injuries?

Not exactly hurt. But a secret handshake was proposed for the Khuk Khonvention and then dropped when it was pointed out to just count the bandaids instead.

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I have a large lump in the end of my index finger from where my AK took a pretty good slice. I wrote a little report about it two weeks ago or there abouts. It was a BAD cut. Not life threatening but it was a pain-you wouldn't realize how much you can miss an index finger. I have gotten all sorts of cuts from sharpening the things-they're no big deal though-slap on a band aid and you're fine.

When I was twelve I used a Swiss Army knife to open up a fire cracker for some reason-who knows why. Well the little Swiss opened up the firecracker with ease it also opened up my thumb.

I stabbed myself in the ear with my Emerson Commander-I thought that was a riot. Nothing really beyond that in the way of knife injuries on my part.

Matthew

Give me a minute and I'm sure I'll stab myself or drop the knife and cut off a toe.
 
Hmmm I dont have too many...almost tripped and imapled myself on an enfield sporting a blade type bayonet...had my cold steel kukri slip once,caught it on the blade right before the sharpened part begins,a couple more inches my palm would have been seriously sliced open.I shouldnt mention the tree that almost fell on me when i was testign out my new HI kukri hehe
 
Not yet, but I've been lucky. I know that there have been people who have cut themselves badly by just taking out the khukuri of the scabbard. There is a thread dedicated to preventing that from happening called "The Yes and No of Unsheathing a Khukuri."

Christian
 
I take that back. I did cut myself once, and that was when I was playing with my 20" Sirupati. I lost control of it and it fell on my hand. Luckily it fell on my hand near the bolster. The sharp part of the cho is what got me as it stabbed me. I never thought that I would have to be careful of the cho. It reminded me real fast that these things are not toys, but serious weapons.

 
Thats why i started this thread,i asked in that thread if Mr Bill had any horror stories of unsheathing accidents,but i guess everyone thought it was a bttt post so ignored it
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Christian, that is exactly how I cut myslef-drawing the knife from the scabbard.

Matthew

Watch those fingers!

 
I haven't personally, but after reading an article in Saturdays paper on hand transplants- "Hand transplants make gains, but are they worth the risk?" by Susan Okie of the "Washington Post" I feel the future looks brighter for many more than may care to admit it.

Peace
 
There's a common belief, now thoroughly debunked, that the Ghorkha must never resheath his knife without giving it a taste of blood, hence the practice of nicking oneself deliberately whenever the knife is drawn for a more mundane purpose.
Now that I own khukuris, I understand a bit better where this belief originated. I think that the khukhuri user must get a lot of little nicks from his knife without meaning to.
The khuk has a LOT of edge, and lacks the 'axial balance' of a straight-bladed weapon. It is not as 'natural' in the hands. So it's easy to let it get away from you. I don't believe that even a lifetime of familiarity will overcome this natural tendency to turn and bite. I can count on the fingers of one hand the times I've cut myself while honing or using other knives (and I've still got all of those fingers after 55 years of being a knife knut) but I've nicked myself on my khuks over and over again. Little nicks...and working hard to keep it that way...

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Anybody who uses knives is going to get cut sooner or later and probably several times. I lost count long ago but I'm happy to say no major damage done ever -- just a lot of nasty little cuts.

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