My knife cut people (a little story).

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Hair

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I work in a warehouse, so a lot of the guys there carry and use knives. But I am by far the person most interested in knives and one of the very few that *ALWAYS* has a knife on them. So when people need a knife, they often ask me.

I was sitting at my desk today doing the paperwork (the desk is in the warehouse itself), and a co-worker came up to ask if he could use my knife to cut out a picture from one of the ad inserts we were feeding into the newspaper. He wanted to tape it on someone's locker as a joke. I said "sure" and handed him my Buck 110.

Now, the Buck 110 isn't a super high-end knife, but most of the people there carry swap-meet-quality knives, so a real Buck is a "really good knife" to most of them. And I used to only carry swap-meet-quality knives, so that is what he was expecting me to hand him.

He was impressed by how it looked and ran his thumb up the blade. I guess he did it with the same amount of force he normally uses on cheapo knives, because it cut him. "Whoa! That thing is sharp". He proceeded to cut out the picture, exacto-knife-style, while keeping pressure on his thumb with the index finger on the same hand. His eyes got very big at how easily the knife cut out the picture.

When he gave the knife back I cleaned it off a bit on my shirt. Just before I put it back in the sheath, another co-worker walked up and asked about it.
"is that your new knife?" "no, I've had it for a little while, but it's pretty new."

I handed it to him, and he opened and closed it. Well, almost. As it closed he made some sort of mistake (I don't know exactly what) because the blade hit a finger on his left hand (while holding the handle with the right). Blood gushed out and he went to get a band-aid.

The first time one of my knives has ever drawn the blood of another*, and it happens twice in one day.

*Actually, the only time one of my knives has ever drawn my blood was the same Buck 110 a few days before.

It is a very sadistic knife!
 
You cleaned it off with your shirt?

Hmmmm, a coworker just cut himself with your knife and you clean it with your shirt, isn't that a little dangerous.

If someone other then myself would cut himself with my knife i would be rather carefull with it due to possible unknown bloodborn pathogens.

I would rinse it with water and disinfect it.

And i would never use my shirt to clean it?:confused:
 
I used hydrogen peroxide once I got home. I see no danger in cleaning it with my shirt since my shirt gets throughly dirty every day at work, and then changed and washed once I get home. I don't make a habit of licking my shirt or rubbing it against open wounds, so I don't think it will be a problem.

I understand the concern. I have OCD and wash my hands more times in a day than most people do in a week. Not an exaggeration. But if you use a knife to skin a deer, do you run home and clean it? I even have trouble touching doorknobs and lightswitches in public and in my own house. But a germ in China can't hurt me, nor can one on the inside of my sleeve.

Also, I think I made it sound like I wiped blood off of the blade. There was no blood on the blade after either cut. I know that doesn't mean there was no contamination, but don't get the idea that I wiped someone's blood on my shirt. I just wipe off my knives after every use- to get any remaining material or mosture off of the blade and handle, such as cardboard lint or hand sweat.
 
I just wipe off my knives after every use- to get any remaining material or mosture off of the blade and handle, such as cardboard lint or hand sweat.
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I do the same thing myself, I strop the blade on my shirtsleeve or pants leg after I use it.

I don't loan my knives to just anybody, though! :)
 
:thumbup:

Gotta love those bloodthirsty knives!

(typing with a quarter-inch deep gouge in my right thumb, and a down-to-the-flesh gash on my left pinky - hey, it happens...:D)
 
When I was about twelve, I talked my parents into getting me a Buck 110 at JC Penneys (this was in the early 1970s when they were all the rage, and I think at that time they cost more than they do now).

Anyway, I had been carrying a knife all day, every day since I was five, and had a couple of cigar boxes full of junk ones. I rarely cut myself, so it was with some degree of embarrassment when I was looking it over at the counter, with my mom standing RIGHT THERE, and the blade slammed shut on my finger! I tried to be nonchalant about it and pretend that nothing happened, but a couple of drops of red, wet stuff on the glass counter was a dead giveaway.

Thirty years later, Mom still teases me about this.

(Two years ago, I did the same thing at a store when I was looking over the first Victorinox One-handed Trailmaster that I had ever seen. Fortunately, I was able to apply pressure with the other fingers to the wound and kept the clerk from seeing it. I think that this is the only time in over ten years that I have cut myself. Why does it have to happen in front of store clerks?)
 
I was at a table of an "outreach event" for my job, and was there with several other co-workers. Of course I had my big knives (Cuda Dominator, BM 42) but when I was asked to borrow a knife for the opening of a box, I lent out my SAK Classic. The girl cut her finger somehow. I enjoyed giving her the attention of fixing the cut, though, as she is a beautiful young lady. I just wonder what would have happened if she had borrowed either of the other knives, which I keep quite sharp.

DD
 
Reminds me of the time that I lent someone an SAK to open a box of bags. He proceeded to try to cut the tape on the box using the back of the blade. He kept pushing down on the blade harder and harder, saying "I can't figure out how to work this thing!" It was about this point that I turned back around and snatched the knife from him before he lopped his finger off. How the blade didn't close on his finger, I'll never know.
 
LOL. Good stories, guys.

And to think... I am going to order a butterfly knife *horror*.
 
Hair, I also work in newspaper inserting. The Home Depot folding box cutter seems to be the knife of choice at my facility. Although just recently an employee sliced her thumb open with a standard box cutter so we may go to only allowing box cutters with self retracting blades. :rolleyes:
 
Steve- What do you do there? I mainly do the line paperwork but feed the machines a couple times a week. Is your paper owned by Lee by any chance?

Mongo- No problem. I understand your concern and agree with it. It was my fault for not being clear in the first post. Sorry if my reply was a little smart***-ish.
 
Hair said:
LOL. Good stories, guys.

And to think... I am going to order a butterfly knife *horror*.
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My BM46 has cut a lot of people. Myself included. I think the 46 gets a lot of people, because people who are not used to balisongs don't know that the non-latch handle is the safe handle, and the spearpoint blade of the 46 makes it hard to tell which side is sharp and which isn't
 
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(Two years ago, I did the same thing at a store when I was looking over the first Victorinox One-handed Trailmaster that I had ever seen. Fortunately, I was able to apply pressure with the other fingers to the wound and kept the clerk from seeing it. I think that this is the only time in over ten years that I have cut myself. Why does it have to happen in front of store clerks?)
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My policy has always been "I bleed, I buy". So far, I haven't had to buy one.
 
If it was my 110 I would have given it to him, sorta like when someone asks to borrow your handkerchief to blow their nose.:barf:
 
Sword and Shield said:
My policy has always been "I bleed, I buy". So far, I haven't had to buy one.
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That's an excellent philosophy! I think I'll go to a knife show, find a Busse Battle Mistress, and then cut myself with it. Since I'll have to buy it, what kind of argument could my wife assail me with when I lug it back home and tell her that I just spent $500 on a knife?

"Dear, I had to buy it. It bled me. Now back off or it'll bleed you!"
 
Interesting enough, the only knife of mine to draw someone else's blood was also a Buck 110. It was my newest one and I was showing it to a friend.

This particular friend isn't very refined in the ways of knives. He carries and uses a Kershaw that I bought him for Christmas last year, and it's a framelock. So the lockback was foreign to him. He managed to jab the tip of the blade into his left index finger while trying to close it. It didn't bleed a lot, but he said it hurt a lot. And I'm sure it did, the 110's got a pretty thick, mean tip.
 
One thing I noticed about my 110 is that it is sharp in a very evil, ripping way. My Spyderco Native is sharper, but it can cut you without hurting. It slices thin,. The 110 tears and rips. It hurts.
 
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