Just a reminder to be careful.

[hso]

Yep, never, EVER, try to catch a knife.

Get out of the way and let it hit the floor instead of your tinder flesh.

I have seen some awful accidents at knife shows as well as some miraculous near misses, but most of the worst injuries occur when someone fumbles a knife and tries to catch it. If you're going to end up spending $600-$1,000 anyway, you're much better off to just buy the expensive knife after it hits the floor than paying for the medical treatment.

 

[cleardiddion]

I had an old Gerber folder which closed on my hand when I was about 12. Still have that mark on my right middle knuckle.

Fileted my hand open at the age of 10.

Stepped on dropped xacto blades.

Cut the webbing on my left hand with a freshly shaprened SAK (slipped while whittling).

Cut myself lengthwise down my right index when I accidently opened the blade to my new Kershaw leek while drawing it from my pocket, much to the surprise of my girlfriend.

And the list goes on and on.

Thank goodness I'm up to date on my shots!

 

[ThatGuyHank]

I sliced the meat of my thumb pretty good one time, tried cleaning my Kershaw Clash (which is a torsion bar speedsafe knife). Got it apart ok, cleaned all the pocket lint out and lubed it with some Balistol. Then re-assembly came. Between figuring out how the torsion bar fit in the holes and keeping the washers lined up without falling it turned out to be more trouble than I think necessary of a 25$ knife. Finally, I was going to pop the scales and pivot pin and screw on, I had a funny hold on the knife. I wasn't trying to cut myself and I could have sworn that it was all the way closed but while wiggling the pivot into the hole the blade sprang out and dug its tip (I really shouldn't sharpen these things so well huh?) into the meat of my thumb, blood flying everywhere. This was a year ago and I didn't want to scare my parents.

So using my medical knowledge (my mom's a nurse so I read all of her college books) I got the bleeding to slow, I cleaned it up, steri-stripped it closed and covered it with a small gauze pad and an adhesive bandage. Turns out I did a pretty good job and no scar remains. Stilll, I will never take apart a Speedsafe knife again without some kind of manual and gloves and a vise. I have a few other scars that I don't really like to talk about

 

[carlo1776]

An Emerson CQC7b opened in a leg cargo pocket. I squatted to put something away and I noticed a bit of a sting in the back of my calf. Fortunately the tip only went in 1/8 of an inch. Good thing I didn't have momentum. Fixed with a band-aid. Never carry a rapid deploy folder in a large cargo pocket

 

[Wangmuf]

I had a similar experience with my CQC7, wave partially opened the knife in my pocket and when I reached in to get a zippo, cut my pinky pretty good. I'm in the habit now of ensuring the knife is closed from outside the pocket before I reach in.

 

[Strykervet]

I held a Vaquero Grande to my throat, just playing around I actually didn't think it was touching enough to cut. It was brand new. When I pulled it away, my buddy said, "dude, you throat is cut". Sure enough, ear to ear nearly, you could see where each serrated tip cut in, but not really between the tips. But it was very shallow, just enough to look like a slit throat. Learned not to play around with knives. It never hurt until I was in an attic a couple hours later and the sweat just kept it stinging.

Cut my hands plenty of times. Sometimes you just can't get a safe grip to cut what you need to cut. I also still use knives as manicuring tools --my wife hates it. But I have all my fingers and toes and am usually able to pull it off without a hitch. Talk about bad habits.

 

[JCinAK]

An Emerson CQC7b opened in a leg cargo pocket. I squatted to put something away and I noticed a bit of a sting in the back of my calf. Fortunately the tip only went in 1/8 of an inch. Good thing I didn't have momentum. Fixed with a band-aid. Never carry a rapid deploy folder in a large cargo pocket

+1

I had a similar thing happen to me, except the tip was poking through my pants and got my thumb. Nothing serious, but it could have been worse. Learned the same lesson.

 

[Wangmuf]

Seems the wave feature can be more detrimental than helpful, considering it's a pretty easy inertia opening blade. Had an old Benchmade CQC7 for 3 years and never cut myself with it, this one got me inside of 4 months.

 

[wkumatt]

I've still got a lovely puckered scar from the Victorianox that I jabbed into my inner forearm at about ten years old. I was trying to cut the top out of a two liter bottle to have something to put fishing worms in. Granny already told me she was gonna skin me if I stole any more freezer cups. I was trying to improvise.

 

[wleggart]

funniest knife cut/stab

cooking duck gumbo at the camp, went to close my buck stockman by holding the knife in my dirty right hand and closing it against my right buttock. Had to have my son come and dress the wound after stabbing myself in the butt. A martini or two may have been involved. Thank God it was before the days of a camera/phone in everyones' hand. My butt would have gone viral!

 

[jahwarrior]

balisong user.....so a new cut every week or so.

 

[p35]

I forgot to mention the time or two I dropped an SAK back into my pocket without closing the awl (the one that sticks out the back at 90 degrees). Felt a sharp pain in a tender area the next time I sat down.

 

[22-rimfire]

If you use knives, eventually you will cut yourself. Let's hope it isn't bad when it happens.

 

[9mmforMe]

When I was 20, about 22 years ago, working at a five&dime, I had just put a new blade in my box-cutter and as I cut the box (toward myself..a no-no, i know) I sliced my wrist. It was such a quick, clean cut that I felt absolutely nothing and didn't notice it until I saw the blood running down my fingers and onto the floor. After getting a little queasy and bandaging the wrist up, I noticed I had missed everything vital, it sliced down to the tissue just above the muscle and maybe 5mm from the tendons. The ER doc stitched me up with just 7 stitches and I still have the scar...as a side note, her bedside manner was terrible but she was one of the prettiest ladies I'd ever met. Anyway, I've cut myself a few other times being stupid since then, but no need for institutional medical attention.

 

[788Ham]

I was about 14, had gotten a new Buck folding pocket knife for my birthday, man was that thing sharp. I was helping my Pop get the truck loaded, we were going to the dump, I was tying off a rope on my side. I told Pop the rope was too long on my side, "Well, cut it off." I opened the knife, took a hold of the rope with my left hand, put the blade on the bottom side of the rope and cut upwards, just about cutting my finger off at the middle joint. I cut clear into the knuckle joint, into the bone. Well, we didn't go to the hosp. to get stitches, just wrapped a rag around it and off to the dump we went. That scar is still a dandy, almost never got any feeling back into it........ don't remember whether Pop took my knife or what happened to it.

 

[Beaux Nehr]

Yikes man.

Next time go to a minor emergency center, or even to a regular doctor's office if you can.

 

[alaskanativeson]

About 10 years old. The butter knife wasn't doing a good enough job at cutting the frozen coconut cream pie. Solution? Grab mom's 8" Old Hickory knife (back when they were good knives) and attack the pie. Swish! Right through the pie, right through the pie tin, right through the palm of my left hand. With blood all over the pie, counter, and floor (not to mention my clothes) an almost 3 inch cut and I ran into the living room to show mom, a nurse. It's a statement about my mom that she cared more about my bleeding hand than the carpet I was staining.

The ER visit resulted in about 12 stitches, a still visible scar close to 40 years later, and one more life lesson learned. When you have a frozen coconut cream pie, don't cut a piece, just eat the whole damned thing.

 

[Wes Mantooth]

Stuck a hunting knife in my middle finger while I was gutting a deer. The tip went around the bone and came out my fingernail. Still got the scar 25 years later. Guess I always will. I was about 12 at the time. Said my first cuss words. You should have seen the look on my dad's face when his baby boy let loose with profanity. Then he just smiled and said "being stupid hurts don't it?".

Crapped my pants one time in the woods. Cut my leg trying to cut my underware off.

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Great read. We don't have enough band with to cover all the times I have cut myself over the past 46 years. I got my first pocket knife at age 5 and my first cut shortly there after.
Growning up doing Construction work it just part of the job but the worst offender is suspended ceiling tracks they will cut you before you know it.

For Cuts the old plumbers trick is to dip the cut in coal oil.

 

[25cschaefer]

I tripped with my Battlefield firefighter's tool from Ontario Knife and it whacked the back of my hand and gave me a cut about half an inch long all the way to the bone. I tried direct pressure and all the good stuff I learned in the army and Red Cross classes but after about half an hour, still bleeding, I drove the 70 miles to Missoula to get A stitch, made me feel a little less of a man (I actually asked the doc to through a few more in there but she laughed at me).

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

A falling knife has no handle.

Unless you're a Ninja.

 

[Spec ops Grunt]

Update

Here is a picture of my finger today.


Still swelling under it, I have more feeling in the finger but it is not 100%. Can fully extend the finger but making a fist can be difficult. When I try to do that I feel a lot of pressure where the scar is.


Now I owe $1433. :banghead::banghead: Expensive mistake.


Kinda wish I just stuck with the paper towels and dealt with it. Surely it would've healed on its own.