So what's the worst cut you've received?

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sledheavy

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I can only imagine how many people in this ring have been cut multible times on many occasions. But as far as scars go, I'm interested to hear how many of you actually went to the hospital over a knife wound.

Personally I don't have much room to brag. But I have grabbed the bite handle of a balisong a few times, and nothing feels better then that thing rolling over you're knuckles. Appart from that, karambit scars, and a few cuts from a lone wolf. Damn that thing really hurt. I tried to reverse open it and the blade came back into my knuckle (right in front of my manager of course), the scar tissue is still there. Any cut is better then getting complained at by her.
 
When i was about 10 i used my SAK to cut a little twig off a stick i was trying to make a spear from while cutting towards myself :rolleyes: ...I slipped and it went right on to slash my ring finger all the way to the bone. I saw the bone when i pulled the skin apart and definitley should have went to the hospital instead on putting a butterfly bandaid on it and wrapping it up. Probably wuld have got 4 stitches instead of the ugly scar on my finger.
 
When I was about 12 I cut myself with a Vic Tinker. It bled alot. but I didn't go to the hospital. Most recently I was cut by one of my axes. Didn't feel so hot, but again didn't go to the hospital.
 
I cut myself with a Rat-3 here about a month ago on my left index finger, waited 5 hrs in an ER until the doc got to me and when he pulled her bakc we both saw bone. Took 4 stiches to close her up and it still hurts when I press on it, sadly I have cut myself 2 more times with 2 other knives in almost the exact same spot, this last week. I have been stabbed in the leg about 2 inches down and that hurt, but thats a stab. My litte brother ran threw a glass door with his arms when he was 7, took 80 some stiches to close up the cuts on his arms, nearly bled to death on the way to the hospitol, I aint ever seen anything like that, so even when I get stiches I cant really complain.
 
I got a cut on my index finger from a CRKT Red Dog linerlock (way before LAWKS) that failed one me. 3 stitches, permanent nerve damage. Needless to say, I'm none too fond of CRKT anymore. :mad: :thumbdn:

The only other time I went to the hospital for a cut was when I dropped my BM31S balisong tip down onto my ankle (sitting crosslegged). Tiny hole, but deep. Didn't hurt, didn't bleed when it happened. Superglued it up, went to bed. Next morning, I woke to ridiculous pain, couldn't move my foot without it hurting, certainly couldn't support my weight. The ER doc didn't even touch my cut (said my superglue job was perfect), but they took X-rays to make sure the bone wasn't damaged (just bruised).
 
I've gotten pretty big plain edge cuts.. but I'll take those anyday compared to even a small serrated edge cut. man oh man those hurt! I whacked myself with a spyderedge one time on the tip of my finger and it was like hitting your finger with a hammer pain. This is why IMO the spyderco civilian is the scariest knife in the world! :eek:
 
The first cut I remember was back in 4th or 5th grade with my SAK (my first quality knife). I don't remember what I was doing, but got a nice little cut across the tip of my finger. I was freaking out and afraid my parents would be mad at me so I tried to hide and stop the bleeding with a few pieces of TP at a time :o .

Recently I cut across the tip of my ring finger w/my Spyderfly. It was only ~1.5mm deep, but that's the worst I've do so far.... :D
 
Not me, but my wife. She was cutting something in the kitchen in her bare feet when she dropped the kitchen knife. BTW, I keep all of our cutlery razor sharp. She jumped up and back.....the knife did the same. The odds were kind of like hitting the PowerBall but the knife came down with the blade UP as her foot came down on it.

Totally butterflied her big toe. By the time I got to her, she was on a seat with her foot in the sink wrapped in a towel. There was blood everywhere.

At the ER, the MD was extremely impressed with the "surgical" incision that the knife made. We proceeded to get into a lengthy discussion on the best sharpening techniques. Wifey-poo had to shout at us to get us out of our "man reverie" to get her toe sewn back together and a tetanus shot in the rear. This was absolutley NOT a SuperGlue moment (witness other thread).

It healed perfectly.
 
love4steel said:
I've gotten pretty big plain edge cuts.. but I'll take those anyday compared to even a small serrated edge cut. man oh man those hurt! I whacked myself with a spyderedge one time on the tip of my finger and it was like hitting your finger with a hammer pain. This is why IMO the spyderco civilian is the scariest knife in the world! :eek:
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I agree. I only have plain edge blades generally, but I did buy a Spyderedge blade from Spyderco that's a 4" paring knife. Thought that it would be good for slicing some tough skinned things like tomatoes. (It is).

Had my head up the butt the other day and somehow whacked the end of my finger. Saw the blood long before I felt the pain. It does not take much to hurt yourself with the thing. Wife is no longer allowed to use it. I'm not so sure that it would make a surgical cut on her toe.
 
One night, I decided to use my Spyderco Military to separate a couple of tuna steaks (rather than a dull butter knife, or defrosting them in the microwave). So I start to slide the Military between the steaks, wedging it in, when it goes between the steaks, and hits my pinky. Instantly lost feeling in the finger, and I thought I'd cut the tip off. After jumping around like an idiot for a few minutes, I opened my hand and to my relief saw that I still had a whole pinky. Went to the hospital and had 6 stitches put in. Doctor said to give it a couple months and I'd have full motion and feeling again...boy was he wrong.
 
How timely :) Just a couple of weekends ago, I was helping my wife in the garden doing the fall cleanup thing. I was using a Buck Diamondback 4.25 to trim down the old tall dead flowers, I was gathering up the flowers with knife in hand (duh!!!!) and the blade tagged my thumb between my hand and first joint on my right hand. It didn't look that bad (a guy thing :) ) and it didn't "touch" me very hard - turned out I took out 90 percent of one tendon, 70 of the other and an artery. 10 to 12 stitches by the time they were done. Currently in a splint for the next 5 weeks or so before physio. Says a lot for the Diamondback in one way - I was doing a lot of cutting and digging with it before it bit me.

- gord
 
Dang, pretty wild thread to read right after breakfast...
Make me feel better about the couple of times I've nicked the tip of my thumb. Worst one of those happened right in front of my wife, cutting some rope with my BM707 and punctured left thumb. Bled all over the rope and the bed of my truck; she laughed and said "nice knife...is it new? Don't get any blood on my new sofa" (we were loading it in the back of the truck).
 
My Northstar chomped my left ring finger pretty good when cutting some cardboard. I was trimming down a divided wine box for use as a camping organizer. The Northstar was cutting with less resistance than I thought... Blood flowed well and dripped a lot of places even under my initial grip.

I debated the stitches route, but went with sustained direct pressure with gauze and tape. Even latent oozing stopped within the hour. Finger was out of commision for a couple of days, but healed wel, no infection and a nice clean cut that bonded back together quickly. Ended up without a scar at all.

Best knife scar is from a CRKT Point Guard on my left forefinger right next to the second knuckle.

Phil
 
When I was a young teenager, I spent a lot of time sharpening my old Western fixed blade hunting knife. This baby was SCARY sharp! One thing I enjoyed doing, was to slice the ends off 3x5 index cards. Of course, the knife would readily do this all day. One day, I guess I wasn't paying too much attention, and missed the cardboard index card. Hit my finger dead on, and sliced all the way down to the bone. Still have the scar; 5 stitches.
 
Working in a knife store one day, I was showing a customer a Shun (Kershaw) Yanagiba sushi knife. He wanted to see if it fit into a line of generic kitchen knife sheaths we sold. So I started trying to put it in. I pushed and pushed... no dice. Then, the knife slipped. The point of the blade penetrated a good half an inch into the base of my palm. I'd never seen blood spurt like that before. So what did I do? I grabbed a rag, held it to the cut, put my hand behind my back, and continued selling the knife, of course! Well, probably out of guilt as much as anything the customer bought a knife (a $150 sale!) I tried to stop the bleeding myself for a couple of minutes, but, after soaking through several rags, I broke down and went to the hospital. I was stitched up and back at work in three hours.
 
Holy hell, I'm just glad no one showed any pictures.

I do think serrated knives suck the most, they leave the flaps of skin over enormous bites. In fact one time at work I had a little old lady ask for a native 2, after pulling it off the wall and taking it to the counter I realized that I had bled all over the place. I agree with spyderNOIR though, you gotta do what you gotta do, and making a sale with a shun wound would really hurt.

So on a scale of high to low of worst cuts, I'd say:

Lone Wolf
Spyderco
benchmade
kershaw (avalanche)
swiss army
karambit
cold steel

Sorry to put cs down, but I'm being honest, that retarded peacekeeper 2 didn't even slice through the top layer of skin.

No one got cut by a sword huh?
 
ERdept said:
I was stabbed in the heart when my girlfriend cheated on me. ;)
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I hear ya,

When I first started using knives, I was trying to get the blinking thing out of a pair of shoes that blink. I ended up stabbing the fleshy part of my hand between my thumb and index finger. the blade on my crosslock was nice and sharp and it went in about 3/8". I stiched myself up that time.
 
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