Worst accident with a traditional?

Here's my son's worst: He was about eight and we were building a birdhouse. He was using my peanut to trim off some rough edges around the opening. Being sharp, the knife slid through the wood and right over into the index finger on his left hand, which had been holding down the half-built bird house. (Before I go on, I should say he's bi-lingual and kids like that often say awkward/funny things in their least-strong language.) Anyway, he dropped the knife and grabs his sliced finger, looks at me and says, "that wasn't a too smart thing." :D To this day when some one in our family screws up something, we'll say that.

BTW, there were no tears and a bandaid made everything better. And despite her threats, my wife didn't kill me for "letting" her baby get cut. :-)

-- Mark
 
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While doing some hand modeling for another thread, I noticed that my 47-year-old SAK scar was front and center. Circled it in this pic. Remember kids, knives are sharp. Don't cut towards yourself!

 
if there was anything i learned in scouts, that is it, dont cut towards yourself!
 
Does stupid count as an accident? I convinced my mother that the Cub Scout knife was a required part of the uniform. The first thing I did when I got up to my room was to run my thumb down the edge to see how sharp it was. As much as it bled (and hurt), I knew that if Mom found out, the knife was as good as gone. I kept my thumb wrapped in toilet paper until my sister helped me bandage it. Spent most of the week with my hand hidden in my pocket, or behind my back.
 
My worst was back in '69 or '70(?) I was heavy into model cars back then. Anyway, I was using my old fixed blade to get an engine out of a model to use in a different one. I got the engine out. A couple minutes later, I noticed some red stuff on my desk. I'd cut the web of my left thumb to the bone. I asked the neighbor lady, across the hall, if she had any bandaids. She took one look, and told me I needed to go to where my dad worked (a block away, at a heating/air conditioning supply house) and get him to take me to the doc.
The only time it hurt was when the doc stuck that ... daRn novacane needle into the cut, just before the 6 stiches.
Thumb healed fine, no damage to the nerves or anything.
 
Back around '92 I had gone camping at the Colorado River with my fiancé. At the time the 'Super Soaker' squirt guns were becoming popular and many of the other folk camping at the river were having fun with them; we wanted a couple for ourselves.
So, we drove up into Havasu City to find some. One of the local drug stores had them in stock…

Unfortunately, the objects of water spray fun were secured in their colorful display packages with industrial strength plastic tie-wraps. No problem, I might not have had a pair of diagonal-cut pliers, but I did have a fairly sharp fixed blade in the back of the car.

Two minutes later I had popped through a tie-wrap and slipped the tip of the knife into the web of my left thumb, up through the middle of my thumb and back out the upper side - opposite the entry.
I was lucky, I didn't hit the tendon, I only nicked an artery and the ER was only a couple of blocks away. After some blood, many stitches and a couple of months healing I had full range of motion back.
I still have the scar today - some 23 years later.

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I whacked off a nickel-sized piece of the middle knuckle of my Saturn finger in mid June, and I still have a bit of stiff scar on it. Man, did that spew and spray.
It sounds like we should stop handling knives while drinking, but there's no reasonable precaution against stupidity.
 
I used to know an old cutler who managed to cut the end of his thumb off on a circular saw. He wrapped a towel round the wound, jumped in his landrover and went to the local hospital. They did what they could, and he went back to work.
 
Those industrial strength/extra thick zip ties are a pain (and dangerous). I was fighting one last night trying to open a dog toy, and they cinch the things down so tight that you can't hardly get a knife in there to get the leverage you need to cut through it.

Worst cut I can remember getting from a traditional was as a kid, and was a result of my own stupidity. I may have been 9 or 10, and I had a knife (don't remember what knife exactly, either an old scout/camp style knife or maybe a SAK) that I'd been using a lot (probably just cutting things for the sake of cutting them). So the blade had become quite dull. Anyways, I was showing it to a friend, and said something like, "Yeah, this thing is really dull. Check this out…" and slid my thumb along the blade. :eek: Yeah, turns out it wasn't that dull. One of those dumb things kids do, even though I knew better.
 
btb01 said:
Those industrial strength/extra thick zip ties are a pain (and dangerous). I was fighting one last night trying to open a dog toy, and they cinch the things down so tight that you can't hardly get a knife in there to get the leverage you need to cut through it.

Worst cut I can remember getting from a traditional was as a kid, and was a result of my own stupidity. I may have been 9 or 10, and I had a knife (don't remember what knife exactly, either an old scout/camp style knife or maybe a SAK) that I'd been using a lot (probably just cutting things for the sake of cutting them). So the blade had become quite dull. Anyways, I was showing it to a friend, and said something like, "Yeah, this thing is really dull. Check this out…" and slid my thumb along the blade. :eek: Yeah, turns out it wasn't that dull. One of those dumb things kids do, even though I knew better.
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that is a mistake i still make today, most recently, testing a spyderco harpy
 
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