Thumb cuts

I've been there... It's not the pain, it's the feeling of stupidity and the plain inconvenience... :D :p
 
I feel your pain. Literally - yesterday I managed to run my thumb over a newly sharpened VG-10 blade... Didn't feel a thing 'till I noticed blood on a handle... :(
 
I get a new cut on my hands almost every other day.
And I know what you mean.

It's not the pain that make me mad, it's the blood that makes me go " AHHH &$#@*#&@^!@"!
 
Saturday before Christmas, I was doing some cooking and using my Cold Steel filet knife. It started to drag on the turkey gizzards I was cutting in preparation to make a dressing. I have several of the crock stick sets as well as a Spyderco Sharpmaker. I grabbed a cheap crock stick set, one with only one safety guard. The left stick came out of the hole after several passes with the knife. The blade hit me on top of the left index finger making quite a bad gash about an inch and a half long. Fist thing I thought was that I had cut the tendon that runs across the top of your finger. While it was completely through the skin, somehow I stopped short of cutting the tendon. Well six stitches and five long hours waiting in the emergency room later, I have finally healed up. Not a nice looking scar.

Has everyone else butchered their off hand index finger? This is at least the third maybe forth time getting stitches in that finger and at least twice in the off hand thumb.


By the way, only use the Sharpmaker now and I am very, very careful. The wife is starting to hate the sound of, " Oh S**t, can you drive me to the hospital."
 
If I got the story straight, our Sales Manager has been at a trade show this week and cut his finger so badly (a typical hazzard in the field) he had to be taken to the hosptial for stitches. He came back to find someone had stolen knives from his booth while he was gone.
 
Has everyone else butchered their off hand index finger? This is at least the third maybe forth time getting stitches in that finger and at least twice in the off hand thumb.
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Funny you should mention that - Two days ago while trying to cut the wrapper off a new DVD movie, I slipped and got the tip of my Calypso Jr. straight into the side of the first knuckle of my forefinger. I didn't get stitches, but probably should have, since it didn't stop bleeding for over a day.

I am left handed, but have severe carpal tunnel in my right hand, and it's pretty clumsy, I was holding awkwardly and things slipped.

I've been looking for good one-handed, left-handed, knives, anticipating surgery. Spyderco's and Benchmades with the Axis
lock are good, but I still need the right hand to hold what I'm cutting :eek:
 
Well you know what they (Or I) say:

You're not a knife knut until your co-workers have screamed "Stop bleeding on that paperwork/computer/engine/cake [delete as applicable]" at least 14 times *g*.

And yes, I was one of those that cut himself slicing up his lunchtime cake.

Danny
 
Being new to knives I've been working on my one-hand opening. My thumb had been too sore to do much for a couple days but was building up a callous. Then last night my thumb slipped and I'm back on the DL.
I was once in the crapper the ordnance shop of an F-18 squadron in FL. Taped on the inside of the stall door was a sign that said, "Blood is the first sign that you made a mistake."
 
but I seems to be it, do it. Another formite and I trade knives and I ended up with a Dalton scorpion. I completely forgot that it was an OTF, with a somewhat 'reversed curve'. The first time I fired it, my right thumb was over the tip and of course the knife is scary sharp. The blde made a nice clean little cut, but made it all the way to bone.:eek: :eek: :eek:
Never did that again.............wolf
 
I've only cut my thumb once (it wasn't too bad!) while practicing my one-handed opening and closing of my CRKT Mirage liner-lock. I often lay in front of the TV (after everyone else has gone to bed!), and practice opening and closing my knife, most of the time without even looking at what I'm doing (developing those natural reflexes and finger moves/grips).

As you get better you don't cut yourself, but I think this is more a result of developing a calloused thumbpad!
 
I bought my first frame-lock yesterday. Not used to using that style of lock at all. Needless to say, at one point I slammed the blade closed over my thumb. The blade has no choil, so the sharp edge is what impacted my thumb. Thankfully it landed on top of my thumbnail, saving me another serious gash.:D I hate to think what that one would have been like if it had hit flesh.
 
Isn't there some myth that says that in order to "bond" with a knife and make it truly your own, that the knife must cause you to shed some of your own blood first?

Geez, suck it up guys and walk it off. It's good luck to get cut with your knife (once anyway - and hopefully with no loss of digits).

:rolleyes:
 
Just a few minutes after posting above, I wiped off my new blade and sliced the pad of my thumb deeply. Drat!

If Shane's right, I just "bonded."
 
My friend just sent my 11" knife (brand to remain unnamed :rolleyes: ) through his left hand trying to pry 2 frozen hambuger patties.

I wasn't sure who was more humiliated...


Dan
 
I almost closed my fairly new (and surprisingly sharp) Cold Steel Hombre on my finger just this morning. Trying to close it one handed, again... :rolleyes: She and I have already "bonded" (as above) while I was trying to clean the CLP out of her recesses...

-- PG
 
Well the only time I have ever really CUT MY THUMB was when I was looking at the edge of my Etool while in the Marines... it is generally as sharp as a Knife! (for hitting ppl with in close combat) and I stupidly didnt think it was sharp and LIGHTLY tapped it against my thumb.. didnt really feel pain.. BUT saw the blood begin to flow..OUCH..... never doubted the sharpness of the tool again.
 
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