When Knives go BAD ! - your accident...

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flashlife

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Reading about Moose and his 20 stitches reminded me of my childhood encounter with the ER (one of many, not all knife-related).

Please post an account of your "knife accident", requiring stitches, blood transfusions, causing your mom (or wife) to faint, etc.

My incident: About 1957, a couple of us 12year olds were throwing our hunting knives at a gum wrapper at our feet.
( This type of knife, but the $4.00 version:http://agrussell.com/union-hunters-bowie/p/KA6376/) Not the smartest play, but typical for 12 yr olds, I think. The idea was to stick the wrapper to the ground.
As I reached down to retrieve my knife from the ground, Bobby threw his, hitting the top of my right wrist. The belly of the blade skipped off my wrist, cutting a inch and a quarter gash across it. The ER doc put 5 stitches in it and I was good to go. I recall that it hurt like hell for many days when I flexed my wrist. Turns out that it nicked the tendons which control finger movement. As the wound healed, the internal scar tissue apparently "connected" several of those tendons together so that now, 50 years later, I can't flex my middle finger without the ring finger flexing also. Still have the scar, which looks like a short version of Frankenstein's incisions...the doc wasn't too concerned with 'cosmetic' issues back then so I still have " +++++" across my wrist.

OK, what your story?? :)

JMH
 
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I was some 10-11,just got some folder,red I remember,it was very hard to open,so I tried with teeth.It opened half way,slipped and closed over my lover lip.Don't remember much of details how or who removed it ,but I remember as I stood in front of mirror in hall,blood all over,with knife attached,brothers laughing.It was like tongue bite,no scar left,just unpleasant memory.
 
mariobab said:
I was some 10-11,just got some folder,red I remember,it was very hard to open,so I tried with teeth.It opened half way,slipped and closed over my lover lip.Don't remember much of details how or who removed it ,but I remember as I stood in front of mirror in hall,blood all over,with knife attached,brothers laughing.It was like tongue bite,no scar left,just unpleasant memory.
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That's almost as strange as one of my earlier non-knife incidents:
At age ~8 firing an arrow into the air and then running to retrieve it, stuck in the ground. After several shots, I fired too close to 90 degrees straight up. As I quickly (too quickly) ran to find where it landed, it landed...right in the top of my head! Lucky for me it was a target point, and it glanced off my skull, leaving
a 1" gash in my scalp. The ER doc put a butterfly on it.
How many people have shot themselves in the top of their head with a bow and arrow ! :P

JMH
 
flashlife said:
That's almost as strange as one of my earlier non-knife incidents:
At age ~8 firing an arrow into the air and then running to retrieve it, stuck in the ground. After several shots, I fired too close to 90 degrees straight up. As I quickly (too quickly) ran to find where it landed, it landed...right in the top of my head! Lucky for me it was a target point, and it glanced off my skull, leaving
a 1" gash in my scalp. The ER doc put a butterfly on it.
How many people have shot themselves in the top of their head with a bow and arrow ! :P

JMH
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You rock,I managed to hurt myself in many ways over the years but your way is the greatest.
 
I (almost) learned the hard way that the weakest part of a japanese sword is its handle. I bet a friend I could cut straight through one of those folding wood tables. Well, I did manage to cut it about halfway, but unfortunately the amount of force that I hit the table with broke the handle in half and the tang ripped through the wrapping and the blade bounced back and the back of the blade wacked me in the shoulder. This caused a good deal of suprise and I pushed forward a little late and since the handle was broken I rotated the blade forward and dropped it to where my left foot very well could have been.
 
I was drilling the rivets out of a knife handle. Drill caught and spun the blade!

I win!!

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Justabuyer, that's gonna sting when the doc pulls that drain out!
Ask for novacaine and a stiff shot of rum first. Do you still have thumb/all-fingers mobility?
 
flashlife said:
Justabuyer, that's gonna sting when the doc pulls that drain out!
Ask for novacaine and a stiff shot of rum first. Do you still have thumb/all-fingers mobility?
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That was three months ago. You mean that drain tube has to come out?!?!!

That explains a lot of my problems. The hand worked at first but the last few weeks it has been turning colors, smelling bad and getting all tingly and numb.

Think I should go back to the doc?















LOL
 
I have had many slight knife accidents but my attempt to trim a pvc pipe about 2 inches long on a table saw without the guard caused my hand to double clutch into the blade resulting in the blade cutting the bone in my thumb twice. The docs did manage to sew it back on but warned me that there was a piece of bone missing somewhere in my garage. One of my dogs probably found it. Took over a year but the thumb works again.
 
I have always thought this board needed a wall of shame thread.

I have never cut myself badly with a knife. Odly enough last week I did manage to cut myself pretty badly with... a brick. yeah.
 
I dont have any fun stories, Im afraid I have never seriously hurt myself with a knife.(Well no sorry, but its less interesting!!)
 
Hi. I don't post too often---member since '04 with a mere twentysomething posts. I purchased a Buck custom shop 110 with a BG-42 blade and black inlays (i forgot what creature this comes from, nonetheless I am thankful for its contribution). The blade was open and i dropped it and tried to catch it. I still have a scar running across the palm of my hand. How's that for shameful?
 
about 7 or 8 years ago i almost stabbed myself in the right eye, cutting a wire with the edge towards me...stupid, but hey...live and learn
the knife split my eyebrow in two, a lot of blood on my face, anyway, it wasnt a big damage, but could have been
cuts on hands, i had plenty, either from balisong mainpulations (not serious cuts), or from knives slipping while i was cutting something hard (more serious cuts), with cheap dulled knives
for the last 5 years or so, i have used many knives in many situations, but never cut myself again.
i guess i learned...
 
Worst cut I ever got was 6 or so years ago.

I was cutting one of those #$@#$% indestructible, anti-theft, clear plastic shells containing PC RAM in my case.

Was in a hurry + using a piss-poor technique. My Benchmade 710 slipped off---right into my thigh! ---yes the whole blade.
 
Justabuyer said:
I was drilling the rivets out of a knife handle. Drill caught and spun the blade!

I win!!

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I think I'm going to get some chain gloves to use for knife modding from now on.
And make a good clamp for the Drill press.

Hope recovery goes well, and if things smell bad I'd have the doctor look at it. Infections can make the healing process take a lot longer.



Tony_A said:
Worst cut I ever got was 6 or so years ago.

I was cutting one of those #$@#$% indestructible, anti-theft, clear plastic shells containing PC RAM in my case.

Was in a hurry + using a piss-poor technique. My Benchmade 710 slipped off---right into my thigh! ---yes the whole blade.
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I've read that more people hurt themselves more seriously by cutting down toward their thigh than any other way. I didn't believe it at first, but I guess it does have some merit.
 
I personally never cut myself worse than a nick with any of my knives, but my father had to get 8 stitches a few months ago. He was hacking away at a small branch with some absolutely crappy liner locking knife that he got as part of a cheap company swag package and the lock failed quite badly on him. This was very much an "I told you so" moment between him and I, but his finger healed up nice and works fine, fortunately.
 
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