Knife donts. Hard lessons learned stories.

Eliteone2383

Eliteone2383

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I first learned never cut toward yourself when I was 10. My dad used to work for the treasury as a engineer. He took alot of business trips. Long story short he brought me back a swiss army knife from Switzerland. About a week later I was in the front yard cutting on a stick and was trying to cut through a knot in the wood. To get more leverage I faced the blade toward myself and bared down on the knife. It slipped around that knot and sliced into my index finger on my left hand. Filleted the knuckle and could lift the skin to reveal the bone. 10 stitches and a ass chewing by my dad taught me to never cut toward myself. Scar is still a reminder lol
 
Ouch!
I learned to always to pick up after myself. Back in 2000, I had bought my first high quality knife (Spyderco Police model) and had used it to repair a hose on my car. Maintenance complete, I proceeded to close the hood and take my car for a test drive. 10 minutes into the drive, I remember that I had placed the knife on my radiator. Of course it was not there when I pull over to check.
Costly mistake that I have definitely learned from.
 
Tip-up carry + loose gym shorts + knife with weak detent + shove your hand into pocket to get keys = slice open your thumb big time
 
Was working on rebranding a store and removing a decal from a gas pump. Used my knife to start peeling it up and started pulling the decal off with my left hand and it slipped off the decal when it did my thumb hit the open knife still in my right hand. 4 stitches and learned to close the knife when done with it.
 
Eliteone2383 said:
I first learned never cut toward yourself when I was 10. My dad used to work for the treasury as a engineer. He took alot of business trips. Long story short he brought me back a swiss army knife from Switzerland. About a week later I was in the front yard cutting on a stick and was trying to cut through a knot in the wood. To get more leverage I faced the blade toward myself and bared down on the knife. It slipped around that knot and sliced into my index finger on my left hand. Filleted the knuckle and could lift the skin to reveal the bone. 10 stitches and a ass chewing by my dad taught me to never cut toward myself. Scar is still a reminder lol
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Luckily, my father told me this before I did it.

*A dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp knife.
 
Don't set an open knife down, especially if working on something and your mind is elsewhere. Especially don't set an open knife in your lap, without shoes on, when you might stand up to get something. The cut wasn't too bad though it was deep enough that if it was longer it would have needed stitches.

Also, don't set a kitchen knife on anything but a flat counter top. I set one down and the handle was propped up on some food packaging. That then started to slowly shift from the weight of the knife and the knife then slid and was close enough to the edge to fall off. I assume because I was looking at what I was cooking and heard it but couldn't look fast enough. As soon as I felt it I knew that I was going to the ER and bent over to hold my foot together. Luckily my wife was home because I don't do too good with the worse cuts and a tendon was severed which made putting any weight on my foot painful but even more so a very strange and bizarre nervy feeling.

Also, don't get in a fist fight with a person that is a chicken sh*t and will cut somebody in the head from behind. At least he was a slicer and not a stabber.

I'm sure I will think of more later.
 
Don't try to turn small screws on your car stereo with a decent folder. Broke the tip off both a Buck 110 and Puma 470 doing this.

Yeah, twice, what an idiot. Mind you this was about 37 years ago :)
 
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

raw
 
Dont try to whittle with your non-dominant hand.

You're going to go try now arent you. :D

Dont act out the psycho knife movie scene on someone with a fishing filet knife (or any knife). For some reason they tend to grab the blade. Found that out the hard way in high school. The guy nearly lost 4 fingers.
 
KBA said:
Dont try to whittle with your non-dominant hand.

You're going to go try now arent you. :D

Dont act out the psycho knife movie scene on someone with a fishing filet knife (or any knife). For some reason they tend to grab the blade. Found that out the hard way in high school. The guy nearly lost 4 fingers.
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Charges pressed? That is a unfortunate circumstance.
 
FlaMtnBkr said:
Also, don't get in a fist fight with a person that is a chicken sh*t and will cut somebody in the head from behind. At least he was a slicer and not a stabber.
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shoulda pulled your Glock and shot the knife out of his hand...starting at his shoulder and working on down the arm.. :)
An A-H like that really needs to be taught a life-lesson.
 
Eliteone2383 said:
Charges pressed? That is a unfortunate circumstance.
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No we were freshmen in high school and it was 3 a days football hell week. For some reason we thought we would have time to fish. We brought our stuff and I was showing him my 10 inch Finland style filet knife and he asked to see it. He started doing the Psycho scene unsheathed and it freaked me out. Ticked off I returned the favor. He freaked and grabbed the blade. It cut like butter nearly straight through all four fingers, blood started gushing everywhere. It really started shooting before he even knew he was cut.

He was rushed to ER and had them sown back on well enough that he stuck out hell week. I must say he hit me harder that week. :D Good grief that was 22yrs ago
 
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Always carry dual fixed blades when working on or around machinery.

My grandfather always had a fixed blade on his hip when working on or around machinery. What he was taught growing up, and what he had taught me at that time. (I was 10 years old then.)

August 1965, we were tuning up the combine in preparation for maize harvesting season. His shirt sleeve unrolled enough to get caught in one of the chains/gears. He pulled his Kabar 1232 from his belt sheath, sliced his sleeve off and said -

"That's why you carry a fixed blade - you can never get a folder open in time in a situation like that."

"Popo, what if it had been your other arm?"

Brief pause....

Turns off tractor and says "Let's go."

We drove the 3 miles into town to the Western Auto store, where he bought a Western L46-5, the closest thing they had in stock to a 1232. A couple of weeks later, after WA got more 1232s in stock, he got a second 1232 and then gave me the Western saying

"If you're smart enough to come up with that question, you're old enough to have a fixed blade."

Since then I have carried paired fixed blade except when legally prohibited from packing fixed blades (elementary and high school, college, AD in the Navy, college again, and a corporate job). During those periods, I still carried a folder in each front pocket. Back then, the PTB didn't care about political correctness. Students and teachers carried pocket knives to school. And we had rifles and shotguns on the gun racks in our pickup windows. (Well, I had a Ford Galaxy 500, so I had to mount mine in the turtle.:D:o:D) For the corporate job, my fixed blades were riding on my EMS duty belt. The ONLY times I don't have paired fixed blades now is trips to the court house, police stations and schools. Still have the sheaths on, I just pull the blades and leave them in my vehicle.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Always carry dual fixed blades when working on or around machinery.

My grandfather always had a fixed blade on his hip when working on or around machinery. What he was taught growing up, and what he had taught me at that time. (I was 10 years old then.)

August 1965, we were tuning up the combine in preparation for maize harvesting season. His shirt sleeve unrolled enough to get caught in one of the chains/gears. He pulled his Kabar 1232 from his belt sheath, sliced his sleeve off and said -

"That's why you carry a fixed blade - you can never get a folder open in time in a situation like that."

"Popo, what if it had been your other arm?"

Brief pause....

Turns off tractor and says "Let's go."

We drove the 3 miles into town to the Western Auto store, where he bought a Western L46-5, the closest thing they had in stock to a 1232. A couple of weeks later, after WA got more 1232s in stock, he got a second 1232 and then gave me the Western saying

"If you're smart enough to come up with that question, you're old enough to have a fixed blade."

Since then I have carried paired fixed blade except when legally prohibited from packing fixed blades (elementary and high school, college, AD in the Navy, college again, and a corporate job). During those periods, I still carried a folder in each front pocket. Back then, the PTB didn't care about political correctness. Students and teachers carried pocket knives to school. And we had rifles and shotguns on the gun racks in our pickup windows. (Well, I had a Ford Galaxy 500, so I had to mount mine in the turtle.:D:o:D) For the corporate job, my fixed blades were riding on my EMS duty belt. The ONLY times I don't have paired fixed blades now is trips to the court house, police stations and schools. Still have the sheaths on, I just pull the blades and leave them in my vehicle.
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Thats a great story man. I wish I grew up in those times. I missed out by about 20 years :(
 
Don't use a $200 folder with delicate bearings to stir baked beans coking over a grill at a tailgate. My flipper has never been the same no matter how much I take it apart and clean it.

That and don't carve pumpkins with serrated steak-knives they make non-skin-cutty tools for that.
 
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