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

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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BeaglesnBushcraft said:
I cut myself by trying to pull a knot tight on my izula the same way.
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I was cord wrapping a handle late at night and had to take the sheath off to get the initial loops going...well I forgot to put it back on after those first couple. Got all the way to the last 3 loops and my hand slipped. Just about filleted the top of my index finger off. Healing up nicely now but it's still tender. I felt like an idiot.

...this one is from a week before that. I just wasn't paying close enough attention at work and my freshly sharpened vapor bit my thumb. Of course we were doing plumbing stuff at the time and the water to the house was shut off, haha *facepalm*.

 
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Christmas 2 years ago...Christmas Eve Candlelight service. Dumbass me got his candle and noticed the wick was exceptionally long. No problems, I thought. Had a just finished new edge on a Case XX. Did the thumb against blade thingy to trim the wick. 30 minutes later, just as Communion was being offered, the bleeding finally stopped.
 
Every time (and there have been plenty) I cut myself, it is because I have done something silly. More than "silly" really...stupid.

Since, shockingly, I am not intelligent 100% of the time, my only hope is too keep your my sharp. Clean cuts! Lopped off a big chunk of fingernail once, without breaking the skin underneath!
 
White knuckling my Bradley Kimura while trying to pull it out of it's too tight kydex sheath probably wasn't the smartest thing in the world I've done. Cut my palm, index finger, and middle finger.
 
last year in scouts before leaving,

teaching scouts how to drill a hole in a piece of wood with a knife. hand my hand under the wood. long story short, I drilled an incredibly pointy SAK that i customed the blade just for this purpose right into the palm of my hand

Doctors had to cut the wound wider in 4 places because it was an awkward round puncture hole, got 14 stitches
 
I had just gotten a brand new SAK alox solo. My first SAK since I was a kid. It had a very hard snap, open and close. My wife was out at the store, and I was watching our 10 month old at the time. I was idly opening and closing my new blade, when It snapped shut with about an inch of my pinky in the path of the knife.

Long story short, I am running around bleeding like crazy, trying to keep the baby of the glass entertainment stand without bleeding all over her. Luckily my wife showed up about ten mins later. Needless to say, I had to get 8 stitches, a rug shampooer and the baby a bath lol
 
About two weeks ago I was cutting tie wraps off of a piece of exercise equipment. Slipped with the knife, had to go to the emergency room. Got two staples in my leg. It wasn't a wide cut, but it was about 3/4 deep so it was a bleeder.
 
I've avoided any good cuts for a while. had some little whittling pokes here and there that barely draw blood.

a few years back I was carrying my brand new spyderco centofante 4 at work for the first time. decided to slice an orange on my break but had no clean surface to cut on, so I held it on my outstretched palm and slowly sliced down. I guess I underestimated the factory sharpening job, because just a little downward pressure caused a nice, long cut on my palm since the knife has a straight edge and most of the edge got me at the same time haha. not too deep, but the longest straight knife cut I've had.

took my Mora out hiking. decided to stop for a snack and I started absently sharpening a small branch into a point as I sat there. I was using a really bad technique, the left hand holding the stick, I for some reason had my index finger extended out well past the end of the stick, I did one quick slice on the stick and the blade kept going and basically did the same whittling cut on the tip of my index finger. it actually cut through the skin, kept going and trimmed half of my long fingernail haha. talk about Scandi sharp. the cut wasn't too bad though.
 
While working at a state LE agency, where policy states we cannot carry anything sharp and pointy, and those that are authorized have to secure them with a lanyard to your duty belt. So one afternoon, I was called down to conduct a probable cause search of a cell with one of my female co-workers, and as a supervisor I was in plain clothes that day. Taking a state issued Leatherman Wave, not mine but a partners who had attached his lanyard to the thumb hole in the blade, I put it in the back pocket of my $70.00 dress slacks and secured the lanyard to my belt. Upon entering the cell, I pulled the Leatherman from my pocket by the lanyard, which promptly opened the blade and as I continued to pull the lanyard, the blade cut into my pocket slicing it from the bottom to the top of the pocket and then as it cleared the material, flipped over to stab me in the lower back.

Now I'm standing there in a cell, with my female partner gawking and deciding exactly how she's gonna humiliate me in the squad room, with my pants ripped open exposing more than I cared and bleeding from the stab in the back. I got the last laugh though, because she got the bust AND THE REPORTS TOO after we finished the search.

And then for Christmas one year, I thought it would be a "great" idea to give all three of my boys a small multi-tool like you find in the $1.00 bins at the big box home stores, as stocking stuffers. The boys were 10, 8 and 7 at the time. I told the wife "the kids would love the tools, every boy remembers when they got their first knife". Well Christmas morning the kids woke up early, and got into the stockings, as the norm, and by the time we got up, all three had cut at least one finger, nothing serious...The kids have all lost their tools buy now, but the wife "still" remembers the Christmas Day Massacre......6 years later!!!!
 
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ok got a brand new cut about 20mins ago,

very slow day for me so i decided to download a free horror game a friend recommended, it gave me something to do while my autions end and i wait for replies on the stuff im selling.

Anyway, i like horror films and games so i gave it a try, while fondling my spyderco tenacious........... see where this is going???

game starts and im about 15mins into it and i get one of the worst jump scares of my life, & im pretty rock solid when it come to these thing. So to react to this scare, i closed my tenacious so i wouldn't cut any thing off, my fingers were in the way. So now i have am missing the tip of my middle finger and a part of my ringinger as well. lucky for me it wasn't deep enough to bleed severely on the mddle finger and it lopped off the calas on the other and that i was wear my work gloves from earlier today
 
Best one: Opening a clamshell package for someone within a few seconds of being woken up. I wasn't paying attention, knife slipped right through the clamshell and into my right leg. No pain. I pulled the blade out, and had soaked my pant leg in blood before taking the 7 steps to the bathroom.

Second best: As a teenager whittling a walking stick (taking off the bark for the handle), The knife had been sharpened, so it easily cut through the bark, and through skin on my knee cap. That one hurt a lot.

Third: Somehow had a double-edge razor stuck to my wallet (likely a practical joke). Put a 1" long cut roughly half way through my left index finger when reaching for my wallet to pay for lunch one day.


Runner up (not knife, but still odd). Absent-mindedly, and quickly ran the back of my hand down a wall in my old house. I didn't know a brad was sticking out, it caught my hand, was ripped out of the wall, and took a sizable chunk out of my hand between right index and middle fingers. Soaked a T-shirt in blood on that one, and have a gnarly scar. That was the only time I've seen tendon.

All the other minor cuts came from sharpening, slipping, or paper, and not worth mentioning.
 
Not knife related but still pretty bad, not in a silly way but with the amount of work it cost me.

I was building a computer and decided to save money by buying a cheap case to put it in. As I was putting in the parts I was sliding in the graphics card and cut myself on the rear slot and it wasn't a small cut it was deep. Lets just say I bled over my brand new computer components, and I have money saying they used some type of chemicals on the computer case and didn't clean it off properly as it burned. So I had to remove the graphics card, motherboard, and everything else I put in the computer and thoroughly clean the thing and let it dry before I could finish building it. Let me tell you this finding and cleaning every spec of blood off a dark green motherboard and other computer parts is no fun.

I also knew a guy back in high school who threw a knife into his own leg by accident when throwing a knife at an old binder by his foot. He told me he did this while throwing a knife at a different binder during class, in a high school with a zero tolerance policy towards knives. Looking back I am surprised he didn't get caught and thrown out that day as he was blatantly obvious. Last I heard of him he wanted to be a chief, I guess he wanted more sharp knives to be around.
 
For me, the worst thing to happen is a near miss when my balisong dropped and impaled the floor right next to my bare foot, among various other cuts from different knives...
 
I had a good buzz going, feeling good... Was fondling a Tenacious I just sharpened... As a right hander, I began to wonder how left handers feel about always having the wrong lock orientation. I decide to learn how to open/close my Tenacious with my left hand to feel their pain... Presto, damn near sliced my middle finger clean off.

The booze helped in keeping me calm, it was pretty bad. Didn't want to go to the doc for stitches so I superglued the SOB. Wife thought I was crazy, but my finger is still on!
 
What silly thing have you done that resulted in you cutting yourself???

The dumbest thing I ever did was trust the lock on a crappy 20 dollar folder that I bought at WalMart back around 1995, it cut my finger to the bone when the lock failed. The knife was new and never saw any hard use. After it locked open with a loud click you could easily close it with moderate pressure on the spine with the palm of your hand without releasing the lock but I did not find that out until after it cut me. I was fooled by the past reputation of the maker and the fact that it was made in the USA. I swore then that I would never buy a knife from that company again and I never have. From what I have read their quality control has been going steadily downhill since then, that is scary. Since that unfortunate occurrence I have stuck with Benchmade, Spyderco, Kershaw and Cold Steel knives with the Triad lock and not 1 drop of my blood has been spilled.
 
When i was 13 i was trying to open a nerf gun in the car. We hit a bump and my SAK went into the base of my left thumb. Didnt tell my mom cause i thought shed be pissed. As a result i now feel nothing in my left thumb
 
Discovered "battle ready" edge on CAS Iberia Mercenary Sword wasn't too bad when cleaning the packing oil just after receiving it. Also ran my knuckle into the blade after walking with it and catching the tip on a house coat of all things.

More caution is exercised these days.
 
I tried to use a crkt kiss as a leather awl to put an extra notch in a belt. It shut on my pinky finger and cut almost to the bone. I lost feeling in part of that finger for probably 6 months.
 
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