The worst self-inflicted cut you've ever had

Worst cut I got from a knife was about a year ago or so. I had just received my first GEC/Charlie Campagna/TC Barlow and I was pumped lol. I wanted to take a few pictures right away so I could show everyone on The Porch A.K.A. The Traditionals section :D So I go to give the blade a nice wipe for fingerprints but I somehow got my tumb over the cutting edge as I pushed down on the pice of paper towel and dragged it along the length of the blade.:mad::thumbsdown: Right away I got that awful feeling that always sets in just after you cut yourself but good :eek:It's like oh shit!! That was deep.:confused: lol I probably could have used a few stitches but I just cleaned it up and wrapped an elastic band around my thumb for an hour or so tell the bleeding stopped. Then I threw a bandaid on it and called it good to go :thumbsup: Tell next time that is :oops:;)
 
Worst cut I received by myself was, by far, the incident with the Cold Steel Warrior Katana, about 8 years ago. I had just received it, was so excited to have it, and was laying in bed watching TV. "The Last Samurai" was on. I had seen the movie before, and was extremely tired, so fell asleep.....with that katana unsheathed laying beside me. I had apparently rolled over onto it, and it had cut my left arm in 2 places, above the elbow on the inside, and had thoroughly soaked the sheets, AND the mattress with blood. My wife came in and screamed when she saw my laying there. I woke up, and it took me a minute or two to fully "awaken", no doubt due to the blood loss. Went to the ER, got some stitches, and a VERY VERY embarrassing story to tell!
 
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I wouldn't call it winning either lol. The dui Churra accident was a knot in the wood I thought it would plow through. Found out it just went away from it and found my leg an appropriate resting place. I was damn lucky to be alive and didn't get an bone infection or lose it.

I cut myself to to buckle bone Saturday night field dressing a deer with a flashlight in my mouth. I used super glue and butterflies but it should have been stiched. I have done this on my own with ample alcohol encouragement but wouldn't recommend it
 
Moral of this story: collect your firewood before drinking to avoid cutting off your foot.

August 2017, night 1 of 4 on a canoe trip on the Jacks Fork and Current Rivers in the Ozarks, Missouri. Massive floods earlier this year had downed an insane amount of trees around the riverbanks, my friends and I figured that gathering firewood would be a breeze so we broke out the whiskey pretty early. I was limbing a pretty big branch with my Junglas and had the branch in front of me, in the middle of a not particularly wide stance. I cut straight through several limbs in one motion and couldn't stop the arc until the tip of the blade had made a (thankfully pretty shallow) cut about 1.5" across the top of my right ankle. Absolutely would've merited stitches but I wasn't about to call in an evac on my first night. A few inches in another direction or at a slightly different angle and I might have done irreparable damage to the foot or the surrounding connective tissue. As it was, it bled for hours and hours and I had to keep it out of the river water until it scabbed up on day 3 of the trip.

Three months on and it's a pretty ugly scar that I expect will be there for many years. I'm not sure why I didn't take a picture of the injury but I'll see if I can turn up a picture of the steak I made while I was trying to stop the bleeding.
 
Other than scheduled surgery? Worst three cuts weren’t with knives:

- Had a pair of metal snips jump off the work and cut a notch to the bone in my index finger. The whole trip to the local clinic was almost worth the inconvenience (but that’s another story).
- A piece of aluminum hidden under some leaves flipped up during some work; the piece had a burr that cut an inch-deep gash in top my thigh.
- Opponent’s foil broke on my parry, and sliced open the side of my thigh. Didn’t feel the cut; felt the blood running down into my sock.

I keep my knives sharp so I don’t have to push too hard; safer that way.
 
I've got nothing on some of yours but I have a funny story,

Yesterday when I first woke up I read this entire thread. Last night while opening a box I cut my finger! The irony.
 
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