When Knives go BAD ! - your accident...

I told a co-worker that I could throw my Buck 119, and make it stick. He dared me to do it, and I did. It did stick, in my left lower abdomen, after it bounced off the wall and flew back at me. A half inch cut was enlarged to 2-1/2 inches, so the ER docs could make sure I hadn't "perforated the colon", in their words. Ended up with 10 stitches, IIRC. Absolutely the STUPIDEST thing I ever did. Oh yeah, I was 21 at the time.

Thank God we get the stoopid stuff out of our system before we get old. Right? Right? RIGHT? Hey . . . how come nobody's answerin'?

thx - cpr
 
Last edited:
cut my self with a buckstrider 880 after i just sharpened it trying to cut open a F%$#%%$##$$@#$% plastic package. hit right at the serration's on my thumb almost down to the bone and at the dr, they could not get it to numb up took about 10 to 15 shots to deaden it.
 
I was flipping a butterfly knife with a cheap taiwan brand and i dropped the knife trying to do a behind the 8 ball trick, the pivot pins some how broke off, the blade came loose and it flew at my leg, sticking it in my leg. After telling my mom about a hundred times that it'd be safe, this was I guess karma. She looked at me, she looked at my leg, looked back at me, picked up the phone, and before she dialed, she exclaimed, "I told you so."
Fun day. they removed the blade and gave me 6 stitches.
 
When I was a little kid I watched my dad cut the shell off a golf ball with the spey blade of his good ol' razor sharp Schrade stockman. The idea was to get the core of the golf ball, which is not unlike a rubber band ball, and light it on fire, and watch it dance and hop around when the rubber strands broke.

I thought that was the coolest thing ever when he did that. Later on that day, I found another golf ball and thought I'd try the same thing. I stole my dad's knife off his table, opened the scary sharp spey blade, held the ball between my thumb and index finger and started trying to cut the shell off.

The knife slipped right off the ball and right into the side of the first knuckle of my left index finger. Blood everywhere.

I guess my story isn't when knives go bad....it's when kids go bad.

____

Didn't happen to me, but I was watching this redneck neighbor guy cutting on this dead snapping turtle (guess he was gonna eat it) with a cheap silver handled kitchen knife, and getting nowhere. I told him I had a good knife he could use, and went into the house and got him a small stag handled, German bird and trout knife that had an absolutely screaming edge on it. (Sharpest knife I own, and have ever seen in my life.) I guess he was used to sawing away with the dull knife, and when he got my sharp knife he was a bit too careless with it. He had the turtle shell in one hand, and stuck the knife in the turtle, and pulled up hard with it edge up. The knife glided right through that turtle shell and right into his hand. There was about a 4 inch gaping wound in his hand, and it was bleeding profusely. I can still remember him putting a water hose to it, the blood flowing right along with the water.

___

Made a mistake of letting a dumb jock guy in high school drama class look at my Spyderco Endura. I was building sets for an upcoming play, and it came in handy cutting canvas, wood etc. The guy asked me if he could see it, and I handed it over. He asked "Is it sharp?" and before I could answer him, he dragged the razor sharp edge across this random girl's arm sitting next to him, cutting her wide open. I grabbed the knife from him, and jumped his ass so hard. I wanted to kill this guy.

anyway, those are my knife stories.
 
Last edited:
No.1 accident
Closed a CS X2 voyager plain edge on my fingers. Cut my fingernails in two near the 'roots' (dang that is one sharp-out-of-the-box knife). Fingernails grew back and all's well.

No.2 accident
Ordered a custom SOG Fusion axe from the US to Malaysia (where I live) and part of my deceive-the-customs strategy was to get it dismantled and assemble it here. Also the labeling as TOOLS is important.

Hammering axe head into handle and the head flew and stabbed my left hand. Blood spurting for the first time in my life. Trip to the hospital and the next day I had to clean up my office floor one handed with a mop.


Live and learn. :)
 
Dang. The worst accidents I've had have been nothing compared to a lot of what's in here.

The recent bad one was this:
0702081454ahg8.jpg


Hard to tell from the photo, but I cut through part of the nail, and I think the blade hit bone. I had to use some force to pull it out.

This was from my beater mini-Grip that has a fairly dull utility edge on it, and I was trimming molding for a lighted cabinet project. I was cutting toward my finger, like an idiot, and actually stopped for half a second to think, "I shouldn't be doing this. This is--ah, forget it. I can control the knife just fine!" *THOK*, right down the piece of wood and into my finger.

I was shaking my head, chuckling, and holding a rag around it for a good few minutes until the bleeding stopped.

Justabuyer, I have no idea what I'd do with an injury like that. I'm such a baby about cuts on the hand. I've ridden home from falling in a riverbed on my bike without noticing I'd gashed my leg, but I wince and whimper when I have uncomfortably open cuts on my hand. Ouch, man.
 
I hope I never have to start a thread talking about my latest accident. And I hope it's not because I'm dead from my latest accident.
 
Ya I can't handle cuts on the bottom of my hand, but anywhere else is pretty much fine I don't worry much.
 
I've been extraordinarily fortunate in that I've never received a very serious cut. The worst I've had, however, was two years ago in the middle of winter.

I was helping the family of a friend of mine cut up some kindling for their wood stove with the razor-sharp straight blade on the back of my Condor "Jungle Knife" (the one that looks like a Yorkshire billhook). My technique was to hold the piece I was going to split up against the edge and "tap" them down onto the splitting stump to get the blade to bite, then I would retract my hand and just tap down through to split it fully. I hit a piece that was loaded with frozen sap. The blade didn't bite, and the blade slipped gently to the side and into my left index finger. It went in deep enough that it wouldhave hit bone if my finger weren't turned just the right way. It took nearly a month to heal completely, but now there's no scar at all. However, there's a noticeable line where the cut was because my fingerprints no longer line up perfectly there anymore! :D

Didn't happen to me, but when I first met my fiancee I got her a waved spydie delica that she now carries on a regular basis. One morning in the dorm room she went to use it as a bagel knife. Cutting towards herself as many commonly do with serrated bread knives on such a baked good, the knife sliced right through the bagel and bit deep into the pad of her hand. We had to skip class and take her to the doctor's office on campus and have six stitches put in it. Funny thing was, she told me later that the stitches hurt worse than the cut! She's since learned her lesson and she hasn't gotten even a tiny nick to this day.:)
 
DSCN2088.jpg

DSCN2100.jpg

DSCN2091.jpg

DSCN2096.jpg


here a few pics from last summer, i slipped with the leatherman rip off
funny thing is that i was trying to walk on the busiest shopping street of the city to the hospital with my bloody arm, then some cops saw me and gave me a free ride

an even worse mess on my hand was made from a beerglass i fell into once, but that was longer ago
 
I was sitting on the floor cutting cardboard with a craft knife(kinda like a surgical scalpal) when i was young. It slipped and stuck in my ankle hitting the bone. it swelled up like a tennis ball.
 
I was a kid, maybe 10 years old or something like that, I was splitting lenghtwise this bamboo-like plant (sorry, don´t know the translation) to make a kite with my first SAK, when the knife stuck in a knot, so I started bumping the base of the cane against the floor, one hand in the SAK the other around the cane one knot below the blade, thumb pointing up. The knot where the blade was stuck gave up, the knife cut the knot below and then my thumb to the bone. Smart boy isn´t it?
 
Actually, I just did this today. I was cutting paper vigourously in half in one stroke with my newly sharpened puuko to get a feel for how sharp it was, and being the dumbass that I am I hit my hand. Took a small chunk off the top of my thumb, and as you can see, almost took a chunk off of my finger. The nail stopped it, but only just. The knife managed to cut through 2/3 of the nail.

2810287331_fb1e0c219c.jpg

2811150012_e9af7aa165.jpg
 
Last edited:
No cuts, but when I was cutting plastic banding with a Spyderco Native, the lock disengaged and closed on my finger. Luckily the choil caught my finger and saved it from being cut. I quickly parted with the Native after that incident.:(
 
By the way, that last pic is when it had been a bit dried out, now that it's moist again it doesn't look as bad:

2811533470_b50c52b054.jpg


And the knife that did it:

2811674962_4f7526efeb.jpg
 
Brutus, I am not a doctor but I do not like the color or your finger. Please go to the doctor!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top