What's the stoopidest thing you've ever done with a knife?

Just recently bought my first hinderer a xm-18 3" flipper in which I decided I didn't like the flipper and decided to delete it! Well I have a standard bench grinder and thought well low speed and keep it cool should be fine! Then one slip and bam slipped and nicked the base of edge right at the choil and knicked the edge all the off, lol so now off to razors edge to choil mod it! Lol now adding more expensive to an already expensive and most I've ever spent on a knife! Oh well at least i ll recieve a pro modded knife
 
Dallas T said:
Just recently bought my first hinderer a xm-18 3" flipper in which I decided I didn't like the flipper and decided to delete it! Well I have a standard bench grinder and thought well low speed and keep it cool should be fine! Then one slip and bam slipped and nicked the base of edge right at the choil and knicked the edge all the off, lol so now off to razors edge to choil mod it! Lol now adding more expensive to an already expensive and most I've ever spent on a knife! Oh well at least i ll recieve a pro modded knife
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Ouch! That's gotta sting!:(
Post up some pics when the mods are done though! Hopefully you like it even more after that!
 
I forgot to add one that I did as a kid, about 8 years old. This is the second "stoopid" related item I've shared about the process of walking the bean fields with a crew, using a machete to cut weeds (the other post was in the "What's the worst self-inflicted cut you've ever had" thread).

Us kids at that age were not so bright at times, I sadly include myself in that assessment. :rolleyes: During breaks at the end of the rows, we'd play the "knife throwing game" and throw corn knives into the dirt at each other's feet. It's only the grace of God that no one around me was ever cut doing this. If I caught any kid doing this today, I'd pull them off the crew for a day or 3 with loss of wages, have a serious sit-down about safety, and when they return to work, they're using a boring old hoe for the rest of the summer. Not one of my more brilliant moments in life.
 
danbot said:
What did they do with it? Tell us about their stupidity!:D
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person i work with was used to super dull knives, i assume, and wanted to cut through some cord on a chain link fence. i handed the knife over and walked to my task out of the corner of my eye i saw them raise their arm and come down on the cord in a full force swinging motion. blade was sharp went right through and full force hit the gate rail. scared them i assume as next it gets let go after hitting chain link rail and full force blade first into the concrete. missed their boot by inches. no one was hurt which is what matters more than a chunk of steel.

ive cut myself badly but those healed. this knife couldnt be healed, was killed in one swing.
 
jbmonkey said:
no one was hurt which is what matters more than a chunk of steel.
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That's what makes these kind of stories a lot of fun. If no one was seriously injured or worse, we can look back at the lessons learned and shake our head, or have a good chuckle about it.
 
jbmonkey said:
let someone use my knife. never will do that again.
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At a family BBQ many years ago ... I was grilling and one of my brothers was helping out ... I took a couple racks of ribs off the grill and put them on platters on the table and asked my brother if he would cut them down into smaller portions like you could serve ... well the kitchen knifes I had brought I had left in my truck ... so he didn't want to go to my truck to get them and asked to borrow my knife (because he knew I always carried at least some kind of knife) ... well I happened to have worn a fixed blade to have while grilling along with my pocket knife.

My first mistake was loaning anyone my knife ... my second was assuming my brother knew how to keep his hands and fingers out of the way when cutting something ...

so after a very loud shout (profanity laden ... which my grandmother was shocked by) ... and a trip to the ER and a trip from there two hours away for my brother to have surgey on his hand to repair ligaments and such ... and weeks of healing and rehab on his part ... and a nasty scar on my brothers hand/wrist are ... reminds me why I never loan my knife to anyone.

Once more proving the average person should not ever have a truely sharp knife.
 
on a week long backwoods canoe trip.
had my grandfathers 25OT, cleaned some fish with it, wiped it on my pants and put it way in the leather sheath to get started cooking.
I'd clean it after dinner - ended up forgetting about for some unknown length of time. it lived in a dry bag, trapped in the leather with all the moisture.

found it a few years back - still haven't completely restored it
 
JJ_Colt45 said:
At a family BBQ many years ago ... I was grilling and one of my brothers was helping out ... I took a couple racks of ribs off the grill and put them on platters on the table and asked my brother if he would cut them down into smaller portions like you could serve ... well the kitchen knifes I had brought I had left in my truck ... so he didn't want to go to my truck to get them and asked to borrow my knife (because he knew I always carried at least some kind of knife) ... well I happened to have worn a fixed blade to have while grilling along with my pocket knife.

My first mistake was loaning anyone my knife ... my second was assuming my brother knew how to keep his hands and fingers out of the way when cutting something ...

so after a very loud shout (profanity laden ... which my grandmother was shocked by) ... and a trip to the ER and a trip from there two hours away for my brother to have surgey on his hand to repair ligaments and such ... and weeks of healing and rehab on his part ... and a nasty scar on my brothers hand/wrist are ... reminds me why I never loan my knife to anyone.

Once more proving the average person should not ever have a truely sharp knife.
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Brutal! That's a hard lesson learned there.
 
Dropping a knife and using my foot to soften the blow barefooted. That was stupid.
How come it is that when you drop a knife, it seems like it always lands on the blade and never the handle, and if you throw a knife it seems to land handle first and makes you look stupid.:eek: Murphy's law I guess.
 
Fifth grade, 1981. I traded a neighbor kid a pair of fancy red BMX tires for a cheap Italian style switchblade, which I promptly took to school to show off to my buddies. While doing so at recess, some smartass kid apparently reported me to a playground monitor. :rolleyes: I saw her coming, so I tossed the knife over the fence into the alley behind the school. Needless to say, another snitch told her where I'd thrown it, she went out and found it, dragged me to the office, and my dad had to take off from work to come and discuss the situation with me and the principal. Let's just say the incident concluded that evening at home with the loss of the knife and a tanned hide. :D
 
JJ_Colt45 said:
At a family BBQ many years ago ... I was grilling and one of my brothers was helping out ... I took a couple racks of ribs off the grill and put them on platters on the table and asked my brother if he would cut them down into smaller portions like you could serve ... well the kitchen knifes I had brought I had left in my truck ... so he didn't want to go to my truck to get them and asked to borrow my knife (because he knew I always carried at least some kind of knife) ... well I happened to have worn a fixed blade to have while grilling along with my pocket knife.

My first mistake was loaning anyone my knife ... my second was assuming my brother knew how to keep his hands and fingers out of the way when cutting something ...

so after a very loud shout (profanity laden ... which my grandmother was shocked by) ... and a trip to the ER and a trip from there two hours away for my brother to have surgey on his hand to repair ligaments and such ... and weeks of healing and rehab on his part ... and a nasty scar on my brothers hand/wrist are ... reminds me why I never loan my knife to anyone.

Once more proving the average person should not ever have a truely sharp knife.
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And the worse part is, he ruined some of your ribs!
 
The cheap steak knives I have are not super sharp, so I lick steak juice off them without issue.

Well, turns out using a sharp pocket knife as a steak knife and doing that ^ is not the best idea :D

I got lucky though, no forked tongue for me!
 
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