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A Friendly Reminder :

For all of you who use hobby knives and the like , remember to replace the blades often. A dull knife is a dangerous knife. When dull, you use more pressure, and if you slip the blade will travel further, leading to much worse cuts, if you happen to say, hit your thumb or such.

From one who proved it,

-E

Thank you for the headup. Man I wish I got this notice earlier in life. Cut the tip of a finger off with one of those knifes. ARGH!! THEFAN

lol, yeah, I've never cut too much of myself up, but it seems every time I use hobby knives I leave all sorts of cuts in my fingers. Don't bleed. Don't hurt. But they're there, and are really apparent when my hands are wet, lol, stupid...

I cut the tip of my left index finger 3/4 off once with a SHARP knife. I'm lucky it was sharp or my finger wouldn't have healed back together

I get alot of the tiny lil cuts on the thumb, the ones that dont bleed but bother ya a lil later, but im pretty used to them. I just try to get all my cutting done in the same week, so its not like that all the time.

This is probably the worst cut ive ever gotten, straight headon into the thumb,sliced a good centimeter or so in, cutting a bit of the nail as it went. Bled pretty good, but didnt seem to hit the artery at least, so not too worried about ER, it should heal just fine imho.


-E

Throw some zap-a-gap in there, you'll be good as new.

Thats the plan, once its healed a bit, was oozing a lil too much for it lastnight.

-E

I can't help but laugh. Aren't we pathetic? Cutting the spit out of ourselves?

How many times have we read the directions that state, SPECIFICALLY... CUT AWAY FROM YOURSELF and KEEP YOUR FINGERS AWAY FROM THE CUTTING EDGE OF THE BLADE.

Geez, we're a bunch of Dumassssssssesssss.

Oh... and don't put superglue IN it. Put it ON it.
In = bad.
On = good.

I can beat you guys...

I had misplaced my exacto knife... Well, my teenage son borrowed it without asking and forgot to return it for a week.
I was too embarassed about misplacing such a fundamental tool to mention it to anyone... LOL

Anyway...

I was using a bare blade, no handle, and I was pushing down on it to cut something off of a sprue when the pressure from pushing on the DULL SIDE of the blade made a wide, NASTY cut on my thumb that lasted almost a week... It was so wide that Superglue wouldn't hold it together.
Once the bleeding stopped, I zapped it but it split back open as soon as I put ANY stress on the cut!

Top that!

Eric

I got kicked by a horse in the eye. Was very lucky, only split the flesh around the eye socket, didnt touch the eye or even bruse the bone on me, nother CM or so, and I could be dead easily.

Top THAT.

(I can, I just dont like to break out the big guns early)

-E

Okay... Someone went off topic.

I was referring to EXACTO KNIFE cuts...
... and not for severity, but for the level of stupidity or bad luck (or both LOL) involved.

Dang, E.... Let's remember this is a gaming forum, not a farm. LOL


Eric

bah, thats no fun.....


Hrm, this is probably one of the worse gaming ones, thou ive put several knives into myself deeper when learning to flip them about well. And had one put into me by someone else, who didnt like me.... Knives and I have a twisted past.

-E

Had a friend who was putting together a model Car. Not gaming, but still modelling so I'm thinking it's close enough. Anyway, we were in middle school at the time, and you know how impatient and *edit*-sure kids of that age can be.

Anyway, he put glue on a piece and then accidentally stuck it in the wrong place on the model, so he was trying to cut it off. Naturally ignoring the rules (coz he knows what he's doing and they don't apply to him), he's holding the model car up and down (rear fender in the air, front bumper towards his lap) and trying to cut DOWN across the body of the car. Zzzp! Xacto blade slides clear off, down and sticks into his leg. I don't mean just the tip of it, I mean 3/4" - most of the blade - sticking in his leg.

He was so suprised he sat there looking at it for about 10 seconds before he started screaming to "Get it out! Get it out!" Was freaky at the time, but in hindsight all I can do is laugh at how stupid we were.

-Dwarf

i didnt get cut too bad but one knife i had just replaced the blade and somehow dropped it to the floor and i forgot about it, went somewhere and came back and accidentally kicked it and it was one of those with an extremely pointed tip and stuck in the end of my big toe (barefooted), and talking about painfull, and burned.
Steve

... one knife i had just replaced the blade and somehow dropped it to the floor... went somewhere and came back and accidentally kicked it and it ... stuck in the end of my big toe (barefooted...

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That is one GREAT fear of mine. I rarely wear shoes inside. I used to use small PINS as pins... I was always afraid I'd drop one and *ahem* find it later.

My mom sews a lot. Always has. As a kid, I *found* my share of needles and pins.

Eric

speaking of pins, i had done some converting a bit back where i cut the heads off a bunch of straight pins and trashed the needle parts.
i had the small bag that was in the waste basket tied and set to the side to take out when i got a chance, forgot about it actually.

i was walking through the room a couple days ago and stepped on the edge of that bag and one of the pins went almost 1/4" in the bottom of my big toe.

my feet take a hurtin some times.
Steve