Knives That Have "Bit" You?

I havent had major cuts from knives but...

I always seem to get minor cuts very often from knives... and I have no idea how I got the cut!
 
Well a ceramic plate broke in my hand once and gashed my thumb. It was an old plate I must of put it into the sink with too much force if thats possible. Other than than just minor pokes by my Zt 095 and an Emerson Socfk I once had. My Busse AK-47 got the calf of my right leg with a small poke when I was trying to practice swing it once .
 
Leo3an said:
I havent had major cuts from knives but...

I always seem to get minor cuts very often from knives... and I have no idea how I got the cut!
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Yeah more often I feel the sting from something getting into a cut I didn't know I had nor how/when I got it.
 
I've got bit twice from some new kitchen knives I recently purchased, scary sharp Japanese Sashimi and the Nikiri both bit me. That chisel grind wants to cut following the grind angle and bit the tip of my pointing finger (sliced an ever so thin tiny bit of skin off the tip while slicing up a roast, just enough to bleed ) and then got my thumb bit by the nikiri slicing an onion just in front of the nail. Super glue took care of both "wounds".
 
I've been bitten a few times but one that stands out in my mind is a buck bantam model. I got it scary sharp and stropped it to a razor edge. I was opening and closing it repeatedly and absent mindedly. I opened it once too often. My thumb slipped off the stud and slid right up the edge of the blade. It was so sharp that I didn't feel it at first and it didn't start bleeding right away. Once it startied it didn't want to stop. Being on blood thinners didn't help. It was sore as hell for a week.
We need to get bitten once in while to keep us from getting too complacent.
 
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I've been "bit" several times, 3 times required stitches. The worst was a XM-18 adjusting the pivot and feeling for play, lock didn't engage fully and closed up on my knuckle pretty bad. Lessons learned each time, the wife furious with me each time as well, :confused:.
 
The only one that has gotten me is an Esee/BRK Avispa, and it wasn't that bad. It required a little super glue and I was good to go.
 
20 years ago a SAK snapped closed on the lower outside of my pinky, that one was almost to the bone. That was probably the worst one I ever got. Healed up pretty good though but took a while on that one, can't even see the scar anymore.
 
Just about every one if you count minor nicks, usually resulting from not paying attention to closing the blade.

By far my worse knife injuries have come from utility knives and kitchen knives. The worst part about slicing off the corner of your fingertip while chopping garlic is that it's almost impossible to distinguish the lost bit from the garlic slivers!
 
Christmas Eve 2004, 11:30 PM, Spyderco Bob Lum titanium tanto, 6 stitches, base of left hand index finger to the second knuckle.
Went to the bone, er dr wouldn't buy the fact that it was a pocket knife, until I showed it to him.
Cutting the anti theft ink device that in her haste the clerk at the mal didn't take off, got it off without breaking the ink but got a bit of blood on my wife's new jeans, and the ceiling.
Christmas day spent on Vicodin and red wine, one of the better ones that I can remember.
 
I cut myself making blades all the time, so much that it's just a minor nuisance at this point. But the one on the left, the G.U.R. (giant utility razor), sent me to the hospital after laying open my hand deeply to the bone, between the thumb and index finger. I got VERY lucky there was no permanent damage, and no longer make blades that don't have a handle. :D

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Endura ZDP just bit me last night. I was impressed at how clean the cut was and how little pressure it took. It's officially mine now. :D
 
I have only had one serious cut and strangely enough it was a very small and cheap keychain knife. It was attached to the keychain and I had just slit open a bag of oranges in the kitchen and wasn't thinking and just put it in my pocket while it was still open. I went to sit down and it went into the side of my thigh near the hip. It made a pretty good puncture wound and went in all the way. The blade was small but it hurt pretty good and it hit the side of my bone near the ball joint in the pelvis . I went to the urgent care it was bleeding profusely and I couldn't stop it and was worried about infection from the puncture. They don't seal up puncture wound so no stitches and nothing critical was sliced. They just used anti coagulants to help stop bleeding and bandaged it up, and a tetanus shot. But it hurt like the dickens for a few days. The only times I really get cut is when flipping my balisongs. Have never had any serious cuts but drawing blood is just part of the process of spinning knives around. And I tape up the blades most of the time when doing serious flipping with aerials etc...
 
The knife that bit me the most is my 0452, I have big hands/thumb and it seems like there is a sweet spot when and where to unlock the blade so it goes past the lockbar but still has the flipper tab land on my thumb so I can move my thumb out of the way before the blade falls shut. It didn't always work and more than once I had the finger guillotine hit my thumb. The worst was a SAK or a Pruning Folder, don't recall, but it snapped shut on my left index finger and cut quite deep, enough that I needed stitches when I was a kid. Not a knife, but street signs are very sharp too if you hit them at the right angle, almost severed my left pinky. You know, just in case anybody wants to make some thin slicers out of street signs of something o_O:D
 
Twice. Well, twice pretty bad. One was a CRKT Japanese-ish blade that had assisted opening and really closed with a snap. Closing it it caught me pretty good.

The other time was a knife that was made to open as you pull it out our pocket, so it was made to be tip up/blade facing the roomy part of the pocket. I was rummaging around in there while walking the dog and was like "Damn" and was pretty far from home so had to finish the walk bleeding pretty good.

I own neither one of those knives anymore.
 
I've never had any serious cuts, but quite a few little nicks or slices that drew blood...

The one that gets me the most, particularly in view of the fact that I don't use it all that much, is my Yojimbo 2. That sucker is blood thirsty!
 
jceckrosh said:
Twice. Well, twice pretty bad. One was a CRKT Japanese-ish blade that had assisted opening and really closed with a snap. Closing it it caught me pretty good.

The other time was a knife that was made to open as you pull it out our pocket, so it was made to be tip up/blade facing the roomy part of the pocket. I was rummaging around in there while walking the dog and was like "Damn" and was pretty far from home so had to finish the walk bleeding pretty good.

I own neither one of those knives anymore.
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Yeah I did that with my Spyderco Dragonfly with a cable tie mod. I was cutting something and put it back in my pocket on the far left of the right pocket. I went to grab something else in my pocket and one finger pressed on the cable tie, opening it in time to go straight into my index finger:eek:
 
Kershaw Leek partly open in my pocket, sliced my finger almost to the bone when I reached for it, resulted in 3 stitches. I don't carry it, or any assisted knives for that matter, since, and never will again. Too bad, because I otherwise loved the look, feel and slicing ability(when it wasn't used on my own body parts) of the Leek, I just developed a profound hatred for assisted actions.
 
Other than knicks and scratches I have one that just hurts to think about.

I was in Iraq and my roommate had opened a package from his wife and set his Benchmade Griptilian on my bed. I sat down and got it right in the upper leg.

The worst part was after I got stitches, I kept ripping the stitches out and it got infected. It Took an eternity to heal.
 
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