Knife Injuries

Miscue, I diced my index finger about 9 months ago, took out the extensor tendon on the top of my left index finger. After getting it stitched up, was off for seven weeks. The final doc visit, the doctor was telling an intern something about losing an index finger is the best one to lose. THAT caught ths kid's attention in a REAL big way!!!!!! When I asked, he said that it was true, but very quickly assured me that my precious little alternate trigger puller and knife grabber was going to be fine. I got a decent scar out of it and a spot that if it gets bumped, lets me know right away that I did it. I don't have any long term effects from it, other than the sensitivity, and very mild drooping of the first knuckle. To learn more, check out the stupid human tricks thread.Later, Jeff

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Anybody seen the bactine, please?!?!?!?

 
dang... while reading this article, I was flicking one of my tanto folders by the lanyard when it opened halfway and decided to fly backwards, stabbing my wrist in the process. I'm not sure if I severed any major artery, but there was only little blood, and the wound sealed up rather quickly. But I can't move my hand coz it hurts like hell, arrgghhh.... VERY STPUID move on my part..
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By the time I got out of high school, I had more scars on my left hand than any of the other students had on their whole body (I hold the knife in the right hand). Stitches only once and that was on the back of the first two fingers. I did lose control of a small neck knife when I was sharpening it on the belt sander and it hit my thigh and ruined a new pair of overalls (the leg healed and the overalls still have a hole in them). You play with fire, you get burned. You play with sharp tools, you get cut.

The muggee needs the automatic.
 
When I was younger I would help my granparents on their farm. One day I was putting away a trailer that was pulled by the tractor that would cut the grass.One part I didn't know was that the blades folded down when you lifted it up. When I was lifting it up I had my fingers between the little blades, but at the last minute I remembered my grandma saying something about it so I moved my fingers right before the blades came down. If I hadn't done that I would have lost all of my fingers. It scares the hell out of me as I think back about it.
 
Well, I thought I was going to get away with not telling this but my wife (The Knife-Widow) says that I must tell it as an abject lesson in paying attention to what you are doing.
I was sharpening a Muela Bowie (can't remember what the name was, but it had a 7" blade and was recurved) one day on my Lansky and not thinking I shifted my grip from the knife handle to the guides and after a couple of strokes somehow the knife came free from the clamp, bounced off the edge of the table and went point first into my right foot. Once again two things happened at once:1. I looked down and OOOOUUUCCCHHHH!!! THE KNIFE WAS STANDING STRAIGHT UP FIRMLY PLANTED IN MY FOOT! 2. The part of my mind that was not screaming was thinking "man I should not have sharpened that false edge that damned thing went in TOO easily!" Of course I bent down and pulled the knife out before the exclamation point was put on that statement!
End result? HEIGH-HO! HEIGH-HO! IT'S OFF TO THE ER WE GO! A couple of internal stitches and a few external stithes and I gimp-limped around for a couple of weeks eating pain pills for the first few days like they were jelly beans. The moral of the story? Complacency HURTS! Needles to say I stay focused on what I am doing when it comes to knives.
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I guess I'm lucky in that I haven't had to go to the ER or anything yet, but I've had a few knife cuts. Most are the superficial finger cuts that you don't really worry about.

One stands out though...I'm another member of the cut-while-whittling club. Guess what - dull SAK. I think they need to put a warning in with those things (or any knife, esp. non-locking)...if you let this get dull, you're asking to be cut. Oh well. It wasn't too bad or anything, looking back on it. Good lesson, though.

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Ryan Myering: Unnnng, trying to throw thoughts of SAK buried in back-side of knee out of my memory...

Josh Murray, Reminds me of a chair with a nifty folding foot-rest from my child hood...*OUCH*

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"All of our knives open with one hand, in case you're busy with the other"
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I ran my thumb across the blade of my cold steel R1 Military. The blade was stored facing up outside the sheath. I didn't see the blade, but I saw the sheath behind the knife and I did a half-brained attempt to reach for the sheath. Well let me tell you that blade bit strait into my thumb, and I had enough momentum to slide a few inches across the blade after that. It was not razor sharp, so it felt like fire mixed with salt and hot sauce. Well I can't stand disobediant knives, so I made an example of that one so that the others wouldn't try and do the same. I sold it.
 
Hi, two years ago while being on holiday in the South of France I was sharpening my Cold Steel Bushman one piece back to the basics knife. I use it as a kitchen knife and always use my Lansky 4 diamond sharpening set to give it a raisor sharp edge. Tomato's just fall into slices when they see the Bushman.
I just finished using the ultrafine diamond stone and was cleaning the blade of oil and loosened the clamp when the Bushman dropped from the clamp and fell to the ground between the camping table, my campingchair and my slightly opened legs. I did the most stupid thing I could do I tried catching the knife by closing my legs. I first didn't feel anything and I thought I mised the knife but when I bent forward to pick it up my right inner thigh just opened up and spilled some decent amount of blood. It was of to the French MD to get it fixed after putting some pressure bandage on it. Stitching in France for the big boys is without any anestetic so I rember the sessin well.
The must stupid thing was that when coming back to the campground I found that the edge had hit a stone on the ground and I had to resharpen the Bushman again.
In 4 days the Bushman will again go with me on vacation to... yes the South of France again.
Take care, Bagheera


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Put 2" of a knife blade I was working on in my gut. Cut numerous fingers to the bone.
Dave Ellis

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