The absolute dumbest thing you've ever done with a knife is.............?

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Cut myself pretty bad about an hour ago on my PE Endura with SS handle and got pissed off and threw it at a brick wall. I am now missing about a quarter inch of the blade where the steel snapped. It now sits on my desk as a momento of what not to do when my Strider folder gets here. How about you?
 
Accidently sliced my friend with a benchmade AFCK 2. The cut required stiches. I was holding the knife in my hand and he didn't see it. he tried to grab my arm but got nothing but the blade of the AFCK. The cut was pretty bad, alot of blood and I felt like complete sh*t even through it wasn't all my fault.
 
One night I was just screwing around cutting some wood with a cold steel medium clip point voyager, and wasn't looking what I was doing... next thing you know - slice! I had a huge cut down the length of my thumb.

After trying really hard to get the bleeding to stop, thinking maybe I could super glue the thing shut, etc... I finally walked in the living room and told my wife " I think I hurt myself". She took one look at my thumb and said "Oh my god!... kids, get in the car!" Then I knew it was bad... Well, 14 stitches later (and a lot wiser) I was let out of the emergency room.

Lesson learned: treat knives with the respect they deserve, and never, ever, use them without paying proper attention!
 
When I first got my Buck 560, I was playing around stabbing a block of foam that I was holding and I guess I forgot my hadn was behind the foam and I sliced the blade right on my finger just above the nail where the skin is thin and soft. That cut bled for the longest time I can remember:(

Another time was when I was lying down and was holding a knife(think it was a Case USMC) and I accidentally dropped it and nearly hit my face with the blade. I was dumb back then
 
Nismo BUDDY, You got a permit for that? I think Galco makes a nice IWB holster for that baby.
 
I'm always cutting my self, usually do to stupidity and not paying attention to what I'm doing.

I've gotten better with old age, the cuts are less frequent, and most times less severe.

But still every new aquisition isn't official till it draws a little blood, kinda like a right of passage that has to be constantly reaffirmed, ( much like falling off my motocycle, at least once at the beggining of the season), this kinda keeps me from any major accidents through out the year by reminding me of how dangerous some of my hobbies are.

Just some stupid knife wounds,

Age 14, tried to cut down a telephone pole with a Schrade Trapper , blade closed on my index finger, sliced the tendon that makes that finger extend, and bend,(learned on this occasion not to use a slip joint where a chainsaw is needed, and if your bleeding don't drink alcohol, and take aspirin, It thins your blood and you have a hard time stopping the bleeding). Oh yeah all cuts no matter how stupid require attention.

Age 22 Sharpening a SAK Tinkerer with the bench stone on my knee,(that right there, should tell you where this is goin')Wife in the background tellin' me, "you're gonna cut yourself, you're gonna cut yourself", me screamin', "Don't tell me I know what I'm doin'" me screaming, "S**T", as I miss the stone and drive 2" if the spearpoint into my thigh. Wife, "What did you say", me, silence, Wife, "Where's that blood comming from?" 2 stitches later,and lesson learned, always use your bench stone on a hard flat suface, (according to my wife my head doesn't count)

Age 38 Musicfest in PA, listening to some live tunes, drinkin' some beer,(alcohol comes into play once again) and eating a Bloomin' Onion,(deep fried whole onion), my wife and daughter decide they want some of my onion, so I whip whip out my newly sharpened Benchmade AFCK,hold the paper plate in my left hand, an proceed to to slice throughthe onion, but it doesn,t stop there it proceeds to pass through the paper plate and halfway throught tip of my middle finger , only to be stopped by my fingernail and bone.
A trip to the hospital and 4 stitches later, I'll never forget what the ER Doctor said, " It's a good thing it was a sharp blade, it made a clean cut", at which the ER Nurse replied, " Just think if it had been real dull you would have only gotten a bad bruise"

Moral of this story: No matter how old ya get, stupidity accounts for the majority of knife related injuries
 
I would retell the chocolate incident, but last time the thread suddenly closed. Don't want to risk it. I am having to much fun reading here:p
 
The dumbest thing I ever did with a knife was when I was 12, my dad just finished sharpening my phony chinese rambo knife. He warned me not to cut myself with it, I was like "yeah whatever" or something to that effect, anyways I started chopping at this dandelion I was holding with my left hand. It went soemthing like this...chop,chop,chop, OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cut the bejesus out of my left index finger,

My latest incedent didn't involve a knife, but hurt a hell of a lot worse. I tried to cook some eggrolls in oil. second degree burn from big knuckle all the way to the fingertip on right index finger.
 
1) Worst thing I ever did with a knife: Let my grandad see my favorite one, havent seen it again since.

2) Sold orginal run Spyderco Civilian when I need some money bad.

3)Said "This ceramic blade doesn't feel sharp at all and proceded to test it acros my palm, Learned ceramic blades are a quite sharp but dont feel it.

4) I'll leave out all the other stories that started with "This don't Feel Sharp".

What's most used last saying by a redneck? :
Hey ya'll hold my beer and watch this............
 
Here it is.
Warning: chocolate and human harmed in the experience.

Unfortunatley, one of my knives was used to stab someone. In the 8th grade, my friend Howard won a contest. The prize was a 5lb chocolate bar. We spirited it away to my house and broke out my first knife. An uncle henry stockman. Howard descended on the bar of candy like a madman. After eating some shavings, we decided to quit messing around. Howard jabbed the blade in and began prying and pushing to break off a more respectable slab, fitting his achievement as top seller in the band fundraiser. We next heard the sweet sound of chocolate breaking off! There was much rejoicing. Until Howard realized the little knife was stuck in his thigh.

I should have stopped him... I should have stopped him. The horror....
 
Age 10: Got my first knife, a blue SAK Classic. Was throwing it and stuck it in my foot.
Age 11: Cutting the lid on a pumpkin with the same knife. Pulled the blade out and it opened my left ringfinger requiring 5 stitches.
Age 19: Used a Kershaw Avelanche to remove the safety on a cigarette lighter. Cut off a slice from my left trigger finger joint. (CPM 440V is SHARP!!!)
Age 20: I was demonstrating to a friend how a Dalton Cupid could be used as a nonlethal like a kubotan. I had it in a fist and the blade wasn't fully retracted. I gotmyself in the meat of my palm doing a hammerfist with it.

Now that I have a BM43, I cut myself about once a week doing fancy manipulations.

Edit: Just dropped my BM43 while I was wearing sandals :eek: Now I'm sporting another bandaid.
 
The dumbest thing I've done was taking my brand new CS SRK hitting a cardboard box, not seeing the live wire hanging down (it was a lamp) I struck it, saw sparks everywhere, take the blade up and saw thati t burn off a hole on the edge... Man that was a sad day.
The worst cut wasn't made with a knife, but a can lid. I opened the can, the lid up, grabbed something on the shelve above, slipped and thumb went straight at the lid and out..... was bleeding quite bad and had 5 stitches on the top of the thumb. Couldn't bend it for like 2 weeks.
 
YEARS ago I was looking at a SOG folder (I think it was a Tomcat) in a cutlery shop in the Tacoma Mall, and in "testing" the blade-sharpness, I sliced open my thumb. I was so embarrased (I didn't want my wife to see my stupidity) that I pressed my thumb and index finger together "for awhile" so she wouldn't "notice" the bleeding.

And then there was the time (also YEARS ago) when I "slipped" and cut myself while cutting some plastic tubing. This made me so mad that I threw-down the "offending knife", and you guessed it...The damn thing went through my boot, and stuck in my foot! (...A slice AND a puncture...All within a couple seconds of eachother!.:eek:.).
 
Here's my list:

1. Cut tip of right thumb off twice. First time with cheap serrated paring knife. Second time with paraedge clip point. Who would have thought it was still razor sharp after skinning, gutting, and definning 5, 3-6 lb catfish.

2. Stabbed tip of right thumb with knife twice.

3. Cut left index finger by throwing knife out of hand after cutting same finger with same knife.

4. Opening shipping crate with swiss army knife. Knife is still intact.

5. Disarming kid in local store after he pulled a knife on me. Didn't check to see if kids parents were around before I did it. Fortunately they were not.

6. Putting knife on top shelf were kid could eventually get it back. Should have kept it.
 
Well,

1. Got a cheap balisong stuck in my foot because I was flipping without shooes.:rolleyes:

2. Stabbed myself in tht thumb with an xacto knife wile trying to open the bottom of a plastic container by stabbing it and holding it in one hand.

3.Using a Buck Strider tanto to cut sod for a whole day:D


probably more I can't even remember

Erik
 
Howzabout:

Cut myself with a freshly sharpened axe.

Nearly completely cut off the fingertip of a friend who tried to take a very sharp knife away from me.

Stuck a very sharp Cub Scout folder into my brother's shoe, nicking his toe in the process, while playing mumbly peg, many, many years ago.

Stuck a buttlerfly knife into the back of my knee cutting cardboard over a waterbed (really cool, didn't bleed, just a hole looking in at the fatty tissue. Looked just like a cut orange or tangerine.)

Nearly took the end of my finger off with a bowie knife. Just duct taped that one up and kept on trucking. Worked pretty good too, the scar isn't too noticeable.

Then there was a friend of mine with a brand new, out of the box Cold Steel SRK (sorry, Hark). He was inspecting it in his Class B Dress uniform and dropped it tip down onto his thigh. After the laughter dies down, we notice a ever increasing dark stain appearing on his thigh. A short trip to the hospital, a sheepish explanation to the Doctor, and a few stitches later and he was good as new, with much more respect for the knife.

Ed
 
Originally posted by komondor


Now that's a cut! :D
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Yes Sir, sure was! That 2" long scar will be there for a long time to remind me to be careful! I gave that knife to my brother and told him "watch out, this one's out for blood". :eek:
 
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