Freak Spoon Injury

[Halfdevil333]

Im well over due im on my 4th spoon with no injuries

Untill today that is...
Take one piece of Apple and one freshly sharpened/Honed Woodlander and hey presto.
The corner tip off my right hand thumb
Sliced the knuckle off my left hand thumb
and last of all a deep slice in my left hand.

She just laughed at me and said"When you going to finish your spoon now....When you grow a new thumb"

Anybody else have any good ones?

Cheers
Scotty " Three Fingers"

[stuart f]

Hi Scott, i hope it heals quick mate. I did take a neat slice of the side of my thumb with my Granny B a few years ago its still a bit numb to this day.

[John Fenna]

Well done - I think that most people who use knives will eventually give themselves some kind of bad cut. My personal best resulted from poor technique and working when too tired...I was gently dropping the point of a blade by stroking the back of the point and spine on a coarse stone ... unfortunately my stone was sliding on my workbench ... so I held it in my left hand... the job was taking too long so I increased pressure...the stone rolled... I had to pull the knife out of the palm of my hand where it stuck (in the bones?)...I suppose I should have gone to A&E but that is over an hour away..I still wear a 3/4 inch scar to remind me that knives cut things rather well and to treat them with respect! I am lucky that I did not cut any strings and cripple myself.

[nickg]

The worst I ever did was a diagonal slice from front to back completely through the left thumbnail with a stanley knife. Totally my fault, stupidly cutting toward myself lucy i didnt take my eye with it.
Worst damage I ever did with a knife was atempting to slam my bayonet back into its scabbard on the parade square during my army time, felt the rifle slipping out from between my knees and in the confusion speared my left hand with the point. Yeah charged with falling out on parade and damaging army property (not me - my best uniform trousers covered in blood)

[jamie6754]

Yeh halfdevil i have a good one, whilst out with spamel i was carving out the bowl for a spoon for my daughter, when the the crooked knife slipped and carved out a large chunk of flesh out of my left hand above my wrist if the cut was 13mm lower it would have cleanly cut threw tendons on my wrist, quite lucky somewhat wouldnt you say.
Dont have a picture of the accident but i have one of the scar.

[Hoodoo]

The last time I mentioned this I got accused of being some kind of wimp but I'll take that hit. If you do a lot of carving, imo, it's never a bad idea to wear some safety gear. Cut tendons can lead to permanent injury. And don't carve when you are tired, eh.

[jamie6754]

Yeh hoodoo mate the next time i am carving i will be wearing saftey kit, i think that injury shocked me abit and spamel too it was his crooked knife.

[Halfdevil333]

The last time I mentioned this I got accused of being some kind of wimp but I'll take that hit. If you do a lot of carving, imo, it's never a bad idea to wear some safety gear. Cut tendons can lead to permanent injury. And don't carve when you are tired, eh.

The strange thing is i have a pair of the kevlar gloves you have pictured but i didnt wear them this time

[pibbleb]

It's funny coming across this thread today.

I've just stabbed myself for the what ever time and I'm coming to the realisation that my wife's right, in that I am a stupid so and so and should give up playing with sharp things.

As this isn't going to happen safety gloves a must!

Pib