Made a silly, amateur mistake today.

[Post Tenebras Lux]

Put pressure on the spine of a folding knife, edge side up, mechanism failed and cut in to the tip of my thumb.

What a fool I feel. Got it elevated and dressed for now as it was fairly deep but not deep enough for stitches.

I'd have liked to share a victory but I figured part of any woodsman, aspiring or otherwise, should be honest especially to themselves about their failings.

Stay safe

 

[Bluebs4]

i made one today as well , i asked a young man to remove his mutt from pulling a limb off a tree and when it released i got whiplashed from a branch in the goolies.

 

[John Fenna]

Well, as they say - "The man who never made a mistake never made ANYTHING!"
Once is an accident, twice is stupidity

 

[bobskie]

Stuff like this happens to everyone! Hope your thumb heals up soon!

 

[weekender]

Hope it heals soon.


Sent from somewhere in a galaxy far far away...

 

[mick91]

Been there, it's a bugger! Hence my dislike of non lockers!

 

[Robbi]

You know the rules......pictures or it didn't happen !

Put pressure on the spine of a folding knife, edge side up, mechanism failed and cut in to the tip of my thumb.

What a fool I feel. Got it elevated and dressed for now as it was fairly deep but not deep enough for stitches.

I'd have liked to share a victory but I figured part of any woodsman, aspiring or otherwise, should be honest especially to themselves about their failings.

Stay safe

 

[Post Tenebras Lux]

You know the rules......pictures or it didn't happen !

I swapped out the dressing with antiseptic cream for some plasters but hopefully it'll clot overnight as it was still trying to bleed after I'd elevated it for a while, so tomorrow I'll get some snaps then

 

[Post Tenebras Lux]

Thinking of going to see the Doc in the morning just in case. Haven't had a tetanus jab in, well, ever that I know of... and I can't tell if there's a tiny bit of rust at the base of the blade or if it's dry blood. I suppose it's better safe than sorry even if it's only a surface cut.

 

[Mozzi]

...............sorry.....

 

[Mozzi]

Well, as they say - "The man who never made a mistake never made ANYTHING!"
Once is an accident, twice is stupidity

ahem.....

THREE TIIIIIIIMES A LAAAAAYDAAAAAAAAY

 

[David LaFerney]

If you use knives long enough you will surely cut yourself - probably sooner than later. I'm pretty sure it's a mathematical law, but I'm not sure which. It may be a corollary of "live by the sword..." It works for bouncing checks too. Just try to do better next time.

It's why I carry a tiny little pocket fixed blade.

What did you say?

 

[Tony]

Well, as they say - "The man who never made a mistake never made ANYTHING!"
Once is an accident, twice is stupidity

twice? can we increase that to say, 5 times is stupidity?

 

[Dogoak]

We all make mistakes, you have just proved your human! Hope it heels quick.

If you don't think or can remember if you've had a tetanus jab it's probably best to see the doc.

 

[Tonyuk]

Hope its back to normal soon, we've all made mistakes and we'll all make plenty more in time.

Tonyuk

 

[Goatboy]

Hope you heal fast. You like got a tet shot while you were in secondry school. Supposed to get a booster every decade though my doc said it lasts longer than that. Though if you work/play outdoors or with soil it's best to keep them up to date.
One of the most stupid ones I did was drilling a piece of wood on much lap. Drill went through and into my thigh, just missing the femoral artery. Luckily it caught/twisted in my jeans slowing down the drill so it didn't go as deep as it could've.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[hughlle1]

Ouch. I learnt my lesson when I was about 6. Had an opinel no 7 from the kitchen and thought i'd see what happened when i stabbed it into a big ball of string. The inch long scar is as fresh now as it ever was. Had a babysitter around at the time so was too scared to say anything so just locked myself in the bathroom and cried Lock or no lock i learnt not to use folders for anything but slicing.

 

[forrestdweller]

Thinking of going to see the Doc in the morning just in case. Haven't had a tetanus jab in, well, ever that I know of... and I can't tell if there's a tiny bit of rust at the base of the blade or if it's dry blood. I suppose it's better safe than sorry even if it's only a surface cut.

i hope you get better soon. rust on a blade does not neccesarily mean infection/tetanus - it*s dirt which is the problem. [ i once impaled my right index finger on a piece of rusty wire climbing over a 2m high fence and tried for several minutes to figure out which way to pull it out [as i could not see that]- despite having no valid tetanus shot i had no problems afterwards]

 

[Trig]

i just recieved my new Mora 106 in the post, for whittling. I was giving it a quick test and thought to myself the blades a little long for what i like, could cut myself with that.

Genuinely 1 minute or so later, and i had a pretty nice gash in my left index finger. Still bleeding as i type..

Im just glad i never bought the axe.

 

[Drain Bamaged]

Sorry to hear about the gash but on the bright side you can at least award yourself 100% for risk assessment....well done.

DB