Leave your benchstones on the bench, or why I'm out of the shop for a week

Matt Shade

Matt Shade

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Another gore story for you guys :D No pictures yet as I'm not allowed to take the bandage off.
I was sharpening a 9" chefs knife for my mom(LC Germain or something like that, nice knives now that I've put micarta handles on them)on a spyderco white ceramic bench stone. Like a jackass I was holding the stone in my left hand like I do for small knives and carving tools. Wasn't paying much attention either when I felt a bump on the first knuckle of my left middle finger. Looked down.....:eek: ....double take.... :eek: ....
The top of my knuckle is GONE!
I took a peice a little larger than a dime clean off of my finger. Grabbed the chunk and stuck it back on and then wrapped the whole mess in a wad of paper towels, wouldn't quit bleeding and my mom started getting upset so I got someone to give me a ride to an urgent care center. (I was more interested trying supergue like the rest of you knuts)
Still bleeding an hour later in the waiting room, they gave me a handful of gauze.
Finally go back to get worked on and the nurse takes the towels away and chucks them in the trash "your definitely missing a peice"...Nope, it was in that towel but you wouln't have been able to do much anyway."Ok" she says and digs it out of trash and proceeds to stick it to a notepad on her clipboard.
So now Im really wondering about this, no way in hell am I letting them try put a peice of my finger back on thats been in the trash with God only knows what else:barf:. It would have to be the whole damn finger for that and then I'd think twice ;)
Doctor looks at it and says throw it away, thankfully. Washed the cut with Betadine which was the most painful part of the whole ordeal, gave me a tetanus shot and sent me home with it wrapped up in a splint which I'm supposedto wear until it heals.

So I guess this is a good recommendation for spyderco bench stones, and not the best review of the urgent care facility.....

Anyhow, be careful ya bastids. What with flesh eating dip buckets, cannibal grinding belts,and jackass sharpening stunts We're (means ME) not off to a very good start for the year :o
 
Matt, sure hope the finger stops throbbing and feeling better soon. As soon as I say this I'll most likly hurt myself but does seem to me the younger I was the more often I'd hurt myself that I needed some help getting put back together again. Seems to me the last time I was 47, 10 years ago. I guess I was still a kid then... :D
 
C@@L Matt
take that thing off and take some pictures :eek: :)
you could have had your mom do it :)

I need to start a (opps I did it again) site for
us kunife maker :)

Matt's Butt cap hahahaha :D
 
That's no fun! Stitches make for more interesting scar patterns. Hope it heals well and fast! Glue that stone to a board to big to hold in your hand, maybe that'd help.
CRex
 
Matt,

Hope you heal fast. My local ER was dawdle-central when I sliced open my leg.

In case you're still wondering about what could have been, you wouldn't have been given superglue. Don't know about knifemakers, but doctors don't put adhesives on joints. Had you sliced open the back of your hand, you could get that glued up, but not your knuckle.
 
Liquid band-aid my friend. Forget the applicator, just squirt it on. :D
 
Thanks guys
Surprisingly it doesn't hurt at all. What that means I don't know. I can still move it ok, least as much as is possible with the splint and it felt cold last night when I was out feeding the horses so I don't think I messed up any nerves.
I have to get pictures of a knife for a guy sometime this weekend so I'll try to get picures of the wound too, that will mean flipping all of you the bird though :p
Hard to tell what kind of scar I'll have, its such a clean cut.Stitches usually make for a better one.

Wish I had thought of saving the chunk, its probably still stuck on that nurse's clipboard like a peice of gum. Would have made for a nice inlay or something. Maybe inlays to a sheath for a miniature bowie. Any of you sheath makers interested in doing a little project for me ? ;) :barf:

That was my first trip to the emergency room in about 6 years, so I was about due for a tetanus shot anyhow. Probably easier than going to my regular doctor who I've never even met and would probably want to do all kinds of stupid tests and wellness checks first.

Well thats enough typing with one hand for now. Have to write a 6 page essy for a history exam monday morning, that will be fun. I don't understand the question, so it will probably be a little short anyhow. Maybe a paragraph or two tops :D
 
Originally posted by peter nap
Get it back quick. You can stabilize it and make a really neat butt cap for a B&T!:D :D :D :D :D :D
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Lord! That was good! Hey, I am really sorry about your injury, and hope you heal really quick. you have been initiated,Grasshopper. We knife makers give blood and sweat for our endeavors,unfortunately.That hadda hurt! How is it this morning?
 
Opps. Get well soon. I never hold a stone when sharpening... for reasons that are painfully obvious! You can buy a hard rubber adjustable stone holder that keeps the stone from slipping around on the bench. Go to http://www.feinewerkzeuge.de/hilf.htm and scroll down the page, you'll see the tool I mean.

Look on the bright side: you wont make that mistake again!!!
 
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