Scars and was stories?

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SkagSig40

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Heber's thread got me thinking about other folks injuries and scars from using knives. What have you guys done to yourselfs???
I'll go first.

When I was in High school 1993-1997 I had a few "cuts" on myself. One time we had a blizzard that broke a bunch of tree branches off and I used one of my khukuris to clean up and cut up branches to get ready to haul off. When I was chopping up the wood I accdently sunk the khukuri into my left pointer finger big knuckle and cut through the bone and tendent. I now have a nice scar!

Another time I was trying to cut through a wire lying on a 2x4 with a small hunting knife. I held the wire in place again with my left pointer finger and made a few cuts/chops at an angle. When I was just about through I gave it one more hard hit and I can still see it in slow motion as my aim was about and inch off and the knife landed on my pointer finger cutting it off above the finger nail!:rolleyes: I rushed the the ER and they were able to get it back on ok! I destroyed that knife in a vise severall days later!

Those 2 were probably the worst for me but I have had many smaller cuts that were not pretty or fun!:D :rolleyes:
So let's hear yours!
 
Skag,

I grew up mostly in the rural south where every man and boy carried a jack knife and kept it sharp. Axes, hoes, saws, etc., oh yeah you betcha. But apparently I listened well when my father, uncles, and such schooled me in the proper use of edged tools. To date the worst injury I've inflicted on myself with a cutting tool took only four stitches to close.

That doesn't mean I don't have "war stories", like the night it took the medics 52 stitches to put my head back together, and no, I ain't talking about a car wreck. Sorry though, you won't get that story out of me without more than a few shots of Quervo Gold, or at least some pints of Guinness. They did a good job stitching though, I'm just as "handsome" as I ever was.:rolleyes:

Sarge
 
I have only two short stories of injuries inflicted with knives.

First was with my first jack knife. My grandfather gave me a cheap little 3 bladed folding knife when I was about seven years old. While trying (and I emphasize trying) to whittle a piece a wood the blade slide forward and cut the very tip of my index finger off. I tried to keep the wound concealed from my mother because I thought she would take the knife away, the blood oozing out of the five bandaids gave me away. My mom just told me I learned my lesson and let me keep the pocket knife. My left index finger still looks a little funny.


Second injury was with my first HI khukuri, a 16 1/2" Chiruwa AK. While chopping up a large branch that was on the ground I had a very bad swing and the tip deflected off of the branch and sent the Chiruwa towards my shin. The blade sliced right through my jeans and into my shin just above my ankle. I didn't think the blade went through my jeans until I felt something trickle down my ankle. The blade cut right to the bone and left me with an inch long scar on my shin. To say the least I was lucky, a little more to either side and I would have hit meat and probably been hurt much worse.


Ryan
 
I'm not a knife nut like you guys. I've had pocket knives since I was eight. I have one cut on the side of my right thumb I no longer remember. Dad taught knives pretty well. I still remember what he said about guns, too. Never shoot into an area the consequences of a miss you can't live with.

Listening to Skag...imagine being in High school and having the oportunity to have HI khuks? Plus he was on the ball with the net and computers to even find them.

munk
 
My jaw literally dropped when I read that knuckle thing. Did they have to reattach the tendon or something? I don't have any knife injuries, there really isn't all that much knife work to be done around here.
 
...was an HI Bowie.

Cleaning up the guy with Flitz and slipped - hadn't been too careful as I wasn't used to HI getting confused with Spyderco or Chris Reeve.

Anyhoo, almost take off the last 3/8" or so of the right ring finger. My ntb (not too bright) solution was to tape it back and forget about it.

That was a year or so ago and it still looks and feels a little funny.
 
Plenty of scars, but not too many from knives. Probably the worst one was a stab wound to the palm of my left hand when I was trying to use a small fixed blade as a screwdriver and my hand slipped.:rolleyes:
It was about 1/2" deep. I cleaned it with peroxide, dusted it with some sulfa, bandaged it up and left it alone.
Most of my knife injuries has been caused by using a stockman's spey blade as a phillip's screwdriver and having them close on my fingers.
Now if you wanna talk about rocks, hatchets, old rusty hoes and the like then I have several more.:)
 
I have a pretty good broken bone collection. And none of that one day wonder stuff where a major auto crash gives you multiple claims.


munk
 
Been collecting knives since age 9. Various cuts here and there teaches a very healthy respect for blades. Things happen though. Most entertaining self inflicted cut was when I was 16. Just bought, with some very hard earned money, a brand new Buck 110 Folding Hunter. My first knife with a locking blade on it, very cool. Took it home and was having a problem getting it to close. Action was too tight. I put some gun oil on it and was working it back and forth. Now I had been having to use some strength to close this thing. I was sitting on the couch, my dad was sitting in his chair reading the paper, looked over at me and said "Be careful with that, don't cut yourself". I looked back at him and said "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing". Then I closed hard on the blade, which the gun oil had loosened up real well, and chopped halfway through my finger to the bone. He didn't see it. I got up, said "I'll be back in a minute" went into the bathroom and opened the knife back up. Bad. Took about an hour for the bleeding to stop. Didn't want to tell anybody about it, so I butterfly bandaged the finger for a month. Still don't have any feeling in the top portion of that finger.

A year or so later, a good friend of mine came over to the house and I was showing him my knife collection. He picked up my WWII Garand bayonet. I said "be careful with that one, it's really sharp." He looked at me, grinned and tapped his palm with the blade. I don't know why, he was pretty sensible normally. Opened up a 4 inch gash diagonally across his palm. At least it wasn't deep. Bled a lot though.

Wolvesclaw
 
I used to fall under the young dumb kid with a knife category. I had a fillet knife, and I was trying to seperate hamburger patties with a fillet knife. Yes, a fillet knife. It ripped and slipped through the peices of meat and into my palm. Almost all the way through, but thank God for bone.
 
Was manipulating a balisong in college, one I was unfamiliar with. Had grabbed the wrong handle (drunk mistake) and proceeded to do some back of the knuckle flips, which hammered the blade into the tendons on the back of my middle finger. Tendons look kinda yellowish and stringy...

Cutting a brittle chunk of bow rosin, and it shattered and I jammed a small folding tanto blade into my index finger, cutting throught the edge of the nail, almost parallel to the nail bed. The worst part was bendinng back the nail to get the rosin shards ouut from under it.

Cutting linoleum block with exacto knife, it skips outta the block and deep into the first knnuckle of my pinky. Bled a bunch. I had to put the finger in my mouth to keeep blood from going everywhere, and rushed to the bathroom to rinnse and spit out a full mouth of blood.

Cutting etch mask on blade, skipped exacto knife into thumb. Exacto knive almost always make ya bleed reel good.

Cutting cheese with a serrated steak knife, and had finngers placed behind cheese block. knife cits squirrelly thru diagonally, and I saw into the side of my index finger. Youu can rally feel all the serrations on a steak knife as it zips thru you.

These are just a few of the good and memorable ones.

Keith
 
I've got a story that tops the STUPID and DUMB LUCK knife injury list. Last April, my fiance and i were going to go camping and i was getting our last supplies together. I cleaned out the old pans and got the kitchen supplies together. To make a long story short...well, i had just started to clean off the blade of the Cold Steel Desporado we use for cutting rope and misc stuff, and she came through the door. wasn't expecting her and just bearly knicked the meat of my left pinkie with that serrated blade. cut wasn't 1/4" long and it didnt even bleed much. no big deal, right? WRONG. i severed my tendon that connects the tip of my pinkie to the rest of my hand and didnt even know it until i went to the ER after the plea of my lovely lady. had to get a 5 grand opperation to fix it. HERE'S the kicker. two weeks later on the day after i get my stetches out i slam the Son of a Gun in my truck door and pop the tendon again. can't get it worked on again so now i have a crooked, funky left pinkie. Thats just the start of my freak accidents list that i have self induced. thats how i got the nickname "Dangerous".
Hope you got a chuckle;)

"Dangerous" Jake Kelley
 
Well, I guess I'll add to this thread, since we're all sharing.

First off, my dog managed to drive all of an Xacto #11 blade into my thigh by putting both paws on my arm. Really didn't hurt, but it was deep enough that it bled like crazy.

Probably the worst blade injury I ever sustained was from an axe. A co-worker had been using an axe to remove a stump at the boy scout camp, and during the last hit to the stump he hit the handle, not the head and the axe handle broke, sending the axe head flying to impact with the back of my head. the actual axe blade portion only cut me a little, the damage was from the concussion and having the jagged wood driven into the back of my head. Worst concussion of my life, and I've had a lot of those(but we're not talking about all injuries, just bladed ones, so I'll save those stories for later).


This isn't really a knife story, but it's a good story about a very odd and probably the most embarrassing scar I have. Well, actually, there are bladed edges involved, but it's the story of how I recieved the business end of a broadhead, leaving a Y shaped scar on my left buttock. I had been working at a boy scout camp, and was killing time and paper on the rifle range. One of the other counsellors was on the archery range(the ranges were just across the road from each other, back to back) and managed to fall on his back while firing his compound bow(using broadheads, of course, which was a no-no) During the parabolic trajectory, the arrow managed to travel about 125' to the rear, went through the roof of the firing line, and gave me the nastiest goose I've ever recieved. Thankfully, due to going through the roof, the broadhead only managed to go about 2" in my cheek. Still, it left a very odd scar, and is the reason why you'll never catch me mooning anyone.

Of course, I've had enough buddies of mine injure themselves on swords in my collection, such as the bud who picked up my iaido katana and thinking it was "just another one of those $65 ones from the flea market" managed to draw most of the blade across his palm. No tendon damage, which I think can only be attributed to the fact that he was a farmboy and had calluses thicker than most gloves.

Why is it that even when you warn people that your blades are razor sharp, they still have to touch the blade?


Well, there's a couple of my stories,

TC
 
Got to thinking and was remembering a couple of incidents from the summer of 1976. I was in high school working on a survey crew for the summer, cutting brush and holding rods for line of sight. Low man on totem pole, but at least the crew liked me. The guy ahead of me was a Texas A&M college boy, working for the summer, that the crew really hated. They pulled more pranks on that guy, stuff like driving off and leaving him in the middle of a field and going home.
Anyway, I was the designated sharpener of our tools. I was really good at it, sharpened up machetes and brush hooks with a file. We had been cutting along a fence line and all our tools were dull. At lunch, I took them all and started sharpening them up. They sent the Aggie over to help me. I showed him how to sit on the handle of the brush hook and hang the blade over the edge of the tailgate of the truck. Showed him how to stay away from the edge of the blade, because it curves forward, so you have to be real careful. He either wasn't paying attention or wasn't listening to me because I was a kid. He pretty much immediately sliced deep into his palm and forearm with that brush hook. He turned kind of white. Blood was just shooting out. He started running around and they had to grab him and apply a tourniquet to his arm. The crew chief had to take him to the hospital and he lost several days of work. Worst self inflicted cutting wound I've seen someone do to themselves.

The other one that sticks out in my memory was on an exceptionally hot summer day, probably 102 and humid as hell in Houston. I was cutting brush for a line of sight and started cutting into this really old thick ironskinned thorn bush. My machete was practically bouncing off this thing. So I gave it a really hard hit, all my strength and the machete popped out of my hand and went spinning (in slow motion, can still see it) up in the air and landed on the back of my hand. At least it didn't cut deep. No hospital.

Wolvesclaw
 
Originally posted by Skeletor
My jaw literally dropped when I read that knuckle thing. Did they have to reattach the tendon or something? I don't have any knife injuries, there really isn't all that much knife work to be done around here.
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The khuk went in a little less than 3/16 of an inch. When it landed on my knuckle I was not really chopping at the time but "shaving" small branches off the larger ones so luckly I wasn't using full power! The khuk cut the tendon and started to split the joint. The Docs fixed me up real well and my finger is 100% with a small scar!


I'm proud to say I'm much more careful now and I hope I never get cut again as it tends to hurt like H*ll!!!!:p
 
Funny about knives; they don't hurt going in too much, nor coming out. ( not having experienced one through my kidney I can say this) But soon after hurt like hell, and for days after smart.


munk
 
Originally posted by munk
Funny about knives; they don't hurt going in too much, nor coming out. ( not having experienced one through my kidney I can say this) But soon after hurt like hell, and for days after smart.


munk
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I'll second that! When I had the Bar/Lounge/Pkg store:

My doorman was having difficulty with a customer wanting to take his drink outside. I went over to back him up with a night stick.
The customer dropped a knife out of his sleeve? It happened so fast.
He came after me, and dumb me, instead of laying the night stick across his temple, fearful I might kill him, I opted to strike his shoulder bone and elbow to disarm him. He was much better than me. Slid that knife thru the double looped stitching of my belt loop, thru my thick western belt, pants and MISSING MY VITAL ORGANS, just punctured my intestine and sliced my forearm where I must have seen it coming and tried to deflect it. Didn't feel a thing until I felt the warmth of the blood. Took me out of commision for a while.
My people were on 911 trying to get assistance. THEY wanted to know how big the knife was etc. I finally (going into shock) grabbed the phone and talked to the dispatcher. I won't relate the comments I made!
 
I just thought of another careless injury i inflicted on myself. Tried opening a taped cardboard box at work with a philips screwdriver over the summer. wedged the bit under the tape and pulled up thinking that the tape would just pop off and the box would open. well the tape popped alright and the upward force i was exherting was enough to land the bit of the driver deep into the skin of my right temple causing a nice 1 1/2 gash. didn't bleed a whole lot, but it rang my bell. the dr. used that new liquid stitches stuff to keep it shut. Took 2 weeks to get that crap out of my hair. The more i think about it, maybe i should not be buying Khuks;)


Dangerous Jake
 
Originally posted by lcs37
I'll second that! When I had the Bar/Lounge/Pkg store:

My doorman was having difficulty with a customer wanting to take his drink outside. I went over to back him up with a night stick.
The customer dropped a knife out of his sleeve? It happened so fast.
He came after me, and dumb me, instead of laying the night stick across his temple, fearful I might kill him, I opted to strike his shoulder bone and elbow to disarm him. He was much better than me. Slid that knife thru the double looped stitching of my belt loop, thru my thick western belt, pants and MISSING MY VITAL ORGANS, just punctured my intestine and sliced my forearm where I must have seen it coming and tried to deflect it. Didn't feel a thing until I felt the warmth of the blood. Took me out of commision for a while.
My people were on 911 trying to get assistance. THEY wanted to know how big the knife was etc. I finally (going into shock) grabbed the phone and talked to the dispatcher. I won't relate the comments I made!
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WOW,glad you are a ok!!!! So what happened to the thug???
 
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