Stitches, I dont need no steenkin steetches......ok so maybe I did.

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BushOgre

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So there I was, craftin bush. Making a spoon like was does in 100+ degree heat. The sweat is copious, the knife is crazy sharp. The handle is getting slick and BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE. Enjoy the pics.....:jerkit:

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look almost like a chicken leg :)

mmm i think i'd have preferred butterfly bandages, or perhaps a micro-surgeon, that might leave a scar that makes your finger stiff - do the PT :)

heal well!
 
Got myself in the same spot last january, working on trap triggers. Yours is worse than mine was.
 
Bladite said:
look almost like a chicken leg :)

mmm i think i'd have preferred butterfly bandages, or perhaps a micro-surgeon, that might leave a scar that makes your finger stiff - do the PT :)

heal well!
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Scars are the mark of a life lived.
 
OUCH! Man that sucks...you just got a tree outta one finger, and now you pretty much slice the top off the other! :eek:

Which knife bit ya?

Get healed up soon bud! And quit over abusing the same hand...you can hurt yourself doing that:D
 
Wood Splitter said:
OUCH! Man that sucks...you just got a tree outta one finger, and now you pretty much slice the top off the other! :eek:

Which knife bit ya?

Get healed up soon bud! And quit over abusing the same hand...you can hurt yourself doing that:D
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Bit by a Mora.

June was the right middle finger. July is the left index. Taking bets for August.
 
I got tired of getting cut, so I figured out this technique to minimize cutting myself. What I do now, before I get to whittling or chopping in general is to think about How I hate cutting myself and I find different ways of making the cuts wherein the blade can't get me. So I cut away from my body, thats probably the best way to describe this technique. YMMV
 
I was sharpening a hatchet and my hand slipped and it split my middle finger's knuckle wide open. I probably should have gotten stitches but I super-glued it together. Worked fine but it has been about 6 months and there is still pain when I bend it all the way closed. Oh well. Just gotta be more careful...
 
I busted out the butterfly sutures and super glue then the wife said it was time for the ER. It wouldn't stop bleeding for an hour. Oh well. I learned how to do stitches. The doc was cool and gave me some tools and showed me how to do it one handed so I could be prepared when I do some solo backpacking this fall. Hooray for learning.
 
BushOgre said:
I busted out the butterfly sutures and super glue then the wife said it was time for the ER. It wouldn't stop bleeding for an hour. Oh well. I learned how to do stitches. The doc was cool and gave me some tools and showed me how to do it one handed so I could be prepared when I do some solo backpacking this fall. Hooray for learning.
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At least you got to learn something, I wanna learn how to do stiches sometime. fingers bleed a lot, when I almost cut the end of my thumb off I duct taped it shut for a while.
 
Damn dude, now your finger is even fatter. Keep this up & i'm gonna have to change from "sausage fingers" to "kielbassa fingers". LOL, j/k. That looks bad. Hope it heals quick & clean.
 
While we are on the subject, remember that an unopened bottle of superglue is sterile. If it is opened, it's not sterile. Also, the threshold for getting stitches is about an hour from when you get cut. If you wait much longer than that you risk infection and a lot of doctors won't stitch you up (unless its a VERY serious injury of course).
 
When I tried to amputate my leg :D, which happened at about 1200, I had to wait until 1800 before I was even prepared for the OP. I think I was stitched up at 2000 or so, but I had to take antibiotics for 14 days.

Get well soon, Ogre! I think I wouldn't want to stitch myself up. Guess I'll just have to stop cutting myself and being generally stoopid. Sound advice, FAL'ER !
 
When I was 16 I was working as a stock boy at the local IGA (dated myself), working in the deli I ran a Nella butchers knife through the web of my left hand, on my thumb toward the thumb nail, right to the bone. I wasn't supposed to be in there making pizzas for lunch so I held it together with paper towel and elastics until I finished my shift, 6 hours later, when I got home I put a band-aid on it, still have the big scar. Its a good thing I clot fast and my immune system could fight off the Normandy invasion, and it was a wicked sharp knife.
 
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