We all have done it......

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Hey gang, I did something today that I wanted to share with you, it's something that probably all Knife Nuts have done in some fashion and it was pretty humorous (looking back on it) so I thought I'd post it here and give everyone a chuckle. I hope to hear that I'm not the only one who has had a "brain f*rt" like this.
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"It" happened when I was cleaning one of my rather large fixed blade customs. I had lightly coated the blade with Tuf-Glide and was admiring the wonderful shape,curves and highlights of the blade. I was holding the knife in my left hand, rolling it back and forth, and admittedly was lost in the beauty of the design. And so it was without thinking that I reached up with both hands to remove my glasses..... and BAM, I realized that I had just stuck myself with the point of the knife just above my eyebrow!
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I immediately thought "D**N, that's gonna bleed", and it did. But even before I could get a paper towel my wife came in and saw the evidence of my embarrassing accident. :0
She started to giggle and shook her head back and forth as she led me to the kitchen to clean me up. Is my wife the only one that always comes in at the most embarrassing moments.

Needless to say, I learned a lesson today and once again gained some respect for living on the edge.

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Hillbilly,

Man.........What was more painful ~ the wound or the hurt ego?
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LOL

I'm surprised that a Marine would be capable of this type of blunder. If'n you were a Army door kicker (say.....like Dogman) I would believe it could happen!
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Hope you're ego and wound heal quickly !
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Belt fed weapons and large Brend knives
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I'm sure some of us have! Last time I got a "good one", my wife wasn't watching more than a minute as I polished my Crawford Kasper.My finger ran down the sharp side and started bleeding in a nice stream.
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. All she said was "did you do it again?" and "do we have to go get this one sewn up too?":. That usually hurts more than the cut!!
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Great timing! I haven't had an accident in quite a while, but. . . Earlier today I gave my girlfriend Angelia an early 25th birthday present - her first Benchmade. And, you guessed it, within a half an hour she was heading for the bandaids. Luckily the cut wasn't too deep. She requested that I give her Kermit the Frog bandaids with all her knife gifts - not a bad idea since she cut herself with a pen knife I gave her last year.
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"I have often laughed at the weaklings who call themselves kind because they have no claws"

- Zarathustra
 
You want me to admit that I`ve stabbed myself in the head with a large fixed blade knife too??Fahgedduhboudditt!
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~Gordon~
 
band aid is an actual nick name I've picked up because i carry them with me. at least one per knife usually more.
how about forgetting that the knife i was trying to fold and put in my pocket was in fact a neat little halo 2 that i was just showing off to my friends. trying to find the liner lock and instead push my thumb into the edge while everyone was looking. these things happen,it's all good... if you live through it

take care
 
Just a couple weeks ago, I put a nice slice in my finger cutting open the box my newest knife came in. And, of course, a minute later my wife came home from work.
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Disassembling my CTII and forgot to put the knife in the open position. Jumped right out of the slabs and into my palm. Wife and best friend standing right there.

Laughter

Drip drip drip

Brandon

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No I don't
Yes I do...
 
Luckily I was alone for mine but wife was on the other end of the phone....... We were talking and I was flicking open/closed my BM730 when I dropped it...... Of course, I have lightning quick reflexes so caught the end of the handle just as the tip hit my leg and pushed it about 1/8" into my leg. Long pause on the line (my wife could previously here the 'schick' of the knife) so she says "Did you cut yourself again?" Weird? How'd she know?
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Shawn

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'Cause what consumes your thoughts controls your life
So I'll just ask a question
What if?

What if your words could be judged like a crime?
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Sitting outside after dinner last night smoking a cigarette. I was engaged in one of my favorite hobbies, Playing with a sharp shiny object. In this case it was the kershaw ken onion that one of my friends gave me last week. Well, I managed to get every one of my fingers out of the way except for the little one when I closed it. Kind of has me worried when I couldn't get the bleeding to stop. Thought I might wind up with some more needlework!

Kris

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Ouch, a couple of months ago, I was showing a Spyderco Walker to a customer when, as I was showing the guy how to operate the liner lock, he said something to me and I looked up and closed the blade on my finger. I knew it was deep, but he did not see it so I made a fist and put as much pressure on it as I could without dripping blood on the floor, and I continued to talk to him until my palm was full of blood I had wash it out. I should have had a little needle action but I toughed it out and later that day, I was nicked by the serrations of a SOG Vision. Talk about hard sales!

 
Wow that was pretty stupid.
but it's the stupid things that are more likely to get us cut. Using a knife in the proper way pretty much assures me that I'm not going to get cut it's automatic when working with a knife to do it right. We're used to using a knife properly because we've done it so long but it's just that absent minded type of thing that can sneak in and get us. Of course it never happened to me. :-)
 
Two weeks ago, I got a new knife. Within one hour of delivery I had to go to the emergency room for 3 stitches.

My problem, I forgot the "always be aware of where your body parts are when using a knife" rule. "Minor" cuts like this teach me to respect my knives.

Dean




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"All is well. And all will be well - in the garden." Chance the Gardener
 
I'm pretty careful when handling my knives, and I've stopped Playing with them when I'm on the computer or when I start to get sleepy. The last time I got bit by one, I was taking the bubble wrap off my first true custom ((a Lonewolf hunter) and in my excitement the blade cut through the plastic and into my thumb knuckle. I couldn't believe how sharp that knife was and how fast and deep the cut was. I never felt it, but I sure saw the blood. I bandaged myself up before I went back to unwraping the knife. The only good thing was the wife wasn't home to make me feel worse.
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Man have I come so close to doing that, ALL THE TIME! It's not funny, take the glasses off to look at something on the knife and go to put the glasses back on and try not to forget that the pointed end is sharp! Just last night as a matter of fact, too easy to do!

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G2

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I was in a pawn shop once looking at knives and I spied a cheap butterfly knife. I had been stationed in the Philippines before and handled many butterflies in the past, so I said "let me see that thing". So, while standing there with my wife, I proceeded to flip it around and brought the blade down on top of my index finger (deep), right across the knuckle. I felt the the sting but didn't look and I put the knife down on the counter. The pawn shop owner saw me standing there and the blood was running down my arm and dripping off my elbow on to his floor. He actually threw a rag at me and made me leave his shop. I was definitely more embarrassed for cutting myself than mad for having to leave!

That happened on a Saturday and I had to fly on Monday morning. So, I bandaged my hand and wrapped a piece of duct tape around my finger to keep it straight.(every time I bent it, the cut opened up and bled).

I get out to the airplane to fly a local training flight and I'm walking up the crew entrance ladder, holding onto the ladder rail with my right hand (finger sticking straight out) and I proceeded to jam it straight into the side of the airplane as I entered the crew entrance door. God, that hurt more than the original cut itself! Needless to say I felt stupid about doing that too!
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chieftd Proudly serving my country since 1977.
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Momentarily distracted and I cut the tip of my right thumb off. To this day my right thumb is still slightly shorter. I was considering going to the ER, but I realized stitches wouldn't help unless they could stick the tip of my thumb back on. I have to grow them fingernails longer for some protection....

-Chang, Asian Janitorial Apparatus
 
The worst cut I ever got was once when I was sharpening a blade on a flat stone, and I cut myself in the thumb.....thought I was going to have to have stitches! Most of the cuts I've had with a blade were while I was sharpening them, however, it is no longer a problem as I use the Edge Pro and have never even come close to getting cut and I've probably sharpening blades hundreds of times!
 
I've cut my self many times, all on my hands.
One of the worst ones was when I was sharpening a stick with a razor sharp folder, and hit a hard knot in the wood. So, I proceded to just play around with my knife and use it like a machete. I hacked haphazardly at the stick and after a few hacks got overly confident. I did some badly aimed power chops into the stick, one of which nearly chopped over half an inch off my left thumb (when I say nearly, I mean that the cut wasn't all the way through my finger). I felt very stupid after that,
especially when I was asked how I cut my thumb. Hard to explain that you chopped it with a folder....
Anyway, it healed up, and was worth the pain and humiliation, because I learned to be very careful around any knife.
 
I have had numerous nicks and cuts growing, but none serious in the last couple of years. Nothing that ever needed stitches anyways.
One incident that sticks in my mind was very recent.
I have just recently received two custom knives from Jerry Hossom of my own design. After having done some cutting with one of them, I had washed the blade and was wiping it dry. Well, I forgot about the recurve and and as I pressed down on the blade between my fingers, I slid the ball of my thumb across the edge. It sliced very neatly through the wadded up papertowel and cut loose a disc of epidermis about 1/4 inch in diameter of the ball of my thumb. No blood, no pain. Just a very neat little disc of skin.
The only reason I felt it was because I felt the loose skin catching on the edge as I finished wiping the blade.
Jerry makes some sharp steel
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Regards
Joshua "Kage" Calvert

"Move like Water, strike like Thunder..."
 
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