Whos cut their finger?
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Thats healing up well, i have not cut myself carving yet but a few bad ones when i was a chef, also working on old cars always gets me, took the tip off my thumb last year, was agony!! I hate that plastic packaging, its impossible to get into!!
that looks nasty! this thread jumped ut because i've just cut my thumb sharpening my axe.
unrelated but this is a link to a picture of when i "caught" my leg with a 9" grinder.
http://s463.photobucket.com/albums/qq356/dje666/?action=view¤t=DSCN7233.jpg
unrelated but this is a link to a picture of when i "caught" my leg with a 9" grinder.
http://s463.photobucket.com/albums/qq356/dje666/?action=view¤t=DSCN7233.jpg
I'm glad this has been started up again - I'm starting to learn to carve and this thread has been a very good "be careful, you eejit!" for me.
I've opened by hands a few times with craft and pocket knives but nothing serious - I know that if I'm not wary I'll give myself some nasty ones though.
Thanks.
Oh - and glad your finger is healing up nicely.
I've opened by hands a few times with craft and pocket knives but nothing serious - I know that if I'm not wary I'll give myself some nasty ones though.
Thanks.
Oh - and glad your finger is healing up nicely.
i can count all the major appendages i haven't cut myself on on one hand.
unfortunately none of the would be on either hand....
unfortunately none of the would be on either hand....
Isn't it funny how "clever" people don't seem so good with practical things?
Yippeee! That's good news, I'm going to take up knife juggling then. I'm as thick as two short planks..
I've cut my fingers so many times it's unbelievable but thankfully up till now never a bad one. Worst wound I have ever had was a bullet in my right upper thigh, from an irish sniper during the 70s. This little perfectly round hole was flowing in red stuff quite happily even with a field dressing on it and tied very tightly. Finally the cavalry arrived with the duty ambulance and I was bundled inside where the duty medic lokked at me, looked at my leg with the trousers cut open to get at the wound easily. He rubbed his chin, said "mmmmmh" asked me to give him my right hand, ah he's going to check my pulse I thought, then he asked me to point at my leg. As I did so with outstretched index finger, he quick as a flash stuck my finger into the hole, I squealed and nearly jumped up through the air vent in the roof, but to my surprise the bleeding actually slowed to a slight ooze. After what seemed an age and a very bumpy ride which had me squealing every time we went over a bump or into a hole in the road we arrived at the hospital and straight into a small side room where the doctor pulled out my finger, and cleaned the wound after removing the projectile which had lodged in my muscle, then commenced to stitch it up. When I got back to the regiment and back to work I took great enjoyment from anytime someone told me to get my finger out I would reply, "No chance if I had done that in the past I would have bled to death".
Backyard Buscraft, that's a similar shape to the scar I that was describing but the knife travelling the other way - hope that continues to heal up well.
Diligence's photo reminds me of our geology technician at Uni. When he had been a young lad he had been tinkering with his motorbike with the engine running. His hand went between the chain and a sprocket, removing the outer finger and part of the side of the hand. He had big hands, so they still looked about the normal width at a quick glance.
He used to operate a 45cm (18") diameter rock saw. These have a fairly thick blade with diamonds encrusted on the edge so they give you a burn rather then the nasty type of injury you'd get from a wood saw.
One day he was showing a lady visitor the lab when she spotted the saw. She jokingly asked "Do you lose fingers often with that" With a grin he held up his three-fingered hand "Not often".
Years later he still relished the mortified look on her face as she tried to talk her way out of her joke!
Cheers,
Steve
Diligence's photo reminds me of our geology technician at Uni. When he had been a young lad he had been tinkering with his motorbike with the engine running. His hand went between the chain and a sprocket, removing the outer finger and part of the side of the hand. He had big hands, so they still looked about the normal width at a quick glance.
He used to operate a 45cm (18") diameter rock saw. These have a fairly thick blade with diamonds encrusted on the edge so they give you a burn rather then the nasty type of injury you'd get from a wood saw.
One day he was showing a lady visitor the lab when she spotted the saw. She jokingly asked "Do you lose fingers often with that" With a grin he held up his three-fingered hand "Not often".
Years later he still relished the mortified look on her face as she tried to talk her way out of her joke!
Cheers,
Steve
I've only cut my fingers a few times and only needed stitches once so they weren't bad really. Once I sliced my finger about to the middle with a chisel while I was trying to get some glue off a table leg that I made, that time I got stitches. Another time I sliced the top of that same finger but it was just through my skin and wasn't too bad. I was whittling with a swiss army knife that time, just trying to make a whistle. The last time I cut my finger was just recently after I got my wolverine knife from kellam knives for christmas and I was just looking at it and kinda moved and in it went. That was in my thumb and it took all night for the bleeding to stop fully. Didn't get stitches but I don't know if I needed them because I never went to the hospital. My grandfather had it a bit worse and cut most of his ring finger off with a table saw. Maybe it runs in the family?
just got back from the hospital. three stitches in the end of my left index finger, they had to give me 6 local anaesthetics because of the depth of the cut. Hurt like hell.
i'd just finished carving a new axe handle for my tillering axe when i knocked a stanley knife off the workbench and acting like the total eejit i now believe myself to be i tried to catch it....... and failed...... miserably. three hours later and about a pint of blood and im feeling pretty dorry for myself! Cant play any of my flutes!
glad to see yours healing nicely martin, hope you do get full movement back.
i thank the stars mine isnt as bad!
i'd just finished carving a new axe handle for my tillering axe when i knocked a stanley knife off the workbench and acting like the total eejit i now believe myself to be i tried to catch it....... and failed...... miserably. three hours later and about a pint of blood and im feeling pretty dorry for myself! Cant play any of my flutes!
glad to see yours healing nicely martin, hope you do get full movement back.
i thank the stars mine isnt as bad!
remember ! a falling knife has no handle, better to let it fall and chip than catch it and loose a finger
2sets of stitches and a bruised ego, not to bad for a days workI cut the tendons in my left index finger while on the river and had to get stitches and can't use that finger when it gets under 30 f .
I was going to reply " who hasn't?" until I read your post..... 
Wow!
Get well soon!
Great advice there from Robin.
Cheers
Mike
Wow!
Get well soon!
Great advice there from Robin.
Cheers
Mike
Trying to close a slip joint folder one handed (in a hurry, distracted by someone else, in the middle of doing another job.....) I rammed the point into the ring finger of my right hand.
Just before going off on exped for 3 weeks in Africa...no time for medical help, so I just taped it up...missed the strings (thank goodness) but the tip had hit bone and the cut was about1/3 of an inch across. Lots of blood....
7 months later the finger still has a noticable dent in it and it aches a bit in cold weather- works OK though.......
Just before going off on exped for 3 weeks in Africa...no time for medical help, so I just taped it up...missed the strings (thank goodness) but the tip had hit bone and the cut was about1/3 of an inch across. Lots of blood....
7 months later the finger still has a noticable dent in it and it aches a bit in cold weather- works OK though.......
My father used to hit me on the head with a meat hammer (one of those tenderising mallet things) if'n I tried to catch a knife I dropped, (I think) he was a meat inspector way-back-when, and lost the feeling and all ability to bend his middle finger, by doing as you have done. I still have the lump on my head from the times he's twhacked me, but I don't try and catch the bullet any more
well so far (touching some freshly cut wood) i've only taken the tip of my little finger off. and stupidly it was peeling spuds!
one of those peelers you just pull accross, can't use one since and stick to a kitchen knife like me mum taught me. other then that just the odd nick from a corned beef can or the old ringpull coke cans, always used to get my thumb with them.
i've had some pretty funky ops mind, toenail removal and that certain one blokes get when he decided two screaming kids are enough. awake for both of em, that local REALLY hurts...
i'm pretty used to using small x-acto blades etc on everything from wood to pewter so i'm ok with those but no idea how i'll hold up whittling my first piece, i think i'll stick to the advice on here and concentrate hard! heh
Sniper: i'm suprised to hear you took a round in NI m8, i know it was hairy over there but the only source i have it my father, he's related before now an incident where saucers from tea sets get stuck in the body armour after being thrown, what with the edges being ground. he doesn't talk about it much but from what he has said i understand why its such an understatement when they call it "the troubles"
one of those peelers you just pull accross, can't use one since and stick to a kitchen knife like me mum taught me. other then that just the odd nick from a corned beef can or the old ringpull coke cans, always used to get my thumb with them.
i've had some pretty funky ops mind, toenail removal and that certain one blokes get when he decided two screaming kids are enough. awake for both of em, that local REALLY hurts...
i'm pretty used to using small x-acto blades etc on everything from wood to pewter so i'm ok with those but no idea how i'll hold up whittling my first piece, i think i'll stick to the advice on here and concentrate hard! heh
Sniper: i'm suprised to hear you took a round in NI m8, i know it was hairy over there but the only source i have it my father, he's related before now an incident where saucers from tea sets get stuck in the body armour after being thrown, what with the edges being ground. he doesn't talk about it much but from what he has said i understand why its such an understatement when they call it "the troubles"
arghhh this thread is making me cringe. So far (touch wood) I've only had small cuts and grazes bushcrafting. I learnt my lesson a few years ago - working about 40' up on a crusher in a quarry I was trying to cut some awkwardly attached rope, knife slipped (yep, it was blunt, a cheapy leatherman) and went straight into the back of my hand. Lots of blood, surprisingly little pain, I'm not particularly squeamish but by the time I'd climbed down the three ladders to the ground I was starting to feel pretty dizzy. Never wanting to do that again these days I'm damn careful with knives!
i wish somebody had tried that trick with me tadpole!
NatG, "remember ! a falling knife has no handle"..... im considering getting that tattoed somewhere prominent to remind me now! It was just an instinctive reaction, even when i went for it i was thinking "noooooo" it was only an old stanley knife and i have plenty of blades!
been trying to play the flute with my other three fingers but it sounds awful
EDIT: just re-read your post melonfish, i did something similair with a cheese slicer, took a perfectly circular slice out of the knuckle of my thumb!
NatG, "remember ! a falling knife has no handle"..... im considering getting that tattoed somewhere prominent to remind me now! It was just an instinctive reaction, even when i went for it i was thinking "noooooo" it was only an old stanley knife and i have plenty of blades!
been trying to play the flute with my other three fingers but it sounds awful
EDIT: just re-read your post melonfish, i did something similair with a cheese slicer, took a perfectly circular slice out of the knuckle of my thumb!
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