So what is your worst cut from one of your knives

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thefirstsuspect

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So yesterday I was doing cutting tests and I managed to cut 1/8th inch piece of skin of my finger which I retrieved of the floor shortly there after! Whats your worst cut and how did you get it?
 
Was 10 or 11, for some reason I was trying to disassemble the regulator on a high pressure air paintball tank...allen screw broke the end off my allen key so I decided I'd stick the tip of a knife in there and get it out...cheapo linerlock failed, knife folded shut over my right pointer finger and cut it to the bone. I turn 22 next week and still have little to no feeling (except soreness when it's cold) on that entire side of my finger.
 
I laid about a 1 inch gash in my upper thigh with a scimitar shaped exacto knife carving a Boy Scout neckerchief slide, fortunately my uncle who is a surgeon was visiting us and he used some " butterfly" sutures to close it up. I thought eveyone within 5 miles could hear me yell for help but they said they barely heard me. BTW this was about 56 years ago and the scar is very visible to me still.
 
I've been lucky the last few yrs. Had one bad cut on my thumb yrs ago when I was showing my kids how NOT to use a blade... Wow..really dumb. I think my kids got the point.
sonnydaze
 
I cut myself as bad as if I were in a knife fight when I was in high school. Spot-lighting deer on a friends ranch one mid October night (hey, at least we weren't dealing drugs and burglarizing homes. Besides, the guy who did the shooting went on to become a game warden in S. Texas) we shot a small buck. When we approached I noticed it was still alive so I grabbed it's left antler with my left hand and reached over with a 3.5 Stainless Gerber fixed blade in my right hand and cut it's throat with a hard, adrenaline fueled downward strike. At the end of strike I pulled the blade into the outside of my left wrist between the bony knob and hand where a watchband would go. I cut a tendon almost all the way through. Next day I was laying on a hand surgeons operating table with my boots covered in deer and my blood trying to repair the tendon. He was a hunter and friend of my parents and he kept saying "You started the season a little early didn't you."

He said if I cut what little thread still holding the tendon together he would have had to open my arm from hand to elbow to retract the end. I was in a plaster cast like I had a broken arm for over a month. To this day, almost thirty years later, I still feel pangs of pain and the top of my left hand above the ring finger is still fuzzy feeling because the nerves never completely rejuvenated.
 
I opened an SAK wrong one time and it cut a little skin off my face...

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Was flipping a Bradley Kimura VII.


The handles are very slippery.


The blade is very pointy.


My leg is pretty soft.
 
Closed a cheap Buck 110 knockoff on my index and middle fingers when I was probably 12-13. Cut the index to the bone, both needed stitches.
 
Well I got better.

No but this thread makes me suck my teeth reading it. Worst injury I've ever received was when I was 13 or so and my grandfather told me "be careful!" As he threw his hands in front of me both of which scared me and made me slice my other hand an inch and a half.

I've seen others shooting OTF knives through their hands and require months of physical therapy, knew a guy who jumped on his bed with a fixed blade out who got a deep cut into his back that required surgery.
 
I haven't cut myself too bad, *knock on wood* most of them were with dull knives and I was dumb and cutting towards myself. The most recent one I can remember happened a couple of years ago. I had used my Swiss Army Knife to open a package and set it on my bed without closing it. I had a bunch of other crap on my bed and later when I went to grab something I sliced my right hand ring finger pretty good. Not to the bone or anything but there really isn't much meat there to cut so it bled pretty good. I started to lose feeling in it so I ended up wrapping it in paper towels and duct taping it really tight and holding it. It healed up pretty well but I did have a scar there up until recently.

I have had some close calls though. I'm surprised I didn't end up stabbing myself from throwing knives that bounced back off of trees towards me. I few years ago I remember one bouncing back right between my legs. Blade end or not, that wouldn't have been fun.
 
When I was about 7 I slipped while trying to drive the tip of a knife into a log, and my hand went down the length of the blade with my fist still gripping it. Sliced each finger wide open and felt the serrations bouncing off bone on two of them. It was one of those moments where I really didn't want to tell anyone because of how dumb it was and I would (and did) get my knife taken away, but it was also one of those moments when you're a kid and seeing that much blood makes you think it might actually be worth telling an adult. I thought about it for a couple minutes before finally telling someone. Serrations make nasty cuts.
 
The only times that I have cut myself is when using a knife as I shouldn't. When I as about 55, I was installing some 8/4 Romex wiring to the garage for a 220V welder. That stuff is extremely stiff and very hard to work with. I was cutting the outer covering, but wanted a precise cut as this is where the wiring was going into the receptacle. I was in a hurry, and I was getting tired of wrestling this tough wire, so I grabbed the wire with my left hand and was splitting the cover from the end towards my hand between the inner wires. About 1/2" from the end of the cut, the tip started digging into the inner wire insulation. Thinking that I had to be very careful here, I backed off a little, re directed the cut slightly, and started applying pressure. Well needless to say, it slipped and I ended up with stitches in my index finger. Note to self, if you can visualize how a particular cut can cut your finger before you start the cut, don't make the cut.
 
I ran my delica the length of my left index finger a couple of months ago. It filleted it open pretty good and required stitches. The worst part was telling people how I cut my self.... Opening the USPS box that contained my new Domino. I guess I got too excited and became careless. Lesson learned!
 
OnionPoptarts said:
I opened an SAK wrong one time and it cut a little skin off my face...
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Okay, now that was very funny.


I have caused exsanguination on two occasions. Both involved my attempt to vivisect a cardboard box - once with a CQC-7, and the other with a Military.

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