I got bit

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Exercising my new police 3 my left hand pinkie got involved.Small but deep...copious blood!

I don't know about you guys but I have found in the past such injuries foreshadow a special connection between the blade and it's owner.
I have never had such a blade fail me.Let me know if my pagan roots are showing or if this has been your experience too!

Thank goodness it's not my right hand thumb!!!

At any rate..blood sacrifice accepted!!
 
With the bias towards closure on that model you're lucky it didn't get chopped off!
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I recently bought a ZT 801 and an 0562 the I have gotten more cuts in the last week than I have in the last 5 years. It always happens on closing if I forget to get my thumbnail up against the flipper and then the blade drops on my knuckle right on that hinge point so I get to relive it all day long. Its like that joke Bill Cosby use to use when he was driving and hit the wiper leaver by mistake and then to remind you would hear that sound dumbguy, dumbguy, dumbguy ...
 
Haha, health fast. Similar incident for me recently. Dropped a new xm flipping it and put 3 stitches in my leg.
 
I don't find knife bites funny at all. I used to work precision manufacturing using scalpels. There were days when each of my fingers had a band aid on it and some had two.

When Leathermans first came out, I asked to look at it at a hardware store. I knew the concept was going to be a winner. But as soon as I opened the blade, i saw my blood dripping on the counter. Ended up buying the knife out of embarrassment.
 
I got a good bite from my first knife when I was a kid, 20 something years ago. Didn't get another real one until 4 months ago. Testing the lockup on a framelock (fingers well clear of the path of the blade), the lock failed unexpectedly, jerking the knife in my hands.
Very nearly took the pad of one finger off and left a nice deep cut on my other hand near the thumb. I test lockup differently now...

Sure didn't feel any connection to that knife!

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I've been bit more times than I can remember. But the main ones are seared into my brain. One was when I was being an idiot opening a clamshell package in reverse grip and had put my left hand in the path of the blade when the plastic gave way more suddenly then I had expected.....deep gash right on the outside of my thumb knuckle. Took forever to heal because I couldn't immobilize it fully.

Another that I remember all too vividly was when I had first gotten my kerambit and was playing with it absentmindedly like an idiot. I extended it out, then flipped it back, but I had shifted my arm in the mean time so when it came back it drove itself into my wrist. Thankfully it didn't cut any tendons or puncture any blood vessels, but it still bled profusely for hours and really sucked.
 
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spketch said:
I got a good bite from my first knife when I was a kid, 20 something years ago. Didn't get another real one until 4 months ago. Testing the lockup on a framelock (fingers well clear of the path of the blade), the lock failed unexpectedly, jerking the knife in my hands.
Very nearly took the pad of one finger off and left a nice deep cut on my other hand near the thumb. I test lockup differently now...

Sure didn't feel any connection to that knife!

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That is horrible!I am sorry that happened to you.
 
I make it a point to remain afraid of my knives. Scared of them. Especially my karambits.

The whole house has to shut down when I dice an onion.

So far it's worked.
 
Krissig12 said:
........Another that I remember all too vividly was when I had first gotten my kerambit and was playing with it absentmindedly like an idiot. I extended it out, then flipped it back, but I had shifted my arm in the mean time so when it came back it drove itself into my wrist. Thankfully it didn't cut any tendons or puncture any blood vessels, but it still bled profusely for hours and really sucked.
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Things are dangerous, man.... :o
 
cistercian said:
I don't know about you guys but I have found in the past such injuries foreshadow a special connection between the blade and it's owner.
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I have a rule, that if I get bit by a blade in the store, I will buy it. It becomes more of a reminder of respect when I'm handling a knife that I have not become familiar with yet.

My worst bite was with my CRKT Tiny Tighe Breaker years ago. I wasn't paying attention to the path of my cutting direction when cutting a zip tie, and stabbed the tip of the blade an inch deep into the thumb/forefinger webbing of my other hand. It cut so clean, that when I jerked the blade out, it took a good few seconds for the blood to start flowing. I think one of my friends was in more shock than I was.:o
 
nuttinbuttknives said:
I have a rule, that if I get bit by a blade in the store, I will buy it. It becomes more of a reminder of respect when I'm handling a knife that I have not become familiar with yet.

My worst bite was with my CRKT Tiny Tighe Breaker years ago. I wasn't paying attention to the path of my cutting direction when cutting a zip tie, and stabbed the tip of the blade an inch deep into the thumb/forefinger webbing of my other hand. It cut so clean, that when I jerked the blade out, it took a good few seconds for the blood to start flowing. I think one of my friends was in more shock than I was.:o
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Classic....My first knife purchase was a bucklite.It bit me so I bought it.It served well for many years...and never bit me after!
 
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