Knife handling wisdom and advice

"If it's not in your hand, it's back in your sheath / pocket".

This is one that I use to remind myself to not set a knife down with the idea that I will pick it right back up, which doesn't always happen as planned. No more leaving a knife out assuming I will continue working. I just sheath it or clip it back on my pocket, where I know it will be when I need it next.
 
cnm123 said:
and this +++++
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Surprisingly this one came to me from my mom, of course not these exact words but still a surprisingly smart knife related lesson coming from someone who's not the brightest bulb on the strand sometimes :D

When I was a kid I had acquired a Schrade 34OT that my mom's boyfriend at the time suggested was too sharp and should be dulled some so I wouldn't cut myself, and my mom's reply was that a dull knife was more dangerous and a clean cut from a sharp knife would heal faster.
 
slyraven said:
Post here wise sayings and advice for handling knives. Getting stuck or sliced happens to the best of us, and maybe we can save some fingers here. Plus, I am not the best so I could definitely use some sound advice to use and pass on to generations to come.

The biggest one I remember is: Never catch a falling knife if you drop it. Obviously, you may catch the blade and cut yer fingers off. I cringe just thinking about it.


Please feel free to add.
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"Always juggle your knives near children and puppies."

"If god wanted you to keep your knife in a sheath he wouldn't have made your neighbor's cat."

"Always catch a falling knife. Your hands are magic and heal themselves. A cut lasts a week; a broken tip lasts forever."
 
Crimson Cloud said:
"If it's not in your hand, it's back in your sheath / pocket".

This is one that I use to remind myself to not set a knife down with the idea that I will pick it right back up, which doesn't always happen as planned. No more leaving a knife out assuming I will continue working. I just sheath it or clip it back on my pocket, where I know it will be when I need it next.
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This is why earlier this evening I realized my Leatherman is currently sitting above a ceiling tile sixty miles away.
 
sailfish said:
This is why earlier this evening I realized my Leatherman is currently sitting above a ceiling tile sixty miles away.
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Damn, man. I certainly couldn't hit the 'like' button, so I'll just say directly that I feel for your situation, and hope it's not a loss.
 
I was sitting on a woodstump trying to carve something out of small branch I just chopped.
The knife I was using was Recon Tanto. I just added some pressure and slid my blade, it suddenly went through the branch, and has caught edge of my pants next to my knee and gave my pants a cut.

I learned 2 things that day:
1. Always pay attention on what's behind the thing you're trying to cut.
2. Recon Tanto is a really poor choice for carving, or I just suck at carving that much (possibly both)
 
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sailfish said:
This is why earlier this evening I realized my Leatherman is currently sitting above a ceiling tile sixty miles away.
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I hit like because I got a good laugh remembering all the tools and knives (sunglasses, too) I left on roofs, cabin tops, benches, treestumps... I rode back many miles sometimes to retrieve them and sometimes just accepted the loss. That made someone's lucky day, for sure. On the roof ? You can be rather assured it is still waiting for you.
 
Never play card with a man named after a city, or a woman with a knife tattoo.


Treat every knife like it's loaded. Never point a knife at anything you don't want to kill.... wait.
 
herisson said:
I hit like because I got a good laugh remembering all the tools and knives (sunglasses, too) I left on roofs, cabin tops, benches, treestumps... I rode back many miles sometimes to retrieve them and sometimes just accepted the loss. That made someone's lucky day, for sure. On the roof ? You can be rather assured it is still waiting for you.
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Wouldn't be the first time I've done it. But I've been lucky that they're places I return to almost immediately after realizing they're gone. Fortunate enough too that I still haven't dropped anything down between the studs when working above ceilings yet. I'd never get that back.
 
Smiling said:
I was sitting on a woodstump trying to carve something out of small branch I just chopped.
The knife I was using was Recon Tanto. I just added some pressure and slid my blade, it suddenly went through the branch, and has caught edge of my pants next to my knee and gave my pants a cut.

I learned 2 things that day:
1. Always pay attention on what's behind the thing you're trying to cut.
2. Recon Tanto is a really poor choice for carving, or I just suck at carving that much (possibly both)
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I learned this lesson the day I accidentally cut into a brand new custom made heat exchanger with a sawzall. The cut was shallow enough and in a location that the day was still saved but that was probably a $2k part with a month-long wait time and another thousand bucks and a day with a crane to get another one up there. So I just consider myself lucky and gotten away with a lesson learned.
 
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