Well, I cut myself a good one

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Luckylefty01

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I'd just finally managed to get my Camillus sizzle up to a decent sharpness (my sharpest knife thus far probably), and able to take constant large cuts out of a sheet of paper without problem with all parts of the blade (before it had always been kind of hit or miss, especially when they were close together, no longer!), so I was quite happy about that.

A couple minutes later, I remember seeing some of the tests I'd seen you guys doing, like trying to split hairs lengthwise on the knife (not quite there yet, when I tried it), and then I just decided to try cutting a free hanging hair for fun (I didn't have high hopes for it actually cutting it). Well, about the 4th time I tried it, I wasn't paying enough attention I guess (plus I think I was thinking that the closer to where I was holding it the better my chances), and I managed to take a good slab of skin a good 1/16th inch thick off my thumb kind of on the side of the very end (I guess it's actually still stuck on there, by a very thin piece of skin), just missing the nail (not sure if hitting it would have been good or bad:P).

Needless to say, I quickly said brb to my girlfriend (who I was talking to online), and spent the next several minutes bleeding all over the bathroom sink like a stuck pig, rinsing it off occasionally, and hoping it was going to stop bleeding eventually (it did...eventually).

Finally I was able to almost stop it bleeding with some toilet paper, remember that I had one of those handy dandy new graham dispensers in my room, went and grabbed a band-aid from it, and stuck in around my finger:P.

After all this was over, I decided to test the knife, and it still cuts paper with the tip quite nicely, so I'm happy, although I'll probably be more careful when I'm trying something like that (well, for the near future anyway, can't expect me to remember it forever:P).

Just for fun, I'm going to attach a picture of all my knives (well, the ones I use regularly anyway) since I got around to taking one the other day, and you can see the guy that did this to me in it.

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OUCH!! been there myself.....cutting boxes apart with a well stropped #10 opinel knife....got bumped by a coworker and the kife ended up in my inside forearm about 2 inches.....opened the skin/fat/and 3rd layer right down to the bone......... 8 stitches....LOL!!

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Finally I was able to almost stop it bleeding with some toilet paper, remember that I had one of those handy dandy new graham dispensers in my room, went and grabbed a band-aid from it, and stuck in around my finger:P.

Bandaids are essential equipment for knife collectors. ;)

n2s
 
Happens to the best of us. I'm supprised you don't have more nics and cuts from the balisong. :)
 
Your fingertip? Hah! Greenhorn! (Just kidding, of course; no cut's a good cut. But keep reading.)

This weekend my wife and I went to the beach and had a little picnic. She didn't feel as much like wine as when we had bought the bottle an hour earlier, so that meant this bottle of white was my responsibility. Never one to back down from a challenge, I saved the day and dispatched the Pinot Blanc.

But the one glass put her to sleep, and the rest made me restless. Too cold to swim, to boring to sleep... she suggests, "Why don't you carve some wood or something?" Rather than correct her on the difference between carving and whittling, I went along, "Yes, dear."

Scrounge for a little wood, root my hair-poppin' Vic Soldier out of the travel bag, and set to work. We all know where this is going- I get careless, start doing some stupid gouging move, and close my gloating-sharp knife across the back of my index finger. Praise God I missed the tendon that runs across the top of the knuckle, instead I just layed half the fatty part open. Wish I could post some pics. It's by far the worst I've ever cut myself.

Can't even really say I learned the lesson, because I knew that lesson already! :mad:
 
Hey, I did exactly the same thing a couple of months ago... only I managed to cut a little of my thumb nail off, as well... :mad:

You're right, it did bleed a lot, but once it stopped the cut healed quickly - a good thing about sharp knives! Mine was the RSK like your picture :cool:
 
not2sharp said:
Finally I was able to almost stop it bleeding with some toilet paper, remember that I had one of those handy dandy new graham dispensers in my room, went and grabbed a band-aid from it, and stuck in around my finger:P.

Bandaids are essential equipment for knife collectors. ;)

n2s
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FYI: These guys make a 'stop bleed' powder that works very well. WalMart carries the nose bleed version and Walgreens carries the version for cuts. Both have the powder, but the nosebleed one has a nose applicator. Or you can get it from the website. I think you can get a free sample from the web site too.
 
rnr said:
FYI: These guys make a 'stop bleed' powder that works very well. WalMart carries the nose bleed version and Walgreens carries the version for cuts. Both have the powder, but the nosebleed one has a nose applicator. Or you can get it from the website. I think you can get a free sample from the web site too.
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I just posted about this stuff in another thread. I always have some available if I'm training with a live blade, or in my first aid kit. I haven't had the misfortune to need it myself yet, but know EMT's who think it's very effective. There's a similar product called TraumaDEX that's been proven effective in combat.
 
Another lefty - welcome to the club. Knives and cuts, ham and eggs. Dropped a knife on my foot just the other day...blood all over. Darn but that knife was sharp :D keep working at your sharpening skills and you'll get your knives hair popping sharp all the time.
 
Talk, talk, talk. All this frappin' talk about cuts, and then we get these piddly little knife pics. I wanna see some real pictures - show me your finger, dammit!

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Al Mar Eagle Ultralight, screaming sharp edge on it, I dropped a sheet of paper and managed to cut the sheet in half as it dropped. Such a cool trick I tried to do it with a back hand slash. Didn't get my left arm out of the way as I cut, the blade passed through with only the faintest of tugs, and still bit a corner off the paper. about 1 1/2" passed through, bunch of stitches inside, and bunch more outside. No permanent damage. Kind of cool (and creepy) to see the line on the blade where the it passed through, kind of a greasy smear along with a hair or two. No blood on the blade, just a film of Yahmanin fat.
 
Rainmaker870 said:
Talk, talk, talk. All this frappin' talk about cuts, and then we get these piddly little knife pics. I wanna see some real pictures - show me your finger, dammit!

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I thought about it, but I didn't know where my dad had hidden the camera at the time, and I didn't feel like painting the floors red while going to look for it;)
 
Don't feel too bad, Lefty. I once pulled off a classic cut myself, and - like you - couldn't figure out how to get to the camera.

Sucks, don't it? ;)
 
Years ago I closed a folder on my index finger 'drilling' something. As I've said before...opening that knife back up was one of the hardest things I ever managed and one of the most painful lesons I ever learned in this 50 years. I guess I should be happy I didn't know how to keep a blade sharp in them days... My 110 LOCK-back is still not used in this way though it is 'safe'.
I only cut things that 'need' cutting so I reduce my chances somewhat by not performing the 'Hey! Watch THIS' tests that would likely result in more frequent bloodletting.
Y'all carry on... ;)
 
When the CRKT fixed blade stiff KISS first came out several years ago I bought one for a glovebox knife. I had it snapped in the sheath and was cord wrapping the handle when I pulled too much trying to pack in one extra wrap. I had my thumb resting in the notch and it just pulled straight thru it. Luckily the knife was new and very sharp so it didn't hurt at all. I just got up and said "honey, let's go to the hospital". It took twelve stitches inside and out, made a perfect filet of my thumb clean to the bone. It took a few years before I got any of the sensation back and even now it feels odd along the scar.
 
"Ouch! Uh...oh no. Oh, oh no. Oh dear Lord it got the bone. Oh man, I really did it this time. Someone hand me a towel. On second thought, make that a tourniquet." The rallying cry of folks like me.

I was doing some housecleaning last weekend and brushed up against a machete hanging on the workbench. It hadn't been used in a while but it had been put up sharp. (I may stop doing this. It's beginning to seem too dangerous.) No pain, just a slight sensation of cold, and now I have a lot more cleaning to do. The damned thing layed my finger open to the bone. The neat thing was that it went in at an angle, leaving me with a conveniant flap of skin to secure back into place. The superglue and some NGK bandaids (thank you NGK) held everything together until things were under control. A week later and it's nearly healed.

I have a preferance for angled cuts for this very reason - easy to secure, heal quickly. I explain this to people and they think that I have a problem. I do. I need to start wearing gloves when I clean. Of course my main preference is no cuts at all but if you're as hamhanded as I am, you learn to live with it.

In contrast, the straight down cut is a PITA. (As Yahmanin can attest to, by the looks of things.) The last time I pulled one of these was back in May. I was chopping on a log with a HI Ganga Ram Special and evidently it took a bad bounce while I was cutting the "V" and got my supporting hand; to make matters even worse, I did it in front of friends. The owner of this particular blade keeps it hair popping sharp. What happens when a 3.5 lb. hair-popping blade comes down on your knuckle?

Very little, in this case. (Relatively speaking of course.) I had a doctor look at it some time later and he opined that between the bone and the tendon, I stopped that blade just fine. God loves fools. :)

It wasn't a particularly large cut but it creeped me out. I didn't even know that I was injured until someone pointed it out; when I looked, the seemingly-innocent cut magically expanded like an opening eye and I was suddenly peering into the intricacies of my inner workings. (As someone explained to me, that sort of thing is cool but it's really not meant to be seen - otherwise, it would be on the outside.) I clenched and unclenched my fist to make sure that the machinery was still functional, saw the clockwork in action, and nearly went into shock. Good fun. It barely bled and didn't hurt - like I said, sharp. (Didn't hurt until the next day, anyway. Then it hurt plenty. And itched. And itched some more.)

We got it closed with an adhesive bandage. It healed, albeit a bit awkwardly. The scar's kind of cool and there's a large calcium deposit and scar tissue mass beneath it now, making it look as if I have an extra knuckle. It aches a bit most mornings. The doc told me to give it 6-9 months for complete healing. I got off very, very easy. I should have lost that finger.

The moral of all these stories? All it takes is a moment of carelessness. No, not even that - just a moment of paying less than full attention to the task at hand. Sometimes it just takes bad luck; I was watching that Ganga Ram like a hawk and it still got me. (The machete, on the other hand, got me because I was a moron.) Sharp knives may be safer than dull knives but they all scare the bejeezus out of me. ;)

Just for the record, I prefer superglue for the bad ones. They're not lying on the label when they say that it bonds skin instantly. I've glued my fingers together enough times to believe it.
 
Luckylefty01 said:
Just for fun, I'm going to attach a picture of all my knives (well, the ones I use regularly anyway)
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That Ritter Grip is a nice looking knife...I might have to get one someday.
 
EZ, get it, you won't be disappointed. It's my favorite folder: strong lightweight and very sharp! The wide blade & flat grind make it a great slicer, and the S30V steel takes and keeps a great edge. The design of the knife is very well thought out, and the handles (despite the "cheap" feel) are very strong and fit the hand well.
 
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