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?

kvaughn said:
TMI
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You're right. All this blood, it's too much to show the knife viewing public. I don't think they can take it.
I really only wanted someone to talk with about my feelings. Will you be my friend? ... I'll give ya a dollar if you'll be my friend.
 
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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I am glad it wasn’t worse. And I am sure you will not be traumatized to the extent not to play with knives 😁.

Nothing as dramatic for me, but my wife, rightfully, suggests we have a Band-Aid subscription. I lately discovered a type of medical superglue that vets use. It works like a charm on those extra bleedy situations.
 
Dimashkieh said:
I am glad it wasn’t worse. And I am sure you will not be traumatized to the extent not to play with knives 😁.

Nothing as dramatic for me, but my wife, rightfully, suggests we have a Band-Aid subscription. I lately discovered a type of medical superglue that vets use. It works like a charm on those extra bleedy situations.
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Well, it is back in my hand cutting my ER bracelet off if that tells you anything 😁
What is the kind if you do not mind me asking? My girlfriend, after this cut, was like "You HAVE to get some medical-grade glue!" so, I'm gonna do it.
 
Dang. Glad it wasn’t far worse.

Recent one for me. I was trying to close my Spyderco Resilience using my non-dominant left hand. Middle finger to depress the liner lock, pointer finger to push on the spine of the blade. Applied a “little” too much pressure on the blade and it shot forward at Mach 5 as the liner lock slipped. Middle finger bled for a bit, but it didn’t seem to leave a scar.
 
DangerZone98 said:
Dang. Glad it wasn’t far worse.

Recent one for me. I was trying to close my Spyderco Resilience using my non-dominant left hand. Middle finger to depress the liner lock, pointer finger to push on the spine of the blade. Applied a “little” too much pressure on the blade and it shot forward at Mach 5 as the liner lock slipped. Middle finger bled for a bit, but it didn’t seem to leave a scar.
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Oof, hate those cuts! That is the thing, compression locks have totally taken away my patience for liner-locks. I am used to not having a finger in the way now, and doing the whole process start to finish, instead of activating the lock, moving my finger, continuing blade path downwards.

With back-locks, I don't even need to WORRY about one handed closing, because I will usually close those with two hands. Even though I know there is a kick to prevent it hitting the backspacer, something about it just makes me cringe every time I hear a backlock snap shut. Having a trainer that is also a backlock (Endura) helps cause I can kind of beat on it, see how much the mechanism can take.
 
Hashishiin said:
You're right. All this blood, it's too much to show the knife viewing public. I don't think they can take it.
I really only wanted someone to talk with about my feelings. Will you be my friend? ... I'll give ya a dollar if you'll be my friend.
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Sorry. I meant TMW. W as in whining.
 
sgt1372 said:
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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Oh, hey, I get what you mean now when you say I don't need a trainer just to use it. I got a Bear and Sons balisong in today, and it is pretty easy and intuitive to flip. But, wow, this 440C has no edge, glad it is tough cause it looked no different after a fall onto my floor. That is a good thing for now, as I learn, though. I get it, I can see how these can be useful and tough knives, fun at the very least, as I can't carry this knife out and about here, one of the few I can't carry.
 
Hashishiin said:
Oof, hate those cuts! That is the thing, compression locks have totally taken away my patience for liner-locks. I am used to not having a finger in the way now, and doing the whole process start to finish, instead of activating the lock, moving my finger, continuing blade path downwards.

With back-locks, I don't even need to WORRY about one handed closing, because I will usually close those with two hands. Even though I know there is a kick to prevent it hitting the backspacer, something about it just makes me cringe every time I hear a backlock snap shut. Having a trainer that is also a backlock (Endura) helps cause I can kind of beat on it, see how much the mechanism can take.
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Excellent point. I personally prefer compression locks over liner locks.

Yes, with all my CS backlocks, I always close ‘em with two hands, hahaha. I don’t care if it doesn’t look like high-speed low-drag operator-esque. Safety first, lol.
 
when i was a college freshman, my roommate got a cheap butterfly knife and i decided to try to figure out how it worked (YouTube wasn't available in 1965). after a few minutes of experimenting and frustration, i flicked it extra hard - and the blade broke off and impaled my forearm.

i pulled it out, and since the blade was narrow, and the laceration was under an inch, i just washed it with soap and water, put on some antibiotic goop and a band aid. when it stopped bleeding, it healed fine. fingers all worked.

no biggie.
 
docflash said:
when i was a college freshman, my roommate got a cheap butterfly knife and i decided to try to figure out how it worked (YouTube wasn't available in 1965). after a few minutes of experimenting and frustration, i flicked it extra hard - and the blade broke off and impaled my forearm.

i pulled it out, and since the blade was narrow, and the laceration was under an inch, i just washed it with soap and water, put on some antibiotic goop and a band aid when it stopped bleeding, it healed fine. fingers all worked.

no biggie.
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Blade broke OFF? Dang, that is some cheap steel.
Glad it was alright!
 
Ooh … this brings back a very old memory. I was probably around 8 or 9, playing something like mumble peg with my cousin, except it was from a sitting position, and just a matter of flipping the knife into the ground from various positions instead of trying not to nail your own toes. As I recall, we called the game ‘knife’, and it was on the same idea as ‘horse’ with a basketball - one guy does a ‘trick’ flip, the other guy has to duplicate the throw; make it, you get the next throw, miss it and you get a letter. Anyway, I had lost a few too many games and jammed the knife into the ground, which at that moment I learned is a really stupid thing to do with a slip-joint pocket knife. The blade folded up into my pinky, and immediately began leaking like the Teton Dam. Somehow a bunch of paper towels and a few bandaids eventually stopped it. The scar is still visible 55 years later, and every time I see it I think how close I might have come to losing a finger. Ironically it was likely saved from being worse than it was by the fact that the blade was dull from being repeatedly stuck into the ground. Talk about a lifetime lesson being learned.
 
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