I need some honest answers...

I had it happen to me when I was a kid. It was my fault. I was making a corn cob pipe, and drilling a hole in the cob, with the blade. It closed, and came down through my thumb nail. It bled a bit, didn't feel particularly good, but I never told anyone because I didn't want to lose my knife. It did leave a lasting memory, though (hence this story). I learned my lesson, and never held it against the knife.:o

I could imagine it possible when field dressing a deer, if you weren't careful.

After reading this thread, it seems that like many "improvements" made through the years, the new technology (in this case the locking blade, which made some knives a bit "safer" to use), ends up handicapping a segment of the population, as they become mentally lazy in their application of the original, simple concept/tool. I guess, if we give them another generation or so, these dopes will have completely forgotten how to use sharp implements:rolleyes:.
 
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Hey - what's a kid doing with a corn cob pipe!;)

For those who tend to learn things the hard way, I guess solid half-stops might give you a second chance . . .
 
I get bit every once in a while if I have a knife I haven't carried or gotten used to. I have a habit of closing them one handed and I don't get my pinkie finger out of the way in time or my thumbs too far in then I just blame it on my stupidity.Every once in a while to setting one up for a shot of it.
 
All right... each and every one of you who has just admitted to doing something stupid and cutting yourselves: HAND OVER YOUR TOTE N' CHIP CARDS!;):D
 
Hey - what's a kid doing with a corn cob pipe!;)
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That does sound kinda bad, doesn't it. Don't remember every actually trying to smoke anything in one. Just a bored country boy, with nothing else to do, I guess.

Edit: Yeah, after reading the last line of the above, now that I think about it, I'm surprised I didn't get into more trouble making those pipes.:D
 
Mongo said:
All right... each and every one of you who has just admitted to doing something stupid and cutting yourselves: HAND OVER YOUR TOTE N' CHIP CARDS!;):D
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Not me. You'll have to pry it out of my cold dead(and cut up bloody) fingers!. :p :D
 
I received a Rough Rider whittler recently and poked my finger on the 'proud' main blade while I had one of the smaller whittling blades open. It was so sharp I didn't even think it had broken the skin until I felt my fingers sticking together from the blood running across my knuckles. The Dremel is coming out this morning and I'll grind the kick down to get that pesky tip down inside the handle. It was my typing finger too. Ouch!
 
I hand a military issue jack-knife with the can opener, blade and that damn flat screwdriver that bit me all the time. Get a screw driver. I finally stopped carrying the knife because I'd use that screwdriver and get bit. Just could resist it.
 
I have carried a knife for 70 years or so. Cut myself many times. Played mumblypeg at school, etc. Never had a slip joint knife close on me--but like a couple of others, have had lockback knives cut me when closing with one hand--and opening with one hand.

When I started giving my boys knives, I included a box of bandages. :))
 
Once. Just once.

I was eight. I learned real quick. Cut myself a bunch of times after that, but only once closing a knife on myself.

And I still mostly carry slippies.

Jackknife, one of my cubs did that at den meeting a couple of months back. His dad is my assistant den leader, though, so it wasn't such a big deal explaining it. Instead, all the boys got to watch a live first aid demonstration, complete with blood. :D
 
I seem to recall several small cuts from a slipjoint when I was fairly young. It wasn't bad any of those times, and I don't quite recall the circumstances.

I closed the wood saw on my SAK on my finger once. Nothing I didn't deserve, though. It was just enough to leave some pinpricks.
 
I recall distinctly a time when my slipjoint closed on my first finger. I was in boy scouts and I was whittling off the small branches for a hiking stick. After getting all of the branches off the main stick, I began to carve away the nubs. I remember hitting one particularly dense one, twisted the knife and it folded across my first finger. It was luckily still stuck in the wood so I only got a mild cut, but it taught me to use the knife with a bit more care. I think I was working fast and not deliberately and the knife wasn't as sharp as it could've been. It happens. We're all human and prone to screwing up now and again. It didn't make me swear off slipjoints. It just made me a bit more secretive about my nicks and cuts so my mom didn't throw a fit and confiscate all my knives.
 
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I hand a military issue jack-knife with the can opener, blade and that damn flat screwdriver that bit me all the time. Get a screw driver. I finally stopped carrying the knife because I'd use that screwdriver and get bit. Just could resist it.
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I never thought about that with those electrician's knives with the screwdriver blades. Even if it has a lock that works okay, you've still got a screwdriver with a sharpened shank :eek:.
 
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