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

Worst "cut" (an it wuz only 3 stitches) was during the Korean War. Now I was only 12, but my buddy and I played "sojers" all the time an we got the bright idea to use a Star-Kist tuna carton for a Chinese sentry at the Chosin reservoir an we wanted to ...TAKE HIM OUT. So we each had huntin knives an snuck up on the box an stabbed the star. (it was the guard's ..heart..ya see)
Well, real quick the box began to ...BLEED! Yep, my blood. I looked at my finger tendon an told Gary I hadda go home.
............................BUT.........................
FUNNIEST...injury wasn't a cut, but a PIERCING. We owned a franchise haircut place in Modesto and one night I had to go down for some reason and I found that the "girls" had managed to screw up the cash register so bad that it would take HOURS to reconstruct the day.
I promptly exclaimed, "DARN" (or something similar) and picked up the desk spindle and attempted to drive it through the counter.

....uh.....desk spindles....are not fastened very well at the base.....

So ...the spindle simply went through the base......and my hand.

I looked down and my hand looked like a circus tent or (wot I told the wife, a "yurt") The top of the hand was not pierced. The REST of the hand sure was though. Spindle up through hand and holding the skin up like a yurt.

Hadda call home an tell wife that I had to go get a tetanus shot.

Still got the scar. DUMB....but funny....NOW.

:eek: :D
 
Does a t-handle prybar completely through the lower jaw count? If not I'd have to say it was from a fixed blade hunting knife about 10 years ago. Fell on my leg and stabbed (not cut) all the way to the bone, doing major nerve damage. I had to relearn how to walk because I could not (and still cannot) feel anything in over half of my left thigh.
As far as actual cuts, not stabs, I've been lucky so far. The only real cuts have been from chainsaw blades breaking and digging into my legs.
 
Putting the final touches on sharpening a 9" chefs knife, and for some reason was holding the stone in my left hand. Looked up for a second and sliced the top off the knuckle of my left index finger. It was really eery to feel a little bump and look down to see a peice of flesh gone :eek: In the end it wasn't that bad of a cut, bout the size of a dime, nothing to stich. Had it in a splint for a couple days and then just had to keep it wrapped. Wasn't really that bad of a cut, but really disturbing how easy you can take peices clear off.

I've had other cuts that were alot worse, but not knife related for the most part.
 
Lets see i've only been cut once or twice and not too bad.

The one i remember was on a road trip. We went to an outdoors shop and i bought a bowie they had. I pulled it out of the sheath and forgot where i had placed my finger :rolleyes: . I tried hiding so my parents wouldn't be mad but it was no big deal.
 
the worst cut i ever recieved was actually the smallest.
smallest knife too!

spyderco ladybug II, on my thumb in the fleshy part under the nail.

i thought i was gonna throw up, who gets cut there?!
thats what fingernails are for!

it was actually pretty deep, between boughts of nausea, i was entertaining myself using my thumb as a puppet, as it now had a mouth :barf:

the cut healed in like 2 days, but come on!! who gets cut there??!!
a millimeter to either side it would have missed totally or bit into the callouse of my thumb.
 
When I was 15, I had a Kershaw Amphibian and was sitting around with a group of freinds. I was playing with it on the couch and set it unsheathed next to me on the couch. One of my freinds sat next to/on me, so I slid over real fast. Stuck that evil double edge 4 inches deep in my hip! I recieved 5 stitches on the outside, 4 on the in inside of the wound. Yes, I was a dumbass! :rolleyes:
 
Six Weeks ago I dropped my Cuda Maxx 5.5 while slicing tomatoes for breakfast. Although I withdrew my leg, it stabbed me in my calf. The wound was small but deep. It hurt like hell and had me jumping all around the kitchen, spreading the blood evenly.

But as I like to look at the bright side of things: It's just one scar more and cushioning the fall with my calf prevented breaking the tip of the blade.
 
Worst cut I ever got was on New Year's Eve ~10 years ago.
Had a female friend over and I was impressing her with my culinary skills. Had some tough as leather, sun-dried tomatoes on which I decided to try out my brand new, never-been-used, razor sharp Spyderco Santoku knife. Started cutting up those dry, hard tomatoes by keeping the tip of that knife on the board and really pressing down hard on the handle and back of the blade to cut through that tomato leather...
Was watching what I was doing at first, but my lady friend asked me a question and I looked up to answer while still chopping hard on those tough tomatoes - bad idea!
Accidentally chopped down hard with the back part of the blade onto my left index fingernail and the blade just quickly and cleanly sliced through it at an angle. It continued on down and also chopped part of my index finger along with it. The whole chunk was just hanging by a thin strand of flesh.
Fortunately, my lady friend was not grossed out, but we did spend the better part of that New Year's Eve in the urgent care clinic.
The good thing was that the doctor didn't give me any stitches!
He just used this special medical "krazy glue" and gauze and glued my nail and flesh back together again!

It was a great learning experience because years later while visiting my Sis and bro-in-law, I did the same thing to the same finger while chopping onions. Duh!!!
Having learned from my prior incident, I used a small piece of paper towel and genuine Krazy Glue to glue my nail back in place again and hold it in place while it healed. The paper towel/gauze saturated with the krazy glue holds everything together while the nail bed heals and the nail grows out. It was as good as new again many months later...

Oh, a few years ago, I was cutting a hard chunk of parmesan cheese with a Victorinox paring knife and was cutting towards me... Sunk that blade into that same poor index finger all the way down to the joint, but that's another story...

And yes, since then, I'm much more careful with kitchen cutlery... :)

Cheers,
Mike
 
These stories had me laughing like crazy. :D Sorry I've none to relate.
TheFlash "Mike" do yourself a favor, stay out of the kitchen! Funny stories man, leave that finger alone..
 
oh god cuts....WELL im typing this right now with 4 stitches in my finger from my BM 41MC. :mad: This is my second time ive been to the hospital because of a cut from my knives :rolleyes: The last time i went to the hospital was in May, on the afternoon of my high school senior prom :mad: i didnt get stitches, instead they put some type of super glue over the big flap of skin that was hanging off. i felt dumb with the giant bright white wrap they put on my thumb. And the sad thing about this was i was simply cutting a piece of cheese, no not farting, literally cutting cheese. Also, one time i was fishing with my friend john (user name Lurp) and for some reason i decided to swing my Glock 78 Feild Knife at a Sunny that was flapping around on the shore and of course the blade went into my finger on my other hand :o ive wisened up since then :) and thats my life story. :D
 
I just got a minor one today. I had sharpend my kabar and was testing it out on a box and I sliced into my finger. It was one of thos cuts that don't really hurt but bleed like crazy. So I was in the bathrrom wiating for the blood to stop dripping and I start feeling woozy. So I thought if I faint I don't want to fall. So I kneel down on the floor and I all but fainted but I did not. So that was kind of wierd. I have gotten a simaler cut from the same knife BTW and I was all the way out by the woods. So I walk all the way to the house with blood dripping from my hand. I left a nice trail in the garage to. So those have been my two worst knife cuts. I hope they will be my last. but when you are a knife knut they are inevitable.

TBG
 
Sounds like some of the folks here need to take up a new hobby, maybe collecting rubber bands or tin foil...

Knitting? Oh no, nevermind; those knitting needles could be fatal!
 
Well the WORST cut I ever received came from a tent pole, but that is another story. The worst cut from a knife happened when I had had one of the crappiest days ever. I was venting about it to my wife while I was cutting open a blister pack (I don’t even remember what was in it). Now even though I have been carrying a knife for most of my life and am a very safe person judgment went straight out the window. I was looking at her and before I knew it WHAM! I stabbed my self in the hand...Clean through. In one side and out the other. My wife said "OHMYGOD! Are you ok?" (She had no Idea how bad it was) "Don't look at it!" I said as I calmly walked to the sink, gushing blood as I went. "How bad is it?" she said, "It's fine" I lied. I then proceeded to rap the wound tightly with a paper towel and then wrapped that with tape. At that point, I kid you not; I grabbed a beer and lay down on the couch. "Are you sure you don’t need stitches?" "Aaaaahhh, if it's still bleeding in the morning I'll go" (I never did). Yep I know, I was stupid, I even have insurance! I just didn’t want to spend the last of a terrible day at the hospital. What did I get out of this besides a lesson and a scar? My buddies call me Mountain man....and more often dumbass.

Here are some crappy pics of the wound a week after all the swelling and such went away. Entry and exit.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/Hillbillywolf/DSC00046.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/Hillbillywolf/DSC00047.jpg

PS incase your curious it was a Spyderco Endura 50/50 that bit me, and yes, I still carry it.
 
Thought of a few others today.

Lopped off half the skin on the second knuckle of my index finger. I took a swipe at an index card that angled down a little too soon.

Was tossing an Ontario Survival Bowie and catching it by the handle. One time I slipped, and it landed point first on my boot. I felt a little pinch, but didn't think anything of it until I noticed my foot felt wet.

Not a cut but a punture, one time after I was finished sharpening a filet knife. Somehow when I went to stand up, I stabbed myself in the thigh. The blade went in a couple of inches, but thankfully didn't do any damage other than leaving a hole.

Screwing around with a friend of mine in the kitchen. I grabbed the blade of a butter knife. He told me he was going to yank it from me if I didn't let go. I didn't let go, and he yanked. That one only went in half an inch or so.

I also have a couple that didn't come from knives. One day I slipped while I was trying to get a hook out of a shark's mouth. My finger went in, and he shut his mouth as I was pulling it out. I was surprised at how sharp those teeth can be. Lost quite a bit of the skin off the tip of my index finger. On another occassion, I was tossing a leader back out after untangling it. We used 8oz leads, so they had a bit of heft to them. Well, my hand was in the way, and one of the hooks caught my index finger, going about halfway through. To add injury to even more injury, the sinker swung around and struck me on the top of my head. I imagine that's what it's like to get hit in the head with a blackjack. Without thinking about it, I yanked the hook out, and tossed the leader back over again, this time without injuring myself.
 
My worst was from the LM Wave (old version) from the small flat screwdriver. I applyed pressure on the wrong side and it started to close and it slit my wrist.

God damn that was dumb. Good thing the new ones have locking tools. :D Hasn't happend since. :rolleyes:
 
Some of these are making me feel ill...

I was going to cut the tape on a box at face height with my newly reprofiled Delica, very aggressive edge on it. It was just loose in my hand as I hadn't reached what I was going to cut yet, so when I caught the tip in the side of the box my hand just slid onto the blade. It didn't feel quite right so I looked at my hand and blade was halfway through my finger. I opened my grip and the cut just gaped open.

Caused great amusement in work as they all know I'm the 'knife bloke'. Just means I've got MORE people asking me to sharpen their knives that sharp now.:D
 
I'm with you daverave, the back of my hand is starting to hurt from just reading all these horror stories. You would think it is close to halloween or something. :eek:

But, I had this brand new set of crock sticks back when they first came out, you know the ones WITHOUT any hand guards.

Blade glanced off the top of the left side and down onto the back of my hand. For and instant could look down into my hand. That was until the blood gushed. Talk about an adrenalin rush.

Took 8 stitches and still have a nasty scar.
 
y Guys...
Two years ago I Swiped a folder across the middle knuckle of my right hand middle finger,, damaged the tendon,, hospital missed it..Hasn't been the same since....

Son cut his palm open with a freshly sharpened Buck a few years ago...

Two weeks ago I fired a Microtech Combat Talon into the palm of my hand.. That was interesting!!!

Working with knives it's bound to happen..

I tell my wife: "Just be glad I don't work on guns! " :)

ttyle

Eric....
 
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