Injuring yourself with a knife - was it SHARP or DULL?

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Raining

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I just sliced my finger on a machete by accidentally grazing the razor sharp edge - sometimes I forget how sharp I make them! :eek:

You've heard it said that a sharp knife is safer than a dull one.

In my years of using knives, I have never been injured by a dull knife. There were times I've slipped while cutting something, only to think "whew, if that knife was sharper, I could have seriously hurt myself!"

Have you injured yourself with a dull knife?
 
Cut my toe with a GSO.
Six days ago (at 2:30 a.m. with no shoes on) I was sitting down getting ready to put on a second set of orange G10 scales I had received that day.
The GSO 4.1 slipped out of my hand straight downward.. either the tip or the belly hit my toe.... started bleed'in like a stuck Pig.
About a ½ inch long cut.
I'm on a daily 81 mg aspirin regimen, so it didn't clott quickly and I had no Celox on hand.
I had to put a piece of gauze on tightly with Gorilla tape.
Guy Seiferd at Survive knives makes a dam sharp knife!

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Six days later June 26th...

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The last time I cut myself it was a razor sharp griptilian...the time before that it was a dull kitchen knife. Dull or sharp, they both hurt;)
 
Dull or sharp, I have done it with both, and sometimes while sharpening a large knife.

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I've cut myself twice while cleaning a razor sharp knife. Never cut myself with a dull blade before. Next time I'm polishing the blade, I'm wearing gloves!
 
Not a dull one, but I had a scapel waaaaaaay past razor sharp edge on a super thinned out Microtech Socom.

I barely tapped it on the spine against the carpet, and it stuck into my knuckle bone. Just missed the tendon. That's been 15 years ago. Haven't cut myself since.
 
9blades said:
The last time I cut myself it was a razor sharp griptilian...the time before that it was a dull kitchen knife. Dull or sharp, they both hurt;)
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Please explain how you cut yourself with a dull kitchen knife. :confused:
 
I've cut myself with both dull and sharp knives.
I can understand where the old saying comes from , because with the dull knife, I was using it to cut cardboard and I slipped.

But the last serious cut was with a sharp knife, it was more of a stab wound than a slice.
 
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I think the saying was refering to the unpredictability of dull edges, but i always heard that rusty knives are more dangerous than clean,
 
Raining said:
Please explain how you cut yourself with a dull kitchen knife. :confused:
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The simple answer is stupidity:o I'm perfectly capable of using a kitchen knife with proper technique, but I guess I just wasn't thinking one morning. I was dicing some potatoes, while cutting one in half I held one side with my thumb and the other with my forefinger making an arch. Basically when I went to cut it in half the blade went to one side and caught my finger *sigh* I know, I know...
 
I did the exact same thing with the Ontario Military Machete that came in last week. It was dull, so I took my Lansky Puck to it. Didn't realize how sharp it was till it split my finger open. :eek:

Every time I have cut myself (and particularly deep cuts), it's been with a razor sharp blade.
 
I've only ever cut myself with sharp knives. The most recent were with a Bradley Kimura. I zigged when I should've zagged. Bled like a stuck hog. Not a big cut but I just missed the tendon in my index finger. My wife would've killed me for a hospital bill- she was mad enough at all the blood on the couch.

The next was a BRKT STS-8. Taking some scratches out of the blade and slipped. Took a nice dime sized divot out of the side of my right ring finger. Still have a little pot hole there.
 
I can't remember ever being cut by a dull knife.
I have been cut by a sharp blade plenty of times.
 
I rarely cut myself with a dull knife, but I suppose I rarely cut myself in general. When I do though, it's usually an accidental graze of my knuckle with a kitchen knife. I keep all of my knives absolutely as sharp as possible, including my kitchen knives. I cook professionally and as such, I use a knife a lot, and often VERY quickly. When fast chopping something like a large onion, where you need to bring the blade quite high off the cutting board to get through the product, you can come awfully close to your knuckles at times (keep in mind that proper vegetable chopping and slicing technique keeps your knuckles in contact with the side of the blade at all times which act as a guide for your cuts). In reality though, there are only two ways to cut yourself with a kitchen knife, improper technique (which would include improper sharpening in my mind), and lack of attention. For me it's usually a distraction that causes me to look up and BAM. Do it right and pay attention and you'll never cut yourself.
 
I've cut myself a bunch of times by accident, both dull and sharp.
One time was a dull serrated steak knife, it still cut a good long clean cut into my thigh, only a flesh wound luckily. Didn't hurt very much until after the stitches.
One with a sharp knife was my Spyderco Centofante 3, cut my left hand knuckle when sharpening somehow, didn't notice it until noticeable amount of blood was in my sink when I went to wash my hands.
 
I have cut myself on sharp and dull blades. The dull blades hurt more and they take a little longer to heal, in my experience.
 
I will say that the worst cut I ever inflicted on myself was with a Spyderco Ambitious that was razor sharp. I knew I had cut my index finger, but the interesting thing about it was that there was never any pain at all, even though it went almost all the way to the bone. What hurt was when they gave me the nerve block in the ER before they put the stitches in.
 
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