Your worst cutting-accident with a Spydie

[Tdog]

About 4 years ago I was using my Spyderco Calypso Jr PE ZDP-189 Burgundy knife to open some caulking tubes and some other construction materials. I slipped and in my own carelessness I cut my finger all the way to the bone :eek: .

It bleed like a stuck hog at a slaughter house :rolleyes: .. Fortunately I was working for a retired Doctor and he immediately took steps to stop the bleeding as it was bleeding profusely.

One funny note about it was by the third day of healing the good Doctor wanted to look it over and he said that the cut itself was so precise it was as though it was done with a surgical scalpel. He said he never saw a cut that clean and that precise that wasn't done by a physician.

That ZDP-189 Caly Jr. is still one my all time favorite EDC blades. But I sure learned a great lesson not to take any knife for granted because they are truly dangerous tools if misused.

The PA that sewed me up also said the same thing...."looks like a super-clean cut, no jagged edges here". Little doubt it healed quicker because of this. Guess it's time to get out my Grey Para 2.....carefully :o

[bartvdb]

was cutting the "left-over" of a zip tie (tenatious) .i was still giving force but de knife already cut the plastic ;slid out in my finger about a 4 cm cut . sh..t happens . greeetzzz

[toomzz]

Latest cut was in a knifestore in Meissen, Germany, few weeks ago. We were on a vacation and visited the town. I saw the store and my wife waited outside, it was good she wasn't there :rolleyes: .
Well, here we are at the showcase, Spy-der-co.... The knives were presented in the case on horizontal magnet-strips, opened, tip up. I should have known, that is one of the most DANGEROUS ways to present a row of blades. I pointed one out and the kind lady handed me the first blade. Then she said, 'you can pick what you want to see'. Ok, I picked number two. At that moment (I didn't even feel it), my middlefinger caught the tip of an S30V Millie next to the knife I took out and pulled it off the magnet. The millie fell (sorry....) and I looked at my hand. The tip had pierced the middle-knuckle of my middlefinger and the blood was pooring instantly! When the lady saw my injury and all the blood she almost passed out :p , but luckily it wasn't that bad. It healed pretty fast but I think it will leave a scar. After the bandage my lust of seeing knives was over (for a short while.... :D )

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[TheDrumsist]

I was at a knife shop in my state, looking at a Manix 2. I was playing around with the lock (Flipping it open and closed), and clipped my ring finger. Didn't even notice. I put my hand to my side while the cashier was getting it ready to buy when I scratched my nose, and left blood all over it. It was pretty funny.

[Mr Blonde]

My worst incident was many years ago, when I dropped a CS Desperado on my foot. It cut my toe and damaged its mobility a bit. I've developed quick feet since.- Sal once told me you can recognize a knifeknut by his reaction to a falling blade. Those who know 'dance away', those who don't know instinctively try to catch the knife with their leg or foot.

With a Spydie my worst cut is actually a stab a Moran with the trailing point blade. I accidentally stabbed myself in the lower leg, stopping when I hit the chinbone. It was a neat little puncture wound, but the worst thing was that it didn´t bleed for a quite a while (that tells me it's bad). I had it look at immediately by a doctor, but all that was needed was a single swallow-tailed band-aid and it healed without consequences.

[dbcad]

Thankfully a spydie has never cut me. I will always remember the time I was cleaning a leatherman, one of the original ones 10 or 12 years ago, and the very sharp SE blade went directly into the tip of my left thumb.

It really needed stitches, but I didn't get them because times were a little hard. It eventually healed, only over the past couple of years I've started redeveloping some feeling in that thumb tip.

That incident is the reason I'm on alert whenever a sharp blade is out. Much better to be aware and not get cut. Very sharp edges can do a lot of damage in a hurry. Even though most of the feeling has returned to that thumb it still serves as a reminder.