it happened again !!!

These are the same people that when warned that something really smells bad, immediately breathe deeply through their nose...:confused:
 
When I display my knives at gun shows I always put bandaids accross the front of the table. It only slows down the occasions , it still doesn't stop it entirely!!!
 
It dosen't happen to newbies only. I had a booth for selling knives at the mule deer foudation show in 2000. An older gentleman came to my table of knives and picked up a 6" buffalo hunter. As I told him it was sharp I watched him run his thumb down the blade. I quickly asked if he was ok and offered him a bandage. He snapped back that he was ok. As he walked away I saw blood drops on the floor and out the door. So it's not always newbies that feel that sting.
 
Well, he might have been an "older gentleman" but I would bet that he was/still is a newbie to knives. I did it once when I was about 10 years old. A nice cut in the palm of my hand. Don't ask what I was thinking, because I obviously wasn’t, but needless to say, my sister that was watching (OK, maybe I was showing off) at the time was (and sometimes still is on occasion) very impressed with my intelligence.
 
Originally posted by logan5
Well, he might have been an "older gentleman" but I would bet that he was/still is a newbie to knives. I did it once when I was about 10 years old. A nice cut in the palm of my hand. Don't ask what I was thinking, because I obviously wasn’t, but needless to say, my sister that was watching (OK, maybe I was showing off) at the time was (and sometimes still is on occasion) very impressed with my intelligence.
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my brother ran a knife across his hand, we were just sitting down and he was looking at a knife and he said if i pay him $5 he'll run it across his hand and i said no cause it was sharp but he assumed it was blunt, he did it then went off cause it done a shallow but painful cut (across the whole length of his hand). should have seen him when some vinegar he was using got onto his hand, OUCH. i think all of us at one stage were silly enough to get cut by a blade, my brother sure learnt his lesson and me i learnt mine when i picked my grand dads old bowie up by the blade (i was young, about 8 :p). so all of us are noobies to knives at one stage of life, but some learn quiker than others. ;)
 
Most people love their kitchen knives when their brand new, but then they hate them because they go dull... so then you get these phucking POS "mircale blade perfection series" coming out for phucking idiots to lazy to stroke the knife about 5 times on a 20º angle on a stick the came with the set they had before! My mother was completely ignorant about knives and thought anyone carrying or owning a sharp knife (hell in 21 years she only bought 4!) is nuts (same with guns), luckily my dad was the exact opposite. (perhaps thats one of the reasons they had such severe martial (no-one was hit or killed) problems when I hit adolescence).
 
I hear ya! Knives aren't the only things that Wal-mart employees don't know jack about. :barf: Funny thing is that 20 years ago, I used to work at Wal-mart. I knew weapons back then though. But I had a kid at Wal-mart pull the trigger on a pistol several times while it was pointed at me. I immediately told him that if he pointed that gun at me one more time I was going to shove it up his a**. :mad: He replied, it isn't loaded! Can you believe the ignorance??!! Oh well, just keep your guard up and keep whatever weapons you are carrying to yourself......till you need them! :)
 
Well, we've heard plenty of the same kinda stories now, and I've had plenty of people cut themselves on my knives, but just for a change of pace, let's hear the other side of the coin.

How many of you have ever examined someone else's knife and been warned, "Careful there, it's razor sharp", only to find the thing dull as a friggin' butter knife? I've had my fair share of this. Even plenty of scoldings when I was younger (8-12 years old). I finally got fed up after one guy chewed me out at a gun show for examining the edge of one of his knives, (I was NOT dragging it across my flesh or anything, and it was embarrassingly dull) and decided to start showing them that a 10 year old knew far more about sharpening than they did.
 
Yup...had it that way too! :D :D Everybody uses their finger, but someone with a bit of experience knows not to use too much pressure or else you will be a blood donor.
 
Hm I find that the tips of my fingers are bad judges of sharpness and bleed before I can really feel the sharpness. Instead, I use the side of my index finger against the edge. I've yet to be cut and I'd be suprised to find a slice of my index on the floor oneday, but I guess I'm not stupid enough to apply too much pressure
 
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