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

I was cutting the top off a shipping envelope with a CB Leek that I had thinned out and convexed. The envelope had a knife in it (of course) and one that I had been chasing for a while so I was excited. In one cutting motion I sliced off the top of the envelope....and the top of my left index finger. It hurt very much badly.
 
I had just received my Kershaw Blue Titanium Bump back from Tom Krein, an it was screaming sharp. Had a piece of celery in my left hand, between the thumb and forefinger and thought I would try to slice the tip of the veggie. Open your hand, hold your thumb and forefinger together. Now, look where your middle finger is. Turn your palm toward you. Now you see my flight path. The tip of the needle-sharp knife when right into the pad of my middle finger and stuck. Still haven't regained feeling in the small patch of skin at the tip of my finger. Luckily I bandaged it up tight, and it grew back together.
 
Daniel Dorn said:
I had just received my Kershaw Blue Titanium Bump back from Tom Krein, an it was screaming sharp. Had a piece of celery in my left hand, between the thumb and forefinger and thought I would try to slice the tip of the veggie. Open your hand, hold your thumb and forefinger together. Now, look where your middle finger is. Turn your palm toward you. Now you see my flight path. The tip of the needle-sharp knife when right into the pad of my middle finger and stuck. Still haven't regained feeling in the small patch of skin at the tip of my finger. Luckily I bandaged it up tight, and it grew back together.
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You should see my right index finger (I'm hell on my index fingers). I filleted the pad darn near off almost two weeks ago....still hurts and has that dull...tingly feeling all the time.
 
the knuckle on my index finger has som scaring...I think the worst thing is cheese graters, the take a piece of skin off instead of leaving a flap to heal.

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-niner
 
daveb068 said:
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.
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I cut myself by trying to pull a knot tight on my izula the same way.
 
Well, my story isn't all MANLY like a lot of these, so I almost wasn't even going to post it. But...

My first throwing knife was a Cold Steel Perfect Balance...big...heavy. When it came in, I took it out of the box and started flipping it in my hand. You know, hold by handle, flip 1/2 rotation and catch by blade...stuff every 10 year old does when he gets his first knife. I thought, "It's just a throwing knife...the blade isn't sharp or anything..." On the 3rd or 4th flip, I sunk it about 1/8 inch deep into that little web of flesh between my thumb and index finger.

Was too embarrassed to tell my wife or my 11 year old son (who I was just lecturing about safety, 3 minutes before). Noob.
 
I almost cut my thumb off today playing with my CBCF...




What saved my finger you may ask???
MY OTHER FINGER!!!
The flipper hit it, right before my finger got severed.

 
Cut the tendon on my index finger on my left hand putting a knife in a kydex sheath that had a little bit of moisture on it ,ended up with a serious infection and a sh**load of pain.
Theirs not to much compassion out their for people like us :sorrow:
 
How far back should we go. This was 60+ years ago. At about age 6 or so I tried to open a very rusty Boy Scout knife I found. Things slipped and I almost put out my right eye with it. I did injure the eyeball some so have since then had poorer vision in my right eye than the left, uncorrected. It caused me to develop my left eye as the dominant one, a PITA for shooting as I am right handed. I tell people that I tried to give myself Radial Keratomy in the right eye, unsuccessfully.
 
I was working on a custom vinyl toy for an art show and I was working way late on it. I was too tired and not paying attention. I had a tough piece I was trying to cut off the toy and put a ton of pressure on it, when it finally cut through, it went right into my index finger. Rushed to the emergency room and got stitches. Ended up severing two nerves. Had surgery 4 days later. Got back the feeling in the tip of my finger and down the left side. Right side has no feeling. I'm much more careful now. I thought about posting a photo from the emergency room, but I don't think anyone needs to see that.
 
I was carrying a Kershaw Groove in my left pocket tip up. Unknown to me the blade had opened so that the tip was about 1" out of the handle. When I reached into my pocket about 3/4" of the blade went into my thumb at the first knuckle almost parallel to the bone. My thumb seemed to still function so I stopped the bleeding and bandaged it myself. Its been three months and all I have is a small scar and I cant feel about half of my thumb from the first knuckle to the tip. I have retired the groove to the safe for the time being.

10 minutes afterwards when I got the bleeding stopped.



The culprit, you can see the blood on the blade.



This was a day or two later, the pressure dressing did a good job pulling it all back in.



Three months later.

 
:cool: When I finally obtained a good multitool, a Gerber Multiplier with blunt pliers, I thought I was really cool and was ready to handle anything. It had a plier, wire cutter, file, screwdrivers, knife and a serrated blade. I practiced flipping out the plier head, opening and closing the blades and carefully oiling the joints with just the right amount of lubricant. The tool, while heavy, fit nicely on my belt and let everyone see that I was prepared. I particularly liked the serrated sheepsfoot blade that could be used as an emergency saw.

After playing with the tool and fantasizing about my use of it, I decided to take out the serrated blade and check its cutting ability by running my thumb along its length - the serrations worked as advertised. :confused:
 
I threw a spyderco endura into my leg while cutting cardboard.
Went about an inch in.
Dumbest thing ever.

Edit: I just realized that this was a Kershaw/ZT thing

I have not cut myself with my Kershaw Cryo, yet...
 
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Well let's see here. I was at my mom's house getting ready to cut some meat and I noticed the blade wasn't right. I grabbed a honing rod and started honing it TOWARDS MY HAND. Well the blade slipped right of the guard and hit the*back of my left thumb HARD. I looked down and briefly saw what I assume was cartilage before it gushed blood everywhere. I cleaned it, and dumped superglue all over I until it finally stopped bleeding. Took a couple weeks to heal, and my thumb has felted tight ever since.

When I was like 18 I had a cheap auto knife I would carry that had no safety. I guess I work the wrong pants one day, because I reached into my pocket for my keys am felt something bite my pinky. I looked down and saw the tip of the blade sticking through my pant leg and blood running off it. Apparently my jeans hit the button and it worked it's way open in my pocket. That knife went straight to the garbage and I have a nice scar there now.

More recently I was flipping my skyline open and shut while laying in bed at night and I shut it on my thumb. It wouldn't have been so bad, but I had just cut my nails and it got me right where the nail used to be. Every time I grabbed something my thumb reminded me of what I did :)
 
Cutting a branch with my 550. Pushing up on the branch with my left hand, pull-cutting toward that arm with the knife. Second time that day I had done that, but caught myself the first time before I did any damage. Not this time, though. Just as I realized what I was doing and almost stopped, the knife slipped, and cut DEEPLY into my forearm. Well deep enough to sever tendons. Slapped my other hand over it, dirty leather glove and all, drove the mower back to the house, and got headed to the hospital. As it turned out, I cut through one area in my forearm where I could cut to the bone yet miss all the tendons. But I think I DID nick the bone. Took a few stitches. A week later, waiting in line at the airport to go through security, the backpack I was wearing opened up the cut slightly again, even through the stitches. Had a great time getting it stopped while waiting in the security line.

Dumb*** that I am, I caught myself two months later almost doing the exact same thing while hunting, clearing a shooting lane. Some people just never learn.

I will say that the doctor said the cut was EXTREMELY clean in the margins. I think I had just touched up the edge that day... :rolleyes:
 
Attempted to deburr a chefs knife in a piece of 2x4... The 2x4 turned out to be punky on the right side. Luckily I managed to only take the tip of the chefs knife along the pad of my right thumb... So like anyone who has a meaty bloody 1/4" thick flap of skin tangling and tingling, I chose to let it bleed under cool running water until the water stopped turning pink and applied superglue.

When I was a kid and trying to whittle I ended up stabbing the muscles under my thumb in the palm of my hand, by the time I made it to the bathroom my cupped hands were about to overflow with blood. Yanked a sock off and wrapped my forearm tight as it would go, raised my hand overhead and went to get duct tape, a belt and make sure I hadn't bled on moms new carpet. Cinched the belt over the sock, cleaned out the hole, stuck toilet paper in the hole, taped over with duct tape and slowly let the belt and sock loose, it bled through several times.
 
I have cut so many times cleaning my swords , knives and machetes that it's embarrasing; I should know better, but the most idiotic thing I ever did was to try to catch a falling knife with my foot (naked). You can imagine the rest: the knife (a Hibben throwing knife, large), entered tip first in my big toe. I required stitches.
 
I was 15 or 16 years old, sitting in my bedroom floor with my legs out in front of me with
my sharpening gear and a small pile of knives. (Every one loves to sharpen right?lol)
Anyway, I had nothing else going on and was kinda being meticulous with a few.
I'd been setting everything out to the sides in neat piles, so I didn't think much about it when I went
to pull my legs in a bit and sit "indian style".
I had set everything to the side, except my Spyderco Police model. It was my most prized
knife at the time and so got to sit a little closer in the floor.lol.
The handle slid up to my buttocks and the tip of the blade against my left calf.
So thin and sharp I didn't even feel much until the blade tip hit the bone in the back of my calf.
Thankfully just hit meat (and bone). Felt really stupid. Super glue to the rescue.
The scar is deceptively small. Damn that knife can penetrate.lol.
 
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