All About Pocket Knives

Bless your heart Edge!

Cuz I love that Three Stooges episode. Heck I love the stooges period.

Colonel26 wrote:Bless your heart Edge!

Cuz I love that Three Stooges episode. Heck I love the stooges period.

Glad we brought back a fond memory for ya Colonel, but it's Jerry who deserves your thanks!

BTW, I am also a 3 Stooges fan, so I fully concur. Doctor.

Nobody's cut themself recently?

Hmmmm......I cut the tip clean off in one slick swipe.....

OUCH!
I see several old scars on those old ragged fingers. Just one more mark of character.

Been lucky so far ... nothing significant, but it's just a matter of time. Getting bit doesn't sound like much fun. What I'm really worried about is sharpening woodworking plane blades with a roller skate jig (Scary Sharp method) ... that won't be just a bite if it ever happens - that will cost me at least a fingerprint if I'm lucky ...

Me too forgot how long the blade was on a rat.

Oee owee Scott. But as the boys down at the barbershop say, "This too shall heal".

Nothing lately for which I am eternally grateful.

Here's a little tip for ya'all to try, if you'd like. Broad-leaf Plantain. Can almost guarantee you'll find it growing in your yard, if you don't spray poison on the yard for weed control, I recommend trying a poultice, and be amazed at the results. Lots of info on YouTube about it, not just a "backwoods" remedy. Your public service announcement.

Yeah I got plenty,we call'em pore joes that's country for poor for you city folk.steelmyheart it sounds like a lot trouble to go to when I got a bottle of idene in the cupboard, but thats just me I'm kinda lazy.thx anyway.

SteelMyHeart85420 wrote:Here's a little tip for ya'all to try, if you'd like. Broad-leaf Plantain. Can almost guarantee you'll find it growing in your yard, if you don't spray poison on the yard for weed control, I recommend trying a poultice, and be amazed at the results. Lots of info on YouTube about it, not just a "backwoods" remedy. Your public service announcement.

I don't have a yard, but.......much appreciated.

I got nipped sharpening the OLD hickory set I g
Foolishly left one of the large slicers out on counter and I few minutes later bumped it a sliced open the knuckle on my middle finger.

Scott there must be something in the air today. A couple of days ago my next door neighbor told me someone at work had given him a couple of worn out knives and he asked me if l wanted them. Well of course I said sure and he told me that he would leave them on the table on my back patio when he thought to bring them home. Well I went out back this evening and sure enough there laid two small knives. One was a Colt toothpick with a broken backspring not good for much. The other was a small Case stockman so gunked up with some sort of sticky stuff that none of the blades would open. Well I immediately went to work on it by giving it a liberal 3in1 oil bath. It looked like someone had left it in the bottom of a full pouch of Redman tobacco as i pulled several pieces of tobacco leaf out of it. I gently worked the blades until I got the clip blade to finally openthen started to work on the sheepsfoot. When it started to open my fingers slipped of the sheepsfootannd ran directly down the clip blade. Yoweee! About a quarter inch deep. I doctored it and finished cleaning the knife. Most of the gunk came of. I don't think this knife had ever been used before. It lioks like it still has the factory edges. So my finger was probably the first thing it had ever cut.

EEEyowzuh!!!!
Are you saying I started some bad mojo Greg?

I don't know about that but it's a little eerie and coincincedental.

Scott I'm blaming you, yeah right what I need is a poultice to keep me from being careless.

Greg,
That's a small price to pay for a nice little Case, suck it up big boy! , !
Treefarmer

You're right TreeFarmer but he's such a good ole guy I think I will polish it up with flitz and give it back to him.

Well I read all the post and thought it may be my time to put my two cents in. Had been working out in the yard for most of the day, decided it was quitting time. Went in the back room to change and take a shower. Took my shoes off at the back door and took the stuff out of my pockets and put them on top of the dresser . Can't remember why but needed my knife for something. I opened it up to use it and in the process after it was opened droped it . At that time I was more agile and did not want it to stab me in the foot.So as the open knife was falling I jumped away , it fell straight down and fell with point pointing up and I jumped right on the open blade. Had a sore foot for a few days.

It's been a few years now so I think I can share my most embarrassing mishap

I was up at the GEC factory for the tour one year, and everything was going great until I wandered into the "Show and tell" room up front. This was right after the first GEC Congress had been released, and they had some samples for folks to play around with.

Literally the first knife I picked was a brand new congress. I opened one of the big sheepsfoot blades, then promptly closed it on my finger. The edge was sharp enough at the tip that it went clean through the side of the my thumb all the way to the nail and close normally. I quickly set the knife back on the counter and quietly walked away hoping nobody noticed

I made it out of the room before it started bleeding like a stuck pig. Walked straight back to my car leaking people juice everywhere, grabbed my FA kit and patched myself up with every bit of gauze and tape I had. Probably needed a few stitches honestly. Ended up having to stop at the CVS down the street to pick up another box of gauze as I had soaked through everything.

The worst was when I tried to pop off the locking ring on an Opinel with the blade open. For some reason I thought it had to be open. I was using needle nose pliers to spread it apart and pushing upwards with quite a bit of strength at the same time with my right hand. Holding the handle with my left. When the ring went and popped off all fingers but my thumb slid heavily against the very thin blade which I had recently sharpened on my Ken Onion Work Sharp. Probably should've gotten stitches but some paper towel and electrical tape did the trick.

Victronox (sp?) Prunning knife + 6 beers and trying to cut Ocra = this

On Edge wrote:Thanks fellas …

So here it is, two days later and looking a sight better …

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It's only a fleshwound

When I spring a leak I use super glue. I could be wrong but I think it was designed by NASA to stop bleeding in space

I know there are a few threads along this vein floating around but I couldn't find the most recent so I figured I'd necro this one.

Since Queen has closed its doors, I've been looking for certain patterns and handle materials before they vanished off the market. I was lucky enough to find a dwindling stock of these 19EOs in bird's eye maple thanks to Charlie Risner's fine store. I've heard complaints about late model Queen knives being butter-knife dull out of the box. The meat of my palm can confirm that this is not one of those. The tip of that wicked sharp clip blade sank into my hand like a hot knife through butter as I was investigating my new acquisition and even with such a clean cut it took a fair bit of time to slow the bleeding down.

Here's my new beautiful but deadly Queen trapper.

Case Mini Trappers are known to have some of the hardest snap of any traditional folder currently available. I was closing up my one-bladed Wharncliffe Carhartt edition doing some chores, and it grabbed the patch of skin between my left index finger and thumb, and cut deep; made worse by the fact I tore the skin worse wrestling the knife off. I was afraid I'd have to get stitches, but no.