It's true, dull knives are safer most of the time!

longtrang said:
i sharpened a friend’s knife at work. The next week he told me that it was too sharp and had to dull the knife with a file so he would stop cutting himself. The morel of the story is some people should not have sharp objects. Scary part is this guy carries a gun.
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A sharp knife is safer than a dull one, if handled properly. If some idiot doesn't know basic knife safety then that's their problem.
 
That's not the point here. One doesn't need to be an idiot to cut oneself. Haven't you ever cut yourself..?
 
Jeff Clark said:
When sitting in dish water a dull knife is safer.
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If somebody puts their knives in the dish washer they will be dull anyways by the time they take them out. If somebody puts their knives in the dish washer than they don't have the knife knowledge to own a sharp knife. YMMV.
 
Toyz said:
Very interesting perspective - however wouldn't it be a better idea to have sharp knives and sharp people??
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Does DMT have a model to sharpen people?
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Sharp blades are safer for those with intelligence, dull blades are safer for people who don't know how to hold and use a cutting tool.

The dull knife in my drawer isn't any safer than the sharp knife in my drawer, both are sitting there and inanimate.
 
Most of the time knives are not used at all, let alone used properly. So most of the time a dull knife is safer than a sharp one.
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If it is not used at all , how can a dull knife be safer , after all it is not being used. Just sitting there by it's lonesome , it can't be any more safe. ;)

Now the software ( end user ) is where the situation falls apart , remember , you can not make anything idiot proof , the idiots are getting smarter ( or is that dumber ? more ignorant ? lazy ? careless ? ).

People can figure out how to check their email , how to drive a car , how to use a cell phone , hell even how to drive while checking their email on their cell phone , if they can't figure out how to safely use a knife , then that is their darwin award for them to store.

Knife injuries happen from negligence or ignorance , some times both.

Don't blame the tool , blame the fool.
 
This is an interesting way of thinking about it.

I think the OP is implying that most knife accidents don't occur when the knife is in use -that most accidents occur when someone was not aware of a knife being present.

It is interesting, Hmmmmm...
 
It's funny, but I've been thinking about this exact topic for the last half-hour or so, after sharpening my brand new Ruana 20B from "sharp" to "scary."

I prefer to keep my knives hair-popping sharp, and think they truly are safer in use when they're as sharp as you can get them.

However, how many of us can honestly say that we've never cut ourselves with our razor-sharp knives? Paying attention or not, sooner or later you're going to have an "oops" moment, and a dull knife can easily save you a cut - and maybe even a few stitches - over a sharp one.

And y'all can quit being so smug now. Everybody cuts themselves.
 
Longtrang said:
I sharpened a friend’s knife at work. The next week he told me that it was too sharp and had to dull the knife with a file so he would stop cutting himself. The morel of the story is some people should not have sharp objects. Scary part is this guy carries a gun.
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It's alright, the gun isn't loaded. He's also scared of getting in a car accident, so it sits in the driveway without any gas in the tank.
 
stoffi said:
That's not the point here. One doesn't need to be an idiot to cut oneself. Haven't you ever cut yourself..?
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Yeah I have, but I've never needed stitches and every time I get cut it's because I wasn't paying attention and wasn't using proper safety. In those cases I would consider myself an idiot. I hate people that get scared because a knife is sharp, it's like they don't want to even handle a sharp knife. I know I'm not the only one that was taught about properly handling sharp objects, or was I?
 
AKnife said:
Yeah I have, but I've never needed stitches and every time I get cut it's because I wasn't paying attention and wasn't using proper safety. In those cases I would consider myself an idiot. I hate people that get scared because a knife is sharp, it's like they don't want to even handle a sharp knife. I know I'm not the only one that was taught about properly handling sharp objects, or was I?
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In close to 60 years of being around sharp knives, I've ended up in the ER for stitches exactly twice. Pretty good odds, I'd say. But sooner or later, it will happen, no matter how careful you are. It's just the law of averages.

When you're sitting there being stitched up, remember me. :)
 
Tell me this , you guys that like dull knives , why the heck you bother spending decent money on a knife then ? That is like buying a vette' and removing 1/2 the plug wires.

A dull knife safer than a sharp knife ...please.
 
Samael said:
In close to 60 years of being around sharp knives, I've ended up in the ER for stitches exactly twice. Pretty good odds, I'd say. But sooner or later, it will happen, no matter how careful you are. It's just the law of averages.

When you're sitting there being stitched up, remember me. :)
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Yeah I'm sure there'll be a time, but I've been lucky so far. Closest I came to needing stitches was when I sliced open my thumb with a broken microscope slide in a biology lab, got a nice scar from that one.

The point I'm trying to get across is that everyone has idiotic moments. Those that disagree, keep telling yourselves you're not an idiot when you cut yourself with a sharp knife. It happens to the best of us, but lose the pride. If you cut yourself with a sharp knife you weren't being smart (i.e. an idiot).
 
Samael said:
In close to 60 years of being around sharp knives, I've ended up in the ER for stitches exactly twice.
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I've only had stitches once (but I'm only 42) and that was from glass - we should ban glass, it's too dangerous.

I kinda agree that a blunt knife could be safer - but it isn't much good when you need to cut something.
 
AKnife said:
Yeah I'm sure there'll be a time, but I've been lucky so far. Closest I came to needing stitches was when I sliced open my thumb with a broken microscope slide in a biology lab, got a nice scar from that one.

The point I'm trying to get across is that everyone has idiotic moments. Those that disagree, keep telling yourselves you're not an idiot when you cut yourself with a sharp knife. It happens to the best of us, but lose the pride. If you cut yourself with a sharp knife you weren't being smart (i.e. an idiot).
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This is what I love about this forum. Sounds like we're in complete agreement, just saying it different ways.
 
I'm going to have to strongly disagree with those that prefer being cut with a dull knife.
All of my cuts have been skin deep nicks, and one incident where the dull knife skinned the tip off of my finger as I was trying to sharpen it. Thus, if all of those cuts had been made with a highly polished .005" thick edge, I wouldn't have felt half of them, and the rest would have healed twice as fast.
Sharper is better.:p
 
The rule is, if YOU are always sharper than the knife, you'll never have a problem.

If you gotta have a dull knife to do that..................
 
DULL people shouldn't have SHARP knives...and SHARP people shouldn't have DULL knives.
 
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