What knives nick you most often?

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As I was cleaning some of my knives I started to look back at the different times I've been nicked by various ones.
For me its actually really only been by my slip joints. Only times a folder has cut me is when I first started with knives and was learning sharpening and opening the blades properly.
but my small little saks have sliced me pretty deep in the past. I have big hands and sometimes while being closed the little guys nicked the skin between my thumb and index. They snap back so quickly haha

What knives do you find nicking you most often?
 
My Mini-Barrage, before I de-assisted it. No more accidental cuts since I removed the spring.

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I don't always carry my assisted opening knives. But when I do, these are the ones that bite me, esp the Kershaw Leek.
I think its because of the resistance you get when closing,finger slips then owww!
 
dc50 said:
I don't always carry my assisted opening knives. But when I do, these are the ones that bite me, esp the Kershaw Leek.
I think its because of the resistance you get when closing,finger slips then owww!
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Exactly! For me(esp the leek) because it was so small for my hands my fingers just slipped and BAM! blood ha
 
None. I've been real careful with my knives since I nearly severed my finger when my Ontario combat fixed blade pinged off a piece of wood I was starting batoning. Poor hand placement. Held the piece of wood with my left hand about midway down, went to seat the knife in the top of wood when the knife came down, missed the edge and chopped into the side my left fore finger at the second joint. A centimeter forward and I wouldn't have a finger. New knife , which I'm guessing was a good reason why it happened, didn't know the knife well enough. Learned my lesson well though. I'll post pictures if you don't mind the sight of blood :)
 
The accidental slips when closing were the cause of most of the nicks from my mini-Barrage. That SHOT 2014 mini-Barrage had a smooth and rounded spine, which probably contributed to that. The Leek has actually been one of my most frequently carried knives, and I don't think I've accidentally nicked myself with that one at all. Aside from the mini-Barrage, I don't seem to have noticeably more or less accidental nicks between assisted and manual knives.
 
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Exactly! For me(esp the leek) because it was so small for my hands my fingers just slipped and BAM! blood ha
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That's one knife, I wouldn't want to had over to a newbie,there's bound to be blood on the blade. :eek:
 
Timely thread for me. Just yesterday l was opening my new 3.5 xm , that I got for Christmas, with the thumb stud,and I nicked my thumb with th very sharp heel of the blade. A slight design flaw that I corrected by dulling the proximal quarter inch of the blade. Now the knife is safer and just as functional, albeit with about a 3 inch cutting edge. Fine knife.
 
My Spyderco Yojimbo 2 seems to like to bite me...
 
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Nothing personal, my candid answer is: None, because I pay attention.
 
Any assisted knife bigger than the Leek.
What has bitten me? The Blur, the Link, the Cyro, Volt2. You get the picture. The smaller Leek & Scallion have never bitten me. There is something counterintuitive to spring assisted knives. Cuts always happen when distracted and closing the blade. The safest for me are the axis and the compression locks.
 
My Spyderco Sages are quite safe when closing because of the forward finger choil on the blade.

(The PM2 is even safer because it has a choil plus the compression lock keeps fingers out of the way of the blade.)

My Tenacious doesn't have that feature and is like a little guillotine. It has been known to bite on occasion. :D

I love the Tenacious, though. Great entry knife (i.e. crack).

In general, I would say that folders without the forward finger choil tend to nip me more than others.
 
My Rangerwood 55.
It has a "purposeful" snap back into the handle and sharpens to a razor.
Bit me a couple times before I realized I need to pay more attention.
 
I must say I don't get but very often at all these days...

The last two (and only 2) all of last year was my green river congress, snapped closed and just clipped the tip of my finger with the tip of the blades, (springs in that thing SNAP).

And I broke every knife safety rule on the fourth of July at a BBQ, when we were asked to bring firewood, but found there was no kinling either, so I casually was prying apart pieces of a split log while sitting on a chair, with my ELMAX Blur, when a piece let loose (under force), and I chopped straight through my jeans and into my thigh.
 
Any or all of my knives potentially. I can't hardly do any mechanical or repair work without pinching, smishing or cutting myself. Murphys laws seem to apply here. Lol
 
I remember my benchmade rukus nicking me a bit. I think part of it was that large flat ground blade was super sharp, and I was pretty new to knives at the time.
I don't get cut very often any more.
 
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