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Let's bitch about (finger) cuts for a minute..

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Gendry

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Damn, I know you've all experienced the same thing. You are sanding a sharp enough blade, or working with something, and either through pure accident, or negligence (I should know by now to pay more attention.) You end up putting a deep wound into your hand and putting your out of commission for a time.
I just had this happen 20 minutes ago, doing the final sanding on a knife so I could put my scales on and finish it, listening to music and getting distracted, suddenly I slip, and my finger kisses the edge above the nail and there is instant blood (never a good sign..), and a lot of it, from a small, deep, 1cm slit. Hit it with water and peroxide, wrapped it in ointment soaked paper towel and ductape and held it under my armpit for about 10 minutes, and I had to change my shirt, and the bandage, and wash my hand again because of the blood. It went in nice and sideways too, so it's a lot larger then it should be and will take more time to heal. Right now I am typing this with one hand, and it's taking forever, the bleeding stopped finally but I've been cut enough to know I won't finish that knife for a week at least if I want it to heal, pretty pissed.

I've been doing this for a couple years on and off and I've had some pretty bad one's, I'm curious about the one's you guy's have had.. How have they happened specifically so I know how to be safer, and how did it effect your work?
 
All I know is I use more superglue on cuts than anything else :). It works good.
 
I ended up cutting my self pretty good with a screwdriver yesterday while I was tightening a band clamp. I'm always the first to preach safety, but in my haste I held the clamp and screwdriver in the worst way possible. Of course the cold weather made it feel like it was nothing, until I saw the blood pouring off my finger... First thought was "I'm an idiot"

zhyla said:
All I know is I use more superglue on cuts than anything else :). It works good.
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This has definitely been my go-to, and was my response to my boss when he asked if I needed stitches. He looked at me like I was a nut job. I've even seen people in the rc hobby using kicker to set the glue faster to stop the bleeding. :p
 
1. Never hand sand, or do anything to a sharpened blade.
2. Always use a push stick at the bandsaw. My metal cutting bandsaw dug into my thumb twice within 2 months... I guess it takes me a while to learn my lesson.
 
I was cleaning my knives and a brand new ZDP Dragonfly fell off the tv table, and stuck in my big toe. :eek:
It hurt quite a lot longer than a normal cut. It bled pretty impressively for such a small puncture wound. I am much more careful now when I wear sandals and clean knives:o
Every time I looked at the Dragonfly, it made me cringe, so I gave it to my brother. I did warn him that it was a biter.
 
I wear my Rhino Finger Skins at all times in the shop.

They are just made of neoprene and wot stop a major puncture or slice but have saved me from many smaller cuts and stabs from sharpening, sanding etc on blades.

Its still best to remain focused, No Music or chatting with visitors and use push sticks and the like when possible.
 
Meh, part of the game. Gorilla tape and super glue are always nearby most of us. Aside from a freshly sharpened chisel when I was a kid (only a few stitches) I've been lucky enough that no cuts have put me out of action. Damn Micron belts suck, though, when slack sharpening. Ouch!

Mark
 
When hand sanding, i always make sure the tip and edge are just slightly shy of the sanding support. I got bit a few times, and this has stopped that issue. I never sand or work on a sharpened knife, but even a knife with an edge down at .010 pre sharpening will cut you when you hit the edge with force. My typical shop first aid is shop towels and electrical tape. The shop towels dont stick to the blood like paper towels, and the electrical tape allows some stretch and flew that duct tape doesnt.
 
I do work on sharpened knives occasionally if I have to but I'm pretty careful. That said, I have cut myself once or twice while hand sanding. The one that bit me a couple of days ago was a finished knife I made of 1084 and use in the kitchen. I was in a hurry and grabbed the knife by the handle but my pointer finger brushed the edge by the heel. I made a quick dash to the bathroom and slapped on a Bandage. Back in business.
 
I reached into a kitchen drawer a few days ago and somehow managed to raked my finger across a mandoline vegetable slicer and took half the nail and part of the tip off my index finger. Hurts like hell. Still don't know how I managed to do that. :confused:
 
12345678910 said:
Nut drivers are nice for those clamps
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Sad to say, but I'm lucky to even have access to a sub par screwdriver. Most of the tools in our service truck were stolen by an employee over time and no one seems to care, except me... Most frustrating part of my job. Hell, if I had the nut driver to tighten it in the first place it probably wouldn't have popped off! Definitely a case where I should have done a few things differently lol.

Justin
 
please, be careful using the superglue!! You have to be completely sure by washing very well the hands and flooding the wound with aboundant peroxyde...
The worst thing you can do it is to seal clostridia (go google it) into an oxygen free environment. The peroxyde will remove debris and kill bacteria, AND provide harsh conditions for oxygen-hater bacteria. Then glue or tape!
 
zhyla said:
All I know is I use more superglue on cuts than anything else :). It works good.
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Oooh . that's what I do. It has saved my parents hundreds of dotard in hospital fees. There was this one incident in 6th grade when I was carving a pumpkin with a fillet knife and I slipped. A few words mom didn't' know I had in me slipped out that night. We super glued the hell out of that thing and taped the finger to a popsicle stick. Agree that we couldn't find any place that could give me stitches so I was off the hook ;) fast forward two days-Im at outdoor school with all my classmates playing volleyball with one arm and catching salamanders too! That is right around the time I started getting into knives...

Aside from that, the worst injury I got was either nicking my right pointer finger on the edge of the belt sharpening a friends SOG tomahawk. Also when I sliced open my finger when I made a kydex sheath to tight and, when pulling it out, I caught my right pinky finger. That thing went DEEP but I hardly felt it because it was really sharp!
 
I just told them at the hospital that I cut myself on a knife. Didn't even bother to try and explain what a spinwack is.....
 
When you're hand sanding near the edge, wrap it around a big pink eraser. It will give you a soft backing and keep your fingers out of the way.
 
Count yourself lucky if all you have is a deep cut. We've seen people seriously injured by doing things like:
1) drilling holes in knife blanks without clamping down the work piece
2) having a blade flung into their body while buffing it (for that mirror shine... stained red)
3) telling their wives they bought another piece of equipment for the shop
 
Fell asleep 2 weeks ago with my benchmade contego on the side of my bed still open. When I woke, I sat up and slung my blanket off to the side, punching the tip of the knife basically which cut my middle extensor tendon. You know, the tendon that flips the birds.
 
Hengelo_77 said:
I just told them at the hospital that I cut myself on a knife. Didn't even bother to try and explain what a spinwack is.....
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My worse cut was......spinwhack or as I call it, Helicopter of Death. I caught my thumb pretty darn good in my haste on the drill press w/out proper securing of the blade. I mean after all, I only need to chase this hole out, right? I took off part of the thumb and part of the nail w/it. I left the blood stains on the floor and drill press stand as a reminder. Works too!
 
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