Ooops with traditionals

My wife came home a year or so ago when I took up whittling, saw a trail of blood from the garage to the sink, the sink to my work van and didn't even bat an eye :o

After a trip to the ER and some butterfly strips all she asked why I didn't leave a note. Pretty common place in my household ;)

Hey the ER surgeon paid me a compliment---he said it must've been a sharp knife :thumbup:

Paul
 
I rarely cut myself with my knives, but just last night I managed to get the wharncliff blade on my Queen Burke Barlow right through the pad of the index finger of my left hand. In one side and out the other. :eek:

Hurts like heck... :o
 
1962 when 8 years old, I cut myself to the bone sharpening my 1" pen knife that I used to sharpen my pencils.
I have been fairly careful after that
 
I cut myself only when handling a knife the way you shouldn't -mostly when taking photos of knives and opening multiple blades at once-you know your going to do-and yep! - you do it!
The best one yet is I had just got a vasectomy the day before :eek:-that's a cut I was not looking forward to for some time - I was sitting on a bag of frozen peas as you do-polishing a fixed blade, my hand slipped, cut my finger straight to the bone - blood ran down my arm off my elbow pretty much like a tap almost instantly - walked into A& E rather bow legged, with a towel that was white-now red - the nurse thought I was going to faint because of the way I was walking - we had a few laughs when she found out why I walking in such a way lol.
My girls love getting my hands and counting every scar - they use a ball point pen to mark each one, I think on my right hand they count around 110 or so, I think the count has gone up considerably since I found the love of knives.
 
When I cut myself typically it is while cleaning and a multi bladed traditional. The lack of a lock isn't it as much as the difficult opening of a second blade ( to clean the inside of the frame) causing me to slip, or have it let go suddenly causing me to slip, releasing the blade and stopping only when the blade has made contact with the bone on my finger. I can drop a knife every now and then due to nerve damage which causes me to drop things I'm not concentrating on such as a marbles fixed blade in 52100 that did a 360 in mid air and landed in my Quads straight up as if it was stabbed in. It was deep enough to stick in the bone as well.

Things like that I can fix myself. I haven't pierced my abdominal wall yet thankfully as that would be a mandatory hospital visit with possible bad things. I was "shanked" a couple times at work and it generally just makes me angry. The most PITA cut I've had was a lid from a cat food can that was jagged and tore/scraped down to the bone on one of my fingers. That was a bit out of my league as it needed surgery with stitches in layers, inner and outer. It took the longest to heal too. Sharp knife cuts generally heal up quickly. In addition, as clumsy as I am I need both hands to sew and working on one hand with the other just doesn't work out for me.
 
Cut myself about a month ago with a Queen stockman.Was cutting some plastic belts at work and all the sudden my thumb's got a good cut on it.Might have taken stitches but I used Crazy Glue.
 
The Mastiff said:
When I cut myself typically it is while cleaning and a multi bladed traditional. The lack of a lock isn't it as much as the difficult opening of a second blade ( to clean the inside of the frame) causing me to slip, or have it let go suddenly causing me to slip, releasing the blade and stopping only when the blade has made contact with the bone on my finger. I can drop a knife every now and then due to nerve damage which causes me to drop things I'm not concentrating on such as a marbles fixed blade in 52100 that did a 360 in mid air and landed in my Quads straight up as if it was stabbed in. It was deep enough to stick in the bone as well.

Things like that I can fix myself. I haven't pierced my abdominal wall yet thankfully as that would be a mandatory hospital visit with possible bad things. I was "shanked" a couple times at work and it generally just makes me angry. The most PITA cut I've had was a lid from a cat food can that was jagged and tore/scraped down to the bone on one of my fingers. That was a bit out of my league as it needed surgery with stitches in layers, inner and outer. It took the longest to heal too. Sharp knife cuts generally heal up quickly. In addition, as clumsy as I am I need both hands to sew and working on one hand with the other just doesn't work out for me.
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You dont mess around when you cut yourself!
 
The only traditional knives I've cut myself with were the ones with half-stops.I have no idea why anyone would come up with that gosh awful creation,but those are always the ones that seem to bite me,while I'm cleaning them or sharpening them.I've gotten rid of all but a few of them.
 
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