Who says convexed edges aren't good for slicing?

230grains

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Fresh off the belt sander with leather, was hand sanding a rust spot off my machete... Pure fillet of hand, through the fat, hit bone on the other side of my hand and cut through the meat of the side of my palm and into the top. Blood everywhere. No worries though, loctite fixes all.

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frontline29 said:
Loctite??? :eek: I don't know about that one.
Wouldn't be my first choice.
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It wasn't mine either, I got out my suture kit first but realized id have a hard time stitching my other hand. Then it was Loctite or the ER, and as long as my fingers still wiggle, I stay away from there. I've become quite good with a needle sadly.
 
Most grazy glues were and are based U.S. army developed atempt to make instant liquid band aid during war time for instant repair of tissue damages from lacerations. Now most grazy glues still work well for that and they are not that toxic, of course it depends brand and what they're using in the glue.
 
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my worst cut was from a convex edge. Little hand made I had finished up a while before.

little butter fingers, hit bone, severed the nerve. I was cutting up apples for a group of nursery kids.

Sprayed blood all over the table. Little 2 year old kids kept right on eating. They did not care one bit.
Knew the nerve was gone because I instantly lost feeling in the right thumb from the cut forward. I know I hit bone because I saw it, and it actually was enough to roll the edge on the knife a tiny bit.

This guy.
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cut pretty much 180 degree arc around the thumb. Still nerve dead after nearly a year.
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A good convex edge slices splendidly although I guess you don't need me to tell you that. :eek:


Good luck healing. I know how it sucks to be short a good hand. :thumbup:
 
AfterTFD said:
A good convex edge slices splendidly although I guess you don't need me to tell you that. :eek:


Good luck healing. I know how it sucks to be short a good hand. :thumbup:
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I'm just happy its my left hand, im a righty and it seems anytime I injure a hand, it's that one.
 
Know that you know how well a convex edge works I don't want to see you in the next "convex vs stright edge" thread saying that they are not any better :D


Hope it heals well for you, it should though, clean cuts tend to heal very nice.
 
Oh im completely sold on convexed edges. After taking it off my sander with the loaded leather, I had it splitting hairs. Vgrinds never cut me this bad. ;)
 
WOW! Now I feel REALLY GUILTY for even having this user name :o
Wish you the speediest recovery possible sir! :thumbup:

On the bright side, (is there ever one really? :confused: see BryFry's "New way to test sharpness" Thread), @ least you got cut with the equivalent of a surgeon's scalpel.
Cleanest, most surgically precise cut (no matter how deep) you may ever have the mis-pleasure of self-inflicting.... ;)
Should heal really well, and pretty quickly as compared 2...... let's say.... a piece of rusty barbed wire :eek:
 
Convex said:
WOW! Now I feel REALLY GUILTY for even having this user name :o
Wish you the speediest recovery possible sir! :thumbup:

On the bright side, (is there ever one really? :confused: see BryFry's "New way to test sharpness" Thread), @ least you got cut with the equivalent of a surgeon's scalpel.
Cleanest, most surgically precise cut (no matter how deep) you may ever have the mis-pleasure of self-inflicting.... ;)
Should heal really well, and pretty quickly as compared 2...... let's say.... a piece of rusty barbed wire :eek:
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I'm actually thankful the knife was sharp, I cut myself with an old DULL serrated blade that didn't go quite as deep but hurt for weeks because it basically just tore my flesh. That Achilles cut was ridiculous btw.
 
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