a nasty cut, heal quickly.

On the sharpness of the knife, it did stop at the bone, so clearly could have been sharper. Can not wait until someone invents a light saber myself.

 

[Alberta Ed]

Been there, got the stitch scars... . If the knife's properly sharp tho I don't usually notice until I see the blood ...

 

[wade7575]

Thankfully for you it did not turn out like a horror movie where would be Jim and all all going threw the wood chipper,that's a bitch that it even chewed the end of your finger off and left the bone sticking out there I bet it hurt.

For there was no pain at all until I got the hospital and got the freezing and even that was so easy it wasn't even funny the pain was so little from the needle I barely felt anything.

I'm truly glad your alright and it did not turn out worse for you,did they knock you out when they fixed you up or did they keep you awake,the reason I ask is because now in Canada at least they make you stay awake for knee replacement surgery and Hip as well,the reason being there is less pain and after the operation and they say you heal recover faster as well.

I can see with your finger you will the recover part maybe not but the pain I could see it,my mother has been under the knife so many times they will not knock her out unless they have to because if they knock you right out to many times it's possible you won't wake up,it's one of those deal's you only get some many chances,my mother has had bladder cancer and has had tool's stuck up place's I won't mention and had to stay awake so they could cut the cancer out and although they freeze you you still feel enough pain that you'll be bitching about it.

Hey Jim it's to bad you and Larry the Ex Cop aren't neighbor's you could have went over and seen if he would of let try some his pain meds when you got released from the hospital.

I wish you a speedy recovery. I myself was not so lucky. Mine was hand vs wood chipper and I lost!! Luckily I only lost one finger. This was 7 weeks ago. Most painful mistaken I have ever made.

-Jim