Time for our first Bladeforums giveaway!! Who's with me?

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The dumbest thing I've ever done with a knife was - I was opening my new DVD player with a really sharp knife. I ended up cutting the cord off the DVD player - about 2 inches from the back of the machine. Barely enough to splice the cord back on.
 
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The dumbest thing I have ever done with a knife is.....let me see.... Oh, yes, hold an oatmeal cookie out in front of me and try to cut it in two. The cookie crumbled and I sliced the tip off my left index finger.

Or maybe the dumbest thing I've done with a knife is try to cut a golf ball in half with a cheap slip joint. After a trip to the ER and some sutures, I finished golf ball surgery.
 
Shooter Hes joking buddy. ^^^ Take it easy.

If this post gets picked send it to "comeuppance". His post made me laugh and is one of the better people here at BF. Very generous GAW. Thank You.

Worst knives I've ever bought was Junglee's or CRKT's.

Haven't cut myself bad enough to mention.

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Giveaway Entry. Thank you.

The poster above doesn't deserve it because he thinks Cold Steel did a good thing with the lawsuit :p

[That's a joke, take it lightly]
 
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The above poster does not deserve it because he thinks cold steel did something wrong by suing CRKT

The dumbest thing I ever did with a knife?

Pretty tough one, but I was carrying a Busse FBMLE up the stairs. With no sheath. Barefoot. I had just finished up a wicked sharp edge on the strop.

I dropped it. It was moving pretty slow, so I thought iIwould grab it as it slid.

It rolled and bit me good. I waited till the next morning to visit my family DR. He was on vacation. Filling in for him was a man who learned medicine during the Civil war.

For stitches he had me hold my hand in the air, unsupported. He stood and tried to stitch un supported. He shook so bad he jabbed the numbing shot clean through the finger not once but twice and squirted me in the eyes with it.

He finally gave up on even trying to numb it. He took 10 or more attempts at stitching with no pain killer. Only 3 were successful at all. The rest he had to back out, and try again. I had several stitches that were no where near the cut. Entirely missed the cut, and stitched clean, undamaged skin, then had to back the needle back out and say woops. Let's try that again. The cut needed about 6-8 or so stitches. Itbonly got 3. By then, after many pokes, misses, stitches not in th2 wound, and a few clean through thhe finger, the doc gave up aftet three.It was directly on the top of the knuckle, and we were worried it had hit tendon.

The stitches were so poor, and so few, they pulled through within about 30 minutes of leaving, even though the finger was taped to a small splint and immobile.
 
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One time I licked peanut butter off of a RAT 1 and sliced my tongue, like 1.5" long but not too deep. Bled like heck. Felt real dumb.
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One of the dumbest things I've done RECENTLY was also licking food from my knife. It cut me but not too bad.
As for my dumbest purchase, well I wasn't taking picture of them back then. But I can assure you that it was some gas station piece of junk. Back when my only requirement for a knife was that I could wrist flick it like a mad man even if it meant loosening the pivot to the point of almost falling out.
Thanks for the chance.
 
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Dumbest thing I ever did with a knife....and yes, this is embarrassing....

Okay, so I've seen videos and photos guys take showing themselves shaving a patch of skin bare with a knife on their otherwise hairy Sasquatch forearms. They proudly proclaim that the bald patch in the thick forest of arm hair proves that their knife is hair-popping sharp!

I'd just gotten a Busse Satin TG and I hadn't shaved my legs for a couple weeks and I figured I'd see if the TG's blade was as 'hair popping' or 'swine shaving' sharp by testing it on one of my legs. Bad idea.

ER Dr: How on earth did you cut your calf so badly and so deeply?

Me: I was shaving my legs.

ER Dr.: With what, a machete?

Me: Close enough.

Thanks for the chance and yes, I can be trusted around knives now! That was a one-time mistake and I have the scar to remind me of how stupid the idea was.
 
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I have done a lot of dumb things with knives. All part of learning. The dumbest may be when I sliced to the done on the side of my ring finger. I was futzing with my Shadowtech Dayhiker and without noticing it I had held the knife where drawing it would take the cutting edge along the side of my finger. Drew the knife and sliced to the bone on my finger, and immediately realized how staggeringly stupid that was to do. I wrapped gauze and medical tape in a sort of makeshift tourniquet, and it took over a month to heal. Couldn't bend my finger for 2 weeks.

Also the posters above don't deserve the win because I have never won anything in my life. I actually won a giveaway here before, but before I could get the prize the giveaway host just flat out stopped being here. Even when I win, I still lose.
 
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My worst purchase was a Boker Jim Wagner knife i was stoked about, but when i received it it was horrible. I sold it after i closed it on my finger and got a deep cut from it.
 
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The absolute worst knife I've ever bought was the Schrade Cliphanger..... Ugh - what a turd of a knife! The worst knife I have ever owned, hands down. Here's what I said about it in 2005:
It has a handle as ergonomic as a cactus, a blade that won't hold an edge, a retention system that doesn't work at all, a thumb opener that absolutely sucks, the roughest opening of any folder EVER, and a "liner lock" about as thick as rice paper! (with it "locked" open, you can move the blade toward the handle and watch the "liner lock" bow) The thing is an absolute piece of trash. I use mine as a grout scraper, and it barely functions at that job!
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE P.O.S.!!!!!!
***that was in 2005. I've actually owned the turd since 1995. 20 years of turd ownership has to count for something, right?! The reason it seemed like a good idea at the time is that it was cheap ($19.95 IIRC) and it had Schrade's name on it. I had owned many an Old Timer (slipjoints, cave bears, sharpfingers, etc) and all were quality. This thing however...

Good lord, what a badly designed carbuncle of a knife. Incidentally, when you type "Schrade Cliphanger" into google, the very FIRST result is a YouTube video titled "Terrible Knives". True story. Try it out.
Thanks for the chance, and for the bile rising into my throat!
 
Giveaway entry, tried to eat a apple slice once off of my newly sharpened knife, won't do thar again.
 
Giveaway entry. My Grandma always sent me to the ditch bank to cut switches from the old cherry tree when she needed to "punish" one of us young'uns. I kept cut all over my left forefinger and still have a number of scars to attest to the fact that the old remedy for ADHD worked!
 
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Lent my knife to a co worker to open a box. It turns out that the box taped AND stapled shut with the copper colored cardboard staples. The edge got rolled pretty good. The guy in on my "no lend" list.

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This 13" AKC switchblade has turned out to be my worst knife. I found it for sale at a local flea mkt. I talked the seller into trading it for about 1/2 dozen cheap autos and felt I got the better of the deal. About 10 years later I was surfing around the interwebs and found a blog about counterfeit AKC's produced in the 90's. I checked the tang stap and found this to be one of them. I keep it around to remind me that any knife could be fake.


Just for the heck of it here's my second worst knife. It's another fake that I bought sight unseen which I'll never do again.

Thanks for the chance to win what would be my first BM knife that's not a Bali-song :)
 
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Giveaway entry. My buddy dropped his Buck 110 to me off a two story house while we were doing some roofing and it hit me dead in the center of the forehead. Those little things pack a punch and I couldn't exactly cover that mark up.
 
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Worst knife I ever bought was either a Gerber Flipper (no pic), or this S&W Dagger. It is heavy, and completely useless to be being double edge. I am not sure if it is supposed to be stainless, but the edge got stains quickly and didn't sharpen very well. The Gerber flipper liner lock moved to 100% quickly and could not hold an edge. The flipper action is horrible and needs a whole arm flick to get fully opened.

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"Lost" a custom knife. Moaned about it for over a year. The housekeeper found it in a chair. Of course I looked there, even though I was sure I lost it at a grocery store.
 
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Dumbest thing I ever did, give my knife to a buddy who as a misconception of the word SHARP... nearly took his finger of.
Now if I lend my knife out, and I say that it is really sharp, I get that look "yeah right" LOL

Nice GAW
 
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Dumbest thing has probably been attempting to use a 50 cent sharpening stone from a dollar store to reprofile one of those cheaper than dirt rough use knives - big surprise it didn't go to well
 
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The Boker Plus Stingray. I bought it because it looks awesome. The deployment was so bad that it literally squeaked when you tried to move the blade through the pivot. There was up, down, and side-to-side blade play that wouldn't go away. The knife was poorly balanced, felt bad in the hand, and the lock bar cutout was uncomfortable. The clip had zero give, and the texturing underneath it was so aggressive that clipping it in the pocket (let alone taking it out) was out of the question. Absolutely horrific through and through.
 
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