NEWBIE GETS CUT!: What's your story?

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entertaining reading. My worst is dropping one of my fixed blade knives on my foot while messing around with it. twenty-two stitches, and a fun jaggy scar that wanders over my upper right foot. OUCH! Felt like a prime idiot, here I dropped a knife rather than try to grab it when it slipped, as we should, but forgot that I wasn't wearing *shoes* with a little help from murphy...

Todd (edgedance)
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Edgedance:

forgot that I wasn't wearing *shoes* with a little help from murphy...

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As has often been said of "Murphy's Law" . . . Murphy was an optomist!!
 
Well, worst cut I had was when my friend decided to play with my knife(never again!!) and she swung it at me(!). I naturally(i.e.-with no thought given) tried to block the oncoming onslaught, and blocked her hand once. Couple seconds and a repeat performance on her part. Only, this time, I grabbed the blade, not the hand. Right through the flesh of the palm! Didn't hurt too much, just bled a lot!

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Sean

If you find you must throw something at me, please make it a custom.

"May your blade chip and shatter"- Dune Fremen fighting saying
 
I used to carry a Bali next to my wallet.
Once the catch had opened and I didn't realize until I reached for my wallet to pay for something. Imagine the cashier's surprise when I began some serious bleeding right there in her line
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Oh, we wanted a stupid one. There was the cross cutting incident with the large serrated blade while standing on my tractor. Stitches required for that lapse of reasoning. The best part is explaining what happened to everyone who has to ask about the bandages.

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My "most recent" cut came from my SOCOM elite. I was wiping a piece of lint of the serrations when that little voice in my head said: "you're about to screw up" just about the same time I felt that familiar sting on the tip of my finger followed by a steady flow of blood
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Oh well, if you play with knives sooner or later your going to get cut (some of us more often than others
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Chris
 
Practicing one handed opening with a Gerber LST. Cut thumb quite badly (no thumb stud, just using the blade *cough* edge *cough*
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Closing a CS Vaq Grande onto fingers, gawd the choil that you use to block the blade path (with thumb) is in a different place than on a smaller knife like my Endura... Serves me right for playing when drunk.

Getting over confident with the Serrations on my Gerber Chamelion, wow that bled for a while!

Doing the liner whack test with my BM 855 on back of hand. Trust me it stabs VERY well into your hand
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W.A.

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I bought a 12" kitchen knife this afternoon during the first stop of a 4 or 5 stop shopping trip.It was still light out and I took it out at a stoplight to admire it.I then laid it down blade up on the seat when the light turned green and promptly forgot about it.You probably know where this is heading.Amazingly,it was hours later,on the way home before I cut the crap out of my right pinky finger.It is still bleeding.
 
LOL!!! Great posts. My dogs and I feel much better now!

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Stay back! or I'll...OUCH...cut myself.
 
When I bought my first auto (MT LUDT) I was home playing with it and I closed the knife across 2 of my fingers ! I screamed and threw the knife up in the air and as I was holding my fingers the knife came down point first right into my leg !
Blood on my hands, legs and couch !

Donald.
 
Hmmmmm...... I've had a knife in my pocket for 25 years, and have only cut myself once. It was the first day I had my first knife. My dad picked me up a three blade jack knife, and it was nasty sharp!!! There I was camping with him, wittling a piece of wood in the wrong direction. That blade went right through my thumb and down to the bone. That was also the day that my dad taught me how to stitch myself with dental floss.

My father was great about the whole thing. All he said was "I bet you won't make that mistake again". He was very correct in his assumptions. I spent 10 years in the printing business, using knives, boxcutters and razor blades, and never cut myself on a single one of them.

Uh, oh. Now I've jinxed myself. Boy is that carbon fibre M-16 I ordered gonna' get me good!
 
Once I was in a knife shop buying my mother a SwissTool. This was when I was just getting addicted to knives. I popped out the wavy-serrated spear point blade on the SwissTool, and to check its sharpness ran my index finger down the edge. MISTAKE! That blade cut a long slash down my index finger, and to say it bled profusely is an understatement. Right in the middle of a pretty crowded store too....I bet the store owner wanted to say: give me that knife before you cut yourself again!

That was sure embarassing. Will NOT do that again.
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by nowhere fast:
When I bought my first auto (MT LUDT) I was home playing with it and I closed the knife across 2 of my fingers ! I screamed and threw the knife up in the air and as I was holding my fingers the knife came down point first right into my leg !
Blood on my hands, legs and couch !
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You guys are just what the doctor ordered!! Reading these is a blast . . . My stitches are seeming mighty doggone insignificant! Thanks for the good medicine!
Jason

 
10 years ago, I sharpened the first several inches of my khukri to pretty much a razor sharp degree. It took quite a while, to my level of patience anyway.

While trying to sheath the big blade, it became jammed, so I slammed the blade handle floorward. The blade penetrated the sheath and my palm, the blade tip exiting the back of my right hand, severing a nerve to my thumb. Several hours unconcious during the microsurgery thing. Waking up was no picnic.

A blade in motion is a blade on a mission. Be very careful guys.

 
When I first saw this thread, I thought I had a few stories; my first knife who cut me when I was 5, the CS Voyager who cut me before I got him out of the store, the Benchmade Ascent who put 5 stitches in my trigger finger last year. I've cut myself with fifty different knives, but I don't have any stories to match you guys. You people are WAY stupider than me. I feel much better now. I hope none of you own any guns.
 
Damn...OUCH!...About 1/2 hour ago I cut the livin' sh!t out of my thumb while trying to open the LITTLE blade on my Leatherman Micra!
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(And, YES...I DO own guns...
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Dann Fassnacht
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I was showing off my new Commander to one of my co-workers, and waved it open and closed it a few times. Being quite impressed he wanted to know how it was done, so I slow moed it and just as I was about to pull it out my boss came by. I quickly re cliped it to my pocket. Going for my keys I found out that I partially waved it open and it didn't close when I repocketed it. I only found this out after my pocket was quite stained with blood from a gorgeous gash on my finger.
 
O.K. here is a good one. It was before my knife addiction started about 11 years ago when I was 15. I was trying to take the nut off of a guitar I had so I could put a new one on. I was using my mother's Swiss army "Swiss Champ" to cut it out. I remember holding the knife in such a way the big blade closed on my thumb. It didn't close hard enough to do any real damage, until, I got scared and pulled the knife off of my thumb. The blade then proceeded to cut through my thumb on the bottom side from the joint to the tip, all the way to the bone. It was bleeding like a cracked radiator. I was afraid to tell my mom, so I wrapped it up tightly in paper towels till the bleeding stopped. It took about 1 month to heal. It was horrible. I still have a scar on my left thumb print because of it. If I press down hard on my thumb I can still feel a bit of seperation. I wish I had gotten stitches. How is that for STUPIFIED?
 
A few observations:

1. Attempting to dismantle an OTF at 11:00pm with 2 people jabbering at you after a few beers is not advisable.

2. Always open an automatic knife, especially an OTF, before attempting to dismantle it.

3. Once the blade springs out from the OTF that you didn't open prior to dismantling at 11:00pm with 2 people jabbering at you after a few beers and jabs you in the wrist, jump back because it's headed for your foot next...


Not that I'd know this stuff personally...

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Brandon
 
Nowhere Fast/Donald,
Hee Hee--You're on a really bad streak there son. But your story did crack me up.

In college we had two man rooms with twin beds. I was sitting on my bed throwing darts into a piece of foam that was between the beds. When I ran out of darts, I leaned over on the other bed to get some more. There just happened to be a Swiss Army Knife, with the sizzors open that was on my room-mates bed. Yep..you guessed it. The SAK with the sizzors open slid off my room-mates bed and stuck straight up into one of my scocks only clad feet. I don't think I've ever seen anything bleed so much, so fast. To teach me a lesson, the school nurse sewed up the wound without and anesthetic, and THAT hurt like hell!

Will
 
Damn Will, you really had me going for a while there! First, I'm thinking this guy has more than ONE? And on top of that, they hang all the way down to his FEET? Then I realized you must have meant SOCKS!

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