Has anyone ever accidentally slit themselves with their knife, or other edged tool. Just so I dont feel alone
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My Dad once drove a litter-spike through his foot, clearing up after a big barbecue party when he'd had more than enough to be going on with, if that's any help.
Yeh sliced my leg open with a Babcock Laplander. Luckily it was on the top of my leg and not near my major arteries.
yep sliced the end of my finger off before with a Stanley knife at work, diagonally thru the nail just missing the bone
(that one was fun) and countless other cut, slices and gashes.
your not alone kris
(that one was fun) and countless other cut, slices and gashes.
your not alone kris
I suspect that the index finger of the non-dominant hand is only there to be abused. A part from a multitude of nicks with cheap craft knives: Pushed a bow saw into it, just below the knuckle: hit it with billhook twice, on consecutive days and in exactly the same place; stuck the point of my Mora carver into it three times in the same week.
Haven't had nearly so many injuries in recent years. And then, a week ago pushed the blade of my Mora 163 across the outside of my wrist twice within a few minutes.
Least likely event that springs to mind was someone on a spoon carving day I was on. She managed to stab herself in the backside while carving. Don't ask me, I can't work it out.
Cheers,
Leif
Haven't had nearly so many injuries in recent years. And then, a week ago pushed the blade of my Mora 163 across the outside of my wrist twice within a few minutes.
Least likely event that springs to mind was someone on a spoon carving day I was on. She managed to stab herself in the backside while carving. Don't ask me, I can't work it out.
Cheers,
Leif
I think everyone who has used a knife is likely to have cut themselves as some point or other. 
I cut the tendons in my left thumb with a fallkniven F1 about 4 years ago.
I cut the tendons in my left thumb with a fallkniven F1 about 4 years ago.
I have a scar on my left ring finger knuckle where I shut my first ever penknife on it. I then avoided cutting myself for about 30 years then I cut through the side of my left index finger down to the bone with the serrated edge of my fishing knife, severing the nerve and I now have a permanently numb section. I also have a nice neat silver scar on the back of my left hand where I misjudged a billhook swipe, no permanent damage from that one, although the underpants may not agree with me on that.
I wonder how many injuries have been caused by penknives snapping shut since some dingy old Magistrate decided that lock-knives are not folding knives.
I put an axe through my thumb last year, I had been chiselling out a kuksa using the back of the axe as a hammer, put it down to light a cig, picked it up the wrong way. I swung at the chisel, missed and severed a tendon.
I slipped with a spoon knife once too and took a lovely scoop of flesh out of my finger, very shallow, little blood but stung like a swine.
touched by nature
I slipped with a spoon knife once too and took a lovely scoop of flesh out of my finger, very shallow, little blood but stung like a swine.
touched by nature
Plenty, but nothing thats needed stitches (yet).
Stuck a garden fork through my foot at age 3, a mortice chisel in my hand at age 6, put my finger in an electric planer 2 years ago.
Stuck a garden fork through my foot at age 3, a mortice chisel in my hand at age 6, put my finger in an electric planer 2 years ago.
Many, many times... most recently at the Sussex meet last week putting my knife back in its sheath of all things!
