When is the last time your knife bit you?

rhino said:
It's happened so many times I don't keep track anymore unless it's bad enough to go to the emergency room for sutures.
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I've lost enough knuckle-hide over the years to knit a whole new me.
bleeding doesn't bother me a bit... it's when the stream slows down to a trickle; that I get worried!
 
July 31:

13 stitches (total) in my right ring finger and pinkie when my golok slid an inch or two out of the sheath...(after finishing yard work, cleaning and lubricating it)... and bit those two fingers.

All healed up now...but I have some nerve damage resulting in a couple of areas with no feeling and others which are hypersensitive.

The good thing is that all the motor function is normal, so I can lift weights and do my usual activities and chores...but I have to be aware of the "dead" spots to avoid injury.

Lots of fun.
 
around 7 years ago :confused: a "tip up" clip withdraw from the lip of the pants pocket., and it popped open, the tip caught my pants and it opened even more... got my leg thru the pants. now i only carry tip down.
 
Just bought a Cold Steel Oyabun 26T. Cut myself twice trying to close one handed.
Some people think if you collect knives your dangerous.......if they only knew....the blood shed is our own.
 
BillZee said:
Just bought a Cold Steel Oyabun 26T. Cut myself twice trying to close one handed.
Some people think if you collect knives your dangerous.......if they only knew....the blood shed is our own.
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Yeah... we're too weak from blood-loss; to be dangerous.
 
Besides when I'm flipping, which happens often, the last folder was a Medford that had alot of lock stick, tried to close 1 handed and the blade came down hard on my finger, I'll give it to them though, they are SHARP out of the box
 
Very rarely. But on the occasion it does happen, it's usually from trying to close a framelock in a hurry and not having the lockbar pushed over far enough so when my index finger goes to push on the spine it slips off along the side of the blade and gets a nice cut when it gets in front of the edge.
 
Only twice in the last 4 years, but pretty brutal. One was the Kershaw Ken Onion chive with the ultra high polish black finish. That finish looks nice- almost like an old blued Colt where they applied the blueing using some sort of vapor to give it that almost infinitely deep polished look. I was cleaning it after stropping (I keep most of my knives clean enough so I don't hesitate to do any food prep) and the soap made it slippery enough to just barely graze me but cut absurdly deep.
The other time was also a matter of "too sharp for my own good", I was pruning a decent sized branch off a pawpaw tree and it went through the branch so fast the momentum kept it going into my palm 🤷‍♂️. 8 stitches... and of course it was right before leaving for a ride down the shore- bled out all the way down to the last exit of the NJ Parkway and got stitched up down there.
My wife cut herself with a kitchen knife a month ago and definitely needed stitches- fun fact the ER seems to be transitioning to skin glue instead of stitches now. I just had pretty major surgery and they used the glue on those incisions too. Definitely preferable to stitches though the glue does have some drawbacks.
Any of you guys get glued up lately instead of stitches?
 
A few weeks ago or so a knife that my son's friend made bit me. I just finished sharpening it and sanding the blade. It slipped about an inch and caught me on the side of my other thumb. Wasn't too bad but it did make me leak some blood. The steel came from late 19th Century spring steel, the bone is from the femur of a whitetail buck taken in 2013, and the wood is California Redwood. Maybe it's haunted?

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A couple of years ago was the last time I got "bit" by a knife.

I was flipping a butterfly w/o paying attention to the fact that I wasn't using the "safe" handle. Ouch! Haven't done THAT again since.
 
The Canadian sliced me a little using the lanyard to pull the knife from that POS sheath that BRK provides.
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Have a much better sheath for it now.

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Years ago, I read that the most dangerous thing you can do with a knife is to try to slice a bagel. So the other day I was slicing a bagel with a new Victorinox folding serrated paring knife and it went through the bagel a lot faster than I expected.
 
Another Shepherd said:
Years ago, I read that the most dangerous thing you can do with a knife is to try to slice a bagel. So the other day I was slicing a bagel with a new Victorinox folding serrated paring knife and it went through the bagel a lot faster than I expected.
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Then why’d they make a bread & bagel knife! 😆
 
About 5 minutes ago, I was shocked to see rust spots on my Spyderco chaparral so I can my thumb along the dye "thinking" I would run them off.


Pretty bad bros, when should I get worried, blood is still flowing. Didn't think there were any major vessels in your thumb tip.
 
About a month ago I got an Assassin from Kizer, not realizing the thin and nicely ground blade was going to be so lively I had a habit of flopping it shut. Well that light blade notched my thumbnail lol
 
It just slipped out of my hand..........................a few days ago :mad:

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