Punctured elbow with a Matriarch 2. Just a reminder to be safe and stay aware when "fidgeting"! Maintain awareness. Have you ever got a silly cut?

ferider said:
All my cuts since I was a little boy were stupid.

The last one was an open XM24 into my foot.

The most annoying ones are when cooking for guests.
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That is easily the most frustrating part of it, knowing how stupid and avoidable what you're dealing with is. I was moaning and groaning, not out of the pain, out of th pure stupidity I was feeling.
 
DocJD said:
Just installing some zip ties to wave open , cut right down through my fingernail .

Note pressure bandage .

Hawk blades and serrations make it worse , IMO .
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Gnarly! I think the tip absolutely makes it worse as it really wants to go in, but luckily, for me it stopped before hitting the serrations. I am very happy about that.

Beautiful knife, by the way!
 
$200 for a cut treated with crazy glue? really... that is just obscene... but ofc, is in line with the rest of the medical industry down there

insulin is a 4k yearly expense, cuz capitalism?, unlike the rest of the world which is 10-15 times lower
(just to be clear, no politics involved here, both parties have allowed this to spiral out of control over many years... blame the real culprit, grift, aka lobbying... I wonder if a 3rd party that actually pushes a no-lobby/no-grift agenda ever sees the light of day)

as for safety, yeah : ) it's all been said, don't play with tools... snl reminds us with good old skits

 
dirc said:
$200 for a cut treated with crazy glue? really... that is just obscene... but ofc, is in line with the rest of the medical industry down there

insulin is a 4k yearly expense, cuz capitalism?, unlike the rest of the world which is 10-15 times lower
(just to be clear, no politics involved here, both parties have allowed this to spiral out of control over many years... blame the real culprit, grift, aka lobbying... I wonder if a 3rd party that actually pushes a no-lobby/no-grift agenda ever sees the light of day)

as for safety, yeah : ) it's all been said, don't play with tools... snl reminds us with good old skits

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I know, it was obscene, I knew I should have stayed home. Agreed, this is beyond any party squabbling, this is an essential sickness within our system. Life and death, sometimes. I saw one group of people, enter and then leave the ER, as though they decided it was not worth it. I should start running bags of insulin over the border from Mexico 😂 I think those who do that and give without markup are noble folks.

But yes indeed, I intend to increase my mindfulness lest this happen again! Hilarious clip btw.

I just took the knife, wound it up a few times, started spinnin' it towards my arm and BOOM, slapped it straight in my arm. I mean, I thought it was a good idea at the time, thought my elbow would look good laid open, but, huh, you wanna talk about pain, I just HATE it when that kind of thing happens. You know?
 
Hashishiin said:
Just a reminder to stay safe! I was flipping my Matriarch 2 with my new retention ring from Wise Men on my couch today, completely safely, so that the plane of motion it was taking could not hit the hand I was flipping with, trick to that is making sure it is over the first two joints. My flipping hand was totally safe, but...

https://imgur.com/a/zcn7AWP

Well, my cat (do not worry, it wasn't the kitty who got hurt!) was behind me on her brand-new flowers-and-mushroom cat-tree, looking down at me. Like this. (Pics taken this weekend)
https://imgur.com/a/AB4Ile5
https://imgur.com/a/GYUZYp2

So... here is where I think I started to, ahh, tempt the Lord. I turn around to face behind me while sitting forward on the couch, bending my left elbow and bringing it to the top of the couch as I extended my right hand to do some flips back and forth and back and forth for my kitty, as she is watching me, head cocked, trying to understand how that's doing that! Or maybe the lil booper was judging me, lol. Anyways, flip, flip, BOOM, punctured my arm. I was being very irresponsible by not paying attention to where my left hand was in relation to doing all of this, while paying so much attention to my knife and my cat, and knowing that the knife could not slip off nor could the blade reach my hand in any way while flipping due to where it was. Here is just a small bit of what I dropped immediately after being cut. I tried to take a picture of the pillow which caught the most of the blood but my girlfriend did not let me and I have since cleaned it.

https://imgur.com/a/1Vs7F2K

The tip entered my arm, punctuated by smackin' bone! In my elbow, thank God my elbow. Like I said, turned around on the couch, right? Think of how you'd have your elbow looking behind you on a couch. It punctured in, just to the right of the place where it's JUST bone and a layer of thin skin over it, nothing really under there luckily, just a spot where the skin gets a little thicker than the base of the elbow. It was a small cut, but deep. Wrapped it up and was going to put some "liquid bandage", but my girlfriend got scared and said that stuff was insufficient, not the real stuff I needed, the superglue-like-med-glue, said I needed a stitch to that. I was looking at the cut's depth and thought, okay. Got a lil scared. Warned the nurse at the ER that I'd gush blood when the bandage was removed but then she looked at me crazy, it wasn't bleeding after the drive there. "You got cut how?" "Wait, the knife was on a ring??". The good doctor just applied some better skin glue than what I had, charged me $200, and let me go. That was more than the knife!

https://imgur.com/a/1l1EOBu
This is the knife after I got home, so I am assuming this is around the depth.

Could have been a LOT worse if it hit the inside of my arm. This is my guitar playing hand. I am going to be much more cautious in the future and double-down on my respect for knives. I was just excited to use my ring, honestly, and I do have trainers, I have a Matriarch 2 trainer (no ring) and an Endura (same knife platform) trainer with a wave I installed just to draw like the Ma2 to make it as close to the real things I carry as possible, and I even have a retention ring for the trainer on the way, it just has not arrived yet. Still, I am going to know what lies in my path of blade travel every time from now on, same as one would know their target and what lies beyond. Can't be risking my guitar hand!
Hope my mistake is learned from. Anyone else do something silly and give themselves a nick?
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Glad you're OK..

3 stitches in a very sensitive area, right between the thumb & index, $150 & around 90 minutes in the ER, (I took the stitches out a week later) to avoid any additional expenses.

The beast is big, & heavier than other knives in the same class, I did not respect that at the time, did not give it much thought, that handling it needed some extra caution. It was stupid & could have been avoided, because I was simply moving it from right to left, just silly.

The cut could've been much worse, it did not reach the nerves & muscles.

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TheArab said:
Glad you're OK..

3 stitches in a very sensitive area, right between the thumb & index, $150 & around 90 minutes in the ER, (I took the stitches out a week later) to avoid any additional expenses.

The beast is big, & heavier than other knives in the same class, I did not respect that at the time, did not give it much thought, that handling it needed some extra caution. It was stupid & could have been avoided, because I was simply moving it from right to left, just silly.

The cut could've been much worse, it did not reach the nerves & muscles.

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Whoa, that is a really nice looking chunker of a knife! I have a similarly styled knife but with a large obtuse bevel for wood, but it still embeds itself in anything swung at. I remember swinging an Espada XL, which is around this size AND very sharp at some cardboard one time and it just SUNK in my floor after a miscalculated swing. I could only imagine the effect on flesh, glad you are okay, too! What were you doing to get the injury, if you don't mind me asking?
 
Wolverine666 said:
When I was young and dumb , I pried open a can of compound with a SAK. The SAK let me know he was not pleased so it closed on my finger and severed some nerves. 28 years later , I still have a bump and numb spot on that finger. Live and learn.
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You cut yourself prying with a knife blade on a knife that has a screwdriver tool????

THAT, is worthy of some sort of award right there!
 
2 knife cuts suffered in recent memory caused by "operator error" (ie, my stupidity):

1) cut top of index finger w/balisong while flipping it using the "non-safe" handle and

2) cut thigh right thru pants trying to use the tang of a friction folder as a "quick" opening device.

Sharp blades, clean cuts, bleeding stopped w/applied pressure, no stiches reqd.
 
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sgt1372 said:
2 knife cuts suffered in recent memory caused by "operator error" (ie, my stupidity):

1) cut top of index finger w/balsong while flipping it using the "non-safe" handle and

2) cut thigh right thru pants trying to use the tang of a friction folder as a "quick" opening device.

Sharp blades, clean cuts, bleeding stopped w/applied pressure, no stiches reqd.
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Your second story reminded me of the fact that, I hear a major resurgence of OHO knives was after the Civil War, when many men who'd had an arm taken would use some similar method, or a bump in the spine, like a more dramatic one than on the Stovepipe or something, but very much like that, to "wave" open their friction folders. I would love to see an actual example of such a one hand knife from that time period, I should go searching around.

Ha, I actually have my first Balisong on its way to me. Getting a trainer too so as to not have another incident like this! Only time I handled a balisong was in middle school and I was very unaware of how to flip it.
 
Hashishiin said:
Ha, I actually have my first Balisong on its way to me. Getting a trainer too so as to not have another incident like this! Only time I handled a balisong was in middle school and I was very unaware of how to flip it.
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You really don't need a trainer unless you are planning to do "tricks" w/your bali involving hand changes or thowing/spinning/flipping the knife in the air. I just do simple knife flips; no tricks.

Every bali has a "safe" (and non-safe) handle which is usually (but not always) the handle WITHOUT the latch on it. I just had a brain fart and started flipping one of my balis w/the latched (non-safe side) and quickly cut myself when the blade landed on top of my index finger.
 
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sgt1372 said:
You really don't need a trainer unless you are planning to do "tricks" w/your bali involving hand changes or thowing/flipping the knife in the air. I just do simple knife flips; no tricks.

Every bali has a "safe" (and non-safe) handle which is usually (but not always) the handle WITHOUT the latch on it. I just had a brain fart and started flipping one of my balis w/the latched (non-safe side) and quickly cut myself when the blade landed on top of my index finger.
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Thank you for the info, I will watch the sucker closely! Well, first I am going to try to understand the balisong, understand the WHY of the knife. As I said, I saw them first in middle school, did not understand them and forgot about 'em, now in my mid-20s I am a knife fan who is intrigued.

I'm not necessarily trying to do tricks, though sometimes it is an extra bonus of what I am learning, like as an example, with this ring, treating my Lil Ma and Ma 2 like karambit knives, it has a purpose to it, I am learning a skill. However, with a balisong, I am under no illusion that any "trick" I learn will serve a "tactical" purpose (I literally do mean tactical, using a tactic, but the word has become so maligned and misused that I shudder to use it, ha)

I do practice throwing a trainer in-between hands fairly often, mainly as a piece of advice from W.E Fairbairn, but I do not anticipate adding that technique during a real incident. As to Balisong "tricks", I imagine they do not serve as much of an advantage as being able to swing out a knife 180 degrees via ring, right?
 
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