Stitches??

[j elky]

This past weekend I pulled one of my knives out of it's sheath to field dress a deer. I am right handed, but for some reason I grabbed the sheath with my right hand and the handle with my left. In the process of passing the knife to my right hand I managed to slice open my right index finger to the tune of 6 neat little stitches. Not really sure how I even managed this trick, but it got me to thinking. How many of you fellow knife makers have needed stitches from one of your own knives?

Jeff

 

[J. Doyle]

At least 4 times for me. Maybe 5.

 

[j elky]

This was my first with one of my knives and I've been making for about 10 years. Only other stitches were from a utility knife cutting vinyl siding.

 

[opaul]

I’ve sliced myself multiple times but luckily- no stitches. Now sanding down fingernails down to the ‘quick’ is pretty painful.

 

[victoroni]

"field dressing" a caribou in swamp alaskan outback deep cut thru nerves at base of left thumb - used butterfly stitches to close the wound - it was 5 days before doctor stitched it up with 6 stitches - this was 18 years ago and still have numbness due to severed nerves

 

[Edwardshandmadeknives]

Real knifemakers don’t have any fingers left to cut! LOL

Never got stitches from one of my own, but there’s been a couple times I probably should have. Usually it’s just the old duct tape and paper towels

 

[opaul]

Real knifemakers don’t have any fingers left to cut! LOL

Never got stitches from one of my own, but there’s been a couple times I probably should have. Usually it’s just the old duct tape and paper towels

Yeah, it's blue tape for me.

 

[Edwardshandmadeknives]

Yeah, it's blue tape for me.

If I have super glue on hand that works pretty good too. I don’t have it on hand very often. Seems I get burns and grinder rash more than anything, except for one time I got my hand in a mill and kind of cut one of my fingers into a few more pieces than it is supposed to be. Good thing we got more fingers than we need!

 

[Coop]

I've only needed stitches once. Was doing a sharpening video of cutting paper with a super sharp knife and lets just say in the speed video I needed stitches. Other than that I've ground off more skin than I care to admit. Like my dad always said "if your going to be stupid you have to be tough"

 

[opaul]

In full disclosure- I was showing my wife the sharpness of one of by blades and on the second “watch this” I sliced the very tip of skin off my thumb. I don’t need to tell you all what she said. It could have been much much worse.

 

[bladegrinder]

I've needed stitches twice in my shop, years ago, and stitched myself. it's pretty painless if you do it fast.
my new shop is 35 miles from a hospital, one way, so if I just need a few I'll do it again. something really bad of course calls for a doctor but for just a few stitches I'm not going thru all the hassle of finding a doc and go thru all the theatrics for a couple stitches.
like others said, now adays a few butterfly bandages, a good paper towel and tape and you'll be good in no time!