The worst time you got bit?

jprime84

jprime84

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I am pretty new at knife collecting and sharpening, but I have already been bit by my blades a few times. Last night I spent 30 minutes putting a new edge on a shun 8 inch chefs knife in VG10 steel. I did freehand on japanese stones 250, 1000, and 6000 grit to a mirror finish. At the end, I was trying to wipe some blemishes off the blade before putting it back into the block and I got too close to the edge. I sliced my thumb like it was a ripe tomato.

Im sure some of you guys who have been at it longer have had much worse. Whats your worst cut? What were you doing at the time?
 
I did the exact thing as you did on a becker as soon as i got it and was using it, wow i saw the skin fly off like it was nothing and looked at my thumb.... Good thing I have calused skin there because wow. I didnt even learn my lesson about wiping down blades with a cloth. I need to designate a cloth for just them. Anyway I'm relatively new aswell and sure it will happen again :D
 
I got decapitated by my Dragonfly ZDP-189 once.
 
KP said:
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:thumbup:. LOL. :) I've been pretty lucky had a couple knife bites i shoulda got stitches for but nothing serious. Seen some real dandy gash's on here though from others. Got bit pretty good a couple days ago by a BM 941. Underestimated how well this one puntures through things. Extra thin is a extra penetrable blade.

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jprime84 said:
I bet that left a scar.
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Yeah they weren't able to reattach it so they just stuck it up my ass. Its been there ever since. Maybe I should be a politician.
 
Got one where i was trying to slice off the tip of a super glue bottle and slipped and took off the entire top of my knuckle on my index finger, It took 8 months to completely heal and the scar is still very sensitive 2 yrs later.
 
I did this a few years ago with a SYKCO Yard Hook.
Went to the bone but it was a clean cut so no Doc was needed.
I was up in the mountains so rushing to the nearest Doc 40 miles away wasn't an option anyway.

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Don't have photos but when I got my BK11 it had a sticky sheath (it still does to some degree) So I must have choked up for better grip and exposed the middle of my index finger to the blade's edge. I pull the knife out of the sheath simultaneously slicing full across the finger just above the middle knuckle. It was deep and bleeding like crazy.
Went to the ER (1am) and the young DR on call was not impressed with my situation until I let go of the would with my other hand. "Oh my!" she said as a silver dollar sized single drop fell on the floor. She immediately got an RN to assist.
Only time I went to the ER for cutting myself with a knife I bought. A few other times that were kitchen related.
 
Quiet said:
LOL Comment of the day.
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Amen brother! That was a good one!

I have three different incidents that are all tied for first place...

I was trying to hack a notch out of a pine board to set up a BB gun target for my son about 10 years ago. The knife was a cold steel medium voyager clip point. I got too close to my left hand that was holding the board. Sliced my thumb open to the bone. I balled up my fist clenching my thumb in the middle of it and walked in the house. I was leaving a blood trail the whole way... My wife said "did you hurt yourself again?" I calmly told her she may need to drive me to the hospital. After I looked at it I knew it was stitchworthy! 16 stitches closed it.

Another good one - I was whacking some branches off of a tree trying to clean it up. The knife was a spec plus marine combat. I swung it around in an arc, hit something hard like a knot, whacked it again in the same weird arc and it went through. I didn't expect it to! Well, the arc continued and I looked down to see the knife poked about an inch into my midsection. About 3 inches lower than my sternum. I thought "whoa, that was stupid"! I pulled the knife out and whipped my shirt off. My wife was on the porch talking to our neighbor. I just walked past them into the house bleeding all the way. I scrubbed out the wound and flooded it with isopropyl. I put a butterfly bandage on it and it wouldn't hold. I put superglue in it and pinched it shut. It healed fine, but left a pretty nasty jagged scar.

The other time I was in the back yard helping my Dad do some yard work. I was about 16. The knife was a tramontina machete. It got dull, so I went in the garage and got the whetstone to sharpen it. I was holding the stone in my left hand and drawing the blade across it with my right. I know - stupid! I cut the tips of my left thumb, index, and middle fingers smooth off. Through the nails and everything. I freaked out and tried to retrieve my fingertips but my staffordshire terrier beat me to it. He ate em! They did grow back. My nails and fingertips looked like something out of a Frankenstein movie for a while, but they did eventually look normal again.

I haven't had an incident in quite a while. I have learned a lot of hard lessons... Be careful out there guys!
 
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Thank you, thank you. In reality, when I first bought my SOG Seal Pup (2005-6 I think) I wasn't expecting the sheath to hold the knife in so tightly, and when I finally got it out I nearly cut my middle finger on my left hand off. Still have the scar. Sucks cuz I'm ambidextrous but favoring the left hand.
 
My worst bite I have personally experienced was when I was 4 years old. My brother got a new SAK for going to summer camp and I decided to play with it. After being told "No" all day long, I found it sitting on the dresser in our room. I opened it up fine enough, when trying to close it I ended up getting my thumb caught between the blade and handle. The cut went upwards on my thumb from the knuckle to the tip metacarpal. It was clean and the Dr. said it couldn't be stitched. He taped it all together and it grew back just fine.

I believe there is a gentleman on BF who will win this thread if he decides to post the pictures of taking a Junglas to the face :rolleyes:
 
Nobody tops this guy:

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Wonder if he's a member here? :D
 
I have a very prominent scar across the top of my right middle finger from when a friend was handing my a knife to show his handy work and fumbled the blade when a fly flew into his eye. Lesson learned: whenever handling sharp objects spray bug spray first. plus a much smaller one on the same finger from a failed wave of a benchmade 550HG ziptie mod. I gave up on that idea after that incident.
 
I got cut pretty good handling a sharp fixed blade. I must not have been paying attention and dropped the knife. Of course my reaction was to catch it...cut my finger really good. They were pretty excited...asked if I wanted to go to the emergency room. I declined. The thing bled for well over an hour. This the knife bus.
 
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