Knife donts. Hard lessons learned stories.

[spykez]

Treat them like guns and you'll be right, I reckon!

 

[Capolan]

I was 17 and stupid. I was laying on my bed, flipping a gerber Mark II. I threw it up a bit too hard, and it over-rotated and rather than letting it cut my fingers, I just let it land on me...in my chest. I pulled it out, and as blood ran through my fingers, i went down the hall to the bathroom. Keeping pressure on it, I ripped off a bunch of toilet paper, folded it into a thick square and slapped it onto my chest, and put pressure back on. I then went back to my room - grabbed some military grade duct tape (the 100 mile an hour stuff, I worked at a surplus store at the time), tore off a piece with my teeth, and slapped it over the makeshift gauze pad. I left it on there for like a solid month, checking it occasionally. I've got an interesting scar now to the left of my heart.

lesson learned...don't be a moron.

 

[Gman66707]

Thanks for this thread. As a newbie it makes me release I need to be a lot more careful.

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[Bill1170]

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.

Yep, learned the same lesson a different way. Had my knife out doing some detail work shaving down some base trim in a tight corner. Left it open on the floor, too close to my work zone and sliced my finger while pulling back from the corner.

 

[SCWillson]

Don't leave an unsheathed kiridashi in your recliner.

Sat down on my Jeff Tate kiridashi, and it went into my butt about ¾" about 2" from the crease. (How do I know how deep? That's how far up the blade tip the blood was.) Bled like a stuck pig, no stitches needed, but I went through nearly a whole roll of paper towels before the bleeding stopped. Made sitting a challenge for several weeks. (In retrospect, I should have gone to the hospital, but I was too embarrassed.)