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My favorite knife related accident

Joe Houser

Joe Houser

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In another thread I was stressing the importance of wearing safety glasses while working on knives and it got me to thinking that it might be interesting to share some of our favorite knife accidents. I know a lot of guys/gals work on knives and am interested in boo boos you got while working on a knife.

My story is a good example as to why wearing glasses is important.
I was trying to dismantle an old model 102 from the early 1960's. Its a bear trying to remove the pommel rivet from a knife like that. I was using a hammer and a good solid punch in an attempt to drive the rivet out. Usually when I do this sort of thing, I miss the punch and hit my fingers. The harder the swing of the hammer, the more likely it is that I will miss the punch. It just works out that way for me. :rolleyes:
Well I was not getting anywhere with light smacks and decided to risk a smashed finger and really hit that punch hard. I swung and actually hit the punch but it immediately became obvious that something was not right.
The punch was not in my hand anymore and I noticed a small speck of blood on the pinky of my left hand, the one holding the punch.
I know I missed my finger with the hammer so why was it bleeding? I looked at the punch and the end of it was chipped.
Upon closer examination of my pinky I noticed another small speck of blood on the other side.
That punch had chipped and the chip went all the way through the end of my finger! In one side and out the other. Not a major injury by any means but it got me to thinking, what if that was my eye??!! :eek:
Needless to say I use saftey glasses all the time now. :thumbup:
 
OUCH!!! :eek:

Wearing safety glasses is always good advice Joe. :thumbup:

As I was growing up and in my formative years my father worked as a machinist. I spent many hours watching as he removed metal slivers from his hands. But he swore by his safety glasses and fortunately never took one in the eye.

During a short stint as a carpenter I saw a guy get a bad eye injury when the head of his bargain basement hammer shattered.

The lesson is wear safety glasses and buy hi quality tools. Like BUCK knives. ;)
 
High Quality tools - thats a good keyword:

Once upon a time there was a chrismas tree. A fine tree, but one limb was broken. No problem i thought, took my pocket knife, planed the tree trunk, pointed the limb and tryed to grave a hole for the limb in the trunk with my knife. The knife had no lock and I think you know what happens. A clumsy motion from me and the knife shuts, first stopped by the bone of my forefinger. It was a sharp knife. I bleeded like a wounded pig. Since then I never used a lockless folding knife (it hurts when i think about that).

Two Month later a Piano fell on the same finger (you read right), now it is a quarter inch shorter than before.

Thanks for reading,
Haebbie
 
I have a friend who forges and builds handmade knives,he always wears safety glasses,and one time while grinding a blade it was chipped,the piece went right for his eye,and being hot it actually melted into the safety glasses.

When he showed me that pair of safety glasses,i almost crapped myself.
 
As a retired shop teacher, I'll second the safety glasses idea and add this little tidbit. I have a display of knives, mostly pocket knives 301's, 110's and 112's on a knee high book shelf, and displayed with the blades exposed. The advice part of this response is always wear shoes. I was fondling my knives the other night, with just socks on, and droped a 301, all three blades exposed, and of course, razor sharp right on my foot. I hate it when that happens.

Jack
 
MikeSEA said:
OUCH!!! :eek:

Wearing safety glasses is always good advice Joe. :thumbup:

As I was growing up and in my formative years my father worked as a machinist. I spent many hours watching as he removed metal slivers from his hands. But he swore by his safety glasses and fortunately never took one in the eye.

During a short stint as a carpenter I saw a guy get a bad eye injury when the head of his bargain basement hammer shattered.

The lesson is wear safety glasses and buy hi quality tools. Like BUCK knives. ;)
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Not a knife accident, but reading about that shattered hammer made me remember about many years ago when a claw hammer head (integerally forged steel handle) broke off while I was using it. The broken off hammer head flew up and struck me on the cheek claws first directly beneath my right eye. Eight stitches and 45 minutes while the surgeon at the emergency room picked bone fragments out of the hole in my face. That did NOT feel good at all! :D It's really gross to feel that pick and needle moving through your facial skin, even though it's deadened by anesthesia. :barf: Scared the crap out of me, if it had landed a half inch higher I would not have a right eye now.
 
Favorite knife related accident??? Everytime I step into my shop, I'm an accident waiting to happen. I wear a face shield now, marked by shattered drill bits and broken dremel cutting disks. Countess knives have cut and torn away skin at the buffers, which I consider the most dangerous tool in my shop. I wear leather boots and apron when forging, after a billet sprang off the anvil and branded my boot. I keep 2 fire extinguishers on hand after I tried to use an aluminum roasting tray to quench an 18" Bowie. The knife hit the quench, burst into flames,I dropped knife and tongs, the knife slit the side of the aluminum tray and flaming lava splattered onto the shop floor. Almost every sheath I make gets stopped by blood oozing from a finger. If you own a knife....at some point in time you will bleed.
 
Joe a favorite???

OUCH!! None are favorites for me!! But, once I used my factory new Buck 442 as a screw driver,
(I was too lazy to go in the basement and get a real screwdriver)

The blade folded up on my index finger... Luckily the bone stopped it from cutting any deeper :D

Now I only use my knives for cutting, (not chopping, batoning, driving screws or prying) :D Great learning lesson!!!
 
:cool: ...Besides the usual "blood-letting" on various parts of the body:eek: , that seems to be a requirement of owning sharp things, I've discovered that a 1/2 horsepower buffer can launch :rolleyes: a 442 drop point blade into 1/2 inch drywall just about to the pivot hole when one gets a bit nonchalant about the correct usage of said power tool...That would explain the presence of 3 inch styrofoam behind and below said buffer from that day forward...:o ...There are safety glasses all around for myself and anyone silly enough to want to watch me "tinker" as well...:D :o
 
Well when I about 12 outside doing yard work with my pop I decided to take my large non-locking fold and knock out a few knot holes from our fence. Well the blade folded on my finger. My pop just asked what were you thinking???? Then he said that’s going to need a few stitches. The top end of that finger was numb for years.

That’s my knot head story
 
When I was a young kid I thought I could throw a knife. So being exceptionally stupid I went into my back garden with one of my brothers throwers. All was well it was going into the tree in our garden. Then I tried the fence... BIG MISTAKE. The knife bounced off the fence and then hit me just below the knee. I was only about 12. That hurt.
 
Maverick4546 said:
When I was a young kid I thought I could throw a knife. So being exceptionally stupid I went into my back garden with one of my brothers throwers. All was well it was going into the tree in our garden. Then I tried the fence... BIG MISTAKE. The knife bounced off the fence and then hit me just below the knee. I was only about 12. That hurt.
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Now I understand the "why" of the tough knife laws over there Mav :D
 
I don't really have a knife injury that I can remember...(I have lots of knife scars, but none of them were accidents)... :(

But in 5th grade, I was flirting with a cute little raven-haired beauty named "Tina", when she jammed a #2 pencil into my palm...the lead (well, I suppose it was really graphite) was still there up until about 10 years ago... :o

Don't know where it went... :confused:
 
Buckaholic said:
Now I understand the "why" of the tough knife laws over there Mav :D
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Hey!

I was YOUNG and STUPID!

Now things have changed a fair bit...

I am OLD and VERY STUPID! :D

Ya know I still remember my Mums face when she saw the knife sticking out of my leg...
 
chickentrax said:
But in 5th grade, I was flirting with a cute little raven-haired beauty named "Tina", when she jammed a #2 pencil into my palm...the lead (well, I suppose it was really graphite) was still there up until about 10 years ago... :o
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I sense a common theme! I too had a pencil related encounter (read "assault with intent to cause pain") with a cute little brunette in school. My own experience occured the first day of seventh grade. I was sitting in front of the perpetrator and for some reason, she chose to stab me in the back with her pencil. I've never actually seen the actual wound, but I sure felt it for quite a while.

She grew up to be an MD. And to have a magnificent set of hindquarters, which she still retains at the age of 41.
 
Thank You, DarrylS!!!
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