Ok we all have heard the stories about accidental firearm discharges. Lets talk about knife slices.Not to leave this board ok spill it lol. We are not talking a lil love bite here. Where talking scar material or stiches. Ok I will go 1st. Just got a new Buck 110 last month and put a real nice slice a scar on finger while opening plactic meat wrapper in sink. Most likely should have went to get stiches but didn't due to it's labor day weekend and I had smoker duty.plus these ole hands have scars on top of scars 30 plus years auto indursty. Me being on massive blood thinners had blood every where. Lol ok your turn blade mishaps

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Spin The Wheel

Cant count the number of times I got sliced and diced. Being a calm week I can only see 2 scabs on my person at the present time. I have been cut and stabbed so many times in my life. I checked my arms from the elbow to fingertips and can count 13 scars. These from cuts deep enough to leave scars. I have a particular interest in Buck 110's as I got stabbed to the hilt with one 30 some odd years ago. Injuries were run of the mill and were just forgot about. At best, when bleeding wouldn't stop, we would find a piece of rag, wrap around the cut and secure it with black electrical tape. Sometimes when time did not allow this fine remedy a dab of grease from a grease gun can and has stopped a gusher. One cut that made me cry down both pant legs was when I cut through my thumb knuckle bone with a power saw. Though the wound took 10 times longer to heal as new bone was needed, it hurt for several years. On an Aspirin a day regiment, a small cut now produces more blood on the garage floor than on the last 4 elk I shot combined.

2015 deer season: Did not recover my buck until after dark. Was field dressing him, my off-hand thumb got in front of my new Buck 113. Two days later, I went to the Dr. and was told it should have had stitches but it was too late now.

2016 deer season: (see a pattern here?) Was field dressing a buck with my new Benchmade Steep Country. Was pulling on the bucks diaphragm with my left hand while cutting with my right hand. My knife hand slipped and the knife whacked my left hand pinkie. There was one place where it went to the bone. It really needed stitches, but I cleaned and bandaged it up and called it good.

Both times, I was taking an anti-coagulant and pretty much bled like a stuck hog. Am now off that med, so am ready for whatever this deer season might bring. I might use an older, dull knife though.

Here's a shot of my pinkie. I now have a dandy scar there.

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Buried a carpet utility knife into my left palm....while cutting off the child proof safety cap on a bottle of Tylenol. Went to the doc the following Monday, made me cringe to watch him take a culture with a q-tip, and see the entire cotton end disappear.

Nothing major here. Thank God for bones. Super glue is a steel heads best friend.

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Jimmy (Wimp Man) is not allow to have sharp objects or to run with scissors.

Nice stories keep um coming I am sure there are many good ones to come

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Spin The Wheel

LOL.... when I was in High School I worked at a summer camp in W. Va.

I was the stable boy and later the asst rifle instructor........ so I didn't have my own cabin of kids.... but were expected to help out.

Had a crew of 2 or 3 cabin out for dinner and an overnight ......... part of dinner was chunks of 'beef ka-bobs...... well whipped out my handy dandy 4" sheath knife to cut my beef chunks...............

sitting there eating and realized I had blood dripping onto my jeans....... had cut through the beef... my triple thick paper plate...... and cut my one finger almost to the bone ..... without feeling a thing. wrapped in a folded paper towel for pressure and walked a mile or more back to camp to see the nurse...................... by the time I got there the bleeding had stopped and it had "sealed " itself...... so .... she slapped on some antibiotic cream and a butterfly bandage....... and I walked back to the overnight.

It was a simpler time back in the late 60s........ today it would be an MRI and stitches from a plastic surgeon..............

Had that scar for the next 20 years......................

There are multiple scars from using a knife, but the worse one was a Christmas a few years ago at my daughters in CO. One of the girls received ? something? inside one of those hideous plastic fully enclosed packages. My handy dandy Kershaw leek was put to use and of course it slipped and I darn near took my thumb off, leaving a flap of meat of about 1/3 the pad of my thumb. It really needed stitches but we treated it at home, and it did grow back, but I still have nerve ending issues to this day. Sorry we took no pictures.

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SWCA1967 SWHF244

My son (14) was staying at a buddy's house the weekend before school started. He took some knives with him as they are both into knives big time. I got a call at 2:30 am that he had cut himself. Yup, he was sharpening a knife while holding the stone with his left hand. Came off the end of the stone and nearly took the end of his left index finger off.

Took him to the ER where it took 5 stitches to close the wound. Then it was back to his buddy's house to finish the (misnamed) sleepover. Ten days later I took the stitches out for him instead of going back to the ER to have them removed. It's been a month and it's just now healing up good.

I have a similar scar on my left index finger that I inflicted with a box cutter about 30 years ago.

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Or something like that . . .

I have cut my self numerous time and I can state with certainty that nine times out of ten I was trying to preform a task that a pocket knife was not suited to preform. Either I pushed the liner lock in while cutting or was trying to cut in a way the was just plain ol stupid.

Lefty aka penmon

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Penmon AKA Jim

I have never been able to convince a wife (I had two before I got it right the third time, sober) or my sister, that a dull knife is more dangerous to use than a sharp one, more likely to cut the user.

My sister has some splendid scars on her hands to prove the point. I've given her several knives--two Spydercos, a SOG Flash II, a 5" version of the Ka-Bar fighting knife, and a Buck Nighthawk. The Ka-Bar and one Endura were stolen; and if they were as dull as the ones she kept, the thieves probably lost some fingers.

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Oh well, what the hell.

I can't hold a candle to any of you guys but I did get stabbed between my shoulder blades trying to break up a fight (rookie mistake). The wound was so minor I wasn't aware of it until the booking officer pointed out the blood on my shirt. A couple of stiches & a band aid later and I finished my 4-12 shift.

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LEO (Ret.)

One Sunday a few years ago I was cutting some old 3M 5200 caulking to free a hatch cover on my boat. That stuff is very tough, the Dexter fillet knife I was using slipped and sliced through the knuckle of my left hand "bird finger" I was alone and taking coumadin at the time so bed a lot but wrapped it up and drove to the nearby hospital ER. Luckily it was a Sunday and the New Orleans Saints were playing to the usual huge ER crowd were home watching the game. I was in and 5 stitches later out of there in no time. I washed the blood off of the boat deck and called it a day.

My entire family thinks I'm a moron for using super glue on cuts. It works great, especially on those flap over cuts. The straight in ones are more of a challenge. Either way it really doesn't belong inside the cut. Just to hold it closed.

I have found trauma sheers work better than knives at opening those plastic blister packs. Opening one with a knife usually ends bad.

They have been using glue now in open heart and hip and others for years now . glue on bolth for me

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Spin The Wheel

If you keep cutting yourself like that, I'll take your Tote-N-Chip away. I was a scoutmaster for several years and anyone who ever was caught cutting towards themselves got 1 warning, after that they lost "knife privileges" until they had taken a refresher class in knife use. While I have lots of scars, they are not from a knife. Always cut away from yourself. From working with sheet metal for years I did get lots of cuts but nothing major. My big issue now is that just hitting my arm in a glancing blow, my skin slips and I need a "repair".
My worst adult cut has when a heavy wooden spool with bolts out each end hit my head. Lots of blood, the ER super glued me back together. If Humpty Dumpty repairmen had super glue we'd have never had that nursery rhyme.

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Not a knife, but my worst cut.

I stumbled and fell backwards. Instinct makes you reach out and grab anything. I grabbed the edge of the corrugated steel panel over my log pile. Filleted my right palm from the pinky to the second finger and about 1 1/2" down. Got a cool look and the inner workings of the hand.

Got a nice pic, but Ditrina deleted it the last time I posted it.

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