You know your knife is sharp when...

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You stab yourself in the wrist cutting a zip tie and the blood immediately shoots out like a fountain. That's a sharp knife.

Brand new paramilitary 2. Such a dumb-ass (me).

Sure love the knife, though.
 
I had a similar experience. Took a nice chunk out of the tip of my right thumb. It healed and grew back, though. Freakin' thing cut clean through, hardly any resistance. It really didn't hurt that bad, except for the following week when it was raw during the healing process. Live and learn, haha :rolleyes:
 
You know your knife is sharp when you are cutting up some cardboard, and all of a sudden you are bleeding, and just must assume you must of cut yourself. *Phantom-Injury*
 
Cut pretty deep into my right ring finger with my Benchmade Grip 550HG.

Almost took off part of the tip, cut went really deep and would not stop pouring blood for awhile.

Luckily I was able to get it wrapped and didn't need to get stitches.

But that's certainly when you know a knife is sharp and Benchmade sure knows how to make an edge lol.
 
Knife cuts: are lessons you learn on what NOT to do & HOW NOT to do it. I have had a few myself. It is MOST IMPORTANT to learn from these mistakes, so as not to repeat them ! :D

In a hurry, sharpening up (to my specs) my brand new Ontario Kukri before i went to work. Got done, was wiping the excess oil & metal off the blade with a paper towel folded in half then folded again. Took my eyes off for just a second to look at the clock & felt something wet on my fingers. Looked & it cut through all 4 layers of paper towel & across 3 of my fingers. Major leakage. Had to enlist the kids to help with first aid. Got it cleaned up & bandaged, then put a latex glove over it & a rubber band around the wrist so i could take my shower before work. That was a dumb-a** moment to be sure. :o
 
Sharp knife, strong backspring, bad positioning of fingers while closing.

Oops.
 
I've had a couple of these haha, the first time was when I was you and sharpening a pencil with a big kitchen knife and sliced my left index finger really deep. It needed stitches but I was terrified to show my parents because I didn't want to get in trouble so I held my finger in place, squeezed for a while, put hot water on it, put medicine and wrapped it. A few years later I was being stupid and was stabbing a pumpkin and hit the bottom of my thumb. Again cut it really deep, I knew I needed stitches but again I was young and didn't want to tell my parents so I did everything I did last time. And my last bad cut was recently with my RAT-1, I was testing the sharpness by cutting paper, I started going fast and hit my left index finger near the the middle. I don't think I need stitches do to the cut being more of a scoop/circle look rather than a straight down cut. But talk about pain, so I have 3 scars on one side of my left hand, lol. I've learned from these mistakes and hope to never repeat them.
 
P_Meticulous said:
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You can finally slice toilet paper.. :)
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Yes, that is my test as well. An edge that keen does not last long, I do not care what the blade steel is. But it's sure nice while it's there.
No horror stories to report though. I learned many many years ago to respect sharpened objects. Cub Scouts, Webelos and Boy Scouts teach you that at a young age.
Worst thing to happen to me was a serrated Spyderco Police closed on my fingers once. Ouch. No stitches required, it healed fast.
 
bearcut said:
You wonder where all the blood is coming from.
Funny, I didn't feel a thing........
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Yup, very true. I accidentially dropped a knife off the kitchen counter and didn't know that it had cut four toes until I took a step and slipped in the blood.
 
You know your knife is sharp when your hand starts bleeding for no reason by being in the mere presence of your knife.

Well that is my excuse anyway. Went from the couch to my friends car and in that short walk I somehow cut my left hand and was dripping blood where there was nothing to cut myself on in that 20ft walk minus my knife which was in my right hand pocket fully closed where it remained the entire day (I did not use it, flick it open, etc). Fortunately she knew me and just rolled her eyes and I got a "really, your injured again all you did was walk out of the house" and than popped the trunk so I could get the first aid kit.

Worst offender was my buck metro I got years ago I was getting use to it by flicking it open and I took a huge chunk out of my thumb and didn't feel a thing. Look down and went, hmm that looks like skin. Look at my thumb wow no blood and looks like I am missing a chunk out of it *poke* oh it's bleeding now that seems right. 40min latter still bleeding, not a fun experience trying to stop it.

2nd worst took a chunk out of my thumb with a different knife, forgot which one. I mostly didn't feel it except for one part of the knife which I discovered had a nick in it as I felt it slightly grip while cutting me. I got a good laugh out of that, and so did one of my close friends.
 
If you cut yourself with a really sharp knife, you seldom even feel it cut. You only see blood. The pain comes later. I don't get too excited about it unless their is a lot of blood and it won't stop bleeding.
 
When my wife says to me "What did you do to your fingers?", and when I look I see little, fine, shallow cuts that I didn't even know were there.

Or, I feel a flap of skin on one of my fingers and have no memory of cutting myself.
 
My stupidest accident along these lines was a few years ago: I was talking to a friend and playing with my BM Stryker. I would pop it, close it, pop it, etc. I got a little too enthusiastic about pushing forward on the thumb stud and ran my thumb right onto the blade. That one took a while to heal.

Kristopher
 
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