The knife that has bitten you the most

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I wonder whether there are particular models that due to their construction or just by luck tend to bite their owners most often. So lets see which knife has bitten you the most. I should probably exclude kerambits and balis because they require special skills to handle... what the hell, let's include them as well.
Here is my list:

1. The undisputed champ in this area is the blue Yojimbo. I love that knife and carry it often but it does have a tendency to bite.

2. Mini commander - I love this knife as well, but it did live a scar on my ring finger.
 
The compression lock tends to do this. My SALSA does it when I carry it.

The SAK scissors tend to nip me when closing on occassion.
 
I think the worst offenders are utility knife/box cutters. Of course, it's not something I carry in my pockets, but I have one in a tool bag that I've regularly got with me. Very, very rare that I cut myself with one of my pocket knifes, but the stupid utility knifes tend to get me on a semi-regular basis.
 
The only knife that has bit me lately is my Kershaw full-sized Cyclone. That damn knife is way TOO sharp! I VERY lightly bumped my thumb onto the blade, and it split my thumb wide-open.
 
glockman99 said:
The only knife that has bit me lately is my Kershaw full-sized Cyclone. That damn knife is way TOO sharp! I VERY lightly bumped my thumb onto the blade, and it split my thumb wide-open.
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Was it the ZDP versions? Opps, stupid question, they only made mini in ZDP, right?
 
lukus said:
I think the worst offenders are utility knife/box cutters. Of course, it's not something I carry in my pockets, but I have one in a tool bag that I've regularly got with me. Very, very rare that I cut myself with one of my pocket knifes, but the stupid utility knifes tend to get me on a semi-regular basis.
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That actually makes a lot of sense, since my worst offender is Yojimbo, which is patterned after a box cutter.
 
The most would be an old Craftsman 3 7/8 Stockman.

The latest would be a Becker BK7.
 
my swiss army knives, i often fold them shut with one hand and catch the tip of a finger, usually when i,m busy and not concentrating.
 
Various SAK's, just by shear volume of time carried over other knives in my life.

So far, I have never seriously cut myself enough to need stitches, the worse cut was accidentally closing my brothers Schrade LB7 on my thumb around 14. Still have a small triangle scar from that one.
 
anything new right after I get a new knife I always end up cutting myself with it. I guess that is what makes it mine.
 
The Last Confederate said:
Various SAK's, just by shear volume of time carried over other knives in my life.

So far, I have never seriously cut myself enough to need stitches, the worse cut was accidentally closing my brothers Schrade LB7 on my thumb around 14. Still have a small triangle scar from that one.
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I am not talking about wounds that require emergency room visits - I have not done that either, I was talking more about "ouch, I need one of them new-graham band-aids" :) But yeah, I do have a small scar from mini-commander - I attribute that the the thickness of the blade and weird semi-chisel grind.
 
I would expect it to be the knife I carry the most, but my Microtech LCC D/A has only bitten me once, and that was within the first week of owning it. The only knife that has gotten me more than once was a Smith and Wesson M16, or M15, whichever was the Double Action automatic with the lock-back. The blade had to be so loose to open all the way that whenever you unlocked it, it swung loose, and it bit me twice, as I unlocked it. I sold it off very quickly after that, but still miss the cool mechanism.

Oddly, I've never been bitten by my Benchmade 42 Bali. Of course, I'm not doing any fancy moves with it, and it never sees any arials.

Daniel
 
That full sized Skirmish almost took my finger off twice. That heavy blade and smooth pivot makes it the ultimate finger guillotine.
 
it's tie between my spydie karambit and a cold steel voyager xl i used to have; the k-bit bites me as a reaction to being spun about (i guess she gets nasty when she's dizzy), and i when opening the voyager with the tiny thumbstud, i caught my thumb about 25% of the time, til i switched out for a bigger thumbstud.
 
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