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

I've had plenty of nice cuts, but the worst of all my cuts wasn't from a knife at all, it was from punching my hand through a german stein. Glass was stuck in my finger, I pulled the glass out. My finger looked like swiss cheese. Didn't go to the hospital, although I regret not going because now I have a scar, and this cyst like thing that hurts like hell whenever I bend my finger.
 
I threw a dagger all the way through my foot(wearing socks). Another time I Jabbed a pair of needle nose pliers in my eye and tore off a lot of my cornea and once I was cutting a golfball open with a sak when I slipped and shaved the skin off my knuckle which exposed a pea sized area of bone.
 
I was chopping... thyme I think it was, and wasn't paying enough attention and the knife cut right through the nail of my left middle finger, stopping about halfway through the finger, I was at work at the time, and my white chef's uniform was now a red uniform.
 
I threw a dagger all the way through my foot(wearing socks).
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Makes me appreciate the fact that (when young) I always played mumbly-peg with small pocket knives or screwdrivers!

This is an eye-opening thread. Anyone want to buy some nice knives????

ANyone notice that most of the worst cuts were from playing with, training with, or sharpening their knives? Most of the cuts don't seem to be USE related.

That missed-sheath puncture was really scary, by the way. Yuck!
 
I just got another one; I grabbed my sak rally, and went to file my nail. Blade, not nailfile, and cut the tip of my finger. Ouch!
 
we saw that on the news, and my GF commented "I'll bet you'll see THAT on Bladeforums tomorrow..::D
 
Doesn't look like a big knife, but there must have been an unbelievably sharpened blade and point on that thing. Do you know how hard it is to penetrate the skull? Lot of folks have been hit in the head with some pretty high-caliber bullets that just glanced off.
 
I almost severed the top of my left middle finger with a Buckmaster. We were allowed to bring a knife to school to cut a lemon for a chemical exercise =) I thought i could make a nice impression with my old metal friend. It is not wise to look at your classroom-sweetheart-girl while cutting a lemon.... Ever since then i cut my foods with fingers folded in.
By the way, glad to be back after a while =) Nice to see the forum is stil in great shape =)
 
tons of minor cuts by flipping around folders, etc, but the worst was a wursthof trident chef's knife. my kitchen knives are super sharp, and i was washing it by hand with soap and a sponge. i turned from the sink for a second and somehow ran the blade over the part of my hand between my thumb and index finger. the interesting thing is how clean and straight the scar is, whereas all my other ones are jagged and less precise.
 
I have me fair share of cuts but the worst was self inflicted. While falling back into a deep couch me knife opened in my pocket and it pierced my scrotum almost severing my testicle. I have also been stabbed, cut with a sword, and the usual deep knife cuts.
 
I've had a bunch of them too, but here's a good 'un.

I was about 14, doing yard work for a nieghbor, clearing brush, cutting up small wood, that type of thing. This is a lot that used to have some out buildings on itm, understand, so theres.....stuff, around. So I'm cutting some branches with a bow saw(yeah, bow saw, picture it, grit your teeth, it's coming) down to managable sizes for burning, if I recall, and I hit a nail embedded in the branch, must have hung a cloths line from it 20 years before or something. Bow saw jumps on the nail, still moving forward on the cut and hits my left hand at the index knuckle. So I'm in shock still leaning over the cut with the saw still sitting on the branch, staring at all the cartiledge that used to be inside my knuckle, hanging from a saw tooth about ten inches ahead of my hand.

OUCH!!! On the upside, I can tell when it's gonna rain ahead of time, and it still pops in and outta joint on command, which is great as a party trick when I been drinkin...:D

Jon
 
Does a deli slicer qualify? Otherwise minor close calls
 
I lopped the end of my thumb off with a khukuri as I was splitting kindling while trying to entertain guests at the same time. Was out in the woods, so I had to use an old shirt to bandage it up. I could feel the end of the bone just poking through.

I got through half my finger with another khukuri; the bone stopped it from going any further. That one was stitches.

I was playing with a Spyderco Manix, just flipping it and whatnot. It got loose, did a flip in the air, and landed point down in my forearm. Some superglue fixed that one.

It's been fun reading all these stories.. I'd say keep it up, but that's probably not for the best.

Travis
 
My most notable ER visit..... It was a Friday night about 5 years ago and I just got back from a business trip. My son's Pinewood Derby race was the following morning and I had to put some weight in the car. I usually drill some holes and melt some lead in. Since it was late and I was in a hurry, instead of putting the car on the worktable, I stupidly hold it in my left hand and the drill in my right. You guessed it. The 1/2" bit went right through the car and into the base of my index finger. The doctors got a good chuckle out of it. Wifey told everyone the next morning at the race and they all got a good chuckle too. Son got first place in his race.
 
skunked said:
Don't remember but I think I was about 3 days old....
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I just experienced major shrinkage.

Years ago I was sharpening a kitchen knife on a cheap ceramic v type sharpener without guards. One little slip, and the knife went across the top of my left hand right above the index finger. There was no pain, but I knew it was bad. I slapped a towel on it and moseyed dwon to the ER. The intern took a quick look and called an orthopedic surgeon. Turns out I had sliced the tendons clean through, but since I never tried to bend the finger, he could stitch them back together in a minor operation. If I had bent the finger and the tendons retracted, he said he would have had to put me under for a much bigger operation.

Two weeks later when the splint came off and he told me to bend it, I almost passed out. That's when it hurt.
 
Yno said:
Turns out I had sliced the tendons clean through, but since I never tried to bend the finger, he could stitch them back together in a minor operation. If I had bent the finger and the tendons retracted, he said he would have had to put me under for a much bigger operation..
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Thats good to know, I'm pretty sure i'll need to use that information.
 
Though I have more slice wounds than I can count on one hand, none are self-inflicted. I'd like to share a recent story about a run in my friend Camilo had with my 806SD2.
So Camilo, a crazy Mexican, is playing with my new toy. I look away for just an instant, and I hear a gasp followed shortly afterwards by a thump. I looked over to see Camilo, his girlfriend Rachel, and about three onlooking spectators all staring at Camilo's left foot with jaws wide open. He had dropped the knife from chest height and it had fallen directly on the point, which was now somewhere inside Camilo's foot. When he removed his shoe, what I noticed was a small red dot of blood on his white sock which was exponentially spreading, and doing so RAPIDLY. :eek: I swear in that moment that I assumed that my buddy had lost a toe (hopefully not a real important one). But worry not, Camilo's toes are still all in place, and though he probably should have gone to a hospital by most people's standards, I am pre-med and my friend Sloan is a former boyscout, so we had the situation pretty much covered. :jerkit: The moral of the story is: DON'T DROP A KNIFE ON YOUR FOOT.
 
seymourbutz37 said:
Though I have more slice wounds than I can count on one hand, none are self-inflicted. I'd like to share a recent story about a run in my friend Camilo had with my 806SD2.
So Camilo, a crazy Mexican, is playing with my new toy. I look away for just an instant, and I hear a gasp followed shortly afterwards by a thump. I looked over to see Camilo, his girlfriend Rachel, and about three onlooking spectators all staring at Camilo's left foot with jaws wide open. He had dropped the knife from chest height and it had fallen directly on the point, which was now somewhere inside Camilo's foot. When he removed his shoe, what I noticed was a small red dot of blood on his white sock which was exponentially spreading, and doing so RAPIDLY. :eek: I swear in that moment that I assumed that my buddy had lost a toe (hopefully not a real important one). But worry not, Camilo's toes are still all in place, and though he probably should have gone to a hospital by most people's standards, I am pre-med and my friend Sloan is a former boyscout, so we had the situation pretty much covered. :jerkit: The moral of the story is: DON'T DROP A KNIFE ON YOUR FOOT.
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Well "Doc", I hope Camilo's tetanus shots are up to date. Classic puncture wound.
 
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