NEWBIE GETS CUT!: What's your story?

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Jason Burns

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Being a "newbie" to the forum, I hope this is not the wrong place to post this but here goes.
I know none of you have ever done anything stupid, BUT this morning I did. I decided to cord wrap my stiff kiss prior to a fishing trip. While tightening the cord it came unsheathed . . . and all the way to the bone in my pinky! Well, while sitting in the ER waiting on stitches I thought "I wonder if anyone else would admit their stupid knife mistakes?" Well, What's YOUR story?
 
Welcome to the club, If you play with knives, you will bleed ... we've all done it. As a matter of fact, stick around, you'll see this is a favorite topic around here.

In the past couple of weeks, I got a few new knives, so I had to play with them, just to get used the action. Kershaw touched my little finger inside the first joint. Will sting for days even though it stopped bleeding in a few minutes. BM Spike stabbed into my thumb, right at the tip. Now how will that ever get a chance to heal, especially in the cold weather? Before that, my twistmaster sliced deep into the tip of a finger as I was doing vegetables with it. Perfectly routine activity. When did my finger turn into a carrot? Took a couple of weeks to heal.

Be careful out there -- as Pogo used to say: we have met the enemy, and he is us.
 
Don't feel bad Jason, I did the same thing with my stiff kiss about a week ago. I got the tip of my middle finger. I didn't need stitches thank God, but my pride was hurt a little.Just one of many scars,but that's the price we pay for our obsession!

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If firearms cause crime, then matches cause arson.
 
Jason,
You like knives, you keep them oiled and the joints clean...you're gonna cut yourself. (And do it pretty frequently!)
My last time was just last night. For the third time, I've cut my thumb wth my RAZOR SHARP Spyderco "Toad". I keep hoping that I'll build up enough scar tissue that I'll be immune to cuts.
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I just cleaned a pistol and got Hopps #9 in the cut. I felt like running out in the back yard and doing the "fire dance". Man! It stung!!!
Cuts come with the territory, my friend. Try to accept it.
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Damn! It is hard to type with a band-aid on my thumb!
I'm going to try and put the lanyard on my new Microtech "UDT" tonight, but I'm going to ask my wife to do it.
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Will
 
I got cut a while back after having a few beers i cliped my knife on the out side of my pocket (stupid) the blade moved out a little while i was bending down to get some fire wood when i brought my left arm up the blade went into my palm ouch about a 1/4 inch didn,t bleed much it was a clean cut but it hurt for days

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I am just a worthless liar....... I am just an Imbecile ...... I will only complicate you ..... Trust in me and fall as well .... I will find a center in you ... I will chew it up and leave .. I will work to elevate you just enough to bring you down
 
hi jason.
when i was still buying P.O.S. knives,i picked up a butterfly (balisong) knife from the flea market,man was it sharp!anyway, me and some of my friends were riding around raising hell (what else do teenagers do on teh weekednds?) and i was flipping it around,acting like i was tuff sh!t,anyway, i cut a chunk of my middle finger off.lots of blood.
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BTW- i have an aunt that lives in cumming.
 

Jason, this is always a good topic to bring up. I do quite a bit of rock climbing and after you get so used to be up high, you start to get careless. Although it's a bummer hearing someone's misfortune it makes me a little more careful.

About the time I started on the forums I went to resheath my Cold Steel fixed blade. Well I wasn't looking and I stuck it behind the sheath instead of in it. I had a nice 2" hole that came close to the kidney.

Since then I have been really careful and having others tell me of their pain makes me take that much more precaution. I don't think I have cut myself since.

Although I feel like an idiot telling anyone about this I hope that it will make someone else take more precaution. Like most will say if you play with knives your going to get cut. Hopefully we can keep those cuts far and in between and not as serious with these post.
 
WOW! Misery really DOES love company! My finger is feeling better already! And try typingg with stitches in your left pinkey . . . the "a" gets pretty haaaaard to hit just once.
 
Here's the last booboo I had....

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Its funny, I usually NEVER cut myself with my daily carries when Im just fiddling with them..You know, flicking them open about ten thousand times every night while sitting in front of the TV. I only cut myself when I take out a knife to actually USE it. That is when I fumble it and lose a limb.

I did however cut myself really bad with the first Dalton automatic I ever saw. It was at a knife show. I thought it was a switchblade, it was ACTUALLY an out-the-front stiletto. The blade sunk to the bone on my right index finger. I politely handed the knife back to dealer, and then quickly walked to the bathroom to wrap my wound. I stayed at the show for another hour or so. Went home and put three steri-strip sticky sutures on it and felt like crying. It left a nice scar and a little loss of sensation in the area around it. Not too bad.

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For unknown reasons, a couple months ago, I absentmindedly -- couldn't have been on purpose-- decided to remove my Stiff KISS from the sheath left-handed. I applied about the same pressure with my thumb as I usually do right-handed, and the serrations cut it pretty good. No stitches necessary, thankfully.

Bugs3x
 
Ross Aki has one of the funniest stories I have ever seen/read. He is one kick butt machete maker and after cutting himself, he yelled to his wife to get the camera, AND SHE DID!! He documented the cut from its beginning to the sew job and posted it here somewhere! That story is funny.

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Hell, about two years ago i got myself a 50ccm peugeot scooter. I was going to mount a box carry on it. To do so I hat to cut two small holes on either sides.. I cutted with the sharp side against me, and then WHACK!! straight into my forehead leaving a one inch cut!!!

Hell i was embarrassed an ashamed when i went to the doc to fix it up!!!
 
Hmmmm.... let's see here.

Spring of '99. I purchase a basically NIB large Sebenza from a friend. It was my first Sebbi and I couldn't have been more in awe with it. I just loved that satin finished ATS-34 blade with it's mirror polished edge. I must've opened and closed it a thousand times the day I got it- then- on 'close' number one-thousand and one, I shoved the spine down kinda quickly and cleaved my thumb wide open. Right through the meat on top of the thumb and well into the fingernail. Ugh.

I don't know what shocked me more- the massive self-inflicted flesh wound, or the edge on that blade!

Firebat

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Name's Ash......Housewares.
 
My biggest scar is on my right leg just beside the kneecap. A very drunken idiot tried to stab me with a Gerber Bolt Action. I kicked him in the chest to keep him away, and he tried to give me a permanent limp and a wooden peg
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. I received a Spyderco Delica yesterday in a trade with a forumite(you know who you are
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) and I cut a big chunk of meat from my index finger, all within 5 min. of getting the knife. Doh!
 
When I got my native and sat around the whole day just flicking it open and closing it, I tried to do it with my left hand. Got a rather deep cut in the tip of the ring finger...
But here comes the stupid story: When I handled a CS Desperado, I wanted to find out if those serrations worked, and pulled it very, very lightly across the palm of my hand... ouch! those serrations DO work! still got a little scar...
 
The 4th and I should join a club because our wounds just about match . . . mine's just a bit higher! What a catharsis!
 
last night i actually had an accident.
i was leaning back in a chair chatting with my knife collecting friend.
i had my serrated LCC in hand, closing it with both hands, then lost balance in the chair.
i regained balance then noticed i had caught my left thumb in the serrations and dragged it along half the serration and half the plain edge.
it kinda sucks, i had just stropped the blade an hour before so it was razor sharp.
i got it to stop bleeding after about 5 minutes.
now you can see where each serration caught on and ripped into my skin.
it's about 6 or 7 cuts that actually make up the wound.
it's not too bad, just pretty stupid of me.

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~Fumbler
the crazied knife weilding Sarah McLachlan fan =)
 
When I was a kid I had one of those cheapo survival knives. Compass on top of hollow handle, sawback, you know the one. Anyway I was catching crawfish in a stream and decided I wanted to keep some. I found an old soda can,held it in my left hand, lifted the knife in an ice pick grip in the right. Slammed the blade down trying to cut the top off the can. The blade slipped between the can and my hand. Cut right through the skin between the thumb and first finger. Almost cut my thumb off. I still have a fine scar. I just got a new MT and I am wearing a band aid on my pinky now............

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Brian
 
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