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Gunner · Feb 27, 2000

Hi all I would like to get some feed back from all you guys and gals. Last evening while I was attempting to make a crook knife I managed to cut my pointer finger on my left hand, fairly bad but not bad enough to stitch, just bad enough for butterfly stitches.

My question is how many of you know your gonna get cut before it even happens but choose to go on with what your doing and dismiss the thought with oh no that would never happen to me?

Please list your answer and a short story about how it happened. Thanks. Geoff.

unocide · Feb 27, 2000

I only cut myself by accident.

I did so when i was sharpening once, i tested it by running it through a peice of toilet paper and i forgot my arm was on the other side of it.... and smush.

but it was a very sharp knife, so it went in, and then came out, and didn't start bleeding for a second, so i had time to go get some anticeptic and bandaids before blood could stain anything. i didn't know it was gonna happen and didn't realize it happened 'til i looked back at where my knife had gone.

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shappa · Feb 28, 2000

A few times when I was younger I've had the old "cutting toward yourself" accident. I've had that split second thought before getting cut that I shouldn't be holding it this way. Not even a fully formed thought really, before the slip.
I like to think I've learned my lesson. I can't remember the last time I cut myself with my pocket knive.
I have cut myself a few times with my work knives. I'm a chef and I have a knife in hand most of the day, cutting prime rib, trimming filet mignon, dicing veggies for soup. Only twice in eighteen years have i gone for stitches. It should have been three but sometimes you just can't leave for a minute, let alone for an hour to get sewn up.

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jeegeet · Feb 28, 2000

I get little cuts occassionally. The best "cut" I got many years ago during a knife throwing.

I threw it bad. It bounced of the wood and flew back right towards ... eh ... where it would hurt a man A LOT (no, not the brain)

. I had enough time to jump up and the knife got stuck in my leg.

The wound was deep but not too wide. So, I didn't need any stiches after all.

Kris

Fox Creek · Feb 29, 2000

I try to look around, get my feet planted, and consider the safety aspects of things before i start using a grinder or drill press or what ever. Power tools are where I usually get IT. Also, banish bad thoughts from your mind. I believe in a childish sympathetic magic concerning these things. 'get to thinking about cutting your finger while you are doing something and your bad subconcious will make your finger get in the way to keep the universe consistent. Remember the key axiom of Victorian Magik, "thoughts are things."

Normark · Feb 29, 2000

hey Gunner..

What exactly is a "Crook Knife" ?

ttyle Eric....

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Mikul · Feb 29, 2000

When I was 17, I was taking a big toothpick knife (aka "toothy") out of it's sheath in a very stupid manner. The knife slipped for about 1 second and in that time went straight into my left hand between the two tendons on my thumb. Because I caught the knife so quickly, I didn't even realize that I was cut... until I saw blood squirting 3 feet accross the living room on my mother's brand new carpeting.

Because of that, I had to wait about 15 minutes for my father to take me to the hospital because he wanted to clean the carpet first. Now I know where I stand in the heirarchy of things.

3 stitches.

Old 3 Toes · Feb 29, 2000

Well, when I first read the question, the first insident that popped into my head was when I got my new skunk skin hat in the mail about a year ago. I ordered it plain, no leather brim. Of course when I received it, you guessed, it had a leather brim on it. It was only held on with a few waxed thread stiches, and besides, what a great opportunity to pull my new black titanium Buck knife! Very sharp. As I was holding the hat in one hand, and plucking the stitches out with the knife tip in the other, I thought, "I could probably cut myself doing this." Needles to say a split second later I stabbed my thumb. The other stoy I'll save for another time.

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"Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." Matt. 10:16