The Bloody Blade: Cuts

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Just saw another post about someone being cut. Looked painful. So it gave me the idea of this thread about people and their cuts, scratches, and their blue blood turning red. So share your incidents with a blade. Be sure to tell the story and try to show some pics. Although this thread may mentaly scar me, it will be fun to hear about your incedents with a blade.
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No pics, but there's a reason I don't own a Cold Steel Kudu anymore, and why my wife refers to it as my "$300 7 dollar pocket knife"(emergency room bills)....


....see I tried to close it without first reading the instructions. You have to be smarter than the knife...
 
Haven't cut myself in recent history, but when I got my first swiss army knife I cut my thumb down to the bone behind the first knickle in the first 5 minutes. I was 7 or 8 at the time and unsupervised(parents didn't know I had my knife on me when they left me alone). The scar is still a good reminder, many years later.
 
A couple of months ago now, I was doing something extremely stupid with my Kershaw Tanto Blur when the lock failed and the knife closed on my hand. It cut right through the meat and into the bone. I had to get it stitched up (about half a dozen stitches, which isn't much at all in the great scheme of things, but it's still half a dozen stitches too many for such a stupid mistake), but I've lost the feeling altogether in most of that finger. Didn't take any pics, sorry. :D
 
Dorito Monk said:
A couple of months ago now, I was doing something extremely stupid with my Kershaw Tanto Blur when the lock failed and the knife closed on my hand. It cut right through the meat and into the bone. I had to get it stitched up (about half a dozen stitches, which isn't much at all in the great scheme of things, but it's still half a dozen stitches too many for such a stupid mistake), but I've lost the feeling altogether in most of that finger. Didn't take any pics, sorry. :D
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Please elaborate on your story Dorito Monk. I just have to know.
 
Dumb: Throwing a Buck 119 enough times to gain false confidence to think that I was a talented knife thrower. :rolleyes:

Dumber: On a dare, in a storeroom at work one day, I threw my Buck 119 at a plywood wall, and it bounced back and caught me in the side. It was only a 3/4" cut, but fairly deep. At the hospital, the doctors had to open the cut to about 2" to get in and make sure I hadn't hit any organs or intestine tissue. And during the whole time, I've got a Seattle policeman asking me questions about the incident. (I worked on the Seattle waterfront, not a low-crime area a the time. They didn't quite believe my made-up story of cutting myself with a fillet knife at work.)

Somewhere in the bowels of that Seattle hospital, there is a set of photos of my cut and my innards, that they kept for records. Apparently they took record photos of any cut or any wound that might have been a stabbing or inflicted injury.

~Chris
 
Among my other accidents over the years, a couple of years ago I managed to sever the radial artery in my right arm in a freak accident. Blood everywhere. The LEOs who responded actually thought it was a homicide scene. I learned many interesting things about public safety and first response that day. :rolleyes:

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Here is my story. Was looking at a fixed blade knife of mine,had a six inch blade and it was made from 1/4 thick steel so it had some weight to it. I was standing and I unsnapped the sheath and got a bit distracted and the knife slipped out of the sheath. Well the carpet in the room I was standing in has some thick padding under it and when the knife hit pommel first the knife bounced and stuck about 1 1/2 inches deep and about the same width into the inside of my leg about 6 inches above my ankle.The knife was so sharp that I was able to let it bleed for awhile to clean it out and butterfly the wound. It took several weeks until it would stay closed on it's own (should have got stiches). Hard lesson learned, still have the scar to remind me.
 
shaving sharp said:
Here is my story. Was looking at a fixed blade knife of mine,had a six inch blade and it was made from 1/4 thick steel so it had some weight to it. I was standing and I unsnapped the sheath and got a bit distracted and the knife slipped out of the sheath. Well the carpet in the room I was standing in has some thick padding under it and when the knife hit pommel first the knife bounced and stuck about 1 1/2 inches deep and about the same width into the inside of my leg about 6 inches above my ankle.The knife was so sharp that I was able to let it bleed for awhile to clean it out and butterfly the wound. It took several weeks until it would stay closed on it's own (should have got stiches). Hard lesson learned, still have the scar to remind me.
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I've had two pommel drops on carpeting! 1st was an S35VN Mule with full G-10 scales - ricocheted off the carpet and made right turn into my slipper and into my foot. Bloody mess - no stitches.

2nd was a new Rajah I that I had on a TV tray and stropping it. I reached over to get a sip of water and bumped the tray. The Rajah fell pommel first onto the carpet and because of it's shape did a wicked kukri slash across my shin. It was nasty - you could see the different layers of stuff popping out of the skin. Bloody mess - no stitches. Wrapped them both in this marvelous rubber stuff they use at the hospital - where they draw blood.

I always get a roll from the girl instead of getting a sucker. You can make a wicked tourniquet out of the stuff. :D :thumbup:

Dorito Monk - the cool thing about nerves is that they almost always find each other in time or make a detour and the feeling comes back. It just takes time. :)
 
Damn! Radial artery cut! Yowza!

Here's all I've got... pretty wimpy by comparison. Brand new Paramilitary 2, right out of the box... admiring it, and I can't even tell you how it happened. But, I got poked by the sharp tip. It was a small wound, width-wise. But, it hurt more than it looked like it should.

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i was putting some oil on the blade of my gayle bradley (first evening i had it), well it slipped out of my hand, i have hardwood floors in my house so the first thing i thought was "OH NO!! dont let it hit the floor, the tip might break" so the genius that i am, i throw my foot out there like a soccer goalie to "save" the knife, giving no thought to my foot that is only protected by a slipper. well the blade caught me right on my ankle bone, and cut down to the bone, bled like a son of a gun, luckily it didnt hit something that had some more meat on it before the bone stopped the blade. lesson learned, just let the knife hit the floor....or atleast have on the right shoes for such activities.
 
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Ok, so. One night in 2003 me and one of my Marine friends were sitting in my then girlfriends (now wife) room. She is a medic so she had this little med kit on the table with a knife in it. As I was checking out the knife my friend (who's a little stupid) jumped on me and pretended he was going to stab me in the face with it still in my hand. I had my left hand on his chest trying to push him off of me as hard as I could still holding the knife when he suddenly jumped off. Due to the sudden loss of strain I inadvertantly slashed my own hand open. Blood sprayed everywhere! I pretty much instantly went into shock and dropped the knife. My friend squeezed my wrist really hard and slowed the bleeding to a steady ooze. I then punched him in the face twice as hard as I could as I was a little pissed. My girlfriend wrapped my hand in a towel and being an ambulance driver got us to the hospital in just a few minutes. We got to the hospital at 2200 and I then saw several different doctors over the next couple hours and each one told me worse news. It started as "you may have nicked the artery, we'll stitch it up and send you home" but in the end it was "you severed the radial artery, radial nerve, vein, four tendons and destroyed the bursa sack, surgury is scheduled for the morning..." The blade went between two of the bones in my thumb and opened the joint right up. The nurse called the MPs and they wanted to arrest my friend but I told them it was a pineapple cutting accident. I ended up in a cast for a month then had to go to physical therapy for two months. To this day the back of my hand is numb from cutting the nerve.

I hope you enjoyed my story, don't play with knives when your around Marines.

Oh yeah, the little scar is from where they had to cut in to pull the tendons back down.

Andrew
 
My best occurred suspended upside-down at 80ft deep off of West Palm Beach. It was lobster season and a friend and I were swimming down a ledge looking for bugs. He got away from me and I peeked in a cave to find it full. Grabbed my dive knife out of my calf sheath to band on my tank to call my buddy back. Whilst hanging upside down looking in to the hole filled with bugs, I went to (without looking) jam the knife back in to its sheath. Problem is I jammed it right in to my calf about 2 inches deep:eek:. Did you know you bleed bright green at 80 ft? It is true (trust me) because red light is filtered out at that depth. I had to remove my BC, take off my shirt and tie it around my leg to help stave off bleeding and continue my dive.

Yeah, we had lobster for dinner that night.
 
canook said:
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Ok, so. One night in 2003 me and one of my Marine friends were sitting in my then girlfriends (now wife) room. She is a medic so she had this little med kit on the table with a knife in it. As I was checking out the knife my friend (who's a little stupid) jumped on me and pretended he was going to stab me in the face with it still in my hand. I had my left hand on his chest trying to push him off of me as hard as I could still holding the knife when he suddenly jumped off. Due to the sudden loss of strain I inadvertantly slashed my own hand open. Blood sprayed everywhere! I pretty much instantly went into shock and dropped the knife. My friend squeezed my wrist really hard and slowed the bleeding to a steady ooze. I then punched him in the face twice as hard as I could as I was a little pissed. My girlfriend wrapped my hand in a towel and being an ambulance driver got us to the hospital in just a few minutes. We got to the hospital at 2200 and I then saw several different doctors over the next couple hours and each one told me worse news. It started as "you may have nicked the artery, we'll stitch it up and send you home" but in the end it was "you severed the radial artery, radial nerve, vein, four tendons and destroyed the bursa sack, surgury is scheduled for the morning..." The blade went between two of the bones in my thumb and opened the joint right up. The nurse called the MPs and they wanted to arrest my friend but I told them it was a pineapple cutting accident. I ended up in a cast for a month then had to go to physical therapy for two months. To this day the back of my hand is numb from cutting the nerve.

I hope you enjoyed my story, don't play with knives when your around Marines.

Oh yeah, the little scar is from where they had to cut in to pull the tendons back down.

Andrew
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We have a Winner :)
 
I just Googled the knife and found the CS video on opening and closing it. A moment's exuberance in pulling that ring back and jamming the blade forward as some may have done tell me this isn't a knife for any kind of stressful situation. Thanks for letting us know.

Here's a link to the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VboQkquoSTA video.

ThePharce said:
No pics, but there's a reason I don't own a Cold Steel Kudu anymore, and why my wife refers to it as my "$300 7 dollar pocket knife"(emergency room bills)....


....see I tried to close it without first reading the instructions. You have to be smarter than the knife...
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Years ago I guy I knew was drunk, freakin' hammered actually, and he was playing with his Samurai sword.
30+ years of martial arts obsession is pretty much moot when you can barely do a drunken walk.
Thinking the sword was fully seated, he grabbed the base of the blade firmly (thought it was the top of the sheath:eek:) and pulled 3ish feet of razor sharp blade through his hand.
All tendons were severed.

That's what you get...
 
A few days ago I was wiping a blade clean after trimming some steaks and wasn't paying close enough attention and sliced open a finger. Doh.
 
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