Pretending you DIDN'T just cut yourself

i held a 1/2 hour IM conversation with brian jones, the moderator of the wilderness survival forum after slicing off the tip of my index finger with a LCC manual.

i sold it, cause i didnt like the carbon fiber handles, but that knife was a true razor in the MT tradition.
 
I've cut myself alot of times, just haven't had it happened at a real embarrassing time. But I was at a large knife and gun show a few weeks ago, and came upon one of the many knife tables. I looked at some of the knives, and asked the dealer a few questions, and that is when I notice how he was sitting. He was sitting at his work bench, kind of leaning over with his hands under the bench. I just had to ask, did you just cut yourself. At that point, he held up his hand with what was left of a white handkerchief around two of his fingers. He said that I couldn't imagine how embarrassing this was to try and show his stock, being a supposedly knife expert, and bleeding all over the place. Of course he said that he has cut himself quite of few times, but this was a little hard on his ego.

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"Some days you're the dog, and some days you're the hydrant"
 
Ahh, Ken, i'm to sure that's such a good idea with the flour....

As i remember from my younger days, when you mix flour and water, you get glue (It's marketed here as "clag"). If blood has the same affect....

Can anyone confirm? Or tell me i'm a moron?
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James

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The beast we are, lest the beast we become.
 
James,

Flour works. Last week one of my dogs some how tore off a toenail. She did not seem to be in a lot of pain, but the amount of blood was scary. I tried everything to stop the bleeding. I called my vet and he told me to put her foot in a cup of flour. The bleeding stopped almost immediately. I cut myself all the time. If it hurts then you are ok. When it does not hurt you need to go to the hospital.


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Drac Noroc

You only know if you have been there...
 
Reminds me of an incident from some years ago..
A freind of mine was inordinately proud of his new custom folder, (cant remember the brand! ) and used to show folks how he could close it by folding it up against his jeans. Well, at a party, he had a few too many tequilas, and was demonstrating this trick outside to some freinds. He came in looking rather sheepish, and said " I think I need to go to the hospital." His entire pants leg was soaked in blood, and blood was actually flowing out of his cowboy boot!
Stabbed himself quite deeply in the thigh....
Same fella also shot himself in the knee-accident prone, I suppose.
 
yeah worst 1 for me was we were doing deadlifts at the gym, w/all my lifting buds - we were stripping the bar after i did 315 lbs and i dropped a 45lb weight right on my big toe dead center - wanted to holler, but instead went ah it aint nothing - went to my car 10minutes later and took off shoe and wow blood blood blood - well had to go to the emergency room later and get stitches to tie my toenail back on toe - it hurts now thinking about it and the toe has bothered me for over 5 years - my best bud, an engineer from abilene tx was bench pressing 245 lbs and wasnt paying attention and dropped the bar - boom right onto chest - that bar bounced up 6 inches or so off his chest - oh that hurt i bet huh - nah aint nothing he said - saw him the next day and his whole chest was black from bruise - he said he couldnt be a wuss in front of the guys LOL - oh and he didnt lift anymore either, slipped outta gym in about 5
 
Bikewer, Your friend who stabbed and shot himself reminds me of a guy I used to know. Back in the days when stop-and-frisk was generally tolerated the local cops always found this guy worth checking out. "Trouble" was his middle name, but mostly for himself.

He considered himself a quick draw expert. He took his practice single action .22 and ground off the half-cock notches so that he could fan it better. During one practice session he made his grab and missed gripping the butt. Instead he fanned the hammer with the web of his thumb. Faster than a thought he reflexively made sort of a double grab when the first movement missed. The end result was that in a flash he fanned the hammer twice with the gun still in its holster. So he shot himself twice in the foot with a single action revolver. Now that's talent!
 
I used to sell knives in a B&M store. Many was the time that one of us would either get cut, or watch customers cut themselves("be careful, they're sharp." hahaha, er, sorry).

Well, since I left, one of the worst cuts occured in the store. A customer and his son were looking at a nice folder. Well, the son was handling it, then went to pass it to his father. He folded the knife, but didn't realize that on the back of the blade was a tiny bit of velcro to hold knife on shelf. He handed his father the knife in what ended up being point first, partially closed. The father didn't notice, and took the knife from him. As he took it, the blade(still partially open) caught and ran up the entire length of the thumb. He handed the knife back to my friend, the employee of the moment, and tried to make a getaway. When my friend(who's cut himself many a time) asked if he was ok, the customer just said he was fine, and dripped blood all the way out the mall....

Once, when I worked at the same store, I was closing an XL Cold Steel Clip Point Voyager. I normally close it by holding the lock, and allowing the knife tang(you all know the one on lockbacks) to fall on my finger. However, I misjudged the position the tang would fall, and the blade fell onto my finger instead. It proceeded to make a nice, deep bleeder on the side of my finger. I had to go into the back and get me one of our(plentiful) band aids, and work the rest of the shift with this throbbing finger. Also, tried to hide it from customers....none noticed

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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

[This message has been edited by Blackwatch (edited 03-06-2001).]
 
I have become sort of permanent persona non grata at a local store for loaning a clerk my SAK. As a favor to my wife I brought in a display to a local office supply super store. To remove the previous display you needed to cut a nylon cable tie. I would normally slip my knife tip into the loop and lever the handle up to cut the tie. If it was difficult I might repeat the motion a couple times times, can opener style. Alternately I might push the blade downwards towards the mounting shelf (risking impacting the edge on the shelf).

A store clerk wanted to do the job himself. I foolishly handed him my SAK with razor sharp locking 3.25" blade. After a half-hearted push at the tie he turned the point around to aim at himself and started to pull the blade tip into the cable tie. I tried to cry out nooooooo!!! But it was too late. The blade broke through the tie and jammed into the palm of his left hand. He was off to the emergency room for a bunch of stitches. His boss really doesn't like me.
 
Here's one for you.

While visiting Vero Beach, Florida, I managed to get over to see Microtech and talk with Tony Marfione (a GREAT guy by the way.)

He pulled a new UDT out of his pocket to show me and handed it to me. I played with it for a few minutes and opened it a few times. It wasn't until I gave it back to him that he and I noticed that I was bleeding on my shoe and his floor.
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Fortunately, the office staff has seen its share of cuts and they were well prepared to handle a clumsy visitor. A band-aid and a pat on the back, and one VERY embarassed visitor was on his way.

Hopefully they'll let me visit again one of these days.



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Brian_T
brianthornburg@home.com
 
I was holding up, I believe, a bus transfer in my right hand, and tried to slice it in half with my Endura in my left hand. Ended up going almost clear through my thumb. Took off about half the nail. Everything was hanging by skin. This was in the parking lot of a supermarket, by the way. Sent my friend who was with me inside to buy band-aids, and we made up a story about cutting a box or something.

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Brandon Palas
http://www.funhousedigital.com
 
Under the heading of "stupid displays of sharpness": I used to pull a hair off my head (back when it wasn't thinning on the top), hold it out and cut it in two with a quick swipe with one of my knives. One time I did this to impress a friend and neatly shaved off a sixteenth of an inch from the tip of my index finger.
 
Great thread!

Thankfully, don't ever remember cutting myself except at home. My wife is never surprised.

My cousin, who is a great guy, is also kind of absent-minded and accident prone. He got a pretty nasty cut in his forehead one day when he overtook a truck on the highway, and got close enough to puch the pipe hanging out the back end of the truck, thru his windshield and into his head.

I've never asked him about knife cuts or stabs, but do know that one day in a cold Montana winter, he managed to impale himself on a pitchfork while feeding stock. Luckily his wife got worried and looked out for him. He'd tried to crawl to the house, and had passed out from loss of blook on the porch.

I handed him my .22 once, to reach down into a deep gopher hole to pull out the gopher I'm made a long offhand shot on. Just as I reached the gopher, I heard this weird sound, sort of like someone really strong hitting the ground with a sledgehammer or something. I'd not put on my safety, and he thought his finger was on the trigger guard. Just as the muzzle came in contact with his boot he realized he was mistaken. Almost took his second toe off.

Got to remember to ask him about knife cuts!

Bugs
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by craigz:
I haven't cut myself in public yet, but have any of you ever had your partner (or worse, your doctor) express concern over those bald patches on your otherwise hairy arms or legs, where you've been testing the edges of your knives?</font>
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constantly... she's always on about how i shoud stop doing it because it feels "prickly".



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Conn
When your life flashes before your eyes...
makes sure there's somrthing interesting to watch.
 
Anyone ever drop your butterfly knife and catch a toe? Come on - admit it.

I have to admit I used to be dumb enough to practice openings while barefoot. After several near misses where I was very lucky, I decided that wearing shoes would be a good idea.
 
Bugs3x, I was really having a hard time figuring out how your cousin was supposed to use the .22 as a tool for pulling the gopher out of the hole and why you'd want to use a .22 for such a purpose. I was also trying to figure why he would put the .22 to his foot in the process. Finally it dawned on me that you were just handing it to him to hold while you used your hand for the job. It sure is simpler that way.
 
My Dumbest Assed screw up was when I went to pull a BM 710 I had set up for left hand carry (I'm left handed and used to Spydercos) . I locate the thumb stud, push in a straight line (Cuz us knife guys know THAT's faster and thus cooler). My thumb slips off the stud and across the serrated portion. I was at work where my knives are tolerated with a shake of the head. SO, I calmly pressed my thumb into my hand, walked over to the first aid kit, and OWWWW! the damn 1st Aid box cut me! I was reaching for asprin (My version on the paperwork.) There's a REALLY sharp edge on there!! ROFLMAO
There was an up & coming assistant manager who insisted that a workers' Comp claim be filed and that I go to the hospital.
I have asthma and had pneumonia at the time and was taking steroids. I explained that they made me a bleeder! LOL No hospital, just home.
Went home, did the antiseptic, liquid bandage and LARGE gauze and sterile tape and went back to work the next day all closed up.

John
colobbfan
 
Whatever you do, DO NOT practice flicking your Sifu open and accidentally drop it on your bare heel! Not that I would know anything about that..
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DO NOT open your Microtech Nemesis with the blade facing inward, toward your palm. I am guessing that would hurt and leave blood all over the bedroom carpet..
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David

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Another "do not" knock down a pigeon with your pellet gun, hop over the neighbors' fence, and finish it off by hurriedly throwing a razor sharp double edged dagger by the blade. It would probably slice half of your fingers severely.
 
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