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Ahh, the joys of a fresh No. 11 blade. I was cutting some foam core, and got my finger tip a little too close to the side of the straight edge. Luckily, all I took off, was a sliver of dead skin. What freaked me out was that the blade went through almost effortlessly. I felt almost no extra resistance, when the blade shaved off my skin. At first, I thought I'd just lifted off a bit of dried matte medium off my finger.

Beats that incident, back when I was messing with stained glass. I think I nicked a vein, with that.

i know the feeling..i have had similar incidents with cutting flash off of gundams

I nearly stabbed myself in the leg once.

Never had that Problem really before at all on gundams or anything i just get little cuts that appear from no where its like a little map some times

Gryph wrote:I nearly stabbed myself in the leg once.

how?

grimlockprime108 wrote:

Gryph wrote:I nearly stabbed myself in the leg once.

how?

First off, I was young and stupid. It was around 8 or so years ago I believe. I was sitting on my bed, indian style (mistake #1.) I was trying to cut a few parts off of a gundam kit. The exacto knife I had was kind of old and dull, so it was a little tough. While trying to cut through a particularly tough piece, I aimed the knife down instead of straight away from me (mistake #2.) When I finally cut it, my hand with the knife quickly shot down towards my leg. I have no idea how, but I somehow sliced my pants, but not my leg. Scared the crap out of me though.

This thread is useless without pics!

Pic of what? The shiny spot on my finger? I could take pictures of the blood stains on my model railroad fascia, from that piano wire incident.

I remember my first stupid exacto mistake. I think I was about 13. I was trying to cut off the backs of a pair of sambas to make them more klog like. Anyways, it was going fine until I got to this really tough piece of plastic that is in the center of the back. Frustrated, tried to hold the shoe and blade many different ways until it finally slipped out and took a chunk off my left thumb.

Now HERE is the weird part. So my parents wouldn't find out I ran to their bathroom to try to fix it up best I could. Blood was everywhere, so to stop the bleeding I used a much too tight rubber band. Then just re-adhered the chunk of flesh with some neosporin and bandaged it up. It healed back on! I have a tiny scar to prove it. Later in health classes they would tell me that this was impossible. I love neosporin.

You basically grafted the chunk of your thumb, back on. You crazy self kitbasher, you.

I did something similiar when I sliced my finger open when I was a kid. Got a Swiss Army Knife for Christmas when I was 10, and I took it outside and started slicing up sticks just to see how sharp it was, slipped and sliced into my thumb from the tip down the side of the bone, nail and everything was cut in half and a large chunk of my finger was hanging on a flap of skin.

Didn't hurt actually, was cold outside, the blade was really sharp and I think I was kinda in shock. I pushed back together, ran in and basically tapped it back together with bandaids.

It throbbed and hurt like hell for a few days, but it healed back together, I still have a dent down my thumb nail where the slice was.

tentagil wrote:I did something similiar when I sliced my finger open when I was a kid. Got a Swiss Army Knife for Christmas when I was 10, and I took it outside and started slicing up sticks just to see how sharp it was, slipped and sliced into my thumb from the tip down the side of the bone, nail and everything was cut in half and a large chunk of my finger was hanging on a flap of skin.

Didn't hurt actually, was cold outside, the blade was really sharp and I think I was kinda in shock. I pushed back together, ran in and basically tapped it back together with bandaids.

It throbbed and hurt like hell for a few days, but it healed back together, I still have a dent down my thumb nail where the slice was.

did your parents find out? and more importantly, did they take the knife back?

Yeah, they saw me run in with my hand covered in blood. My parents believed in learning from you stupid mistakes. They looked at me, my mom went and got the band aid and my Dad took the knife to clean it off and called me a dumbass. I got the knife back once the finger was healed.

When I was three my mom let me touch a hot burner too. She told me not to touch it that it was hot, then she watched me touch it from across the room. Once I burned myself she took care of my hand and told me to never do that again.

Moral of the story, I'm much more careful with knives and hot things now:)

I've got a couple of misshapen fingers due to knife accidents - I've even managed to re-attach my thumb-tip, like jimsloth - only, it had a teeny tiny thread of skin holding it on - and there is still a scar to show for it....! The knife i used was so darn sharp, i didnt feel the cut at all....

Another time, more recently, i was making potato chips with a chef's knife i had sharpened to a razor edge to cut through lobster shells with - i slipped, and the knife carved my thumb (again) and the only thing that stopped it either striking bone or going right through and taking the tip (again, only from much further down) was a tough part of my thumbnaill halting it.....totally gross, and it bled for aaaages. I managed to finish making the chips though, hehe....

Well, when i was making a Shoulder cannon for Alt. Sideswipe i accidentaly cut myself (the red thing is blood, not paint.)

Well, when I got my Pen Vice recently I might add, I was testing it out on some styrene I had made a small box out of, I was drilling and not paying attention to the depth of the drill, almost went through my finger, was not expecting it to work so nice.

Wow you all had such bad luck.

I've only seen other people manage to do things like that.

Like one of my old classmates managed to accidently showe a very sharp knife in the teachers ehm......bottom during a craftmanship (spelling) lesson......and the same teacher managed to saw half his finger of not to long ago.

The best(?) I manage is regularly stabbing my fingers with a scalpel (10A blade, for those who are interested in such things).

at work yesterday i ran the retagging gun almost a half inch into my cuticle.... at least i didnt get any blood on the shirt i was retagging!

and tip on the gun is roughly.... a 10 gauge....

Good to see you've got your priorities straight...