Safety First: Attacked by an RTAK II: Gore Warning

[Double_J]

Dang it Sam, you apparently have a "vampire knife" in your collection. The safest thing to do is get rid of that knife as once it tastes blood it wants more. I had one of those at one time, it was a spyderco delica 2 that was OMG sharp. It left me with more than one cut/scar.

I am sorry to see that nasty cut, but as has been said it is a reminder that we are playing with VERY DANGEROUS tools that deserve respect. Keep the wound clean and properly bandaged and recover soon. Those scars will just be reminders as to what can happen when we let our attention waver for a moment. I still remember my boy scout days when we all had to learn to respect a sharp knife. (it involved cutting a piece of rope with a dull knife, then a sharp knife, which worked very well for a bunch of young boys)

 

[50 Shooter]

I forgot to ask Sam, can I still send you my knife to put an edge on? LOL

Sorry, had to kid but it needs to be finished and after seeing what you can do....

Take the down time to get better, gimping around hurt sucks!

 

[ugaarguy]

Sam C, this is just unacceptable: We can't have our machete wielding EMT putting himself in the ER.

I hope you're less stiff later this morning when you get up, and I hope you heal quickly.

 

[Sam Cade]

So a couple days in and this is what it looks like.

That doesn't look half bad does it?

The laceration doesn't hurt. Never hurt.
But OH MY GOD the swelling stiffness in my knee is terrible and the resulting stiff-leg hobble is causing my other knee to ache something fierce.


The healing has well and truly begun and with the healing comes the maddening itching.





Managed to knock out a .3x3.5x7" hunk of test fauxcarta before I had to give up standing.

 

[Sam Cade]

I forgot to ask Sam, can I still send you my knife to put an edge on? LOL

The Cam-BK9? Sure. I should be caught up by this weekend so hit me up sometime next week to make sure I've got everything else done first.



Coincidentally, when I chopped myself I was thinking about knives. Just not the knife I was using. :banghead: Specifically, I was thinking about how the modded RTAK II compared to a BK9 performance-wise. . My mind wandered...:banghead:

 

[Sam Cade]

A bit more work under the hood of the RTAK II.

If I was doing this for someone I would have scribed it and made the pattern nice and even. Since its for my own personal edification I just let the drill press rip.

New POB is right at the end of the ricasso/choil.

 

[lobo9er]

Thanks for the reminder to stay safe!

 

[Tony_the_tiger]

=ouch

 

[two gun charlie]

serves you right for killing innocent little saplings

next time take on trees your own size

 

[JShirley]

Oy. We'd be limited to small trees, doc, Sam and I!

Sam Owens, on the other hand..

 

[bikerdoc]

Now that is funny!

 

[Sam Cade]

Sam Owens just yanks them up out of the ground with his bear hands.

That isn't a typo. He actually has the hands (and arms) of a bear like some escapee from the island of Dr.Moreau.




Sam O is so big he makes a plate carrier look like a baby bib.
http://www.shootingreviews.com/tacprogear-rapid-assault-plate-carrier/

 

[Sam1911]

Omg!

 

[hso]

That is his bib.

 

[Sam1911]

I've lost a few lbs. since that picture...

 

[ugaarguy]

I've lost a few lbs. since that picture...

Yeah, but have you magically gotten shorter?

That is his bib.

That would make sense, because I hear he eats live .50 BMG rounds like hot dogs.

 

[Sam Cade]

Out in meatspace, at this very moment Sam O and JShirley are moving a very heavy gunsafe up some stairs.


This is a surveillance photo sourced from the MCAC DHS "fusion center".

 

[50 Shooter]

Who runs Barter Town?!

 

[Sam1911]

I've lost a few lbs. since that picture...

Yeah, but have you magically gotten shorter?

Er...it was mostly in the feet?

 

[Sam Cade]

When Sam Owens gets a haircut his barber sweeps up the clippings and ships them to mainland China where they are sold by traditional apothecaries as as the aphrodisiac Red Dragon.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

WOW!

Sorry to see you got injured.

When I looked at the pic, however, the first thing that came to my mind was "not a bad place to take a cut like that, considering it was on the knee".

To the left a wee bit and the knee cap would have been damaged. A little tot he left and either higher or lower and it could have caused major tendon damage.

I stuck about an inch and a half of a fillet knife into my left thigh when I was a teen. Surprisingly, it wasn't all that bad...I was hobbling for a day or two, but after that it was no big deal.

Sweet deal with the nurse, though! And hope you heal quickly.

 

[hso]

Wait just a cotton pick'n minute!

How did Sam deflect our ridicule of his bush league bushcraft accident to Sam's size???

Let's get back to taunting the guy that KNEEds it!

So, Gimpy, what knife for knife tester? Oh, that one's been answered!

I'm sure we could keep you in stitches. ...

 

[Black Butte]

Imagine what this would have done to Sam's knee.

 

[Sam Cade]

You guys are just jealous of my Wolverine-like healing factor.

 

[RTR_RTR]

I'm fairly sure Wolverine's injuries didn't require approximation to minimize scarring