The Perils of Being a Knife Nut

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rogatsby

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Just a lighthearted post. Has anyone else gotten sore thumbs or fingers from opening and playing with their knives? And how many of you have cut yourselves playing with your knives? Be honest lol.
 
Erm, everyone?

:p

The more interesting aches/sores/blisters relate to the ergonomics of a knife as regards prolonged use over several hours at a time.

On topic, there is a dangerous point where blood alcohol level is low enough to enable sharpening edges to screaming sharp, but high enough to result in careless use, resulting in alcohol infused blood spatter... YMMV
 
Well, there's over 320 thousand users here, and although there's plenty that were spammers/bots, I'd wager that there's still over 300,000 of us. So, I'd say that at least 300,000 people here have cut themselves playing with their knives.
 
Planterz said:
Well, there's over 320 thousand users here, and although there's plenty that were spammers/bots, I'd wager that there's still over 300,000 of us. So, I'd say that at least 300,000 people here have cut themselves playing with their knives.
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I'd also say that 300,000 of us have cut ourselves multiple times with the same knife.
 
When I sand (modify) and/or sharpen my knives that is common. This week I had one blister and two sore fingers from reprofiling and modding session. :D
 
My best one was from China steel. Super ninja drunken slice in dad's barn with a couple friends. Sliced a piece of cardboard with a 3" blade and cut partially way thru thumb tendon. Healed and needed no surgery. Many have way worse!
 
I've cut myself a few times. The worst was when I cut the tip of my thumb off while closing my new ZT 0566. That thing bled for days.
 
Very minor superficial cuts during sharpening sessions : while handling knives in a row for some extended time, the focus weakens and suddenly I notice a thin cut that wasn't there before on the thumb or a finger. Nothing of importance. However, and there I blundered heavily, I stabbed myself in the left palm while trying to stab/extract an avocado kernel with a Puma Commander (20 years ago. It hurt and I got stitches and I got to stay at home for several days). And stabbed myself another time last year while resheathing a freshly sharpened Blackjack 155 in a horizontal carry thingamabob I was experimenting with : the blade slid right behind the sheath and into the left holding hand. Not painful, no stitches but it took days and days to heal. Is still sensitive.
 
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The stories involving ER visits and sewing sessions are always among the juiciest stories. Thankfully, I only have one of those stories--from 1999. I was lucky because I didn’t sever an artery or tendon and since I was an office worker, it didn’t cost me any time away from work. I’ve been thankful and more careful ever since.
 
I think the bigger "odd" thing I noticed was getting a concave dimple in my thumb nail from opening knives with the spydie hole. Do it enough and it shaves off a little bit of nail each time and voila, weird dimple. Seems the Taiwan made ones tend to be especially sharp around the spydie hole as I haven't experienced it with my millie but my old sage 2 certainly made it odd.

Or, it rounds in a dimple into the edge of the nail. Having backlocks stopped that since they don't flick like the liners or compression locks so I ride the hole with my skin instead of flicking it with the thumb nail.
 
Not too much on the wear spots or calluses but I have actually cut my belly closing a traditional with a good snap after the 1/2 stop - through my shirt - AND I don't even have a belly :confused: :D Among many other incidents that drew blood - of course! My knives are SHARP :thumbsup:

Ray
 
RayseM said:
Not too much on the wear spots or calluses but I have actually cut my belly closing a traditional with a good snap after the 1/2 stop - through my shirt - AND I don't even have a belly :confused: :D Among many other incidents that drew blood - of course! My knives are SHARP :thumbsup:

Ray
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I feel so stupid after cutting myself lol. What inspired this thread was that I had just finished sharpening my Spyderco Dragonfly 2 today, and was very satisfied with the results and tried a nonchalant one-handed closing, and the newly sharpened blade just sliced my finger really good. And there are other times where I was playing with knives while watching TV or something and I have gotten cut. Nothing requiring a trip to the hospital, but a reminder that these things are sharp lol.
 
Pilsner said:
On topic, there is a dangerous point where blood alcohol level is low enough to enable sharpening edges to screaming sharp, but high enough to result in careless use, resulting in alcohol infused blood spatter... YMMV
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Moral of the story: Never let your BAC get low enough to sharpen knives.

Roger that.
 
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True that : the longer I sharpen, the more beer I need. Coïncidence... I think not. Pun aside, I often get better results when I sharpen in a light mooded (and light handed) way instead of stern and grim concentration. Although the cutting risk rises (if too light hearted/minded) when doing the final cutting tests...
 
It is not that I get cut because it is going to happen and I take note of which ones cut me. The knives that cut me were bound to do it and out of all of my knives they are well respected.
 
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