Knife donts. Hard lessons learned stories.

When cleaning your knives, always wipe the sponge down the blade, not up and down or side to side. Learnt that the hard way.

People don't believe you about how sharp your knife is. Until they cut themselves with it.

Slow down when one hand closing a liner/frame lock. Let the blade flop down slowly rather than swing down. Cause your finger might still be there.
 
Have too many beers, give your knife to someone to check out, go play darts, go home and wake up at 5AM remembering you never got your knife back. Call your buddy and he tells you he put it on the table where your beer was sitting. Proceed to have angst for several days after and randomly forever.
 
Hi havent learned this lesson, but always lubricate your knives with food safe lubricants, you never know when youre gonna cut some food, carry a sak and your edc, when asked for your knife hand them your sak
 
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Hi havent learned this lesson, but always lubricate your knives with food safe lubricants, you never know when youre gonna cut some food, carry a sak and your edc, when asked for your knife hand them your sak
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Pffft. I've eaten worse things that WD-40!
 
Don't stab random (presumed to be empty) cardboard boxes. I went out to the garage to break down some boxes aka play with my new knife. I had put them out there after we moved and never did anything with them.

I saw my first victim sitting innocently on an eye level shelf, unaware of what was to become of his frail, cardboard body. I stabbed, dead center with about 50% force. To my surprise, my two day old zero tolerance 0562cf barely penetrated the box.

Turns out my wife put soup and canned vegetables in said boxes. Tip instantly blunted. Lesson learned. We had green beans with dinner that night.

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When using a Spyderco SharpMaker.

Never sharpen and BS while not looking where your blade is going..

A Benchmade 740 Dejavoo gets very sharp.

6 stitches later on top of hand holding the SM base.

I didn't have the brass guards anymore because I used them to braze a hole on my Harleys tank
 
Never stab a hard object without a guard. Made that mistake and ended up with a severe laceration on the underside of my pinky. Tendons severed and bone chipped. Took about 3 months to heal, and still, 10 years later, can't straighten it out completely.
 
Pumpkin guts are slippery. Slippery + sharp = blood.

I was 10 years old when I first learned the real world consequences of this seemingly trivial equation. It was reinforced when I was 11. I still have both mounds of scar tissue some 45 years later; I also have periodic high levels of pain in the pad of my thumb where I did this. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I was "supervised" by an adult - the same adult - both times it happened.
 
Don't sharpen your knives when you've been drinking. You'd think that would be pretty obvious but that's when I always get my urges. Don't ask.
 
I was replacing the front shocks in my Honda Passport and the socket that I needed had the plastic insert broken off inside of it (harbor freight style with the plastic inside with the sockets hanging). I was tired and frustrated and just needed the damn socket. I know in my soul prying with a knife is dangerous. Pride with the serrated blade of a leatherman wave. My thumb bled like a faucet and there was a trail of blood from the garage leading to the inside of the bathroom, my wife thought I was murdered.

I did successfully replace the shocks.
 
Don't pry with the knife tip. Only ruined one knife doing this. Keep it around to remind me.
 
I was checking the retention of a custom sheath. I sat down and shook it around over my couch so that if the blade fell out it wouldnt be damaged by any hard surface underneath....well that back fired....the knife came out and the pommel hit the couch and the knife bounced straight back up and stabbed me in the wrist. It left a fairly deep wound and I still have a scar from it but i'm lucky it didnt cut a major vein.
 
I'm sure don't try to catch a dropped knife has been covered. But this applies to other things as well. Of course a gun. But also screwdrivers, cut my hand pretty bad trying to catch a screwdriver.
 
1. Never cut towards yourself.
I was cutting through some tough knots of cord; the blade about 12 inches from my face. I pulled as hard as I could until the blade slipped right through the cord. The tip of the knife stopped about 2 inches from my eye.

2. When cutting through boxes or whatever, keep your thumb out of the way.
I used a Sebenza freshly sharpened by CRK to slice through some boxes. I thought 'This is really sharp.' A second later, the edge went into my thumb almost slicing off the tip. Surprised I didn't see bone that time.

3. You're not a chef, don't rapidly cut food as if you are one.
Slicing through some veggies with a serrated knife (Endura, I believe) and going way to fast. I dragged about half of the serrations, while pressing down, over my thumb before the pain hit. I ate out that night.

4. When you stab something, make sure you have your thumb secure on the butt of the handle.
More than once I did not have a secure grip and my finger skipped off the handle and slid over the sharp edge.

5. When flipping butterflies, pay attention.
While flipping and watching TV, I forgot a move and the Spyderfly blade slapped my knuckles. I thought it was fine until about ten minutes later when I felt the blood flowing down my fingers.

6. When a knife drops, move.
I left an opened blade on a table. I moved the table to clean under it and the blade fell, point first into the side of a calf. It stuck for a few seconds, then rotated about 180 degrees on the sharp edge side and plopped onto the floor. I never thought someone had that much blood in their calves. The bleeding stopped an hour later.
 
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