This is ridiculous. Anyone else guilty?

spiralarchitect said:
Dallas, I couldn't tell from the pics.... are your forearms devoid of hair as well? My thumb looks that bad and my left forearm always naked.... It's kind of funny, no one outside of another knife person could even start to explain how those 2 symptoms would be linked. :D
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Ok that's just scary. Here you go....

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Haha, that is pretty clever! You should submit that
to a medical institution so they can find a cure for
our disease. Not that any of us want to be cured.
 
DallasSTB said:
Ok that's just scary. Here you go....

ForearmMange.jpg
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Haha - so much prime area with hair still on it, I'm envious!

I've had to move on to both legs due to lack of hair remaining on my arms. Most of the time I'm testing how well the knife does on whatever short regrowth my body has managed to produce since last time!
 
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Better to have a callous on your thumb from flicking ,while driving, than a callous on your middle finger, from flicking, while driving.
Not that I've ever done that myself.
 
Thumb callouses and missing arm air are completely normal. Actually, it is a sign of a very healthy body and sound mind.
 
Oh yeah! A combination of tight pivots and incessant flipping over the past 20 years has resulted in a big ole calloused thumb. Funny thing is I can still cut through the callous if I get the pivot too tight, and the thumbstud is sharp around the edge. When this happens it is SORE and almost impossible to flip a knife open until the thumb heals. Course this is when the auto gets broken out for some carry time, so all is not lost!!:D:)
 
Thomas Harris is the man who wrote the Hannibal Lecter books like Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs. In the book Red Dragon Harris uses the term "knife fighter's mange" to refer to the bald patches all over the forearm due to testing the sharpness of different knives.

I sport full blown knife fighter's mange on my left arm, right arm, and both legs. I've even gone so far as to shave off patches of chest hair. My thumbs are a wreck, but I can't tell which scars and marks are from knives and which ones are from me smashing my thumbs with a hammer.
 
Amazing how much you start to realize you are not alone in this world...

I bought a pair of kama and the hair on my left arm disappeared, sharpen my tomahawk and half of my face is shaved, then sharpen my carry piece and my thumb is bleeding...
 
I have the arm mange and thumb damage as well. Always checking to see if the knife is still "shaving" sharp. I am glad though to see that there are others like me. I drive about 30 miles to work and flick all the way there. I thought I had a problem.

My girlfriend rags the hell out of me because a couple of times I have come home with a cut on my hand from the car flicking. Once, I dropped the knife into the top of my leg and got a pretty good cut. She just shook her head and walked to the medicine cabinet for some antibiotic cream.


I even have a bit of a line on my thumbnail from putting my thumb inside the spyder hole and flicking the knife open that way. It's a sickness I tell ya. :)
 
God--you should see what my thumb ends up looking like towards the end of the summer! Working in a knife shop in a tourist town really gets to ya! When I'm not opening and closing knives to show customers I'm fiddling around with them on my own time. It's awful! :D
 
I don't have much "mange" effect on my forearms. Never was very hairy :eek: and getting older hasn't increased that, and I manage to avoid the impulse to determine whether a knife is literally "shaving" sharp. There is a very large scar in my right forearm, however, from a wierd blade accident.
 
I'm glad to see I'm not alone. The knife mange got so bad on the arms my wife told me to shave them completely so I look less like an idiot haha
 
Minor differences as to which blades caused the wear, but mine isn't that different.
 
Try being a maker....

- Knifemaker's mange to the point that my doctor was worried... lol.
- Most of my fingerprints have been sanded or burned off.
- Because of all the forging and numerous scars on my hands, my heat sensitivity is so low that I grab caserole dishes out of the oven and burn my kids by setting the bath too hot.
- I went grocery shopping with a fullface respirator on top of my head last week
- My fingers look as if I am a full-on chain smoker because of all the leather dye.

... there's more but I can't remember... probably due to WD-40/Windex poisoning or something.

Rick
 
Use some fine sandpaper and a good lotion. You'll have as smooth hands as a Wallstreet CEO.
 
Or you buy Emerson's with the wave and let your pocket edge take the damage!
 
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