Sharp enough to slice your finger off! *Graphical*

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aarya

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Well, first off. Warning!! Danger!! Warning!!
And all that yada, blood ahead!
(Didn`t really know if i should post it here, or somewhere else, so here it is. Mods, feel free to move or delete at whim.)

Oh, and no. I didn`t really cut my finger off. I`ve just made sure to have aiming aid for when i try again.

I enjoy sharp knives, and i`ve been known to sharpen knives whenever i`m bored. I enjoy sharpening knives, even completely new knives, just to get that 'little extra' sharpness.
Well, suffice to say.. I`ve been a longtime member of the "It ain`t your knife if it hasn`t bit you yet." club.
Today, i got a Fallkniven wm1 (with 3g laminate steel) in the mail, and ofcourse, i had to sharpen it a bit, then toy with it. I wanted to check how the back of the knife did on our beloved firesteel. And i was surprised, cause the wm1 bit very aggressively into the firesteel, so sharply infact, that i lost my grip on the firesteel, and sliced part of my pinky clean off!
And it didn`t even hurt! That was probably what amazed me the most.
(The firesteel in question is one of those you get cheaply online, without a handle. I have a lightmyfire army firesteel with handle... And let`s just say, that i`m sceptical towards using those unhandled ones again. Slippery they are.)

So, i`m looking at my knife, where a piece of my finger hangs onto the blade, and my pinky, which is missing a 1/2" by 1/2" piece of flesh. (About 1/8" thick.) Looking cleanly into your own flesh, is an interesting experience.
Slowly, it start to bleed. I just calmly walk to the medicine cupboard, get some stuff, and wrap it up. (The wound, not the knife.)

So, i suppose.. Here`s a question for ya fellas, just before the obligatory picture.
What would you use to close/bind an open wound, in the wild? Any plants to look out for? Or is it simply the general 'wrap with cloth, apply pressure' rule that is worth remembering?


Aaaanyway... Enough yapyap.

Heeeere`s the obligatory!

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The cut is right on the first joint from the hand, on the "bottom" of the hand, if that makes sense. :confused:

Now it`s your turn! :cool:
 
Like Grandma said, Boy ,hand me a cotton ball and some duct tape and git on out there and play ,hush all that crying...
 
If I had a dollar for everyone on the forums who bit themselves the first day they got a new blade I could retire.

"hand me a cotton ball and some duct tape and git on out there and play ,hush all that crying"

Same here but only after a few slaps uside the head for being stupid.

Skam
 
Take the Rambo III approach. Pour gun powder and light that scat. POW fixed!
 
In most cases the standard procedure: i would let it bleed for a short wile an then make a compression bandage. For desinfection (and many other tasks as well) i carry a small bottle of ballistol.
A good plant you can use is Plantago major, crush the leaves and apply them to the wound, this has a haemostatic effect.
By the way, you can also use its leaves as natural blisterpads - i really love this plant!
 
Hopefully I have sterile cotton bandages with me... if not I would use a piece of clothing.
 
In the north east I'd use Sorghum moss, In the southern states cotton grows there. Out here in the south west I have used agave, yucca or one of the broad leaf cacti.
White wood ash is a disinfectant wash. Oak barks can be boiled in to a disinfectant tea. Cattail pollen heads are absorbent and make a protective dressing.
 
Recently slit the tip of my thumb, all the way across about 3/16" under the nail bed, think it nicked the bone tip. Let it bleed quite a while, hit it with betadyne and superglued the entire tip of the thumb from the last joint out. Built up a number of layers till it was a hard shell, left it on there for 9 days. No pain, no infection, but real hard to pick things up....
 
I did worse
I have ten stitches in my hand from playing with a benchmade right now
I remained calm and collected in the emergency room, it was the doctor that freaked
 
I hacked a 3/4" cut down at an angle in my left hand index finger about two weeks ago. It was with my Benchmade Griptilian. I had the knife so sharp I didn't feel the cut, I just stared at it in disbelief at how stupid I was. It was on the middle link of my finger. It has taken this long to heal up almost completely. I would probably use a small amount of water and an iodine tab and wait for it to dissolve. Then pour that on the wound and wrap it up afterwards.
 
Klutz! :D

I chopped up the pad on my left swearing finger and sat around the emergency room for HOURS to get four lousy stitches. The intern was brand new to his ER rotation and no one even looked under the bandage before he starting taking my medical history-- after five hours of sitting around. He finally said, "okay let's get the bandage off and take a look." I said, "do you want me to go out to my truck and get the other piece?" Heheheh--- I though he was going to fall over. MADE YOU LOOK, DOC!
 
I just cut myself with my new henckels kitchen knife. I was all excited about actually have a good quality kitchen knife and not having to use my pocket knives anymore and didnt even realized I pulled the knife right over my finger. It didnt even hurt(at first) I just felt like an idiot and stared at ot for a bit. Then I realized my dinner was buring and found out I didnt have any bandaids in the house. Needless to say its hard to cook dinner while trying not to bleed all over it.
 
I seldom cut myself but I can advise you to not use spit and a finger to clean a SAK OHT. I did that and sliced the tip of my index finger open for my troubles.

Ooooh, that smarts! Too many nerve ends there...
 
Some years ago I was whittling when the blade got stuck mid stroke in the wood. Instead of giving the edge a quick touch up,I decided to push through the problem, and in doing so continued to slice through the top pad of my left index finger, created a flap of sorts. Cleaned it up put the flap in it's proper position, gauzed it up and was good to go. Come to think of it,still haven't got complete feeling in that pad. Nor have I done any more whittlin'.
 
orrey45 said:
I just cut myself with my new henckels kitchen knife. I was all excited about actually have a good quality kitchen knife and not having to use my pocket knives anymore and didnt even realized I pulled the knife right over my finger. It didnt even hurt(at first) I just felt like an idiot and stared at ot for a bit. Then I realized my dinner was buring and found out I didnt have any bandaids in the house. Needless to say its hard to cook dinner while trying not to bleed all over it.
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I had just bought some Henkels (sp?) and got them pretty sharp. I cut my thumb, as most cooks do. It was pretty darn bad and was bleeding for a while. You're right it is a bit hard to cook when you have one hand and trying not to bleed on the food.

The kicker to the story is when I was washing the knives afterwards I cut my middle finger on the opposite hand. That one was pretty deep and didn't stop bleeding when I bumped for a day or so.

My wife just laughs anymore.
 
p'chop said:
Some years ago I was whittling when the blade got stuck mid stroke in the wood. Instead of giving the edge a quick touch up,I decided to push through the problem, and in doing so continued to slice through the top pad of my left index finger, created a flap of sorts. Cleaned it up put the flap in it's proper position, gauzed it up and was good to go. Come to think of it,still haven't got complete feeling in that pad. Nor have I done any more whittlin'.
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Same here with the feeling in the finger. I put the flap of my left index finger down in place and covered it up for about a week or so until it just looked like a red line (still does). Now there is a slight bump there and I can't feel that part of the skin. It tingles when I poke it, kind of like when your hand is asleep. I was trying to baton with my little knife to see if it would work. I slipped on the initial hit and slid down and caught my hand. I haven't done that since either.
 
I cut into my finger a few days ago with a Kershaw folder. I let it bleed, applied pressure for about 5 minutes to get it to stop spurting blood. I cut it at a sharp angle, so after cleaning it with hydrogen peroxide and iodine, and used some steri-strips to pull it together.

I thought about using superglue, but I haven't tried that before.
 
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