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I pulled in a nice largemouth bass, and figured i would have me some fried bass that night. I went to dispatch the bass and put it out of its misery quick with my kabar fighting knife. My plan was to cut through the head and sever the spine. I stab the kabar right through the head of the bass and right through my thumb. didn't even feel it enter my thumb... alot of stitches. *Moral of the story know where your knife is at all times. Especially when cutting.*
What mistakes have you made?
 
I was once forcing a patina on an old Colonial Lock Back in Carbon Steel. I was doing so with mustard. I had sharpened the blade up before doing this because when I got it the edge was a little funky.
So I cleaned it up and then put mustard on the blade to force a nice blue/grey patina on it. I let it sit for a while and then came back to wipe the mustard off. As I was scrubbing the mustard off I noticed the beautiful blue/grey patina on it and was like "awesome".
While doing this I must have stopped focusing for a moment and my hand slid. The blade cut deep into my right index finger and it bled like crazy. I wrapped a paper towel around it and finished cleaning the mustard off the blade.
I didn't go to the doctor right away but when I did they glued it closed, put a splint on it, and wrapped it up. It looked like a semi-cast just for a cut on the tip of my index finger.

Moral of that story - Don't lose focus, even for a second.
 
My biggest mistake was handling knives with a light, fingertip grip. I know a lot of knife collectors tend to do it also since most of the time we don't want to palm-grip the knife like a caveman.

Dropped the knife, bounced off a low table in front of me, into my left shin. Had to get 17 stitches - 9 inside and 8 outside. Lesson learned - always a firm grip.
 
I was about 7 and wanted to figure out what was inside a battery that gave it its magical power,so I thought I better cut it open and see.Well I slipped cut the crap out of my hand.I learned two things that day,one I guess I have to cut my whole hand off before my mom takes me to the hospital,two who gives a crap what is inside a battery!
 
I was about 7 when I took a couple of nice chunks out of and welded a couple of nice beads on an Old Timer blade when I decided to see what happened when I put the blade across the tines on a power outlet...nice light show, too. Otherwise, as BladeChick777 said, I've learned that losing focus can have embarassing and sometimes painful results.
 
It's not with a knife, but a saw...

Was building a target stand one morning before the range, so I was in a bit of a hurry... I had flip flops, and was sawing straight down. Well, I looked up at the neighbor's dog who came by. I said something to the effect of "hey buddy", then I heard the piece of wood I was sawing fall, and felt a dull pain... looked down, and I had a nice little hole in the nail on my big toe, with blood just pouring out. It looked pretty sweet...

Lessons learned:
1) Don't saw things with flip flops
2) Know where the blade is at all times
 
Don't leave knives around that you don't want people to touch because non-knife people may do stupid things with them.

I wasn't at my place once and a roommates friend tried using my benchmite to unscrew a door off its hinges because there was no screwdriver and they needed a beer pong table. I ended up coming home to a 1mm chip taken out of the edge and had to grind it out myself. On the bright side it was only a benchmite.

I use to leave my kitchen knife I like, as anyone else would, in the kitchen; I later decided to keep it in my room. A housemate of mine can be a bit clumsy sometimes and he leaves the handle hanging off the counter resulting in two drops. Had to fix a blunted edge twice on it.
 
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