What's the worst you've ever cut yourself?

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ddrew5000

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Mine was yesterday. I have a Spartan Harsey Fighter that I thought had really slippery stock scales, and I was worried about my hand sliding up on the blade in a hard strike.
So I ordered some custom micarta scales for it. Put them on about a month ago and thought they were really nice and grippy and solved the problem. So I'm playing around with it yesterday and testing the grippyness and ended up sliding up on the blade and cutting my index finger super deep. Luckily I missed the tendon and only needed three stitches. I've had numerous little cuts over the years but that is my worst one.
I thought hearing about other peoples worst cuts from playing with/using their knives might make me feel better this morning.
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In the early 2000s I split my foot open with a Cold Steel tomahawk while de-limbing fallen cottonwoods. Went through heavy leather boot and right between two toes and severed the tendon keeping the toe in place. At the time I lived in Denver, two blocks from Rose Hospital. No blood, just an open clean slice. A few degrees off parallel to the foot and I'd have lost the toe. Orthopedic surgeon happened to be working the ER that day and spliced the tendon perfectly. He admired how cleanly the axe had cut and I showed him the AMT diamond stone I still had in my pocket. Hard shoe for four weeks and I was as good as new.
 
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At any one time, 15 stitches. (Twice. Once by my own accidental doing. Once by someone else's.)

Whoops, I forgot the 12 I got for looking up to say hi to my wife walking in the door while polishing my tomahawk. (Get your minds out of the gutter. ☺️)

(Moving to Community since there is no way in hell this is staying remotely on topic.)
 
I don't know, but the most embarrassing was when I cut myself opening an auto at Smokey Mountain Knifeworks in Pigeon Forge. Bled like crazy, but they sales reps didn't seem very alarmed, and they had very robust first aid kit behind the counter. Turns out I'm not the first dummy to cut himself in a knife store.
 
Using my Bravo 1 to chop a notch into a 1.5 inch diameter branch. Problem was there was some ice frozen on the top of it and the Bravo slipped and road down the branch and hit my hand. 7 stitches scar right between the index finger and knuckle.
 
was at work breaking down some really heavy duty boxes back in 2029 with admittedly too small of a knife, and cutting towards myself to boot. the blade bound up in the cardboard then popped loose and got myself in the upper thigh……..IMG_1882.jpeg
the bruise a week later was truly epicIMG_1896.jpeg

started paying more attention the what i’m doing while cutting since. couple inches different one way & i woulda hit the artery, couple another way & it woulda been even worse. and of course wife still makes fun of me to this day.
 
Last fall i was cutting up some deer jerky in my kitchen and my wife’s kitchen knives were not cutting it )pun intended) so i grabbed my Spyderco stretch 2 in K390 mirror polished at 17 dps well i layed my index finger open and 5 stitches and some antibiotics later i was able to enjoy some good jerky!
 
Lost a contest with a Cuisinart slicing blade—machine on, blade rotating, and lid popped off.

Lacerated left hand with semi-circular pattern top and outside. By the grace of God was only superficial in nature and didn’t require surgery, just stitches. In some areas there was nothing left to stitch.

Dealing with scar was most difficult. Did not want scar tissue to restrict range of motion.

Don’t recommend it!
 
My worst “cut wound” came from stepping on a piece of broken grass in a swimming pool at a friend’s appointment complex. Thankfully I’ve never cut myself that badly with a knife.

ddrew5000 said:
really nice and grippy and solved the problem. So I'm playing around with it yesterday and testing the grippyness and ended up sliding up on the blade and cutting my index finger
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I’ve heard about this type of injury often - especially following a fight.

I’m a big fan of substantial, full-stop guards for this reason.

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I split my thumb down the middle, through the nail and everything, on a cheapo plastic mandolin when trying to quickly slice some potatoes. The smooth, wet potato got stuck on the plane and it of course gave way at the worst moment when I added more pressure. Pony up for a good quality mandolin If'n you need one as the cheap ones seem like they're just designed to hurt you.
 
oldmanwilly said:
I split my thumb down the middle, through the nail and everything, on a cheapo plastic mandolin when trying to quickly slice some potatoes. The smooth, wet potato got stuck on the plane and it of course gave way at the worst moment when I added more pressure. Pony up for a good quality mandolin If'n you need one as the cheap ones seem like they're just designed to hurt you.
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Damn those potatoes! I was slicing potatoes too.🥔
 
scdub said:
My worst “cut wound” came from stepping on a piece of broken grass in a swimming pool at a friend’s appointment complex. Thankfully I’ve never cut myself that badly with a knife.



I’ve heard about this type of injury often - especially following a fight.

I’m a big fan of substantial, full-stop guards for this reason.

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Me too, I didn't feel right about the knife from the moment I got it due to the minimal guard, but I thought if I could find some really grippy scales maybe it would be ok, nope.
 
I was trying to burn a handle onto a hidden tang knife I was making, back in 2017 I think. The edge was blunt, probably just under 1mm thick.

There’s probably a post by me in shop talk around June of 2017 when it happened.

I put the blade into a vise with the handle sticking up. Was pulling up on the handle to get it off, stuck so bad I was lifting the whole work bench. So… I had the wonderful idea of pushing down on the work bench to keep it from lifting up… only problem was I put my hand on the side of the knife where the edge was.

The blade slipped up out of the vice, cut into the back of my thumb near my wrist. By some weird chance there was no blood. When I looked down at it and lightly parted the skin all I could see was some very thin white tissue. Which I then finished tearing apart just by touching the skin, revealing the wide vein directly at the bottom of the cut. looked like mrfields picture above just a tiny bit wider and a big vein going left to right. I have a picture somewhere on my phone I can post if I find it

Went to a walk in clinic to get stitches and when the nurse was sewing me up it started bleeding. I don’t know why but I thought that was really funny when it happened. I had my English finals the next day, but my whole hand being wrapped actually made writing really easy.

The dumbest part of it all was all I had to do was put the knife in the freezer for a few minutes then I could slide the handle of the blade with zero effort… I learned that sometimes it’s better to post on BladeForums first an attempt later
 
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