Worst blade accidents?

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Ducksandcuse

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My worst was planting my gransfors bruks in my ankle. (Axe)ident lol
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Ouch! Here take the rest of this bottle of scotch. Looks like you need it more than me.
 
I can think of two accidents with cutting tools that I thought were significant. (1) Messing around with a Puma SGB knife in the store and dropped it. The problem was I tried to catch it and cut the hell out of my finger. (2) When I was a kid, we were clearing a pasture and using axes (sharp ones).... I had an axe slip and hit my tennis shoe covered foot. Didn't think there was any damage until I felt a little tingely and took my shoe off.. full of blood. Such is life.
 
I have cut one thumb back to the nail. 12 stitches , right fore finger 14 stitches butcher knife cutting corn.
 
Ducksandcuse, in all seriousness, I pray all goes well. MANY (too many) years ago, in a BSA camp, a scout skipped an axe off a log into his leg; I have never forgotten it and the lesson learned. Heal well friend and thanks for the warning for all of us (especially the newbies to axe/hatchet handling).
 
I work with a guy who grew up in South Central Los Angeles and got into a fight with someone at a party years ago. He ended up knocking the guy out cold but after that, noticed their was a 12" slice on his right arm. He was so pumped up with adrenalin..he didn't feel the cut until he saw it. He took a picture. Top of his arm looked like two large fillets.
 
The worst I have seen on this forum is undoubtedly this one:


BryFry said:
Hey congrats! Glad you got it!

I've had mine for a couple months and feel pretty much the same way about it. I was wondering: Does your sheath put a big scratch down the blade like mine does? This is not a huge deal, but like you said I expected more from an expensive knife like this.
Just don't drop it on your ankle like I did, or it'll look like this...
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I can concur on the early beige sheath causing constant amazing blade scratches (it kept doing it no matter how much you tried to sand the scratches out, or then "wear it in", even with sandpaper glued to a ruler(!), or add layers of inside felt to protect the blade...: It never stopped scratching, one of the most infuriating knife-related issues I have ever seen)... That was part of why I sold mine...

The other reason was that the handle felt very, very slippery; it is devoid of any swelling, which makes it far worse: It just feels quite thin and unsecure...: I'm sure this contributed to BryFry's accident...: He describes swinging it around his kitchen, Mall-Ninja style, losing his grip on it, and trying to catch it, but only hitting it, which accelerated it, and then it bounced behind him and hit his achille heel...

Ever since I had seen BryFry's post, even my much smaller Odin always felt like an accident waiting to happen (actually quite unlike any other knife I have ever owned)... Pretty thin edge (much thinner than the current SMIII Trailmaster), but the convex edge was not easy to restore to initial performance, despite the thinness... The Trailmaster handle also felt too thin, but quite a bit safer and grippier: A much safer handle, but a much less sharp knife.

BryFry said:
BEST = Finding out that my wife is so cool that she bought me a new Falkniven thor bowie knife as a birthday gift! :D SWEET!!! Then finding out how easy it was to bring out a truely scary, hair popping edge on this knife with just a bit of sandpaper and strop action! Fully convexed VG-10 is swell!:thumbup:
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WORST = ....Dropping this same freshly sharpened knife on my ankle ...fully severing my achilles tendon! :eek: ...One week before our first child was born no less! The wife was NOT happy!!!:o

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Particularly memorable was this part:

BryFry said:
Haha, and the best part was that I didn't even feel it! I didn't know anything was wrong untill I tried to take a step, and it felt like the floor was caving in under my foot! :eek:
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Brrr!

Gaston
 
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Five inch scar in my leg, and had my left thumb cut down to the bone at the base knuckle. Everything else was just a scratch.
 
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