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

I've had several "encounters" with my sharpies:D worst was when I (having my head firmly in my arse) left an ax laying about....anybody ever stepped on an ax? it's no fun I tell ya:eek: thing went in the rear if my foot deep enough to let some VERY dark red blood flow,didn't go to the medics..just packed it with patrolium jelly a large gauze pad and some clear packing tape,bleeding didn't come to a full halt for 24hrs.(oozing blood that long gives one new respect for sharp things)

*edit* oh yea..I love guns,carry a Glock 21 .45 auto every day
 
About a month ago I was helping my housemate make a house for his toroise by cutting a large door in a plastic container for him. It got to the point where the piece I was cutting was to flimsy to make a turn cutting away from myself, so foolishly breaking the golden rule I figure I'd be careful and readjust my grip while going around the corner. Needless to say the blade ended up going through the remaining piece of plastic like butter, I got 8 stitches and a tetanus shot while the tortoise got his house. I at least got some solice knowing that the tortoise was no longer homeless until my buddy kindly pointed out that "It's a tortoise, it has a house on its back".

-Lindey
 
The worst cut I ever recieved was when I accidentlly stabbed myself in the calf with my kabar impact warthog.It went in over a quater of an inch and bled like a mother.:barf: I didn't get it stitched cause I hate hospitals but now I have a really big scar.
 
I once stabbed a pitchfork through my foot. I didnt even notice until I looked down and saw it- there was no pain.

I had a large machete leaning on a piano while I was cleaning up, and stepped down on the sharpened top edge, slicing my toe (barefoot) I actually once got a similar and more painfull cut on the same foot by steping on a clam shell in the lake.

I stupidly swung the blade of my Cuda Maxx 7.0 into my knuckle, leaving a deep and painfull cut, and a nice bloody spot on the blade. (my most recent cut)

I once fell and cut the left side of my chin on a dresser pull, cutting all the way through and getting 18 stitches.

Well, thats all I can think of offhand, funny that my worst cut was from a dresser and not a knife:rolleyes:
 
When I was around 6 or 7 we used to have an avacado tree in the back yard. Took one to the kitchen and tried to open it with a butcher knife. Holding the side of it as I was cutting down, I sort of slipped, and my hand ended up being right under the avacado, and right under the blade. Cut from one corner of my hand to the other. Was wrapped up for a couple weeks. Strangely, I get cut less now that I'm a huge knife nut.
 
I managed to stab myself in the face with a Mora 2000 once. I was camping in my garden as a teenager and decided to sleep with it in my hand as protection against any bears that may have been lurking in the flowerbeds. So I fell asleep, woke up a few minutes later, went to rub my eyes and... ouch. Right between the eyes. An inch either way and I'd have had a sweet eyepatch for the rest of my life. Arr.
 
just bought my caly zdp. Was waiting for the bus and polishing it on my leg. woops...slipped...didnt feel a thing...nice little 2 in slice in my leg. Healed on its own ok.
 
My worst cut was at work cutting a piece of hose with a dull Stanley Utility knife. I don't remember how it happened but I cut a finger fairly deep. My other cut came from a Gerber Compact Sport that I just took out of the package after buying. Too excited to read the directions, I didn't know the knife snapped back into the handle of the tool. Fumbling around, I had a finger at the top of the handle when the blade snapped back into the handle after slicing my finger...it was more like a paper cut but was sore for a few days:eek:
 
I have had many knife related accidents, and cut/stabbed myself many times. The one cut that I consider the worst, though, was probably the smallest I have ever had.

I was using an imperial jacknife to cut some cardboard into strips at 2 am. I probably should have quit and gone to sleep, but I wanted to finish what I was doing. Anyway, the cardboard was on a workbench and I was cutting toward myself. My left hand was pressing down on the sheet of cardboard. I was going pretty fast, and the next thing I knew, I had sliced off the skin on the tip of my left index finder.

For anyone who has not experienced this, it is very painful. I put the piece of skin back on, and kept it in place while it healed. It healed very slowly. I still have a circular scar on the tip of my finger.

TheSurvivalist
 
Well I got great pics of it but don't use hosting services so this forum is a no-go for posting it.

The injury is thanks to a Spyderco Ronin. An overtightened sheath screw made removal difficult when I received it, and when I finally succeeded, my left pinkie had wandered into harm's way.

A little further than halfway through my finger. Blood spurted on the wall, but it didn't hurt at all. 6 Stitches though. That was years ago, and the tip is still slightly numb, but I'm over it.
 
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I dropped my spyderco Military on my leg. I think the tip went in and then the knife fell out. I didn't get stitches and now I have about a 2 square inches on my leg where hair grows no more. Took about a month to heal up.

I bandaged it up, drank a beer and went to sleep. Hurt to walk for a while.
 
Thought of yet another one...

I had just sharpened a Spydie JD Smith, and was about to close it, when it slipped from my grasp and fell. I didn't move out of the way fast enough, and the tip of the knife caught my knee. It sliced through my khakis, and gave me a nice deep cut on the top of my knee. Truthfully, I was more impressed with the ease in which it cut me, than worried about the cut.
 
Not the worst but the most recent -- yesterday whittling a stick into a twist/spiral pattern with my Buck 112 finger groove. Trying to make some deep cuts in the wood, took a long strong draw stroke and caught my right index finger (I'm left handed) and shaved a nice little piece of flesh right off the back of my finger. Those are the worst for putting iodine on, much worse than cuts.

I'm doing a pretty good job typing with my gauze bandage.
 
I cut my left index finger right over the middle joint down to the bone, twice. It still won't bend all the way closed.
 
By a sword....no. By a goat carcass, yes.

In no particular order -

I have removed a chunk from a finger with a first-gen Delica spyderedge while on the phone with a girlfriend, plyaing with the knife as we talked, that required quick-stop (stiptic powder) to stop bleeding.

Last year I was doing some full-out dynamic cutting drills on a goat carcass and hit it with a good number three, from stong hip to weak shoulder. However, my blade presentation was pretty crappy and the blade was not riding way out in front of the hand - long story short, I must have hit a rib and then I got to clean the inside of the finger with a dish sponge and Ajax, a truly special feeling, prior to pouring a pint of hydrogen peroxide into the wound, another special moment. After I made a wad of paper towel and my fist as one as we drove nearly an hour to the nearest emergency room.

The ER folks were really genuinely exciteable as I showed up with what was pretty obviously a knife wound, carrying a blade and pretty keyed up. The doc, upon explanation, told me goats are filthy and replete with neat stuff like Botulysm, which I knew and explained the Ajax and peroxide. He told me those items kill living tissue, to which I made a delicate inquiry whether said nasties are better dead along with a few skin cells or alive and thriving?

The next day my friends and I figured out a better splint/ protective padding and I resumed training - why waste a good week?

However, the doozie has to be when I was screwing around with friends in college and hit the hinge side of a door frame instead of the non-hinge side, as well as the window with the wires running thru it. Glass exploded, my arm was all the way thru, cold from elbow down and I got to see what tendon, muscle and fat looks like while still encased (more or less) inside my arm. Sorta like a diorama really.

It took a few moments of extendo-time to process thru "duct tape and peroxide are not going to fix that" and "hmm, so that's what that looks like...." and finally happened upon "oh, f()ck me...." I have all sorts of neat scars from that from pinkie to bicep.

And finally, the most irritating, I got bit by my dog on Thanksgiving last year in front of the entire family after dinner, on a freshly shampooed white area rug, the better to highlight the blood trail. The ER in town kept me there in a room for an hour and a half, refused to bring me a margarita or gin and tonic, and sent someone around when i called for a nurse and told her to bring me some Xylacaine in a syringe, a needle and thread, forceps and a few betadine wipes. The wife was unhappy as I told her to pay attention as she would be doing this next time.....

There are dozens of minor cuts and such, dropping a Mad Dog Bear Cat with wet hands and hearing it go "tink" as it bonked my shin bone, other stupid incidents with balisongs, etc.
 
Normark said:
Two weeks ago I fired a Microtech Combat Talon into the palm of my hand.. That was interesting!!!
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Eric, you made me spit my late-evening gin on the keyboard.....hope that heals up soon. :D
 
LFH said:
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.
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Been there. Smallest cut ever, more like a poke, but it bled for a good hour or more.

When you're new at something you're always much more careful than after years of experience. But I've handled knives all my life and have been sharpening them for a long time as well.

I was finishing up sharpening a cheap Gerber paraframe for a guy at work. I always finish on a steel, so I had it in the office steeling it. Somehow the knife lost contact with the steel and the point managed to find its way into the knuckle on top of my left index finger. Everything got cold for a second and then the blood came. So much blood that I could hear it dripping in pools on the floor.

I didn't go to the hospital. They couldn't have done anything that I didn't do. The cut was too small to stitch, I just happened to tap a vein. I wrapped it good, cleaned up the blood and went about my day. The cut healed pretty quick, but it took a few days for the swelling to go down and to regain full feeling and movement.

It hurts to think about it right now.

But it's little lessons like that that have to happen so that we remember to respect the blade. I can put a wicked edge on a knife, but it's also important to know what that edge is capable of.
 
The worst cut I ever received from a knife was when my friend went for me with one of the knives we'd just liberated from the skip outside the IXL Wostenholm factory near our homes in Sheffield, England. It was only as a joke and only a small folder but as I put my hand out as a reflex it cut my forefinger to the bone. We were only 12/13 at the time; it was the most blood I’d ever seen.

We liberated many, many knives from that skip and latterly from the closed down factory in the early 1980's. It's sad to say, that out of the 100's that passed through my hands I retained none. I regret that very much.
 
Considering I am blind, collect knives and train with them my worst cut is pretty minor. I was attempting to prevent a friend from snaking a BM nimravus out of its sheath on my hip. Instead of grabbing his wrist I grabbed the blade as he drew it upward. I had some really nice cuts on my hand (combo edge donchaknow) but didn't get anything deep enough to warrant the ER.
 
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