Nicks & Cuts?? (Slipjoints)

oldbriar

oldbriar

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When was the life time you had a nick or cut from your knife and what caused it. I just read the thread about half stops and it brought this question to mind.

Semper Fi.


Oldbriar
 
I was trying to remove tape gunk off of the smaller blade on a Steel Warrior Li'l Peanut and was stupid enough to try and rub it off with my thumb. As soon as I realized that this was probably not a good idea, the blade had just broken skin, so it wasn't too late. I went and used some lighter fluid to rub it off of the blade instead.
 
The only time in recent memory was just the other day. I was closing the short blade on a Barlow (with half stops), and just nicked the index finger of the hand holding the handle. Half stops or not, that finger should not have been there.
 
Been a long time, a few decades, since I cut myself until Monday. I usually treat a knife edge like the barrel of a firearm and do not believe in firearm "mistakes".

Each day at work, if I have time, I eat an apple for breakfast.
I have to get in at dark thirty because of what I do and it's global ramifications on supply chain so I bounce out of bed at 04:15 during the weekdays. :eek:

Got that Case CV swayback a week or two and have been rotating it.

Usually cut the apple up, sometimes might have a phone stuck up-side my head and lay the knife down.

After finishing it off I wet down a towel and wipe the knife down. Pretty much a routine.

Was paying attention to work and when I wiped the knife down, I had the edge turned in the wrong direction. (Yup, knuckle head ).

Nice deep little C in my left forefinger. :D
 
It's been a while since I've cut myself, too (knock on wood!).

Did it all the time as a kid, though; too many to remember the first.

Some even required stitches, which is why (like Bastid) I'm pretty respectful of the business end of anything that bites.
 
Late last week, with a bread knife, cutting open a bagel. The bagel was in my left hand and I took the serrated blade in sawing motion thinking I will slow down when I get to the end, the end being my left index finger at the inside of my knukle joint. It still hurts and pops open because the wound is in the joint. I really did a dumb one. The kids freaked when the blood was dripping off of my finger and onto the floor. My wife just rolled her eyes, but consoled me later.....
 
The first cut with a slip joint was with an 80T old timer using the sheepsfoot blade to open some fuel injector cleaner or something(?). I was in a hurry closing it and the blade caught my little finger. Funny enough I never cut my self with a knife as a kid.
 
I tried to close my Mooremaker Stockman with one hand after putting a new edge on it. It bit me and I felt like a dumb a$$. This was about two months ago.

-frank
 
I am embarassed to admit that the last time I cut myself was when I was showing my three 8-year-olds how to be safe with a knife. We were camping, and they had there new SAK's and wanted to "carve" some sticks. I was showing them how to hold and be safe with the knives. I showed them how NOT to do a few things as well. One of those turned into more of a lesson than I planned. At least it was a lessont that they remember!
 
The last two times I cut myself was with a slippy. One of those times I really can't remember how.... other than it had something to do with the spring tension and the blade slipping as I tried to open it. I cut the top of my left index finger.

The other cut I got while trying to clean the inside of my knife with a piece of tissue soaked with Rem oil. I was cleaning the inside of the backspring and slipped, my thumb traveled across the top of the blade.
 
cotmurp1 said:
I am embarassed to admit that the last time I cut myself was when I was showing my three 8-year-olds how to be safe with a knife. We were camping, and they had there new SAK's and wanted to "carve" some sticks. I was showing them how to hold and be safe with the knives. I showed them how NOT to do a few things as well. One of those turned into more of a lesson than I planned. At least it was a lessont that they remember!
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Classic:thumbup:

My dad always says, "Everyone is good for something, even if that something is just being a bad example." Such was the case with me cutting into my finger deanimating a cinnamon raisin muffin.
 
Monday, top of left forefinger, trying to cut a corner off a garden seed package so that you could tap the seeds out as you went down row...I forgot how stinkin' sharp the old carbon blade on my WW2 TL-29 was. Package was being held in left hand between forefinger and thumb and as it turned out not far enough back, should have cut up and away, not down........ It was a case of "overslice".
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cotmurp1 said:
I am embarassed to admit that the last time I cut myself was when I was showing my three 8-year-olds how to be safe with a knife. We were camping, and they had there new SAK's and wanted to "carve" some sticks. I was showing them how to hold and be safe with the knives. I showed them how NOT to do a few things as well. One of those turned into more of a lesson than I planned. At least it was a lessont that they remember!
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That reminds me of when I took my 10 year old son river fishing and he caught his first catfish. I was telling him how to handle one too avoid the sharp spines in the dorsal and pectoral fins when the catfish spun around and I got stabbed by the dorsal spine on my hand and started bleeding. Good thing I had a first aid kit with me.

But back to the topic, the last time I got cut was a few weeks ago when trying to open the awl on a scout pattern and my fingers slipped and it sliced off a quarter inch chunk off the top of my thumb. It formed a nice blood bubble that burst when I touched it. :(
 
Last time cut myself with a slippie was on Christmas morning. I was opening a package for one of my girls using a Baby Butterbean and got the tip of my left index finger.
That knife has some seriously thin blades, and it did what it was made to do. Had to look twice to make sure I got myself. I didn't really feel the cut until later, like a razor blade.
 
Can't remember harming myself with an Old School knife recently.

But got a big enough gash from a Benchmade Mini Grip a week or two back.

There could be a moral in all this....the Traditional gods were offended by my promiscuous dallying with an Alien....
 
Knife-bites? ... every new knife I get bites me within a day or two.
Inadvertent 'baptism in blood', so to speak...
 
My last cut was Saturday, I was wiping down a Canal Street Muskrat with a Miracle cloth and let my thumb get on the edge without the cloth underneath.Cut like a scapel, did not feel it until I was bleeding.
 
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flashlife said:
Knife-bites? ... every new knife I get bites me within a day or two.
Inadvertent 'baptism in blood', so to speak...
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That's why I don't mind when a knife a buy comes with a lackluster edge. I'd rather get to know it when it's more dull so any mistakes I make will have less severe repercussions.
 
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