What's the worst cut/injury you have received from your knives?

I stabbed myself into palm while trying to remove a skin from a stick of salami :), lot of blood but it healed nicely without need for stitches.
 
Took up whittling last summer and wanted to whittle in the traditional manner with a whittler slippie---nice and sharp!!! the coping blade closed on the knuckle of my index finger right to the bone.

Instantly I new it was deep, so off to the ER with a paper towel around wound, didn't figure I had the time or luxury to tell family members, it so happens my wife came out to the garage looking for me, she didn't find me just alot of blood. She didn't appreciate the surprise at all.

Anyway the doc said it was a nice CLEAN cut, a little skin glue and I was fine. I haven't finished my whittling project yet, I'll get to it sooner or later.
 
glockman99 said:
Here's a link to an old post where I damaged myself (as well as my bank account) :

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=407561
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That's unfortunate, but also funny as hell. What a comedy of errors! Glad there was no lasting damage; you're lucky. When reading your story I pictured that cartoon scene where some guy is hopping around yelping in a room full of mousetraps.

I have no serious self-injury stories to add, fortunately.
 
I do acrobatics - such as flips, rolls, and diving rolls. Like you see in the movies, only a lot more practical.
One time my muscles were tired out, and I did a roll holding a Khukuri.
Hand slipped on the recovery from the roll, Khuk slashed my left index finger all the way down, splitting through the nail in the process.
Couldn't sleep for a week without using drugs, and this was right before our vacation to Hawaii!

I changed the bandage every day, and I cut off all the excess blood and skin with a scalpel and it healed up nicely :thumbup:

I can't believe I was so stupid. I must have been about 16 at the time.

-David

p.s. Like one r.k member said 'You don't own a knife till it cuts you'. Thank god I don't own all my knives - I'd be dead!
 
Was making a small hole in some tough plastic one day and decided to use something that "is not sharp so i don't hurt myself."

The candidate was a Rainbow Leek. My finger slipped and i was reminded that it was still plenty sharp; got a 3/4 inch gash on the tip of my index finger, and some nice stitches to go with it.

That was a little over 4 years ago. In the right light, you can still make out the scar.
 
I always tie a small lanyard to my folders and extract them from my pocket by grasping the lanyard. I never place my hand in my pocket to draw my knife.
 
I slit the tip of my right thumb open with my Dodo. The cut itself wasn't all that bad and not particularly bloody, but it put my thumb out of commission for a few weeks. I think we all take for granted how much we actually use our thumbs.
 
The day I learned in practice the cardinal rule of using a knife, I was trying to remove a rubbery substance known as semicon from the insulation of high voltage cable. This is usually done with a pair of pump pliers, but sometimes the stuff is stubborn and is hard to get started. We have in our tool bags wood handle square tip straight blades I think are leather workers knives. They are crome vanadium and are often wicked sharp. I thought I could pry the blade in between the semicon and the insulation to get enough to get it started. I was pushing straight toward my other hand. Wouldn't you know the blade slipped and I literally caught it with my fingers on my left hand. The straight blade landed squarely across the inside of all four of my fingers between the bottom nuckle and the middle. It made an eerie "pfft" noise much like a sound effect you would hear in a movie. I didn't feel much, just a feeling that the blade had slapped my skin. I quickly pulled my hand up and staired at it for what seemed like second all the while hoping it wouldn't bleed. Wouldn't you know it, it did. Blood came oozing out simultaneously from all four fingers just as pretty as can be. Blood doesn't bother me, in fact all I said was "damn I cut my fingers" and proceed to climb out of the manhole to doctor my self. When I got to the top, I about fainted. Believe me, I'm not a sheeple, I just think there is a sudden blood pressure change that your body has to adjust to. I've had that reaction a couple of other times, and it isn't due to seeing blood. I could really care less other than it is going to be a pain in the butt letting it heal for the next couple of weeks. But for some reason, I get faint and have to sit down when I really cut or jab myself.
 
This past February, my Endura's lock failed and closed up on my middle finger. Luckily, the bone kept it from taking it completely off. Only 10 stitches...

The day after:
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And 3 weeks later:
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Now the cut didn't hurt too bad. What really hurt is my wife works at the ER and had just pulled a 14 hour shift and I did this 10 minutes before she got home. She drove me back to her work and that ride was painful; with all the "I've worked all day...", "you playing with your knife?" comments. :D
 
Been fortunate - only a few "small bites" over the years never needing stitches. I tend to treat knives like I treat electricity.......
 
Before I learned how to let knives fall and jump backwards at the same time, I dropped a 8 inch cook's knife and grabbed at it on the way down. I caught it easily--point first into the meaty pad on the palm.

It only took 3 stitches, and when the doc went to use anaesthetic I said 'Don't bother.' He couldn't work out that 3 pricks from the sewing needle wasn't going to hurt any more than 3 from the anaesthetic needle, followed by 3 sewing stitches!

I still have a nice scar--the point must have gone in about about an inch 'cause the scar is almost an inch long. I don't remember much, except I felt so faint that I lay on the kitchen floor for a while before I felt safe to stand up.

Greg
 
Tried to split a plastic bottle in half with a dull Gerber LST, resulting in it slipping off the bottle and into my ring finger
 
My finger almost bled from a cut once. I don't like the detents on liner/frame/compression lock generally, so I prefer that if it's that type of lock, that it's tip down. But I think Morimotom is right, I think you're just keeping the pivot screww too loose. Otherwise that would be a more common complaint over here and there are a lot of Emerson fans here.
 
Three times with my own knives. Twice was with Dry wall knives and the last was with a Wusthof chefs knife. I was chopping veggies and somehow my fourth (ring) finger got in the way. I cut it to the bone. It should have had stitches but I just taped it back in place. The two dry wall knife cuts required plenty of stitches. However the worse cut I ever got on my own was when I fell and stuck my hand through a window.
 
Afterdark - for your safety, you need to send that CQC to, uh, me, yeah, that's it, send it to me, and you'll be just fine. ;) Don't handle anything other than butter knives from now on.

Actually, if that's the worst cut you've had, you're doing pretty good. The worst 'bleeder' I've had is when I managed to poke myself in the abdomen with a Buck 119. Didn't hurt much, but bled real good. It was a half-inch long cut, and the ER doc had to make it an inch longer to get in and make sure there was no damage internally.

thx - cpr
 
Well, when I came back from celebrating new-year yesterday morning about 9am, it was with a nasty cut in my right index finger from my own shaving sharp SAK. All my clothes where full of blood, and so was my bed when I woke up hours later.
Advise of the day: never use a sharp knife when you are extremely drunk. (Where I used the knife for that night is a long story where I fail to remember big parts of because of the champagne, jenever, whine, and lots of beer I drank that evening:D)
 
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