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Come along to the amazing Summer Moot (21st July - 2nd August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
Glad to know that I am not alone.
Now I can say without any shame, I sliced ma finger open in a forest (in romania) on a knife while carving:aargh4:.
Now I can say without any shame, I sliced ma finger open in a forest (in romania) on a knife while carving:aargh4:.
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
That wouldn't be arsenick Annie would it?
Yep, cut myself a good 'un back in summer 2000. At a biker rally I slipped with my Leatherman tool cutting some cableties off a tent pole sliced into the back of my left thumb, partially severed the tendon. 4 hours in A&E geting internal stitches and external ones as well as a knuckle to mid forewarm plaster cast to immobilise it. 6 weeks in plaster, 2 months physiotherapy in total 2½ months off work, luckily I had sick pay to fall back on. The insult to injury is that I am a carpenter and should have known better than to have my hand in front of the blade. D'oh!
Dont think its possible to of used a knife or any blade and never accidently cut yourself is it?
But yep, i have a couple of times. Have had penknives snap shut and cut the back of my fingers when i got a balisong knife the wrong way around.
Nothing thats needed stitches though.
Oh and i prefer to think of it as a learning experience/lesson... Unless i do the same mistake again haha
But yep, i have a couple of times. Have had penknives snap shut and cut the back of my fingers when i got a balisong knife the wrong way around.
Nothing thats needed stitches though.
Oh and i prefer to think of it as a learning experience/lesson... Unless i do the same mistake again haha
Dreadhead
Bushcrafter through and through
'dropped' a highland dirk into the back of my knee and missed the tendom by a mil. dropped the same dirk onto my foot a year later. so i sold the dirk. Now i have a longsword and keep it safely sheathed 
It's all fun and games untill someone gets hurt.
Also to your question Yes mainly due to not paying attention.
Also to your question Yes mainly due to not paying attention.
I wear a leather gauntlet when carving. Sometimes forget to put it back on, that's when I always seem to nick myself.
Elen Sentier
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Yay! Knives and edge tools like to be blooded , think it's part of how they get to know you. I must get a leather glove in case mine get too hungry LOL
behind every creative woman there's usually a very talented cat ...
, think it's part of how they get to know you. I must get a leather glove in case mine get too hungry LOL behind every creative woman there's usually a very talented cat ...
I once stabbed myself in the thigh when using my Bushman's friend to prune a gooseberry bush round about the time my first son was born. He is now 43 and I still have the scar. I made sure I was present two years later at second son's birth to ensure normal delivery: no more gooseberry bushes for me! Mind you, I still have a scar on my hand where my wife bit me in the throes of childbirth. Who says men don't know the pain women go through!
Did it last week, doing a mini 5cm canoe from the "little book of whittling" all is good until the hollowing out bit. At which point I couldn't think of a safe technique to do it. Quick trip to a and e and some superglue later, I don't think I'll try making one again. Te book even recommends using a swiss army knife!
Amateurs!
I managed to lacerate myself with the wood (seriously I did!)
Picked up a lump of tree trunk I was sectioning in the rain. Trunk was wet and slippery. At the bottom was the "hinge" from felling which had splintered during falling. The trunk slid in my hands, a spike of wood skated across the inside of my wrist and veins and up inside the sleeve of my chainsaw jacket. Wondered why water was running out of my jacket....and why it was red. No lasting harm but a couple of mil deeper would have been un funny
Hinge cut by British Red, on Flickr
I managed to lacerate myself with the wood (seriously I did!)
Picked up a lump of tree trunk I was sectioning in the rain. Trunk was wet and slippery. At the bottom was the "hinge" from felling which had splintered during falling. The trunk slid in my hands, a spike of wood skated across the inside of my wrist and veins and up inside the sleeve of my chainsaw jacket. Wondered why water was running out of my jacket....and why it was red. No lasting harm but a couple of mil deeper would have been un funny
Hinge cut by British Red, on Flickr
countless times with knives when i was younger- including stabbing myself in my wrist right next to a major blood vessel...; fortunately nothing what required more then a bandaid!
once with a hatched on my left elbow...
a healthy-looking branch turned out to be hollowed-out by termites and my parang kept moving- fortunately i managed to slow it down and i only nicked the skin on my left shin!
once with a hatched on my left elbow...
a healthy-looking branch turned out to be hollowed-out by termites and my parang kept moving- fortunately i managed to slow it down and i only nicked the skin on my left shin!
I would like to join this club, please accept these photo's as evidence of my injuries.
Photo 1 is from the corner edge closest to the handle of my small forest axe! a small cut on my left thigh, don't ask how it happened.
Photo 2 was caused by my laplander jumping out of the wood as I was starting a cut, this happened about 45 mins ago lol.
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So thats two of my blades that have cut me, only four more to go before they are all christened lol
I eagerly await all your finger pointing whilst laughing very loudly while I go find a plastic toy knife to play with
Will
Photo 1 is from the corner edge closest to the handle of my small forest axe! a small cut on my left thigh, don't ask how it happened.
Photo 2 was caused by my laplander jumping out of the wood as I was starting a cut, this happened about 45 mins ago lol.
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So thats two of my blades that have cut me, only four more to go before they are all christened lol
I eagerly await all your finger pointing whilst laughing very loudly while I go find a plastic toy knife to play with
Will
These days not so much (he said touching wood).
When I was twelve or thirteen I was given my first proper knife for my birthday, a Puma 265. A few days later having spent the previous hour putting a nice edge on it I thought I'd try to split a hair, obviously I couldn't, so I held the hair out between thumb and forefinger and chopped it in half.
Only I didn't.
Instead I managed to remove about ninety percent of my thumbnail and a large part of the tip of my index finger.
When I was twelve or thirteen I was given my first proper knife for my birthday, a Puma 265. A few days later having spent the previous hour putting a nice edge on it I thought I'd try to split a hair, obviously I couldn't, so I held the hair out between thumb and forefinger and chopped it in half.
Only I didn't.
Instead I managed to remove about ninety percent of my thumbnail and a large part of the tip of my index finger.
