Ok, fess up - accidental injuries with your blade

dartanyon

dartanyon

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Just wondering what sort of injuries you have suffered, or the worst injury sustained. Every now and then I cut the tips of my fingers off while sharpening but it only really the prints and not much blood. My worst was when I was 4 years old and I ran off from the house with one of the cane knives and proceeded to swing it round sorta like conan and wacked my left index finger un the middle knuckle and slashed to the bone. Ran home and promptly put the knife back and told mum and dad I did it playing with a tin can. To this day they don't know the truth and I have a big scar on my finger.
 
Both of my worst injuries came from flipping my bali.

First one was on a hand to hand toss... I miscalculated and sliced my left palm open nice enough to see a good amount of meat on either side of the cut.

Second one, I was just doing one handed flips, bali slipped and the tip nailed me on the inside of my left foot just below the ankle. It punctured a vein and blood spewed out and onto the carpet before I could even react. Big stain about the size of a baseball on the carpet. Funny thing is, some guy selling steamcleaners came by a couple of weeks ago to demo his product. You should have seen his face when I asked how well the steamer worked on blood :eek:
 
Took my very first one in trade about a year ago from a super formite. I shoulda realized that the knife would arrive sharp as hell and should have figured out it was an OTF with the wrong side of the blade sharpened.
As soon as the blade Thwacked out, I knew I ****ed up. I felt the tip bounce off bone and then it bled and bled and bled. God bless 8Lb test STREN. Does it everytime.

I am NOT allowed to EVER use power-tools. The is a Law in my State that prohibits my use of. Maybe they need to add knives!!!!!
Ira
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dartanyon, welcome to Bladeforums! If you ever make it to the good old USA, stay out of Nu Hamsha (see wolfmann601's location ... :D) Ira isn't allowed near power tools, and the only knives he's been checked out on are slipjoints -- but he's the state's top firearms instructor!

Anyway, relax, it gets easier the longer you play with knives. Most of us are just kidding about those accidents -- we are too experienced to cut ourselves, never happen, just a nick now and then. Stitches? Ha!

From my own experience ... groannn ... slicing and dicing, wet hands and veggies on the cutting board, just brush the tip of a blade across a damp finger ... drip, drip, drip. And I never felt it happen!
 
I'm about a year or so into knives and I've had a few deep finger cuts early on. One bled for about 4 or 5 days. One of the moderators mentioned in a thread to treat knives as you would a firearm. Haven't cut myself since.
 
Never anything more than a couple of little nicks, but my son was not as lucky. About two and a half years ago my son who was eight at the time got ahold of one of my locking folders. It was put away in a place that I did not think that he would find it, but he did. He could not figure out how to close the knife and at some point put the sharp edge of the knife into the palm of his hand. He then put pressure on the blade hoping that this might close the knife so that he would not get into trouble when I found the knife. He cut his hand just about down to the bone all the way across his palm. He had to be rushed to the hospital for stitches and to check for any tendon or nerve damage. We were lucky and all he needed was stitches. It took a couple of months for his hand to be OK. I felt like a total ass for not teaching him the proper way to handle knives and for leaving the knife where he could get his hands on it. Since then, I have taught him everything I know about knives.
 
I've had many knicks and cuts but the worst one I've had was when I was trying to slice through some ham. I was probably about 12. The knife was fairly dull and I was putting a fair amount of pressure on the blade when it slipped and cut my left index finger to the bone. Not the worst cut in the world but not something I'd soon repeat.
 
I got my first Swiss Army knife when I was 11 or 12 and immediately cut my thumb with it. Since then I've only cut myself once (knock on wood), about fifteen years ago. It was due to my abject stupidity and total disregard for safety. I was building a model airplane and using the blade from a utility razor. No handle, just the naked 4" long razor blade. At one point I picked up the blade and tried to slice something. I thought it was getting dull because it hardly left a mark so I repeated the slice pressing really hard on the spine of the razor blade with my index finger. That tingled. The problem was I had the blade upside down (ie the sharp side was against my finger). I won't go into gory details but it was bad.
 
my worst was probably the time I dropped my bali at an angle on the floor and it bounced point first into my bare ankle, right into a vein. It didn't bleed for very long but it bled a lot and my ankle was bruised and tender for about a week and a half.
 
woww, reading these posts and the link ones and I gunna stop spinning my 12 inch bowie. Worst that happened was I tried to grab the blade too soon and it stuck into the middle of my palm. Why do I do this....
And I'm also going to put less detergent in the sink when washing up when I'm trying to do it quick........I like the description of the "little tingle". Thats always not a good feeling.

Reminds me of that definition of uncomfortable - Sliding down a 60 foot razorblade using your b*lls for brakes.
 
Had a CRKT small KISS plain TAnto. Was opening a Supersoaker squirtgun package at a 6 year old's birthday party. Using an index finger on the blade spine for a controlled hold I went to cut a zip tie with a push cut using the front of the tanto blade (used this cut many times with a CS Tanto Voyager). The knife folded up on my middle right finger severing about 60% of the extensior tendon on my right middle finger. After 2.5 hours of microsurgery (thank god for good insurance)I was only in a cast for a month and then had my right middle finger splinted straight for another few weeks.

Everyone got flipped off. Espically CRKT.

jmx
 
...I just had to have the gonzo 'Battle Bali-Bowie' with the 12 inch blade...

I was showing my dog how to use it, got it spinning pretty fast, and suddenly it slipped...cutting off both of my hands.

Needless to say, the dog wasn't very impressed!

Now I have to type with my nose and tongue...it kinda sucks doing needlepoint now...

Mel, aka 'Stumpy' ;)
 
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