Ok so seriously... You ever cut yourself by just accidentally touching your blade?

My TSF Beast (which I use to shave) opened in my pocket and cut my hand to ribbons. I barely touched the point but it was enough to bite a millimeter into my thumb, through all the callus and into the squishy bit.

This happened yesterday, and was preceded by three minutes by my cutting the back of my little finger with the same knife in the same pocket.
 
Out of the box a Chive sliced off a bit of my finger. No blood, though. I've got a Mora and a couple of thinned SAKs that can (and have) give me papercut-type cuts just from making contact with the edge at just the right angle.
 
Short answer, yes.

In forty plus years of collecting, using and sharpening knives, I've sliced, diced, poked, shaved, stabbed and cut off pieces of my body, most accidentally, a few on purpose.
 
Blood loss is a normal part of this hobby of collecting and using objects with sharp edges.
 
when I was about 15, by best friend cut open an orange with his fillet knife.

held it in his hand and cut inward towards the web between his thumb and index finger.

SUPER sharp knife...hot knife through butter vs an orange...went about an inch down into that valley between those two fingers. Opened him up bad.
Trip to the ER, LOTS of stitches, lecture from his dad down and back about knife safety. Sad thing was...he knew better. 25 years later and I still get careless on a rare occasion and end up with a chunk missing.
 
Sure why not. I have a couple of times.....I remember 1 time just after touching up my Gayle Bradley. I didn't even feel it, just saw blood.
 
BuckySWT said:
when I was about 15, by best friend cut open an orange with his fillet knife.

held it in his hand and cut inward towards the web between his thumb and index finger.

SUPER sharp knife...hot knife through butter vs an orange...went about an inch down into that valley between those two fingers. Opened him up bad.
Trip to the ER, LOTS of stitches, lecture from his dad down and back about knife safety. Sad thing was...he knew better. 25 years later and I still get careless on a rare occasion and end up with a chunk missing.
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Not only did he cut himself in a really soft spot, he also had orange juice running into it. Ouch! That couldn't have been fun...
 
i cut myself bad enough to get 10 stitches and after that i try to be careful. i have cut myself just touching an edge but not very bad but i have had customers tell me they have cut theirself just touching the edge.

last year i was letting a friend check out my spyderco manx 2 i had just touched up and he released the lock with the edge facing down. the blade swung back and hit his finger. it nicked his finger which bled a little.
 
richard j said:
last year i was letting a friend check out my spyderco manx 2 i had just touched up and he released the lock with the edge facing down. the blade swung back and hit his finger. it nicked his finger which bled a little.
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This is my test for smoothness/sharpness on an axis or manix folder. I hold it at about 30 degrees from horizontal and unlock it. If the blade can't swing down fast enough, or isn't sharp enough to cut me, then it fails the test and I tinker with it.

Also, when I first got my BM M4 griptillian from GPknives, I was under the impression that benchmades were not sharp from factory, as had been told to me on this forum as well as vendors. I touched the edge with the same pressure that I would a cheap gas station folder. That one needed stitches.
 
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richard j said:
i cut myself bad enough to get 10 stitches and after that i try to be careful. i have cut myself just touching an edge but not very bad but i have had customers tell me they have cut theirself just touching the edge.

last year i was letting a friend check out my spyderco manx 2 i had just touched up and he released the lock with the edge facing down. the blade swung back and hit his finger. it nicked his finger which bled a little.
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Heh, indeed it's actually some of your customer's remarks that I remembered most clearly.

Seems insanely sharp for it to just cut the moment it hits skin. Almost makes me want to start sharpenign to that level, but then again the testing seems a little rough lol
 
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