In honor of Rhino....I've joined the bloodletting club!

[wesnellans]

I've laid my fair share of grief on Rhino for his, umm, sharpness testing of his blades, so, it's only fair I share my recent message to him...

-To Rhino: subject, "Hey, it will cut!"
"Had to use that subject line - I figure you watch Forged in Fire.

I evidently felt the need to join your somewhat exclusive self-induced injury club.

Spyderco Endura full serrated. Stupid brain fail cutting cardboard TOWARD myself to not go toward a customer coming up to the counter I was using...

Six stitches, 3 hours in the ER waiting to be stitched up (and a WONDERFUL time of the nurse grinding away in the wound cleaning it up with iodine), and two and a half weeks of heal time with another week or so to go I'd guess...

give you grief all the time so thought I'd give you some ammo

http://s1206.photobucket.com/user/we...s/library/Owie



have a good weekend"

 

[Birds Away]

That club is painful to join. I have the scars to prove it.

 

[Expat]

I don't like serrated because it seems hard for me to judge cutting force and speed.

 

[wesnellans]

I don't like serrated because it seems hard for me to judge cutting force and speed.

^^^THIS

In the post-massacre retrospective, I felt if I'd been using my Stretch or Delica I'd not have had the issue. The serrated section bound, extra force applied, and.....OWIE!

 

[Birds Away]

I wonder if the serrated blade makes the wound harder to stitch?

 

[jbombelli]

Welcome to the club. If you've never cut yourself you're not a knife guy.

 

[churchmouse]

I must addmit to leaking from my most recent knife purchase..........2wice

 

[wesnellans]

I wonder if the serrated blade makes the wound harder to stitch?

not sure if I got to the serrated section or just the tip. It was a pretty clean slice. Thankfully just meat and no nerves or such.

 

[rhino]

"I'm not just the president of Rhino's I Cut Myself (Badly) Bloodletting Club, I'm also a member!"

 

[patience0830]

My left hand has suffered abuse from a knife in my right a time or two.

 

[Expat]

I have never cut myself bad enough to need stitches.

 

[rlfrye]

Thankfully the worst I have seen was not done by me. Myself and a past coworker had been fishing, got to his house to start cleaning them. He has his knife in hand, reaches behind him to pull his chair in as he is sitting down. His filet knife mistook his leg for a catfish and performed its duties quite well.

 

[Sylvain]

I wonder if the serrated blade makes the wound harder to stitch?

I would assume it depends on the sharpness of the of the serrations and the design as well.
Some serrated blades are so sharp that they actually cut like a straight edge.
Some are more like a saw blade with sharp teeth and will rip material apart rather than cutting it.

Something like that will probably leave a mark:

 

[Birds Away]

I would assume it depends on the sharpness of the of the serrations and the design as well.
Some serrated blades are so sharp that they actually cut like a straight edge.
Some are more like a saw blade with sharp teeth and will rip material apart rather than cutting it.

Something like that will probably leave a mark:

That's almost as scary as a gun.

 

[chubbs]

I got stitches from a spyderco native with serrations a few years back.. 5 stitches and some nerve damage to the trigger finger. Life leasons....

 

[Kirk Freeman]

April 2014. NRAAM, Indianapolis. Cut myself on the Cold Steel baat jaam dao. No stitches.

No one must ever know.

 

[hopper68]

Hand someone a knife and tell them it is sharp. Within a minute they will agree it is sharp and ask for a bandage.

 

[Sylvain]

Hand someone a knife and tell them it is sharp. Within a minute they will agree it is sharp and ask for a bandage.

I'm amazed how many people don't use sharp knives.
Last time I handed my knife to someone they told me "wow it's sharp".Duh!
And it wasn't even razor sharp.

 

[Sylvain]

I ordered a Spyderco one time and it came with a tiny box of bandaids.I thought it was a neat idea since you usually cut yourself within 5 minutes of playing with your new knife.
I'm not sure from which company it was but they obviously know their customers.

They probably started doing that after they shipped a few blades to Rhino.

 

[rhino]

I ordered a Spyderco one time and it came with a tiny box of bandaids.I thought it was a neat idea since you usually cut yourself within 5 minutes of playing with your new knife.
I'm not sure from which company it was but they obviously know their customers.

They probably started doing that after they shipped a few blades to Rhino.

I need my own brand of first-aid supplies!