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

Age 12 or 13, with a friend sitting in his living room. Seeing how many revolutions you can make a WW2 Kabar do by tossing it up in the air. We each had our Dads. He got two full flips on his. I tired for three slow lazy turns and his sister came in the room complaining about the TV showing a game instead of Days of Our Lives or something equally stupid and I looked away for just a second. Thunk. Dead center of my palm. Stuck. His sister never even noticed. Grabbed her school book and left the room. Panic on both of our parts. Some pain on mine. Playing with both Dad's Kabars was a forbidden past time, so too probably was sneaking ours out of my house. A shirt, then a towel while he ran for his big brother who took one look and took us to a pharmacy for many, many bandages and tape. The hole responded fairly well to direct pressure. About an hour or two of that slowed it down to a steady ooze which if my memory serves stayed wet for three days. Some shivering and light headedness within the first hour. Early shock symptom I think, but it passed with recognition of what it was and the direct pressure. I think the bone that becomes the middle finger stopped it. By the time my Dad saw me with a bandage on the hand later that evening at dinner the bleeding was just an ooze hidden by multiple thick gauze pads and Johnson tape and I passed it off by saying I had been playing with a knife, and he assumed the wound was more shallow than it was and merely asked if I thought I had enough gauze. At least a half inch of width, so at least that much penetration. Dad didn't realize I was changing the pads about once every three hours that first day or two (and changing and washing the bed sheets before my mother noticed the blood in the morning, and yes I had been smart enough to put some newspaper under them before going to sleep). I was very lucky, nothing really major sliced, function remained intact and within a week it started healing. The lesson learned was if the knife is in the air, step back, don't try to catch it. A secondary lesson was don't play with the Kbar. Forty or so years later there is just a very faint scar and certain knowledge if rain or snow is coming.
 
Wow, I would be scared to toss and catch any knife other than a balisong.

My worst cut was a year or so ago when my friend showed me his balisong. He got mixed up as to wich handle was the safe handle when he was talking about. I flipped it open and took a decent chunk out of my knuckle. Lesson learned.
 
Well, I'm not gonna tell ya how I got my injury, 'cause its embarrasing (I was being stupid at the time:o). Anyways, the cut was about an inch and a half along my left palm, and to the bone. I remember thinking that it was cool that I could see the fat in my hand. I ran around showing everyone the wound. ("Check THIS out!":D) The blood in the bathroom where I stopped the bleeding was impressive as well. It looked like the scene of a chainsaw murder after the body had been removed.(<-- Ok, that's an exageration, but you get the point) I needed 5 stitches, but there was no tendon or nerve damage. I said a few choice words when they stuck the novacain needle in the wound... twice.:barf: If I would have known it would hurt that bad, I'd have told the doc to forget the novacain.:grumpy: Did I mention that I hate needles?
 
I accidentally stabbed myself in the knee with my Spyderco Matriarch. The tip easily pierced my knee about a centimeter. No damage and no scar, but it was weird seeing the blade resting in my knee.
 
I had a friend in Junior high who liked to fake the action of opening a folder and thrusting it. As young knife enthusiasts he never actually had a knife in his hand. One time while between classes he walked toward me an opened his fake knife. This time is was an actual knife and it penetrated 3/4 of the way through the palm of my hand. The bleeding filled my cupped palm 8-10 times before the bleeding was controlled by the school nurse. My buddy got busted because it was witnessed by about 20 terrified young students..lol. There was no hiding that accident and I was off to emergency and stitches. It sucked. There are lots of nerves in the hand. :(

When I was about 14 I got butterfingered while holding my Dawson Model 51 in my right hand. I dropped the knife blade facing down and it gravity drew across my left hand facing upwards palm, opposite the thumb side. Thinking back it kinda reminds me of a Cold Steel meat cutting demo...yuck. Off to the hospital again.

When I was about 25 years old and at work I was swinging my Benchmade AFCK past my right leg on the way to clipping it on my right rear pant pocket. It was a well used knife without much tension on the pivot. I had closed the blade but I had caused the blade to inadvertently open 90 degrees to the handle. As it passed next to my leg I pumped the open blade tip into my right thigh. It bleed all the way down and soaked my sock. I took care of the bleeding, gathered my thoughts and went back to work, although I was quite pale for the next few hours. Later that day I finally looked at the knife and it had had penetrated about 5/8 of an inch.

I still have all of my scares from them too. Luckily I've been knife wound free for over ten years now...woohoo!! :)
 
why just two days ago i severed the pad tip of my left thumb while sharpening my old bowie. Bled all over the place. grabbed one of my trauma paks (stomach dressing pad, gauze roll) and direct pressure. doubled over and wrapped the entire 6" x 9" dressing aorund the thumb like a taco. It bled thru the dressing in short order. Discarded the first one and irrigated the slice with saline and a irrigation syringe, and applied a second guaze pad, wrapped it snug with guaze roll and walked up to the ER just up the street.

Doc looked at it, it had already fused shut (very sharp clean cut) . Doc grabbed some Med-i-glu and sealed it shut.

good times... :)
 
I discovered Bark River K&T knives a few weeks back - man are they sharp. I just received a horrific wound... sudden and complete credit card enucleation from my wallet! The horror... Got some neat knifes, though!

Stainz

PS Of course I've put a wayward slice here and there on my own self... but all external appendages are still present and somewhat operable.
 
18 days ago, I just about took 1/4" off of the tip of my left thumb. I was cutting vinyl tiles with a utility knife. The blade wasn't even old, maybe 6-8 cuts on it, hut those tiles killed the point and gummed it up bad. I was pushing to hard, and it jumped off the tile and bit me. It also put quite a gouge in the framing square I was using as a straight edge. After that I just scored the surface and snapped them like drywall -- not because it worked better, only because I wanted to keep working and I couldn't exert enough pressure to hold the straight edge.

Yesterday was the first day without a dressing of any kind. It's still tender and a little gross looking, but I need to get a little calus back on the end of my thumb. This has made me appreciate being a primate.
 
At the age of about 12. I was using a victorinox. I was using the large blade to cut cardboard. Being 12 and sucking at cutting. I had the knife in reverse grip pulling down torward my leg. I was doing this sitting down*, I cut with enough force to go through the carboard and then down into my thigh. Stabbed it in about 1 1/2 inches. Instant lake of blood on the floor. Havnt done it since.
Matt
 
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so it was a hatchet and not a knife. sue me.
 
Last spring I was absently-mindedly flipping open & closing a Leatherman C305 at work when something slipped (a brain-cog?) and I took off the end of my thumb down to the tip of my (short-cut) nail. This is not a normal type of lost-time accident for a desk-jockey like myself, so could have been very embarrassing. I grabbed a handi-wipe to apply some pressure, and headed out the door, stopping to answer questions for a coworker in the hall. Walked out to a pharmacy across the street and got some bandaging supplies and returned to work. Back at the desk, I found the tip (mostly skin) on the floor and tossed it away, and returned to work. Why do you not take a pulse with your thumb? Because there are some good-sized blood vessels in there that have a pulse of their own. It healed surprisingly well.
 
The only time I have cut myself is in the kitchen. Practice with a trainer and respect your blades to avoid those silly injuries.
 
Well I had my Kershaw Chive in my pocket while walking in the parking lot to church one morning, reached down to make sure it was firmly clipped to my pants pocket and the little bastard had come open and sliced my finger almost in half. That taught me to use the lock!

My worst accident involved the fan belt and pully on a 99 Dakota. That was 25 stitches on 3 fingers, a lot of blood, and a LOT of pain killers. I won't go into the miserable embarising story, but the doctor said "well at least you didn't hit your tendens" "how can you tell?" "well there they are".
 
My worst cuts haven't been from knives.

The inch and a half scar on my index finger pad has a can lid in the garbage to thank. The worst cut, though, has a wrench. A nice, smooth wrench.

I was at work, pulling the bolts holding a railing to a set of concrete steps. The first few came out okay, but then they stuck. After much spraying with PB and cursing, the next one came loose. The last, though, required the help of my largest wrench, for the most leverage.

Apparently, I had a bit too much leverage. The wrench snapped in half (nice 3/4" Craftsman, no less), sending my hand straight into concrete. Chipped the hell out of my class ring, and I could actually see the tendons that made up my index finger. :eek:

If nothing else, it made dissecting the hand in medical school more interesting... extensor indicis, extensor digitorum profundus, extensor digitorum superficialis. ;)
 
Please send me your names and address's-you guys are dangerous and I need no help getting cut.
Kidding aside, well actually I wasn't kidding, but to answer the question, I don't believe I have ever cut myself badly with a knife but I sure have with a hatchet [8 stitches] and while hand grinding tools [a few different 3 and 5 stitchers]!
I also got it with a chainsaw in the knee-Get this, someone slipped and whacked me with it, cut my pant leg and knocked me down. Shaking I rolled my pants up and found three teeth mark in my knee cap-thats close!!!!!!!
 
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