Your most memorable self inflicted cut.

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Sitting at a picnic table using some one's pocket knife to try and tighten a screw on my sunglasses.... Knife slipped started to fall and my first instinct was for my hand to go chasing after it.... guess which end of the knife my hand caught first???:mad:
 
Harv24 said:
Sitting at a picnic table using some one's pocket knife to try and tighten a screw on my sunglasses.
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I wouldn't recommend using a knife for a screw driver; maybe a butter knife for a flat head screw driver if your desperate, but nothing sharp. It might ruin the edge, tip, or it could slip and you know the rest ;).
 
All I can say is that I've learned, when you drop something that was designed, crafted and oh-so-carefully honed to CUT THINGS... let it fall. It's amazing how we automatically want to grab something that's dangerously in motion. I catch myself doing it too sometimes but been lucky so far... usually I remember to jump back. Don't grab, just watch to see which way it bounces.

I saw a guy at work drop a 150# rotary die like this one the guy's measuring only bigger(yes he's a moron, there was a chain hoist not 5 feet away and he was trying to just man-handle it). He tried to catch it and just made things worse, strained his back and shoulder. Then it rolled all the way down his legs, scratched him up a bit and bruised the snot out of his foot. Not to mention ruining the die. I don't miss that job but I sure wish I had a few of those old dies :(
 
I haven't cut myself in over 6 years and then two weeks ago I went and did it twice in the span of about 4 days.

Kinda embarrassing
 
I have had several stab wounds dropping X-acto knives which always land point down in your leg for some reason. Eventually I learned and either bend the handle or drill and tap the end for a hex bolt to stop them rolling off the workbench.

Most memorable was my SAK that I had just sharpened the night before. Last time I ever closed a knife by the spine of the blade on the back of the leg trick. I felt a warm sensation in my middle finger to find a perfect 1/4 inch round slice of fingertip missing. NOTE: don't try to seal it with that liquid plastic bandage goo to keep it safe.

Best one was a brand new plain edge Endura that I was using to cut some wire ties on my car. It slipped and made a perfect deep slice across the top of my ring finger between the first and second knuckle. So clean a cut it didn't bleed while I held it shut and healed within a couple of days, with a scar.

The latest one, which will scar and was a semi ragged slice is across my left index finger behind the second knuckle. Crock stick, dullish Old Timer and a lapse of concentration.

In 47 years I have added quite a collection of creases to my knuckles. :D
 
I cant even remember all of the cuts through the years.



Last one that took a while to heal was when I grabbed my RC-4, sheath in left hand, knife in the right hand and quickly drew it out. Time seemed to slow down as it came out, as the edge sliced into the inner side of my left index finger. Could just FEEL it slicing its way into the flesh. Ick.

Direct pressure until bleeding stopped, superglue and taped it up.

Took a while for it to get back to normal, but I barely have a scar.
 
This one may qualify for dumbest...and yeah I know my name starts with einstein...

Just a couple days ago I was trying to open a bandaid that didn't have the pull-apart paper for a small cut on my thumb (non knife related). I decided to use my brand new, factory sharp Benchmade 550 HG with 154 CM steel, and should have been much less zealous in my efforts. I took a decent whack, trying to slice the thin line of paper lengthwise just above the bandaid inside. Well I must not have been concentrating well enough (and was just plain STUPID to even try this on an object as small as a bandaid wrapper while holding it), and from the hand holding the bandaid I took the tip off my thumb - about 3/16" worth - and needed 6 stitches on the side of my index finger.
 
Pretty nasty cut between my thumb and pointer finger many years ago while trying to trick my Valor Silver Dragon balisong.:thumbdn:
 
I had two stupid ones.

The first one: I was up on a stepladder, using a Leatherman Micra to cut open a cardboard box on a shelf. (Sounds dumb already, right?)

I sliced down the side of the box, then used my other hand to rip the front face open... of course, I slipped or something, and impaled the fleshy part below my thumb on the still open knife blade. Only four stitches, but it was deep, and it throbbed.

The second one: my wife and a couple of our friends are a couple of miles out on a hike. We sit down to eat. We have an avocado; I have my brand new and astonishingly sharp Delica 4. I slice around the avocado. I pull it in half. I use the typical "tap and twist" technique to remove the pit... except the Delica slices straight through the pit, splitting it nearly in two, and slices a beautiful arc into the base of my index finger.

"Oh good", I said. "I can see a blood vessel". No permanent damage, and I only needed steri-strips to seal it up, but I do still have the scar. The fun part was hiking back with my arm held above my head, with my torn shirt to stop the bleeding. Apparently I looked like I'd been attacked by a bear, because I was also limping from a particularly exhausting soccer game the day before...

Come to think of it, I had a 20 minute drive holding my hand above my head for the first one, too... heh!
 
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