What silly thing have you done that resulted in you cutting yourself???

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Dadonred

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Just bought an awesome handful-of-a-knife ZT-0560 from jcw221 over on the Dealer Forum. Looking that thing over made me wonder, though...
I hope I don't get chastised for posting this topic, but just curious what your stories are?
Hopefully none too horrible (for your sakes), but see what we can learn about what-not-to-do from the forum

(Still aiming for Order of KAI... getting closer, but I really have to go on backburner for a while - wifey getting unhappy. :o)
 
I opened a jar of mayonnaise. The ring under the lid stayed on the jar. I didn't like it. I successfully cut it off, but the blade continued down and into my left thumb slicing it to the bone. I was too embarrassed to get stitches, so I put a butterfly on it and wrapped it up.
 
One time I remember, I was just putting the tanto Zing in my pocket. I let it open slightly and then proceeded to stab my palm. It didn't go too deep, but it was more than just a slice.

Another time, I was cutting the tab off of a speaker housing with my 0550. I was just trying to slice it but then I pressed too hard and let it slide to hit my finger. On the plus side, the speaker sounds great!
 
Cut/mangled 4 finger of right hand trying to hold a piece of board that was binding the skill saw.
 
annasoH323 said:
One time I remember, I was just putting the tanto Zing in my pocket. I let it open slightly and then proceeded to stab my palm. It didn't go too deep, but it was more than just a slice.

Another time, I was cutting the tab off of a speaker housing with my 0550. I was just trying to slice it but then I pressed too hard and let it slide to hit my finger. On the plus side, the speaker sounds great!
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Thumbs up that the speaker sounds great - funny!
 
so there was this one time i had a gerber bear grylls fixed blade that belonged to a friend in my hand and i was helping him do yard work at his parents place. there were these big bushes that i could kneel under just fine but couldnt bend over and start swinging away. anyways, i was weed wacking - well weed slicing, at some tall grass the mower didnt get. one of the branches hit my eye and i went to react and grab it at the same time i was in mid swing so i severed the tendon in my right thumb. i mean, who needs to extend theirleft thumb as a daily need? i totally forget about ti all the time. but my thumbs up is an L now.

also i swung my cold steel scimitar 8 or so years ago at a branch and i somehow stabbed myself in the thigh. the only painful part was being numbed for the stiches. who kills nerves via over pain stimulation?

whittling toward myself with my leatherman crunch when i was like ten. serrated blade... bled a lot...
 
I had just got the baby to sleep and decided to wrap the handle of by BK 11. I was almost finished and decided to tighten my last knot one more time and pulled the knife out of the kydex and between my fingers. Cut to the bone. I screamed like a little schoolgirl, woke the baby up, and bled all over the carpet and bathroom floor.
 
Okay. After I tell this story you're all going to think I shouldn't own anything sharp as it's VERY stupid.

So I get back from a week in Cuba with a "little" sunkiss. I am welcomed back to Canada with a package in the post containing among other blades a Buck Vantage Select. After some fondling and flipping, I decide it's a good idea to use my new flipper to scrape my peeling sunburn. You might think this is where I cut myself but you would be wrong. My scraping session goes as planned with only a few hairs popped in the process.

Here is where I draw blood. As is typical with sunburn recovery there can be itching. I suddenly get a nasty itch on my lower back and with no back scratcher in sight, decide that it's a good idea to use my closed Vantage to relieve the pestering itch. Problem is my assumption that my knife was closed after my last flip is very wrong. I raised the blade from my side and proceeded to slice open a luckily shallow cut into my back.

I'm very lucky I didn't scratch with more authority or stab myself deep. I escaped with no pain and only a small amount of bleeding.

Top that for stupidity folks!
 
brodester said:
Okay. After I tell this story you're all going to think I shouldn't own anything sharp as it's VERY stupid.

So I get back from a week in Cuba with a "little" sunkiss. I am welcomed back to Canada with a package in the post containing among other blades a Buck Vantage Select. After some fondling and flipping, I decide it's a good idea to use my new flipper to scrape my peeling sunburn. You might think this is where I cut myself but you would be wrong. My scraping session goes as planned with only a few hairs popped in the process.

Here is where I draw blood. As is typical with sunburn recovery there can be itching. I suddenly get a nasty itch on my lower back and with no back scratcher in sight, decide that it's a good idea to use my closed Vantage to relieve the pestering itch. Problem is my assumption that my knife was closed after my last flip is very wrong. I raised the blade from my side and proceeded to slice open a luckily shallow cut into my back.

I'm very lucky I didn't scratch with more authority or stab myself deep. I escaped with no pain and only a small amount of bleeding.

Top that for stupidity folks!
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Don't feel to bad...I've got some stuff so stupid I won't say it to anyone lol;)

I was going to wipe the blade on my 0200 and what I didn't think about was the recurve....basically I started at the base of the blade and kept going, I ran right into the belly towards the tip. I now have a matching set of holes in two of my shirts and a coresponding scar on my thumb haha.
 
Well... I had recently purchased a CRKT Hittatsu FB which I was wearing on my side vertically in it's kydex sheath. I was practicing pulling the knife quickly and on the last draw, the blade top caught my sweat shirt forcing the knife about two inches into my lower right abdomen. Good part is, the lining of my abdominal cavity wasn't punctured. So instead of going to a hospital, I irrigated the wound with a saline and iodine mixture using a recurve syringe, injected myself with a local (lidocane), and sewed myself up. I also took a prophylactic dose of Kflex. Now I have a nice one inch scar to remind me. The puncture actually didn't hurt (sharp).
 
I have several stories, because I'm very stupid and with every knife I buy I experiment and horse around.
Mi first cut was with a cheap boker guardian I believe it is called, its a weavable big folder shaped as a classic dagger but only one cutting edge.
I was showing it to a friend, showing him how to wave it. As I closed it, it got half closed, and as I automatically took it to my pocket, I stabbed myself in my belly.
No stich needed, but as it was fat that got pierced, the doctor ordered antibiotics.

Then, I bought a couple of boker push daggers.
I would carry them in my belt, in the back, and felt like riddick with the ulas when I unsheated both at the same time.
I used to practice shadow boxing with the push daggers in front of a mirror. I was throwing punches, and I sliced the middle nuckle of one index finger with one of the push daggers. Hands crossed each other too close.

When I bought the bk2, I red about the scales being too slippery. Also, to big. So I took out the scales, and mallninjally thought: I could weare it with no scales at all. Less weight, ultra thin. Then, with one hand, I took the tip of the blade. With other hand, I took the handle. And then, thinking "let's see how slippery is without the handles, to compare, I pulled from the handled...slicing the base of the index finger of the other hand.

I have to go now, but this last story continues, and has several components that are very funny, that will share later on.
 
Not a knife, but a story anyways. I decided to lose some weight, started running, eating right... See this great recipe for sweet potato chips. Recommends a mandolin slicer, go to amazon, find the one, get it shipped. Of course the instructions are in a 100 languages and 20 pieces, don't see english at first glance. Think to self: "can't be hard, just hold stuff and slice.. easy." So I take off the tip of my middle finger a little bit. But it's not too bad. But still more potato left.. So I decide to keep on and finish it. Then I take much more off of my index finger. Could not get it to stop bleeding, ended up going to doctor and they basically put some special soap on it to make it coagulate and that is all they can do. (Found out later they sell powder at cvs that would have done the same thing, would've saved me $300.)

I get home look at instructions again, spot the english section and realize you aren't supposed to hold vegetables in your hand, it comes with a guard to hold the stuff. Also, everybody I talked to knew as soon as they saw the injury that it was a mandolin slicer. Like 10 people all had the same thing happen to them.
 
Had a Sog Folder and the tip was up in my pocket. The knife was fully closed, but the tip was so close to the edge when I slid my hand in to get something the tip sliced right up my hand... Never carried that bad boy again :S
 
I was trimming my motorcycle under tail plastic for mounting a license plate. I was using a utility knife. I made sure to cut away from my body the whole time. I thought I was finished when I saw a small piece was missed and needed to be trimmed. I cut towards me on that one and paid for it. The utility razor blade went halfway deep into the side of my arm about 2 inches below my wrist. I remember looking at it in my arm thinking...you are a dumbass AND you are soooo f*cked right now. You could see the muscle move up annd down when i moved my wrist back and forth. Cool but gross at the same time. I was a student at the time and didn't have medical, so I got my buddies wife who was a nurse to clean it out and put a few butterfly's on it. All good.
 
So i was handeling my friends new knife, and i wanted to see how even the edge was at infinity, and heres where i think i effed up, i ran my thumb from grip to tip. It was a recurve, dug in about a centimeter into my thumb. Don't EVER NO MATTER HOW STUPID YOU ARE, NEVER, EVER, RUN YOUR THUMB DOWN A KNIFE EDGE. My friends knife was, however, very smooth :D
 
got myself with my leek right in the stomach. it was so sharp i didn't feel it cut me.
 
I was flipping my Bali and thought I'd try throwing it up in the air, catching it and continue flipping it. A bit showy. I did it successfully so I tried turning while it was in the air and catching behind my back. The first time I did it, it hit my shoulder on the way down, opened up and tumbled down my back, arm and hand. It cut me several times. Then my wife had to bandage me up and I had to explain how it happened, all while she was giving me "your a dumbass" look.
 
It was the day I got blade fever. Since then I have been bleeding off and on. So to has my wallet. In a younger and dumber life. I was learning to flip my first Bali. "Hey I'm doing purdy good". Lets get rid of this stupid tape. Shortly after it got away from me. Got me in the bend of the arm. Not to deep, but uncomfortably close to that spot were they like to put the needles. I'm a lot smarter now hay what's that red spot? Oh! Another lesson learned. Don't text and flip!
 
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