What is the dumbest thing you have seen a non-knife person do with a blade?

MaximIsayev said:
It does take some practice, I would not rely on that as my only method to open cans. I've tried it once, ended up ripping the can in half after fifteen minutes of struggling and cutting up my hands. He's got another video on how to open the smaller sized cans, as they require a slightly different technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J8jULurs5I
That guy's got a lot more decent bushcraft/survival-type videos, but unfortunately no decent English subtitles or translations, and most of them aren't as self-explanatory as the can ones.
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A screwdriver might work, if you have one at hand. Just punch holes around the lid until you can pry it off.
 
Fish Boy said:
Lent a guy an Opinel knife and he pretended to stab me with it. He got really offended when I asked for the knife back and told me to "take a joke."

This is the same guy who strained one of my sternocleidomastoid muscles while pretending to snap my neck like some stupid ninja warrior.
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My pappy had someone frequently swing a boxcutter at him and retract the blade just before he sliced him back in the Army. One time, he didn't get the blade all the way back in and sliced his knee open,
 
Ferahgo said:
My pappy had someone frequently swing a boxcutter at him and retract the blade just before he sliced him back in the Army. One time, he didn't get the blade all the way back in and sliced his knee open,
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Daniel Dorn said:
My first Pocket-clipped knife was a CRKT K.I.S.S. when they first came out, almost 20 years ago. I clipped it to the OUTSIDE of my BELT! I bet I looked like the Dork! Yeah, it's been a while, and I've grown in knowledge, and experience... :p
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I thought it would be super cool to carry my folder in my boot. I never counted on the blisters.
 
Ferahgo said:
Not as bad as some other guy. He fired a blank at the back of pappys head, thinking his rifle was empty. I am just glad it was not a live fire day.
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Fired a blank at his head? Some people need pistol whipped... to death [emoji13]
 
My 23 year old daughter came home with a pair of sandals she had just bought. They were held together by one of those thin plastic ties. She asked to borrow a knife as she reached for my XM-18. I told her "not that one" and took out my little Case Swayback Jack. I opened it for her, handed it to her and told her to be careful because it was very sharp. Now my daughter's not a dumb kid. She has a degree in Electrical Engineering and is working on her PHD in Bio-medical Engineering. She spends much of her time in the lab dissecting rats eyes so she is use to using sharp instruments (I'm very proud of the girl). I went back to what I was doing and didn't really pay attention to what she was doing. I heard a little squeal and looked back to see her index finger bleeding rather profusely. She apparently had never seen a warncliff blade and without looking too closely placed her finger tip on what she thought was the spine for support as she tried to cut through the plastic. Needless to say the only thing that got cut was her finger. She thought "the curvy part of the knife" was always the edge. After we stopped the bleeding and the hysterics I was told it was "all my fault" for having a "stupid backwards knife". I guess in the end it really was my fault for not paying attention to what she was doing.
 
When I was ten I was watching tv and my mom hands me a butcher knife, an old hickory brand i think, and tells me to sharpen it. She also handed me a coarse pocket size stone to use. So I sharpen and sharpen for several hours it seemed like. I didn't think i was doing it right. Just kept doing it the way my uncle and grandpaw did until my hand were too tired to go any more. So i give her the knife back and keep watching tv. A while later she was using a hammer on the spine of the blade to beat the blade though a block of frozen hamburger meat. She hammers it through the meat but not the styrofoam package on the bottom so she flips it upside down and with her left hand holding the meat down, slices upward through the flimsy styrofoam and cuts two of her fingers clean to the bone. So we get in her car and go into town and she got all stitched up. I don't remember how many stitches she got. But when i was almost 11 she would've been almost thirty. Plenty old enough to know better than to pull a stunt like that. And she grew up with knives! Poor mom. I felt bad after that for sharpening her knife but she was supposed to be the adult there.
 
When I was a young teenager I once watched my neighbor cut open Romex 14/2 wire in the palm of his hand. He not only sliced his palm real bad, but he did it twice. Blood went everywhere. I've never forgotten what I saw... quite graphic.
 
JoepReinen said:
When I show my knives to my friends, they test the sharpness by running their thumb against the blade....
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I test an edge by dragging my thumb across it too if it catches at the skin ridges of my finger print .. its good If I have been sharpening a lot of blades , I lose my finger print and it stops working as a test ... have done since forever .. even test the chainsaw the same way to see if it needs touching up ... I guess Im just dumb ... but , I make knives , so at least Im not a dumb non knife person
 
Why run a blade across flesh that will bleed?
I check for sharpness by touching the edge against a fingernail.
If it slides off, it's dull, if it catches, it's sharp.
 
I do the fingerprint grab too. Don't really know why, but it works ok. The vast majority of the time though it's the classic arm hair shave.
 
I've got 3 ways to test sharpness. First is the finger nail, as Esav pointed out above (Usable edge). Second is the finger pad, just a slight brush against the blade side-ways, not lengthwise (a little more refined edge, capable of cutting open envelopes). 3rd, and final test is the arm hair, which is quite fine on me, so is the end of sharpening, for me (ready for anything).

Anyway, I remembered another thing I did. Was opening the Cold Steel Triple Fold Double edge. The top edge comes right up near to the thumb stud. Easily one of the deepest cuts I've had. Was at a Gun 'n' Knife show, too. Felt like a dumb@ss.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Why run a blade across flesh that will bleed?
I check for sharpness by touching the edge against a fingernail.
If it slides off, it's dull, if it catches, it's sharp.
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why I do it .. its because when I drag the print of the pad of my thumb across my blade edge , it catches slightly at the print of my thumb if its sharp .. it gives me feedback on how sharp sharp is , a slight grab , a keen grab, a seriously keen grab at the ridges of my thumb print ... something I personally dont get from testing it on my nail . Im not happy with "sharp" or " not sharp" I have sharp enough for kitchen , sharp enough for clean slaughter work, sharp enough for skinning a sheep with a full fleece thats been in a sandstorm , and stupidly crazy scary sharp for my personal pocket knife just cos I like to show off what sharp can be at times , among other grades of sharp . I can tell what Im dealing with by dragging my thumbprint seriously lightly across ( not along , but across ) a blade edge . This is why I do it how I do it .
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Ive been doing it this way since I was about 6 yr old .. close on 40 years now , I dont recall having bled from it yet . Not saying i wont , there is always a first time .
 
Me and my brother were living with our cousin at the time, I had most of my stuff in storage but my brother had boxes stacked everywhere. After a long night of cards, bullsh!t and drinkin, my cousin pryed into one of the boxes and pulled out my brothers Treeman Bowie with an 11" blade. I said "put it up man, not even f'n around, put it up.", he just looked at me half stupid and shrugged it off. Another friend of ours was drunk and halfway asleep sitting up on the couch with his ball cap pulled down over his eyes. My cousin walked over to him and went to flip the the bill of his cap up with the f'n knife. Well our buddy reached up to grab what he expected to be a hand, and got a full clutch grip on razor sharp high carbon steel. Blood shot half way across the room, it filleted his palm to the bone. Luckily, the blade was more than clean and he was too drunk to feel it too much anyway. I had a first aid kit in my truck and dressed it good enough to last the night. It took the docs more than a few stitches to patch him up right the next day.
 
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Myal said:
I test an edge by dragging my thumb across it too if it catches at the skin ridges of my finger print .. its good If I have been sharpening a lot of blades , I lose my finger print and it stops working as a test ... have done since forever .. even test the chainsaw the same way to see if it needs touching up ... I guess Im just dumb ... but , I make knives , so at least Im not a dumb non knife person
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I know people think it's stupid, but feeling the edge with the pad of your finger really is one of the best tests I've found. I sharpen knives fairly often, and I feel like I can get a more accurate reading using my finger than I can with the "Nail test". The reason being a knife will pass the Nail test even at a low grit. I sharpen through 3000 grit followed by loaded strops. A knife will pass the Nail test after setting the bevel (usually with a 120 stone) which means I have no way to test the edge after the initial stone other than feeling it with my finger. I guess you could test the edge my cutting certain mediums (Fine paper, hair, etc), but it's a lot quicker just to feel it with a finger.

I usually use my Index, Middle, and Ring fingers simultaneously against the different parts of the edge, the motion is almost like strumming a guitar. It's hard to describe, but, It works for me, so far.
 
My cousin tried to shave his blue jeans with my knife years ago. He nearly cut the big artery in his thigh. I went and got my grandmother and our conversation went " Hey Memaw, what would you say if I told you myles cut his leg with my knife"? " I don't know why"? Because he did and now he's bleeding everywhere". He also broke the tip off a pen knife of mine by throwing it at a fence post.
 
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