Your "battle" scars

[Herr_Noobien]

After being around knives for a while, odds are, you have a fair bit of scars on your hands, arms or maybe even your legs. Perhaps you remember how you got each scar. Allow me to get the ball rolling:

I was testing out my new waved endura to see how sharp it was. At the time I was a tad hungry and I had a friend and an orange with me. So we decided to cut up said orange. I held it on either side while my friend cut it. What I wasn't expecting was the way he cut it. He was sort of using the knife like an axe. I droped half of the orange and reflexively caught the orange. Unforuntely for me, the knife was in the way, so I ended up catching the orange and the blade of the endura. I now have a white scar starting from the bottom of my index finger and ending in the middle of my palm. Thankfully the cut wasn't too deep and I could not help but be impressed by the sharpness of the knife. My thoughts: thank god I didn't test out the military.

 

[cbxer55]

I am embarrased to admit that the only time I have cut myself with one of my large knives, was the first one I owned. Late 80s, Spyderco Police, Tufram coated aluminum hadle, fully serrated. Closed on my hand "accidentally".

The results were not pretty, but yet I have no readily visible scar to show for it. The only real scar I have is on my left hand and resulted when I tried to shove my hand through a turning propeller on a radio control model.

Most anyone familiar with rc models, knows that the needle valve you use to adjust mixture is really close behind the prop, you adjust it while running full bore, and they can be slippery due to two-stroke oil expelled from the exhaust. The results can be spectacular.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

The only visible scars i have left are both from Moras ironically.
The first and most disturbing was when i was very very young and found a red plastic mora near our sink and proceeded with whittling the top of my left ringfinger off.
Almost lost my entire fingerprint, but thankfully it didn't go through, so i held the flap back against the finger and it grew back on.

The second mora incident was when i was living in Malmö and having a general good teenage time, until i did something with a blue handled stainless mora, and when i tried to put it back in the sheath, i missed and stabbed myself right in the palm.
Went maybe half an inch in, i was rather confused and surprised, but it didn't hurt much.
The bad part about this incident was that i in my teen stupidity called 911 and asked for an ambulance.
As i was standing outside waiting for it with my hand in some tissue paper, the people i was renting a room from saw what happened and promptly confiscated my knives. :s
I went like 1km to the hospital in the ambulance , and when i was there i got some insanely painful stitches that was 40 times worse than the actual injury.

 

[GregY]

The only visible knife scar I have is from a butter knife. No I'm not joking.

Happened when I was young (9 or 10 iirc) and trying to clean a used, somewhat crusty pyrex baking dish. I hit on the bright idea of scraping out the crud with a knife. Thank goodness I was pushing away from my body (holding the dish with my off hand) or else I might have hit organs, and that the knife was dull.

When one chunk broke loose all of a sudden and the knife went flying, it slashed my off hand- right at the fleshy part at the base of my left pointer finger. It wasn't too deep or too long so I didn't pester my parents to get stitches and they said not to worry. But from the location I had the damndest time getting it to stay closed. It kept reopening for weeks. Now I have a 1/2" long, fairly thick scar right there. Probably should have gotten the stitches.

 

[theron]

I have quite a few scars. The worst is from an accident at work, when I was strapping a package of lumber with heavy-duty metal strapping. The strap broke and my right leg was gashed open just above the ankle, severing the soleus muscle which required a trip to the ER and surgery to repair the damage. I was out of work for 2 months for that one, and in a cast to my knee for 5 weeks.

I have a scar on my left eyebrow. That one happened when I was about 4 or 5 being rambunctious -- fell and hit the corner of the tv stand. I have a scar on the bridge of my nose from being broken in a fight when i was about 15.

I have numerous scars on my hands and fingers from cuts and puncture wounds ranging from anything from wood to glass.

Ironically enough the only scar I have from a knife is from using one for a purpose for which it was not intended. I don't remember what I was doing... either prying or using it as a screwdriver. Anyhow, I ended up stabbing myself right in between my thumb and index finger, right there where the webbing is.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

I got a rather unique scar from closing an air rifle on the thumb webbing on my right hand once.
It looks like a 4.5mm half moon
Above it, forming a triangle of sorts, i have one burn mark from a drop of molten plastic and one from molten lead lol

Speaking of burning stuff, once i was fiddling with fireworks, and i emptied a sparkler fountain of powder, and was going to dispose of it in our big wood fueled oven.
I lit the fuse and held it the whole time, and surprise surprise, the tube wasn't empty.
Spent the next month having a deformed blob of pus covered in soggy bandages as a hand.

 

[Masteroffajitas]

Oof, the webbing, that's the worst so far.....

Mine didn't hurt more than some stinging. I was sharpening my dull leatherman on the crocsticks, you know? The one with no guard? My blade slipped off the fine grit and hacked my left index knuckle. It bled a bit but I stopped it, and now there is a little half-inch scar there.

 

[2sparky]

This will make you all cringe a little bit lol. I have put this up before and maybe some of you have seen in. Well story goes I was trying to stab a can on a counter top with a cold steel slim jim scimitar and the blade went too low and stopped on the counter and my hand slid up the blade.

Its been 9 months and I just now got out of physical therapy and had surgery right after it happened to reattach my nerves artery and tendon.
-Barry-

 

[Dsorgnzd]

I don't have any major scars from knives - a 1/2 inch one on my left thumb from being stupid with a pocketknife when I was in high school is the worst. I do have a 1-inch scar on the base of my right thumb, from playing in a grassy area when I was about 7 years old (crawling around, I planted my hand down onto a broken glass jar hidden in the grass). My most impressive scar is about 8 inches, but it doesn't really count as it was from surgery to repair a torn Achilles tendon (a tennis mishap).

 

[ColonelX]

i dont have any scars from my knives, but i have the imprint of a Zippo Chimney burnt into my left thumb

 

[orthogonal1]

Amazingly no knife cut scars, but I have lost some movement of my left thumb and left wrist from two different knife accidents.

There are disadvantages to 'silly' sharp knives.

 

[mielton]

This will make you all cringe a little bit lol. I have put this up before and maybe some of you have seen in. Well story goes I was trying to stab a can on a counter top with a cold steel slim jim scimitar and the blade went too low and stopped on the counter and my hand slid up the blade.

Its been 9 months and I just now got out of physical therapy and had surgery right after it happened to reattach my nerves artery and tendon.
-Barry-

thats one hack of scar there.
I never got cut my self that's too big to leave any mark :jerkit:
alway be careful of what you handle

 

[yablanowitz]

I've got hundreds of small scars, but only a few are knife related. There are the two on the side of my right index finger that remind me to be careful how I pierce things (slipjoints folding up because I was careless); the one on the web between my right ring finger and pinkie that reminds me never to try catching a knife when I drop it, just get out of the way; one across the meat of my left hand just below the little finger that reminds me not to whittle at 2 a.m.; and the latest on the side of my right little finger that reminds me that I'm still not too old to do something stupid.

Such scars are all shorthand for life lessons.