When your knives are too sharp! lol

[Spartan00]

Enerson bulldog has cut me twice first time wasn't bad ,last night it went deep . Still bleeding matter of fact .

 

[bt93]

If you don't get nicked now and then, you're not using your knife. With that said I used to not sharpen my SAK's to their fullest so I would less likely get nicked. I found the blade stays really sharp longer than kind of sharp. Hard to explain, but basically if the blade was only sharp enough it would dull totally while when it is hair shaving sharp, it took longer to get to kind of sharp than it took to go from kind of sharp to totally wasted. I'm sure there is a conspiracy that all knife owners will be easily identified by the nicks we accummalate.

 

[pyrrha1]

 

[Ernie1980]

Got this being careless while cleaning a freshly sharpened knife.

 

[blade dude]

It all depends. Improperly throwing a dull throwing knife won't cut you but improperly throwing a sharp one will. Carving towards yourself with a full knife is more likely to cut you than a sharp knife. Bring careless with a sharp knife is going to lead to being cut when a dull knife won't. With that being said I don't use dull knives I don't have dull knives I can shave with every single one and have only been cut twice. Once by the sharp throwing knife once when I let my carving knife get dull.


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[Bigbluefish]

I almost cut a small London broil off my thumb last week with my Al Mar Nomad. Didn't notice at first, but then thought, 'what's that wet funny feeling'? Cleaned it out, put the errant flesh back in place and slapped a bandage and some tape on it, figuring I could probably get away without having it stitched. Seems I was right, as my thumb has not fallen off but has heeled up very well. My wife's a nurse, so I can't get away with much slack in the wound care department.

It's been a couple of years since I last nicked myself, I think.

Cause: complete carelessness on my part. The Al Mar was properly sharp, meaning I didn't even feel the cut. Made a good object lesson for my 12 year old. "Here's what NOT to do with that new Benchmade...."

 

[Wowbagger]

It was resting on my bed and I barely bumped it! Cut straight thru to the bone

Yah big dud !
Good going on the sharpening by the way.

PS: Your girl fren is supposed to be resting on your bed not your pocket knife.
Keep your tool in your pants.
I mean keep your knife in your pocket.
I mean . . .
well you know.

 

[Gaston444]

This is one of those things that gets repeated over and over, and it just isn't true, from my experience. I worked as a caterer throughout high school and college, so used kitchen knives of various types constantly. There are many, many situations in which a sharp knife will cut you where a dull knife would not have been able to do so. Accidentally grazing your fingers between the first and second knuckles (while in the claw grip), wiping off the knife with a kitchen towel a little carelessly, etc.--these things happen to everyone, no matter how skilled.

The idea of a dull knife being more dangerous because you have to apply more pressure to cut and the knife could skid/suddenly go through a material is not something I ever saw in practice.

It does happen, particularly in rugged terrain, and especially when scorching hot weather makes you tired: I was using something called the "SOG Jungle Warrior", a hopelessly dull 10" thin blade (tried to sharpen it, but realized I didn't have time it was so far off), cutting my way through dense brush, and this thing was so dull I had to swing it by spinning it in my hand, so that it broke twigs by impact speed rather than cutting... Well one twig did not take it, and, instead of breaking neatly, it curled back and then twisted the knife outside my thumb's reach, which allowed the twig to spring back and pivot the knife all the way around (all of this in a split second), settling it point-first into my raised thigh (it was steeply climbing terrain: Always a combination of factors)...: The knife was dull but the point was sharp enough to sink 2" in my thigh, not missing my femoral by that much (would have been dead in 60 seconds): This was an ambulance ride after I managed to stagger to a home 200 yards away...

Never underestimate how little energy and attention you will have in rough terrain: You will try to power through things in a thoughtless way you would never think yourself capable of under normal circumstances... That is where dullness will get you, and it will be terrible, trust me...

Gaston

 

[ThePeacent]

Sometimes being dull can be life-changing, and I do not mean attitude-wise. Just by the detent, I almost take off a couple of my fingers.

Had it been factory sharp, I would be fingerless right now. Luckily it had just gone through a long trimming, chopping, branch and tree cutting session and the edge was really dull.

 

[cchu518]

Here's a healed spot where I was testing knife sharpness, started as "hey, cool shaving hair sharp" and turned to "whoops made the the knife too sharp... Bleeding now!"

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[WK ONE]

When I first got my Pipsqueak. I was so stoked about it. I was just walking around my house flicking it open and closed. On one of the closes, the recurve bit my index finger right by the nail. It took almost a half a roll of TP to staunch the bleeding, it just wouldn't stop!

 

[SW-EDC]

Had a SAK cut right through my thumb once. Not fun.

 

[ThePeacent]

Another that bit me more than once was the Spyderhawk.

so sharp that most times I didn't notice until blood started coming out

 

[mauiblue]

You guys are killing me. Quite gory but it is a good way to get people to be vigilant and careful when handling knives. I am into target shooting and if you are not careful BANG!!!

I once had my small Spyderco open and got too close to my $300 backpack and made a one inch gash in one of the pockets. Damn knife was shaving sharp. Fortunately I was able to do a repair on the backpack. Lucky it was not a body part that got gashed open. Be safe.