WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE - i learnt an important lesson......

[sambo.]

don't sharpen your knives while the footy is on the TV.

i was grinding away at my benchstones, the TV commentator "Wesser is on the burst, Souths* will go in to score....."

i look up.

i slip.

ouch.

i'd nicked the artery in the thumb and took myself off to the local hospital for a little assistance in stopping the bleeding.

the Nurse asked me "what were you using, a scalpel?"

she then expressed the opinion that my knife is perfectly sharp enough now TYVM.

this was taken the day after i'd sliced it.

at least i did it during the first half of the match and didn't have to sit through the second half where my beloved bunnies choked and blew a sizeable lead to lose the game.


*Souths: The South Sydney Rabbitohs, Rugby League club.

 

[MORIMOTOM]

yikes!!!!!!

 

[JeremiahWeaver09]

looks nasty

you definitely gotta pay attention. i always fear dropping a knife and having the blade go through my foot, in fact im very surprised we dont hear more of that happening.

 

[RevDevil]

looks nasty

you definitely gotta pay attention. i always fear dropping a knife and having the blade go through my foot, in fact im very surprised we dont hear more of that happening.

The pain of shame outweights the pain of the foot, thus preventing such posts

 

[JeremiahWeaver09]

The pain of shame outweights the pain of the foot, thus preventing such posts

heh thats possible. now im not certain, but wasnt there someone on these forums not too long ago who posted about how he dropped a knife that actually ended up severing his Achilles tendon ??

 

[tu tone tommy]

Looks nasty. I try to have no outside distractions when I'm working with sharp instruments.

 

[Edgyone]

Sambo, if you were watching/listening to AFL instead of 'throw ball' this never would have happened...

Hope your :thumbup: heals up fast.

BTW, what knife were you sharpening?

 

[SteelSnob]

Sorry to hear that. That looks bad.

I think you should put a warning in the title.

 

[sambo.]

heh thats possible. now im not certain, but wasnt there someone on these forums not too long ago who posted about how he dropped a knife that actually ended up severing his Achilles tendon ??

ouch.
embarrasment plus. glad i didn't do such serious damage to myself.

Sambo, if you were watching/listening to AFL instead of 'throw ball' this never would have happened...

pfft, 90 minutes of Aerial Ping-Pong knock-ons.....

Hope your :thumbup: heals up fast.

cheers!
it seems to be healing up nicely.

BTW, what knife were you sharpening?

A Richardson-Sheffield 15cm 'Forme' Cooks Knife.

nice knife actually, i have two of them. even though my Global GS-3 gets a LOT more use.

 

[TLARbb]

looks nasty

you definitely gotta pay attention. i always fear dropping a knife and having the blade go through my foot, in fact im very surprised we dont hear more of that happening.

While not a situation where I was sharpening anything I was working with a #11 xacto and it got away from me and fell edge first between the 3rd and 4th toe on my right foot neatly splitting the skin between my toes. Now I want to say that no matter how minor a wound you get on your foot, gravity wants to make all of your blood run out of that wound. I was barefooted as I often am while working on my modeling business and I sure made a mess. In the location (web between my toes) I couldn't get a decent bandage. Finally put some packing between my toes and wrapped the two flanking toes together.

You could not have performed that cut any better if you'd been guiding it with your own hand.

It can be a messy deal.

I know about those distractions and thumb cutting too. I sliced the end of my left thumb with a paper trimmer in the office when the phone rang as I was finishing a trim cut. Moved my hand just enough to chomp the end of my left thumb with the trimmer. Luckily it didn't cut all the way off and they stitched it back together at the doctor's office. It was very touchy for a long time. That injury was very similar to the Sambo's.

Sambo, I hope you recover from your injury pretty soon.

Ed

 

[sambo.]

that cut any better if you'd been guiding it with your own hand.

yarr!

if i held my thumb up and swung the knife at it, i doubt i'd manage to take such a slice off it.

Sambo, I hope you recover from your injury pretty soon.

thanx mate!

 

[futz]

looks nasty

you definitely gotta pay attention. i always fear dropping a knife and having the blade go through my foot, in fact im very surprised we dont hear more of that happening.

Check out post #9 on this thread. Not exactly his foot, but close, and probably worse.

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

Check out post #9 on this thread. Not exactly his foot, but close, and probably worse.

That was after he got it stitched up. Here's his original post about the same incident:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=675284

 

[futz]

That was after he got it stitched up. Here's his original post about the same incident:

There it is! I knew that had to be here somewhere.

 

[sambo.]

glad to know i'm not the only dolt who's managed to do themselves a mischief.

that NL1-Thor certainly did the job on oldmates heel.

 

[TLARbb]

Sambo, I was speaking of the cut between my toes when I said "You could not have performed that cut any better if you'd been guiding it with your own hand. " It was incredible.

Yes, and I do hope you don't have any long term tenderness issues with missing some of the pad on the end of that thumb. Mine was for quite a while and I didn't actually loose any tissue there.

EJ

 

[frontline29]

You didn't even need stitches? why wasn't it sewn up?

 

[sambo.]

You didn't even need stitches? why wasn't it sewn up?

there was a little disc of skin about the size of an aussie five cent piece taken clean off. not enough to bother stitching back on.

 

[Cynic2701]

I can't stop looking at those hexagons in the skin...

I assume that's from the bandage?

 

[Eddie17]

Dude becareful next time please!