I want to see a series titled “Walking in the Weeds” with DCA as our host. Let that man off the chain and geek out thoroughly on his favorite knife topics. Go full tilt and let us see and hear what you know. That would make for an enjoyable weekend series.
THE SQUIRREL ARMY RISES!!!!!!! My dumbest knife moment. I was using a SAK, and was cutting through some cord, well I put my thumb on the spine to really bear down on it. The blade went through the cord, and my thumb closed the blade on my index finger slicing it open to the bone. I learned that day I prefer locking knives for most cutting tasks.
Love you guys. Stupid knife story with good ending. Truck driver here. In a rest stop in Tx. Saw something in a tire tried to dig it out with pocket knife. Before I found locking knives. Closed on finger slice index finger almost to bone. Also before I carry first aid. So I have a dirty rag wrapped around finger still bleeding like a pig when this old woman comes out of RV next to me. What did you do, let me see OMG come in my trailer. Maam im bleeding and dirty I really shouldnt. Young man you get in this trailer NOW! Its a coach but she calls it trailer. And the YOUNG is apt even tho im 35. So I follow her in and she cleans my finger gets it to stop bleeding and bandages me expertly complete with a splint. I thank her and ask what I owe her. She waves me off then reaches in a cabinet and pulls out a really nice first aid kit metal box well supplied not junk and gives to me for next time. Says her husband is salesman for co and its a free sample. I will never forget her or her kindness. I have not bern without a first aid kit since still have that one and now carry a locking knife. I know its long but feel free to share with fans. Thank you for all you do
When I was a camp counselor I always carried a knife in my pocket. Our camp made kids find their own marshmallow sticks so I was sometimes tasked with removing the bark on their sticks. One time I was removing the bark and hit a small knot so I pushed harder and the knife launched forward and caught my finger tip taking a little piece of flesh off. I handed the child his stick back and tried to play off my injury. The kid asked if I was okay and I said yes as I tried to hide my finger and sucked my finger to keep the blood from going everywhere until I could probably treat it. One of the only times I’ve ever cut myself and a good reminder to never have a hand in front of your cutting path, even if you are being careful.
A little observation on the side of the main subject of this channel, and also a bit random as I could've wrote this below almost any of your videos: As a Norwegian subscriber who's been following this channel and quite a few other knife related channels over some time (retailers, manufacturers, custom makers, reviewers, EDC, bushcraft, martial arts, swords & historic weapons), I've come to the conclusion that knife people actually has to be an above average likeable bunch of people! I do indeed watch a lot of expert videos on other and completely different topics as well, but a more down-to-earth, friendly, gentle, peaceful, genuinly kind and caring batallion of nerds than those who worship hair splitting sharp and well shaped pieces of steel is pretty hard to find anywhere on the internet! This also goes for a vast majority of commenters, as far as their sparse words reveal. Did I mention the cheerfulness and all the good humor as well? I guess this is where DCA and his musketeers stands out in particular! 😂 In addition to all the great strictly knife related stuff, we always get a good dose of priceless jokes so dry I like to use them as towels after showering, which is of course very convenient, so thanks a lot for this great service, too! Keep up the fantastic spirit & stay sharp! PS: DCA, a "reverse tanto" is just a regular tanto viewed from the other side. No big deal. Don't let him confuse you.
I made TWO stupid mistakes with knives. 1. I pulled a CS Bushman out of the sheath, unintentionally, and had my other hand on the sheath, but not in a safe way. The knife sliced off the left portion of the tip of my middle finger. After 5 months, i regained feeling, as most of the skin had grown back. 2. Same mistake as number 1, only this time, with a different knife but razor-sharp, I cut into my indexfinger at the first joint. Lost feeling in most part of it instantly. I think the bone was all that stopped the knife from taking off my finger. Now, after about 6 months, feeling is starting to come back. And like you DCA, and many other knife people, my thumbs and index fingers are covered with cut marks, from years of sharpening...and playing with knives..
My first “real” folding knife, spyderco PM2. Half hour after buying it, I’m driving and fidgeting with it. Dropped it. Open. Tip down, right into my thigh. Tip stabbed in about a half inch deep, right through my thin pants and fell over, causing some decent pain and a wound in a bad spot that I couldn’t get to stay shut and took a while to heal, adding a new little scar to the collection. Good news is the knife was so sharp it was easily able to shave all the hair from the surrounding area so my bandages would peel off clean.
My stupid knife accident. Just got a new Spyderco Native given to me. At the time, I handled the inventory and receiving for a furniture company. I was opening some boxes to pull new stuff onto the show floor. stabbed the knife into a stack of broken down boxes for a minute since the lockback wasn't as convenient to flick closed like my axis locks were. Went to pull the knife out and it was stuck, so I put my hand down to hold the stack in place, with the blade pointing toward my finger. Knife came free and sliced into my middle finger, and left a couple Styrofoam balls that were stuck to the blade in the wound on the way through. I had to pick them out with tweezers when washing the cut before I patched myself up and got back to work.
In 7th grade I was at my friend's sugar cane farm hanging out for the weekend with several other kids from our friend group. We had just gone out on the 4 wheelers and on our way back in grabbed a couple sticks of sugar cane. I was sitting on the side of the driveway skinning a piece of sugar cane down with my Dad's old Jungle King hunting knife that i had just sharpened right before I left to come there. I was holding the cane by the bottom 4-5 inches slicing off bark in one long sweeping motion starting close to my hand and ending towards the top of the cane (just like i should cutting away from myself) when one of my friends comes up and slaps me on the back hard with both hands playing around like "hey buddy what's up!?!" right as I'm turning my hand and starting to chop down. The blade slammed into the knuckle of my left hand index finger cutting through the tendon and all the way through my knuckle leaving my finger hanging on by just the meat and skin of my palm where the finger connects. I immediately rip off my shirt and use it as a tourniquet to bind my wrist and cover my hand to help staunch and soak up some of the blood, sitting on the ground with my hand elevated over my head resting on the seat of my friends 4 wheeler (the seat ended up being ruined bc it was so stained with all my blood) His parents were the next county over (all i can remember is it had something to do with one of their horses) and wouldn't be back for several hours. So my mom had to come pick me up and take me to the ER which left me sitting on the gravel drive for at least an hour bleeding all over his 4 wheeler. We got to the ER which was another 30-45 minute drive and it took like 4-6 hours for them to finally see me, long enough that my hand stopped bleeding and started drying up to the point that they had to give me an IV bag of saline and a bunch of sterile gauze to soak with the saline and hold over my severed finger so it wouldn't get permanent damage from being so dry. Then the fun started. 4 nurses an ambulance driver and my mom had to hold me down while the doctor stuck needles into the wound to numb my hand so he could sew it up. Two weeks later I had to have plastic surgery to replace the knuckle and reach down into my arm to grab the tendon and stretch it back over the knuckle and attach it to the rest of the tendon in my finger.1 month of plastic immobilizing casts then 3 months of rehab (feeling like a moron sitting at a table doing finger exercises in a room full of people recovering from leg, arm, back, neck injuries etc) later, and one weird blanket fingering habit that i still do because it was a home exercise the rehab doctor had me doing to strengthen my finger, along with a nasty Z shaped scar and I've got 90% of my range of motion back.
Once sharpened a Swiss Army knife blade a little too well, slipped while carving something, and split the end of my left index finger through the middle of my fingernail, all the way to the bone. Ruined my weekend at the lake (no swimming, no paddling, challenging to impossible fishing reel cranking, etc.) after a visit the the ER where they mummy-bandaged my hand nearly up to my elbow. The other stupid story that always comes to mind was when I tried to cut insulation off a live (12V car battery) hot wire and managed to touch ground too. Ground/sharpened out most of the wire-shaped bite out of the edge, but the knife still has a discolored "sunrise" pattern where it essentially got arc-welded.
Along the same vein as the LT Wright story, Bark River Knives did the same thing. A guy’s house burned down. In the rubble, he found his Bark River knives. Bark River told him to send them in and they would warranty them. I can’t remember if they refurbished them or sent him new ones. But in the end, at least he didn’t lose his Bark Rivers to the fire.
I had a brand new jacket with a tag on it that needed to be removed. I grabbed my brand new Benchmade 5400 serum to cut the tag off. I pulled on the tag with one hand and gave it a quick swipe with the blade to avoid snagging on the label. Sure enough, I felt a strange sensation in my thumb and I then looked down seeing the tip of my thumb was now missing a big chunk out of it, and the missing piece was nicely stuck to the blade. After some realizations of what just happened, I grabbed my piece of thumb, put it on ice and rushed to the emergency room to have it stitched back to my thumb. Thankfully everything healed together nicely however I walked away learning a valuable lesson; Benchmade does a great job sharpening their knives!
It was 1986, I was 7 years old and I had watched the entire first season of MacGyver. I somehow convinced my dad to buy me my first SAK. My bedroom light was not working so I had seen enough episodes to know that my trusted Camper could get the job fixed. After removing the light switch cover plate, I began to use the pen knife to move wires and rummage around as if I knew what I was doing! After the blinding white light flashed my eyes and the shower of sparks dissipated into the air, I paused to regain my composure. I looked up to see my little sister staring at me from the hallway and say "I'm telling!" She ran away and in my disbelief of what happened I look at my brand new SAK only to find that nearly a half inch of the tip of the blade had been melted down. Good Grief.
I got my first ever manicure as a gift from my wife's stepmom the day before our wedding. The morning of my wedding I was breaking down boxes with a cheap folder that had a right hand bias. I'm a lefty. The blade took a weird vein in the cardboard I was cutting and ran right over my pinky cutting off half the fingernail. So in all the pics with my right hand have a bulbous gauze wrap rather than pristine clear coat nails.
I was working as a lifeguard and had a kid that skinned up his knees up pretty bad. Well I just bought my first Spyderco and was using it to cut cloth tape to bandage him up. So I was showing off and just dropping the blade on the tape as I pulled it off the roll. Well I dropped the tip right into the top of my thigh about 1/2 an inch. So that sucked.
I am very lucky to still have all my digits from doing stupid stuff with knives when I was younger. I have ruined many knives using them for what they weren't designed for. I am sure we all have done such things out of stupidity or desperation.
My stupid story: When I was around 10 or 12, I used my pocket knife to cut some bicycle tire patch material...on my thigh! I was surprised how effortlessly the blade cut through my jeans and put a nice 1" incision into my leg. I thought to myself, "Well. That was dumb." I'm 58 now. Can still see the scar.
I've learned a few things about knives in my life - I don't buy a spring-assisted knife (the spring can fail at any time, so it's worth staying with the manual open or fix blade knifes) - I don't buy stilettos (it was a big hit in Europe in the 1980s, it was a hit among gangsters and criminals but when it was found on a person, the police immediately took it away because it was clearly designed for murder or serious bodily harm. By the way, the safety button is of very poor quality, it opens at any time in your pocket) - I absolutely do not buy knives under $100 and I only buy knives in official brand stores there are a lot of fakes
I have two. :) First was when I was younger and first started handling knives. I wasn’t supposed to be “playing” with my dad’s Buck 110 and I knew it, but… Anyway, I didn’t realize how hard it was to depress the back lock to close the knife and started to panic because I didn’t want to get in trouble if I had to take it to Dad to get it closed. Unfortunately, I stopped paying attention and damn near cut my finger off when that sucker finally closed. I cleaned the blood off the knife and tried my best to hide that cut but eventually got found out. Dad figured he better show me some safety stuff if he wasn’t going to keep me out of his knives. Second story, a few years ago, I was using my SAK Tinker to clean the roller in the vacuum. I really don’t know how this happened, but I switched from the main blade to the scissors and ended up stabbing myself in the thigh with the scissors, deep but not a big cut. My mother laughed herself silly over that after she figured out I was okay. Wow did that hurt!
Whelp, its time to tell the story: I was wrapping and knotting paracord around the handle of a Cold-Steel Bushman, i had it in the sheath but i did not tape the blade up.... well turn out the sheath is not well designed and the knife came out and semi amputated my thumb! clean cut down to the bone... 4h surgery and like 20 stiches later they managed to reattach my nerves but i think i have lost mobility in my left thumb forever :(
Dude cold steel produces some of the sharpest factory grinds I've ever seen. I cut the heck out of myself on a cold steel working man twice in the same day of receiving it.
Ok, I have a couple good ones...my first knife was a boy scout knife, my parents gave it to me for the Holidays. As a kid I was always doing dumb stuff, so this shouldn't be surprising...but it seemed so sharp, I thought it could cut most everything...I spotted a tennis ball...in trying to cut the outside off, I slipped and cut my left index finger, and I was scared to tell my parents as I thought they would take the knife away...it went to the bone I'm pretty sure, so I rinsed it off and wrapped it with a band aid. I still have a scar to this day, I'm 64. I still remember it and I am ever so careful around all edge tools. I love to work wood and metal, even leather...and edge tools don't know the difference between wood/leather and skin. Caveat Emptor. This was my 2nd dumb knife story, but I told it first after David coughed up that show-off gotcha...LOL
Great show DCA! I have been playing with knives since the '60s! There are so many stories and so many cuts it would be impossible to list them. If I had to list one! I would say sharpening my Ontario Knife companies Old Hickory which come duller than a stone. But sharpen up nicely! I wiped the oil off with a rag. See if I can get this right. When pulling down as I pulled forward and was a little too high on the blade slicing very deeply into my index finger. When you do this, it is like stepping back on a scaffold. You know while it's happening what's going on. It's just that oh blank moment. Blank is not the word! Other than that many many times!
My stupidest knife story is when I wanted a new fixed blade. The spyderco Ronin 2 fit the budget and was in stock, so I bought it. After a long week wait, it finally arrived and I couldn't wait to open it. the first thing I did was to shave my arm and goof around with it for a few minutes before I put it on my belt and walked away. I had heard that under the g10 scales there was a skelotonized handle so I decided to take off the scales. Even though I tried I couldn't get them off and so I proceded to tighten the screws again, but could not get them back to their original tightness. Then an idea struck me, "I need Mow POWA," so I brought out a drill and, without putting the knife back in the sheath I tightened one of the screws but the knife spun out of control and sliced the side of my hand straight through the skin almost to the tendons also severing nerves. The blade sliced me with the back side, not the sharp side. the wharncliffe blade just slid along my hand until the tip went in. I had gotten out of state swimming an hour before. I was out for 2 weeks with stitches. Hope this makes the show, love this channel. Just quickly, is a microtech worth it or should I spend my money on something else.
While trimming pork tenders with an 8 inch slicer, and dropped it…. I stuck my foot out to keep the blade from hitting the concrete floor; the knife hit a plastic container, the knife wedged between the container and my leg, and the tip stuck in the back of my leg. I pulled it out, and boy did I bleed.
One and I have many knife stories is I was teaching my son some basic carving techniques. My favorite carving knife is my wood jewel puuko. I got side tracked with helping him and went back to a cut I was making. Instead of turning my wood I turned knife because there wasn't much left on the cut 🤦🏼 knife went right through the cut and imbedded about a half inch down between my thumbnail and the pad of the thumb 🩸. So the lesson continued with how to show to take care of a self inflicted cut.
I remember watching an interview with the head of Pro-Tech. They had a similar situation where they had a knife sent in that went through a house fire. They sent out a replacement, and now keep the burnt out knife on display in the office as an example of their quality. Even after being completely torched in the fire for hours, it still functions flawlessly.
I was trying to loosen the draw on a Kydex sheath to where it would hold but release the knife with just a bit of thumb pressure. I was repeatedly pulling the knife out, and trying to stiffen my arms so the force needed wouldn't make them fly too far apart-the sheath was seriously tight. The problem was the stiffening caused a kind of recoil that on one draw drove the knife tip back forcefully into the end of my index finger. It ached like hell and I was pretty sure I'd jammed the knife into the end of the bone. It bled profusely and once I got it cleaned up and bandaged several times as the blood kept welling out I sat back down and did what I should have done the first time, which is filing down the two little knobs that snapped over the handle and held it. Tuned it up perfectly in the end. Learned a valuable lesson: Don't stab yourself really hard down to the bone for no reason. Now I hope you young people will profit by my having had to learn it the hard way. 🙄
My stupid knife story was when I was 12 and decided to try my hand at sharpening one of my dad's 6" diving knives. He hadn't used them in years, so I thought I could get away with it and learn. I balanced my whetstone on my left thigh and after my first few swipes, I got cocky and proceeded to take a big swipe on the stone and embedded the blade in my thigh.
The one that comes to mind first is when I was cleaning off the blade of my new Leatherman Wave I had just received. I went to wipe the blade down after cleaning and ended up slicing a good portion of my middle finger from one side to the other. It immediately started bleeding profusely, and it continued to do so for hours. It continued to reopen for a few days and bleed some more until it healed enough to shut. Still have the scar and the Leatherman to this day and I'm much more careful about placing my fingers over a blade edge whether there is a cloth between them or not.
I asked my uncle for a Kershaw diving knife (1006 Amphibian) that I'd seen in REI around the time I was graduating from high school in the late 90s. On the day I got it, I went to use it to cut a piece of cord, and having only ever used knives sharpened on one side, I braced the thing against my left thumb and forefinger and cut-both the cord and my fingers. So stupid. Also, I had not and have not since been diving. Still have the knife, though. Plus so many others, all sharp on one side only.
I'm a chef, and in one of my early kitchens, I got cuts across the inside of all the fingers on my right hand, because I closed them around a bread knife, because I dropped it, because I was using it to scratch my back.
Stupid story: This was my first pocket knife. A gas station slip joint I found as a kid and it was decently sharp. I being the adventurous kid I was, thought it would be fun to cut a rope by batoning it with this tiny blade on tarmac. Not surprisingly, the blade ended up a bunch of chips and I furthered it by trying to sharpen on a slab of raw unpolished granite.
Got my first nice knife at 17; Benchmade griptillian from greentop (didn't know you guys were just up 95 at the time). Two weeks into having it I was cutting some tape off a motorcycle battery and completed the circuit scorching the blade about 1/8 an inch. Benchmade reground it for free but that spot on the edge had the HT screwed up. Hoping for a reblade one day
The very first Mora I bought. I really didn't imagine how sharp they could be. Two minutes after making my first cut, I was in a car, speeding towards A&E as I tried to staunch the blood flow with a towel.
Moras are no joke. My companion HD bit my left index finger when I was treating the high carbon blade for the first time. Inexpensive does not equal cheap.
New years eve 2018-19? 11 PM, I was sitting at my desk, working with some paracord and knocked my Kershaw Link off the edge of my desk. I reached for it out of instinct, but pulled my hand back and let it hit the floor. I picked it up thinking "at least I didn't cut myself" only to see all this red stuff running past my wrist and down my arm. I set the knife down, grabbed my hand, hollered up stairs for my wife saying " I need you now, don't step in the blood!" I had taken my blood thinner an hour before hand, and it was working! We get to the local hospital (where I work). We are admitted to the emergency department and put in a room. The place goes into lockdown. Two people admitted from the same motor vehicle collision were admitted, both families arrive and started fighting with each other! 4AM and 7 stitches later, the doc asks "Do you need a work excuse?" My wife says "Oh no, today's a holiday, that's double time and a half, He's NOT stayin home!" The doc looks at me, I look at him, tilt my head and shrug my shoulders. Went home, showered, and went to work! While she was getting the car I did get a script for "no washing dishes for 6 weeks" My wife looked at it and said "good try" and tossed it in the trash!
First first dumb knife story was when I was about 4 years old. It was before I started kindergarten. I was always fascinated with knives...they used to sell knives in the gas stations and/or liquor stores in a plastic tub, this little knife said, "razor edge". It was a small chrome slip pocket knife. They were cheap, It was a straight edge, much like a straight razor, but it was small...so my Mom drove a Willy's car, it was a early-mid 50s Willys and this was around '62. For some reason I started cutting the top of the front seats, I was amazed at how easy it cut through the seat material. Then my sister turned me in...she tattled on me, damn did my Mom get p!$$ed...gas used to sell for about $0.239/gal (what's up with the 9/10ths? We can't add 1/10th cent?) I think I cut my initials into one seat and some triangle designs in the other...LOL
At my 41st birthday party one of the kids wanted a sweet cut in half so I grabbed my lionsteel bestman and not wanting to mark any surfaces at the event I cut through it using my thumb as a back stop, my knife was so sharp I pushed through the sweet and 80% of my thumb. It’s a nice scar and educational story now😂
Dumbest thing I did with a knife; I had a flint and was seeing if I could get a high carbon Mora to make a spark, using the spine of the knife, but I didn't realize when you're moving that fast, the spine of the knife is almost as sharp as the edge. Needed a few stitches on my index finger. FYI; it did spark.
I was bleeding a buck I'd harvested with my bow, sliced the artery with my buck hunting knife and started doing other things. Noticed when I looked down that I'd also sliced into the side of my leg and had to do some field bandaging. Lucky it wasn't worse as I was probably 10 miles from the next nearest person.
When I was young I thought a cheap fixed blade would be ideal for throwing. I also didn't have the respect for trees I have now. Suffice to say the tree snapped my blade clean off the handle, and the tree was right to do so!
The year was 2006 and I was working disaster relief for Hurricane Wilma Florida. Working on a chainsaw I was using my knife as a pry bar. My thumb depressed the blade lock and the knife folded shut on my pinky finger. Interesting enough the customer I was working for was an ER doctor and stitched me up. I’ll never do that again.
So much stupid, so little time. 1) I had an incident like Mr. Andersen's earlier this year, when I wasn't paying attention (that's a theme) and dropped a Tramontina Caribbean Bolo machete I had JUST sharpened, and instinctively caught it. Bright view? My reflexes are still pretty good, for an old man. I got it before the blade hit the concrete. Not-So-Bright View? I had JUST sharpened it. Fortunately, I realized my error as soon as I made it and didn't make a FULL grab of the blade, so I didn't suffer significant harm, just a painful nick to remind me to focus. 2) I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing (I did say this was a theme, right?) and waved open my Cold Steel Rajah II. I didn't make sure it was fully open before I wrapped my hand around the handle. It didn't fully open. It has a bias toward closure. It snapped shut on my hand - specifically on my right ring finger, juuuuust above the last joint. I bled like a stuck pig and was pretty sure I was going to need an ER visit, but it actually missed major blood vessels and nerves. It nicked a tendon or ligament, so for a while I couldn't fully extend the finger. There's a scar, but I didn't suffer anything disabling.
My stupidest knife accident happened about 12 years ago on my first day of vacation with my wife and son. Being at a rental property in Maine on Lake Sebago I didn’t have my usual kitchen knives. My son wanted his sliced avocado that he loved at the time. The kitchen knives that came with the property was part of an old school Ginsu set. With paring knife in hand I decided to stab the avocado pit…. Well the knife slid right off the pit and went into the palm of my left hand. I ended up with my sister in law driving me to the ER to get stitches. The doctor that stitched me up shook his head and said I was an idiot. 😂 Yes sir I am! That scar is a constant reminder… Don’t be stupid!
I did that while making dinner for a girlfriend once. Tried to stab the avocado pit, which I always did, and gave myself a good solid shot in the palm. The blood is welling out and I'm trying to stanch it and she's just leaning in the kitchen door, taking it all in. (She had young kids, and this kind of thing didn't panic her much.) "I never did like that trick," was all she said. 😄
Stupidest knife story…my dad just sharpened his Swiss Army blade prior to a scout campout. He told me to be careful when I borrowed it to cut rope. I held the rope across my palm between my thumb and pinky and sliced through it and the meaty portion of my lower thumb joint. I still have a clean scare and stitch marks to this day.
One my dumbest was popping weeds in the garden with a Buck 110. Too lazy to go in the shed to get the pronged weed popper. Anyways, was on my knees, sitting on my heels and stabbing the knife into the ground and pushing down on the handle to pop the weeds out. Swung the knife to stab another and hit a rock of something in the ground and drove the blade approximately an inch and a half into my leg just above the knee. Trust me, a $12 weed popper is much cheaper than driving to the ER and getting stitches.
DCA back when I was a smart kid at the ripe age of 7. I was playing army in my back yard and going after and bad guy with my first knife, my trustee Barlow. I decided to jump on the bad guy a big box and take him out. Let's say I watched to many Rambo movies and with a few jabs while I was on top of the bad guy, I may have put it through my hand between my thumb and pointer finger 😅. The scare sticks out like a sour thumb to this day 35 years later. I need to get a new Barlow, it's the knife I always remember!
My stupidest knife story actually doesn’t involve a knife but a Esse Gibson axe. So I was camping with a buddy in 10 degree temps while sharing a bottle of good Virginia spirits. I let said buddy split a few pieces of kiln only to look down in the fire and see the Gibson stuck in a piece of wood actually in the fire. First time, last time letting that happen. lol
Tightening the knot on a leather lanyard - pulling the lanyard one way and the knife the other way. The leather snapped and I stabbed myself in the leg. About an inch and a half deep puncture. Luckily I missed the femoral artery and my manhood, but I still have physical and emotional scars.
Dumbest thing I ever did with a knife was hand my Manix 2 XL to a fishing buddy who proceeded to saw off a fish head on steel piling under the bridge we were fishing. This was before I could sharpen.
I was at a knife show in an old building with a wooden floor when the guy next to me flicked a knife open and let it slip. Pinned his foot to the floor, and medics were called to the scene.
One of my stupid knife moments was thumb flicking a brand new TRM Atom in the dark after a few beers with my left hand (I'm a righty.) I failed to deploy the blade fully and the resulting follow through sliced from the top of the nail half way down the middle of my thumb. I told my wife I did that one at work.
In my early teens I was cutting an apple for my hamster & sliced my left index finger across the proximal interphalangeal joint. I am in my late 60's & still have the scar today!
I was doing a paracord wrap on the Civivi Minimus. I should have taped the edge but I was just using the sheath. I was pulling the last knot tight when the sheath slipped off and I found out exactly how slicey that Minimius is. Cut my left index fingertip super deep. 9 stitches later I felt like an idiot. It’s been a long time and I still can’t feel much in that fingertip.
Stupid knife story: In high school I traded an Italian full auto for a BM42. Yes I am old :P. And no, i do not much to my dismay, still have the BM42. I had been using/carrying a cheap flea market butterfly and was fluent in openings. I immediately opened it with a standard rollover. What I did not know: cheap knives reverse blade orientation. 4 stitches later, and a lovely scar on my knuckle I was quickly coming up with a white lie for the school. The dumb part: I did it in the school library.... How does one lie about that? I really dig old knife stories, there is my dumbest move. Enjoy!
Good vid as usuall. I too did something stupid with a fixed blade. knife had no sheath. reaching for it on a high shelf. I lost gripe on it. Instiively i grabbed for it,, BIG MASTAKE, bad cut between poniter finger and thumb. 11 stichies and 3 weeks later kost rannge of motion on my thumb. What a stupid thing tp do.
Worked retail and we were moving shop. I was popping the plastic rivets they used to attach signage holders to perforated shelves. Was wasier to pry than cut the plastic rivets, until it snapped my cheap 7cr Smith and Wesson knife lol now I have better knives and I don't pry with them...much
A guy I knew handed me his knife because I had never held an OTF knife before. It deployed with a lot more force than I was expecting and his microtech fell to the concrete… breaking the tip. He was nice about it and made it out to be no big deal. It wasn’t until I got more into knives that I learned how expensive those are.
Shaved a 2 inch patch of skin off my knee while carving on a thick stick. I was 12 years old, camping in an island in Northern Lake Huron with 4 other kids. We Sailed there on a 23ft sailboat.
Stupid knife story: First day I got hired at my job I was using a 4max Scout to cut open a box of caulk and was cutting across the front of the box along the perforated line and figured " this knife is sharp it'll cut it no problem " well the knife slipped and my right forearm was in the way and needless to say I cut a 2 inch gash in my arm and bleed all over the shop. My supervisors were Champs and wrapped it up and took me to urgent care. It took 12 stitches and a month to close. At least on the bright side I'll never forget the date I was hired. 🤣
Stupidest thing that I have ever done is trying to baton with a lock back knife and ended up breaking the lock. Thankfully the knife was used and had a broken tip when I found it in an old toolbox. It was made by American Eagle knives
On a separate topic: After watching a video about Bowie knives on a different UA-cam channel, I watched FAQ #75 where you talk about Bowie knives. The other video went into the history of the Bowie knife, and essentially a Bowie knife is any large blade American knife. They were originally used for bushcraft which is one reason why they were well suited for the American West (according to the video). This did bring up a question: If a Bowie knife is just a large blade American Knife, then what is the difference between a Bowie knife and a Machete? Loving all the work and great information you are putting into your videos! Keep up the good work! Not to take away from your great content here, but the other video is on "The Knife Life" channel and it is called "The DREADED Bowie Knife! What You NEED to Know"
Yeap, dropped my new RAT 3 the day I got it. Instead of letting it drop to the ground and picking it up safely, my reaction was to reach out and try to catch it… This resulted in liquid stitching my thumb together. 👍🏼
I remembered one smart knife story. This was when I was in 5th grade, so about '68...just before the summer of love...the schools used to take field trips to Knotts Berry Farm. As a kid it wasn't as cool as Disneyland, but Knotts Berry Farm did have this western town and there was a knife shop. We lived about an hour from Knotts Berry Farms in the San Gabriel Valley. While I was there I spotted the knife shop, I hadn't seen that with my family before...but think I had only been to KBF once prior. I was 10 years old and the knife store sold me a stiletto type knife that looked like a switch blade, but it wasn't, the button was the lock. It could have been made in Mexico, we used to get switch blades in Mexico and/or from Mexico in California. The world would tell you what a bad story this is that a 10 year old boy could buy a knife on a school trip without his parents, but I think of it as a good story...no bad ever happened with that knife! 😇
I've been wanting to stock up on folding knives to keep in our various bags/med kits/vehicles so that we always have one handy. If you had to pick one knife to buy 5-10 of for this purpose, which would you go with in the $30-50 range? I prefer flippers, but it's not a hard stop either way. I have some experience with Civivi knives and really like them for the price range. The Badlands Vagabond caught my eye, but I'm open to being persuaded otherwise. What would you suggest for something that would not often see heavy use, but would be ready for action if needed? Not looking for self defense, just camping/survival purposes.
I got my first dagger (double edged) some years ago. I am used to handle regular knives, i always polished them and cleaned them without ever cutting myself. Then to clean it i slid, as i usually did, the "spine" of my double edged dagger on the palm of my hand while i was holding a cloth on the bladed half. Picture the scene. Imagine the result.
I made the mistake of letting someone borrow my Blackhawk Be-Wharned folder to "use real quick." They came back with it and the tip was completely broke off. I asked "what the heck did you use it for?!" (with a few other choice words), and he said that he used it to pry open a container...... Like why wouldn't you just find a screwdriver or something that's NOT the sharpest/most pointy thing available. Here's your knife back bro 🥴🤦🏻♂️
Never hand someone your knife before asking them what they are doing with it or making them do whatever it is right in front of you. Learned that one the hard way myself
Knife story. My friends & I were throwing knives at a small board attached to a tree while out camping. Didn't think to check the backdrop. I threw my beloved TOPS Brakimo knife at the board, misses and watched a $200+ knife go flying off a cliff into a wooded valley below. Yes I cried. No I did not find the knife. Must have been 5-6 years ago and I still get emotional thinking about it. 😢 I think I have post traumatic knife disorder.
stupidest thing I've done with a knife, I was younger and first getting into knives and didn't quite know how they worked, was trying to stab into something with a partially serrated western tanto blade with a very dull tip, and had my thumb right on the liner lock, and after a minute of pushing my thumb disengaged the lock and the serrated part went straight down on top of the knuckle on my thumb, had to glue it shut and now about 10 years later I still can't straighten it out
I recently bought the lansky turnbox crock stick sharpener. I have little experience with sharpening and I'm wondering if I should hesitate to reprofile the angles of my more expensive knives and instead wait until I'm comfortable with a whetstone. Thanks!
I've gotten some of the worst cuts doing BBQ competitions. My BBQ knives are absurdly sharp, and due to the nature of competitions you tend to focus less on safe cutting habits. Not much you can do except put a new glove on to catch the blood and keep going til turn-ins are done.
My more embarrassing story would be when I got my Reate Exo gravity knife. Stabbed/cut myself quite a bit with that one learning the different methods of opening/closing it. The other one that got me really bad was the KC exclusive Artisan Small Archaeo, the tip stuck into the side of my ring finger upon closing, but was closed enough that my finger got wedged in the blade and handle...basically had to push it into my finger further to open the blade and get it out of me...and anyone who has one knows how pointy that thing is.
Hi DCA, can you please explain the difference between the different blade coatings? Cerakote, titanium nitride, teflon, powder coating etc? Are they food safe? Do they all effectively serve the same purpose? Thanks in advance.
Dropping your knife in a campfire shouldn’t effect the heat treat unless you leave it there and don’t get it out right away. The dumbest thing I ever did was a knife- I was making a knife sheath in the middle of the night and using the knife it was for to trim the edge my hand spammed and I cut the tip of my finger off. No amount of pressure or cold water would stop the bleeding. My wife doesn’t drive so I wrapped my hand in a towel and drove myself to the emergency room.
I was playing with my Protech Newport and eating won tons.I pushed the button and it flew out of my hand and sunk into my upper thigh about 2 inches deep.Protech really pop lol
I was trying to resheath a large double edged knife (Boker Escrima) and put the tip an inch into the web of my left hand. I was motorcycle camping at Dawson City, Yukon.
I was camping in the California redwoods many years ago and not having a fork handy went to turn my steak over the campfire with my Case Sodbuster. It slipped off the knife and I instinctively went to catch it. Stabbed the point of the knife into the palm of my other hand. It was a very dark night in the woods and my girlfriend had gotten lost coming back from the restroom. After going to find her, I just lay back in my truck to recover. I still have the Case almost 40 years later.
I think SOG captured lightning in a bottle with the Terminus XR. I have the D2 crimson G10 version, but if I ever need to buy it again I will get the premium version. The more recent versions don't have *SOG* plastered everywhere.
My boy DCA, What should I look for in blade steel for Kitchen Knives? I love the EDC knife world but I'm looking into getting into the culinary knives community and don't know where to start.
from personal experience with daily use...the Wusthof Ikon has the best ergos (as long as you don't use pinch grip), but Enso chef knives hold the longest sharpened edge
I am a retired LEO, Urban Search & Rescue, former Army and former Firefighter. I still carry a "rescue knife/tool" EDC. (Leatherman Skeletool RX) Have carried many different knives over the years. They are now very out dated. What are the up and coming Rescue Pro's options. I'm looking for recommendations and gifts for the next generation.
Wish you’d do a review with a Sencut Sachse. Could not find it on KnifeCenter when I purchased one. Think it’s a all round winner for the sub 50 dollar flipper, button, thumbstud fidget friendly knives.
My stupid knife story: I needed to open some instant noodles. You know, something you do with scissors... Instead I held the top of the packet and wielded my sharpest kitchen knife like a saber, as I had done before. The cut went through the packet and the edge of my thumb and forefinger. Blood everywhere, especially the thumb. Even today I have a matching pair of scars.
Hello DCA and Team, I have a question about knife requironments: Which knives would you recommend to someone who wants a one-handed opener that doesn't lock? - Preferably with a flipper, but not nessesarily. - Knife-steel should be relatively decent. It doesn't need to be high end, but at least middle-class-ish. (I still like 440C, 12C27, VG10 and D2 a lot for example.) - Blade-length should somewhat be between 2,75591 and 4,33071 inches. (Sorry for the weird numbers there, I converted them from 7 and 11 centimeters.) - Blade-shape should be somewhat slicey. (Not too thick and nice grind for cutting.) - Knife overall can be quite filigree. (Not intended for hard use.) Somewhat deviating from these sub-specifications within reason is acceptable and appreciated! ♥ (Blade length is not law-related for example, we don't have blade length limits on folding knives per sé.) Greetings from Germany! 🙂
@@arrowheadguys7637 I just looked it up and you might be right! I think I might give it a shot, but it really looks promising. Thank you very much! Maybe I will find some more to choose from D:
The non-locking Small Archaeo is probably made just for you. They have a couple of Archaeo versions available, so make sure you are getting the one without the lock! Another one to look at might be the Civivi Stylum. It is a "front flipper" with a similar detent-style construction.
I got my first para 3 maybe 3 or so years ago and was fidgeting with the compression lock while sitting on the couch. Lost my grip and the knife fell, it spun in the air a bit and just so happened to land perfectly straight down on the tip and into the top of my foot. I didn’t even feel the cut, just the impact so for a split second I didn’t think I got cut. New knife was so sharp it bounced in and out so fast and left such a thin razor blade like little hole, it didn’t bleed until I touched my foot and moved the skin around and the cut opened. Lesson learned the hard way.
I was stealing salt from my college cafeteria to add to my dorm room salt shaker. I was trying to cut the top of the stolen shaker and I pierced through it and went deep into my palm. I had to get 7 stitches to stop the bleeding. After leaving the urgent care I finished stealing the salt from the container.
Stupidest knife story for me is when I was 17 and had just bought a charge al( they were only $5 more than the wave back then). I was attempting to cut a hole out of the cap of a water bottle to use it as a make shift lantern, dumb idea #1. I held the bottle with my left hand and started cutting away, dumb idea #2. I slipped and cut my right index finger really deep.
Which is why I say paying more than $150 for a EDC is insane... If u carry it every day u must expect it to be lost or stolen and thus must be replaceable.
I've been looking for a crossback lock + flipper opened folder for a while, and last year (or a couple of years ago?) I watched one of your videos about the SOG Terminus XR. I pondered, and thought about it, then wondered and thought about it some more, and at last an updated version of that knife in S35VN should knock at my door in the next couple of days. I live in Italy so it was a little more expensive than the US price, but for 104-105 euros (postage included) I can't really complain. Long story short, I followed your advice and I'm pretty sure I'm going to love that little fidgety blade. I also hand-sharpen knives and shears for a living, so I'm excited about that S35VN! I'll have to refrain myself from grabbing the 10K+ stones. And of course I'll go higher than than, who am I kidding? 😁
Going over kitchen knives, a couple of questions came up: - "As seen on TV" knives, are they a complete waste of time? Are there any pros to owning one? I have always been skeptical of these knives and their claims. - On Instagram, I have been seeing a lot of "custom" knives: Coolina, Forged Steel, etc. Any thoughts on which of these knives are worth checking out, and which ones to avoid?
As Seen On TV: Like anything else, I would probably stay away from their knives Instagram: This one is harder. I see a lot of custom knife accounts in Insta that are definitely just re-selling the worst chinese garbage you can imagine and passing them off as handmade customs. There are also a lot of great handmade custom makers on Insta. My advice would be to stay away from them if you can't tell the difference. But if you really must, a couple give-aways is that legit brands will usually have a website, and also some sort of extended lead time on their knives. If they are shipping you a knife the same day you order it, its probably not legit.
The "As-seen-on-TV" knives will probably do what you need them to do as far as slicing veggies and whatnot. Just approach their purchase and overall use as if they are cheap and utterly disposable knives, because that is basically what they are.
"as seen on TV knives" that I've used have been terrible. My favorite chef knives for work are the Wusthof Ikon and for home use the Enso 8". I'd recommend asking a chef/someone in food service what they like to use.
Hello to DCA and the entire KnifeCenter crew! I recently went out of my comfort zone and spent around $80 on a nice kitchen knife, specifically a carving knife as I cook a lot of meat. Well now I've got an itch for more, I was wondering if you had any recommendations for a do-it-all style chef's knife with a meat focus or smaller paring knives to use along side the bigger knives? Budget would be around $200, but I don't mind spending a little more.
Hello DCA. I know you made a video about different fixed knives for EDC but I would like to know what would you recommend depending on the sheath. Difrent options of carry and what would be the most versatile sheath so it can be pocket carry, neck and/or belt knife. I feel like I don't see a forest of trees. Also I would like that it can do some bushcraft tasks if my main knife breaks like my Boker Mini Tracker and I relied on my smal Brisa neck knife for rest of the trip.
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I want to see a series titled “Walking in the Weeds” with DCA as our host. Let that man off the chain and geek out thoroughly on his favorite knife topics. Go full tilt and let us see and hear what you know. That would make for an enjoyable weekend series.
Just live stream it for days on days on days...
Great idea!!
I secound that! With guest from around the industry and the like!
@@jfbowers369 NGL I was going to say the exact same thing xD it would be great
I would watch that, I love going into the weeds with knife stuff (and tobacco pipes).
Thank you for picking my question as the most serious!
The nutcracker would be perfect!
THE SQUIRREL ARMY RISES!!!!!!! My dumbest knife moment. I was using a SAK, and was cutting through some cord, well I put my thumb on the spine to really bear down on it. The blade went through the cord, and my thumb closed the blade on my index finger slicing it open to the bone. I learned that day I prefer locking knives for most cutting tasks.
Love you
Love you guys. Stupid knife story with good ending. Truck driver here. In a rest stop in Tx. Saw something in a tire tried to dig it out with pocket knife. Before I found locking knives. Closed on finger slice index finger almost to bone. Also before I carry first aid. So I have a dirty rag wrapped around finger still bleeding like a pig when this old woman comes out of RV next to me. What did you do, let me see OMG come in my trailer. Maam im bleeding and dirty I really shouldnt. Young man you get in this trailer NOW! Its a coach but she calls it trailer. And the YOUNG is apt even tho im 35. So I follow her in and she cleans my finger gets it to stop bleeding and bandages me expertly complete with a splint. I thank her and ask what I owe her. She waves me off then reaches in a cabinet and pulls out a really nice first aid kit metal box well supplied not junk and gives to me for next time. Says her husband is salesman for co and its a free sample. I will never forget her or her kindness. I have not bern without a first aid kit since still have that one and now carry a locking knife. I know its long but feel free to share with fans. Thank you for all you do
Thats a great story man, thanks for sharing!
When I was a camp counselor I always carried a knife in my pocket. Our camp made kids find their own marshmallow sticks so I was sometimes tasked with removing the bark on their sticks. One time I was removing the bark and hit a small knot so I pushed harder and the knife launched forward and caught my finger tip taking a little piece of flesh off. I handed the child his stick back and tried to play off my injury. The kid asked if I was okay and I said yes as I tried to hide my finger and sucked my finger to keep the blood from going everywhere until I could probably treat it. One of the only times I’ve ever cut myself and a good reminder to never have a hand in front of your cutting path, even if you are being careful.
A little observation on the side of the main subject of this channel, and also a bit random as I could've wrote this below almost any of your videos: As a Norwegian subscriber who's been following this channel and quite a few other knife related channels over some time (retailers, manufacturers, custom makers, reviewers, EDC, bushcraft, martial arts, swords & historic weapons), I've come to the conclusion that knife people actually has to be an above average likeable bunch of people! I do indeed watch a lot of expert videos on other and completely different topics as well, but a more down-to-earth, friendly, gentle, peaceful, genuinly kind and caring batallion of nerds than those who worship hair splitting sharp and well shaped pieces of steel is pretty hard to find anywhere on the internet! This also goes for a vast majority of commenters, as far as their sparse words reveal. Did I mention the cheerfulness and all the good humor as well? I guess this is where DCA and his musketeers stands out in particular! 😂 In addition to all the great strictly knife related stuff, we always get a good dose of priceless jokes so dry I like to use them as towels after showering, which is of course very convenient, so thanks a lot for this great service, too! Keep up the fantastic spirit & stay sharp!
PS:
DCA, a "reverse tanto" is just a regular tanto viewed from the other side. No big deal. Don't let him confuse you.
I made TWO stupid mistakes with knives.
1. I pulled a CS Bushman out of the sheath, unintentionally, and had my other hand on the sheath, but not in a safe way. The knife sliced off the left portion of the tip of my middle finger. After 5 months, i regained feeling, as most of the skin had grown back.
2. Same mistake as number 1, only this time, with a different knife but razor-sharp, I cut into my indexfinger at the first joint. Lost feeling in most part of it instantly. I think the bone was all that stopped the knife from taking off my finger.
Now, after about 6 months, feeling is starting to come back.
And like you DCA, and many other knife people, my thumbs and index fingers are covered with cut marks, from years of sharpening...and playing with knives..
My first “real” folding knife, spyderco PM2. Half hour after buying it, I’m driving and fidgeting with it. Dropped it. Open. Tip down, right into my thigh. Tip stabbed in about a half inch deep, right through my thin pants and fell over, causing some decent pain and a wound in a bad spot that I couldn’t get to stay shut and took a while to heal, adding a new little scar to the collection.
Good news is the knife was so sharp it was easily able to shave all the hair from the surrounding area so my bandages would peel off clean.
My stupid knife accident. Just got a new Spyderco Native given to me. At the time, I handled the inventory and receiving for a furniture company. I was opening some boxes to pull new stuff onto the show floor. stabbed the knife into a stack of broken down boxes for a minute since the lockback wasn't as convenient to flick closed like my axis locks were.
Went to pull the knife out and it was stuck, so I put my hand down to hold the stack in place, with the blade pointing toward my finger. Knife came free and sliced into my middle finger, and left a couple Styrofoam balls that were stuck to the blade in the wound on the way through. I had to pick them out with tweezers when washing the cut before I patched myself up and got back to work.
In 7th grade I was at my friend's sugar cane farm hanging out for the weekend with several other kids from our friend group. We had just gone out on the 4 wheelers and on our way back in grabbed a couple sticks of sugar cane. I was sitting on the side of the driveway skinning a piece of sugar cane down with my Dad's old Jungle King hunting knife that i had just sharpened right before I left to come there. I was holding the cane by the bottom 4-5 inches slicing off bark in one long sweeping motion starting close to my hand and ending towards the top of the cane (just like i should cutting away from myself) when one of my friends comes up and slaps me on the back hard with both hands playing around like "hey buddy what's up!?!" right as I'm turning my hand and starting to chop down. The blade slammed into the knuckle of my left hand index finger cutting through the tendon and all the way through my knuckle leaving my finger hanging on by just the meat and skin of my palm where the finger connects. I immediately rip off my shirt and use it as a tourniquet to bind my wrist and cover my hand to help staunch and soak up some of the blood, sitting on the ground with my hand elevated over my head resting on the seat of my friends 4 wheeler (the seat ended up being ruined bc it was so stained with all my blood) His parents were the next county over (all i can remember is it had something to do with one of their horses) and wouldn't be back for several hours. So my mom had to come pick me up and take me to the ER which left me sitting on the gravel drive for at least an hour bleeding all over his 4 wheeler. We got to the ER which was another 30-45 minute drive and it took like 4-6 hours for them to finally see me, long enough that my hand stopped bleeding and started drying up to the point that they had to give me an IV bag of saline and a bunch of sterile gauze to soak with the saline and hold over my severed finger so it wouldn't get permanent damage from being so dry. Then the fun started. 4 nurses an ambulance driver and my mom had to hold me down while the doctor stuck needles into the wound to numb my hand so he could sew it up. Two weeks later I had to have plastic surgery to replace the knuckle and reach down into my arm to grab the tendon and stretch it back over the knuckle and attach it to the rest of the tendon in my finger.1 month of plastic immobilizing casts then 3 months of rehab (feeling like a moron sitting at a table doing finger exercises in a room full of people recovering from leg, arm, back, neck injuries etc) later, and one weird blanket fingering habit that i still do because it was a home exercise the rehab doctor had me doing to strengthen my finger, along with a nasty Z shaped scar and I've got 90% of my range of motion back.
Once sharpened a Swiss Army knife blade a little too well, slipped while carving something, and split the end of my left index finger through the middle of my fingernail, all the way to the bone. Ruined my weekend at the lake (no swimming, no paddling, challenging to impossible fishing reel cranking, etc.) after a visit the the ER where they mummy-bandaged my hand nearly up to my elbow. The other stupid story that always comes to mind was when I tried to cut insulation off a live (12V car battery) hot wire and managed to touch ground too. Ground/sharpened out most of the wire-shaped bite out of the edge, but the knife still has a discolored "sunrise" pattern where it essentially got arc-welded.
Along the same vein as the LT Wright story, Bark River Knives did the same thing. A guy’s house burned down. In the rubble, he found his Bark River knives. Bark River told him to send them in and they would warranty them. I can’t remember if they refurbished them or sent him new ones. But in the end, at least he didn’t lose his Bark Rivers to the fire.
I had a brand new jacket with a tag on it that needed to be removed. I grabbed my brand new Benchmade 5400 serum to cut the tag off. I pulled on the tag with one hand and gave it a quick swipe with the blade to avoid snagging on the label. Sure enough, I felt a strange sensation in my thumb and I then looked down seeing the tip of my thumb was now missing a big chunk out of it, and the missing piece was nicely stuck to the blade. After some realizations of what just happened, I grabbed my piece of thumb, put it on ice and rushed to the emergency room to have it stitched back to my thumb. Thankfully everything healed together nicely however I walked away learning a valuable lesson; Benchmade does a great job sharpening their knives!
It was 1986, I was 7 years old and I had watched the entire first season of MacGyver. I somehow convinced my dad to buy me my first SAK. My bedroom light was not working so I had seen enough episodes to know that my trusted Camper could get the job fixed. After removing the light switch cover plate, I began to use the pen knife to move wires and rummage around as if I knew what I was doing! After the blinding white light flashed my eyes and the shower of sparks dissipated into the air, I paused to regain my composure. I looked up to see my little sister staring at me from the hallway and say "I'm telling!" She ran away and in my disbelief of what happened I look at my brand new SAK only to find that nearly a half inch of the tip of the blade had been melted down. Good Grief.
Yikes! Didn't know that could happen.
I got my first ever manicure as a gift from my wife's stepmom the day before our wedding. The morning of my wedding I was breaking down boxes with a cheap folder that had a right hand bias. I'm a lefty. The blade took a weird vein in the cardboard I was cutting and ran right over my pinky cutting off half the fingernail. So in all the pics with my right hand have a bulbous gauze wrap rather than pristine clear coat nails.
I was working as a lifeguard and had a kid that skinned up his knees up pretty bad. Well I just bought my first Spyderco and was using it to cut cloth tape to bandage him up. So I was showing off and just dropping the blade on the tape as I pulled it off the roll. Well I dropped the tip right into the top of my thigh about 1/2 an inch. So that sucked.
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but now you have a cool story
I am very lucky to still have all my digits from doing stupid stuff with knives when I was younger. I have ruined many knives using them for what they weren't designed for. I am sure we all have done such things out of stupidity or desperation.
My stupid story: When I was around 10 or 12, I used my pocket knife to cut some bicycle tire patch material...on my thigh! I was surprised how effortlessly the blade cut through my jeans and put a nice 1" incision into my leg. I thought to myself, "Well. That was dumb." I'm 58 now. Can still see the scar.
I've learned a few things about knives in my life
- I don't buy a spring-assisted knife (the spring can fail at any time, so it's worth staying with the manual open or fix blade knifes)
- I don't buy stilettos (it was a big hit in Europe in the 1980s, it was a hit among gangsters and criminals but when it was found on a person, the police immediately took it away because it was clearly designed for murder or serious bodily harm. By the way, the safety button is of very poor quality, it opens at any time in your pocket)
- I absolutely do not buy knives under $100 and I only buy knives in official brand stores there are a lot of fakes
I have two. :) First was when I was younger and first started handling knives. I wasn’t supposed to be “playing” with my dad’s Buck 110 and I knew it, but… Anyway, I didn’t realize how hard it was to depress the back lock to close the knife and started to panic because I didn’t want to get in trouble if I had to take it to Dad to get it closed. Unfortunately, I stopped paying attention and damn near cut my finger off when that sucker finally closed. I cleaned the blood off the knife and tried my best to hide that cut but eventually got found out. Dad figured he better show me some safety stuff if he wasn’t going to keep me out of his knives. Second story, a few years ago, I was using my SAK Tinker to clean the roller in the vacuum. I really don’t know how this happened, but I switched from the main blade to the scissors and ended up stabbing myself in the thigh with the scissors, deep but not a big cut. My mother laughed herself silly over that after she figured out I was okay. Wow did that hurt!
When I was about 14, I was using a friction folder as a screwdriver. The knife closed on my index finger. I'm 65 now and I still have the scar.
Whelp, its time to tell the story: I was wrapping and knotting paracord around the handle of a Cold-Steel Bushman, i had it in the sheath but i did not tape the blade up.... well turn out the sheath is not well designed and the knife came out and semi amputated my thumb! clean cut down to the bone... 4h surgery and like 20 stiches later they managed to reattach my nerves but i think i have lost mobility in my left thumb forever :(
Sorry bro
Dude cold steel produces some of the sharpest factory grinds I've ever seen. I cut the heck out of myself on a cold steel working man twice in the same day of receiving it.
brutal. Glad it was reattached and not amputated
Ok, I have a couple good ones...my first knife was a boy scout knife, my parents gave it to me for the Holidays. As a kid I was always doing dumb stuff, so this shouldn't be surprising...but it seemed so sharp, I thought it could cut most everything...I spotted a tennis ball...in trying to cut the outside off, I slipped and cut my left index finger, and I was scared to tell my parents as I thought they would take the knife away...it went to the bone I'm pretty sure, so I rinsed it off and wrapped it with a band aid. I still have a scar to this day, I'm 64. I still remember it and I am ever so careful around all edge tools. I love to work wood and metal, even leather...and edge tools don't know the difference between wood/leather and skin. Caveat Emptor. This was my 2nd dumb knife story, but I told it first after David coughed up that show-off gotcha...LOL
Good to hear your thoughts on the SOG cross bar flipper. I think it is a great knife but it is just a little “off” when flipping.
Great show DCA! I have been playing with knives since the '60s! There are so many stories and so many cuts it would be impossible to list them. If I had to list one! I would say sharpening my Ontario Knife companies Old Hickory which come duller than a stone. But sharpen up nicely! I wiped the oil off with a rag. See if I can get this right. When pulling down as I pulled forward and was a little too high on the blade slicing very deeply into my index finger. When you do this, it is like stepping back on a scaffold. You know while it's happening what's going on. It's just that oh blank moment. Blank is not the word! Other than that many many times!
My stupidest knife story is when I wanted a new fixed blade. The spyderco Ronin 2 fit the budget and was in stock, so I bought it. After a long week wait, it finally arrived and I couldn't wait to open it. the first thing I did was to shave my arm and goof around with it for a few minutes before I put it on my belt and walked away. I had heard that under the g10 scales there was a skelotonized handle so I decided to take off the scales. Even though I tried I couldn't get them off and so I proceded to tighten the screws again, but could not get them back to their original tightness. Then an idea struck me, "I need Mow POWA," so I brought out a drill and, without putting the knife back in the sheath I tightened one of the screws but the knife spun out of control and sliced the side of my hand straight through the skin almost to the tendons also severing nerves. The blade sliced me with the back side, not the sharp side. the wharncliffe blade just slid along my hand until the tip went in. I had gotten out of state swimming an hour before. I was out for 2 weeks with stitches. Hope this makes the show, love this channel.
Just quickly, is a microtech worth it or should I spend my money on something else.
While trimming pork tenders with an 8 inch slicer, and dropped it…. I stuck my foot out to keep the blade from hitting the concrete floor; the knife hit a plastic container, the knife wedged between the container and my leg, and the tip stuck in the back of my leg. I pulled it out, and boy did I bleed.
One and I have many knife stories is I was teaching my son some basic carving techniques. My favorite carving knife is my wood jewel puuko. I got side tracked with helping him and went back to a cut I was making. Instead of turning my wood I turned knife because there wasn't much left on the cut 🤦🏼 knife went right through the cut and imbedded about a half inch down between my thumbnail and the pad of the thumb 🩸. So the lesson continued with how to show to take care of a self inflicted cut.
I hope that healed well
@@bluwasabi7635 surprisingly it did. I just taped it up with butterfly tape and wrapped it up. Should have got stitches but I'm stubborn lol
I remember watching an interview with the head of Pro-Tech. They had a similar situation where they had a knife sent in that went through a house fire. They sent out a replacement, and now keep the burnt out knife on display in the office as an example of their quality. Even after being completely torched in the fire for hours, it still functions flawlessly.
I was trying to loosen the draw on a Kydex sheath to where it would hold but release the knife with just a bit of thumb pressure. I was repeatedly pulling the knife out, and trying to stiffen my arms so the force needed wouldn't make them fly too far apart-the sheath was seriously tight. The problem was the stiffening caused a kind of recoil that on one draw drove the knife tip back forcefully into the end of my index finger. It ached like hell and I was pretty sure I'd jammed the knife into the end of the bone. It bled profusely and once I got it cleaned up and bandaged several times as the blood kept welling out I sat back down and did what I should have done the first time, which is filing down the two little knobs that snapped over the handle and held it. Tuned it up perfectly in the end. Learned a valuable lesson: Don't stab yourself really hard down to the bone for no reason. Now I hope you young people will profit by my having had to learn it the hard way. 🙄
My stupid knife story was when I was 12 and decided to try my hand at sharpening one of my dad's 6" diving knives. He hadn't used them in years, so I thought I could get away with it and learn. I balanced my whetstone on my left thigh and after my first few swipes, I got cocky and proceeded to take a big swipe on the stone and embedded the blade in my thigh.
The one that comes to mind first is when I was cleaning off the blade of my new Leatherman Wave I had just received. I went to wipe the blade down after cleaning and ended up slicing a good portion of my middle finger from one side to the other.
It immediately started bleeding profusely, and it continued to do so for hours. It continued to reopen for a few days and bleed some more until it healed enough to shut. Still have the scar and the Leatherman to this day and I'm much more careful about placing my fingers over a blade edge whether there is a cloth between them or not.
I asked my uncle for a Kershaw diving knife (1006 Amphibian) that I'd seen in REI around the time I was graduating from high school in the late 90s. On the day I got it, I went to use it to cut a piece of cord, and having only ever used knives sharpened on one side, I braced the thing against my left thumb and forefinger and cut-both the cord and my fingers. So stupid. Also, I had not and have not since been diving. Still have the knife, though. Plus so many others, all sharp on one side only.
I still think the best 5th pocket is a SAK of your choice. Lots of good stuff in this video. Hope you guys are planning something for episode 100!
I'm a chef, and in one of my early kitchens, I got cuts across the inside of all the fingers on my right hand, because I closed them around a bread knife, because I dropped it, because I was using it to scratch my back.
😂That sounds like something I would do!
This one made me chuckle
That is definitely not how I expected that sentence to end. lol
Lol I just bought a back scratcher because I cut my back using a knife to scratch it.
Thank you David, for once again coming at us from the knife center
Stupid story: This was my first pocket knife. A gas station slip joint I found as a kid and it was decently sharp. I being the adventurous kid I was, thought it would be fun to cut a rope by batoning it with this tiny blade on tarmac. Not surprisingly, the blade ended up a bunch of chips and I furthered it by trying to sharpen on a slab of raw unpolished granite.
Got my first nice knife at 17; Benchmade griptillian from greentop (didn't know you guys were just up 95 at the time). Two weeks into having it I was cutting some tape off a motorcycle battery and completed the circuit scorching the blade about 1/8 an inch. Benchmade reground it for free but that spot on the edge had the HT screwed up. Hoping for a reblade one day
The very first Mora I bought. I really didn't imagine how sharp they could be. Two minutes after making my first cut, I was in a car, speeding towards A&E as I tried to staunch the blood flow with a towel.
Moras are no joke. My companion HD bit my left index finger when I was treating the high carbon blade for the first time. Inexpensive does not equal cheap.
New years eve 2018-19? 11 PM, I was sitting at my desk, working with some paracord and knocked my Kershaw Link off the edge of my desk. I reached for it out of instinct, but pulled my hand back and let it hit the floor. I picked it up thinking "at least I didn't cut myself" only to see all this red stuff running past my wrist and down my arm. I set the knife down, grabbed my hand, hollered up stairs for my wife saying " I need you now, don't step in the blood!" I had taken my blood thinner an hour before hand, and it was working! We get to the local hospital (where I work). We are admitted to the emergency department and put in a room. The place goes into lockdown. Two people admitted from the same motor vehicle collision were admitted, both families arrive and started fighting with each other! 4AM and 7 stitches later, the doc asks "Do you need a work excuse?" My wife says "Oh no, today's a holiday, that's double time and a half, He's NOT stayin home!" The doc looks at me, I look at him, tilt my head and shrug my shoulders. Went home, showered, and went to work! While she was getting the car I did get a script for "no washing dishes for 6 weeks" My wife looked at it and said "good try" and tossed it in the trash!
First first dumb knife story was when I was about 4 years old. It was before I started kindergarten. I was always fascinated with knives...they used to sell knives in the gas stations and/or liquor stores in a plastic tub, this little knife said, "razor edge". It was a small chrome slip pocket knife. They were cheap, It was a straight edge, much like a straight razor, but it was small...so my Mom drove a Willy's car, it was a early-mid 50s Willys and this was around '62. For some reason I started cutting the top of the front seats, I was amazed at how easy it cut through the seat material. Then my sister turned me in...she tattled on me, damn did my Mom get p!$$ed...gas used to sell for about $0.239/gal (what's up with the 9/10ths? We can't add 1/10th cent?) I think I cut my initials into one seat and some triangle designs in the other...LOL
the 9/10 thing is very strange. Should be illegal imo
At my 41st birthday party one of the kids wanted a sweet cut in half so I grabbed my lionsteel bestman and not wanting to mark any surfaces at the event I cut through it using my thumb as a back stop, my knife was so sharp I pushed through the sweet and 80% of my thumb. It’s a nice scar and educational story now😂
ouch!
@@daadadda no pain from the cut but a bit from me holding it super tight for an hour.😅
Dumbest thing I did with a knife; I had a flint and was seeing if I could get a high carbon Mora to make a spark, using the spine of the knife, but I didn't realize when you're moving that fast, the spine of the knife is almost as sharp as the edge. Needed a few stitches on my index finger. FYI; it did spark.
I was bleeding a buck I'd harvested with my bow, sliced the artery with my buck hunting knife and started doing other things. Noticed when I looked down that I'd also sliced into the side of my leg and had to do some field bandaging. Lucky it wasn't worse as I was probably 10 miles from the next nearest person.
When I was young I thought a cheap fixed blade would be ideal for throwing. I also didn't have the respect for trees I have now. Suffice to say the tree snapped my blade clean off the handle, and the tree was right to do so!
The year was 2006 and I was working disaster relief for Hurricane Wilma Florida. Working on a chainsaw I was using my knife as a pry bar. My thumb depressed the blade lock and the knife folded shut on my pinky finger. Interesting enough the customer I was working for was an ER doctor and stitched me up. I’ll never do that again.
So much stupid, so little time.
1) I had an incident like Mr. Andersen's earlier this year, when I wasn't paying attention (that's a theme) and dropped a Tramontina Caribbean Bolo machete I had JUST sharpened, and instinctively caught it. Bright view? My reflexes are still pretty good, for an old man. I got it before the blade hit the concrete. Not-So-Bright View? I had JUST sharpened it. Fortunately, I realized my error as soon as I made it and didn't make a FULL grab of the blade, so I didn't suffer significant harm, just a painful nick to remind me to focus.
2) I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing (I did say this was a theme, right?) and waved open my Cold Steel Rajah II. I didn't make sure it was fully open before I wrapped my hand around the handle. It didn't fully open. It has a bias toward closure. It snapped shut on my hand - specifically on my right ring finger, juuuuust above the last joint. I bled like a stuck pig and was pretty sure I was going to need an ER visit, but it actually missed major blood vessels and nerves. It nicked a tendon or ligament, so for a while I couldn't fully extend the finger. There's a scar, but I didn't suffer anything disabling.
My stupidest knife accident happened about 12 years ago on my first day of vacation with my wife and son. Being at a rental property in Maine on Lake Sebago I didn’t have my usual kitchen knives. My son wanted his sliced avocado that he loved at the time. The kitchen knives that came with the property was part of an old school Ginsu set. With paring knife in hand I decided to stab the avocado pit…. Well the knife slid right off the pit and went into the palm of my left hand. I ended up with my sister in law driving me to the ER to get stitches. The doctor that stitched me up shook his head and said I was an idiot. 😂 Yes sir I am! That scar is a constant reminder… Don’t be stupid!
I would have been disappointed if there hadn’t been at least one avocado pit story here.
I did that while making dinner for a girlfriend once. Tried to stab the avocado pit, which I always did, and gave myself a good solid shot in the palm. The blood is welling out and I'm trying to stanch it and she's just leaning in the kitchen door, taking it all in. (She had young kids, and this kind of thing didn't panic her much.) "I never did like that trick," was all she said. 😄
@@mfreeman313 strangely enough mine didn’t bleed at all 🤷♂️
@@charlesburow8120 Depends where you hit it I guess. Glad I didn't have to go to the ER though. I already knew I was an idiot.
Stupidest knife story…my dad just sharpened his Swiss Army blade prior to a scout campout. He told me to be careful when I borrowed it to cut rope. I held the rope across my palm between my thumb and pinky and sliced through it and the meaty portion of my lower thumb joint. I still have a clean scare and stitch marks to this day.
One my dumbest was popping weeds in the garden with a Buck 110. Too lazy to go in the shed to get the pronged weed popper.
Anyways, was on my knees, sitting on my heels and stabbing the knife into the ground and pushing down on the handle to pop the weeds out. Swung the knife to stab another and hit a rock of something in the ground and drove the blade approximately an inch and a half into my leg just above the knee.
Trust me, a $12 weed popper is much cheaper than driving to the ER and getting stitches.
DCA back when I was a smart kid at the ripe age of 7. I was playing army in my back yard and going after and bad guy with my first knife, my trustee Barlow. I decided to jump on the bad guy a big box and take him out. Let's say I watched to many Rambo movies and with a few jabs while I was on top of the bad guy, I may have put it through my hand between my thumb and pointer finger 😅. The scare sticks out like a sour thumb to this day 35 years later. I need to get a new Barlow, it's the knife I always remember!
My stupidest knife story actually doesn’t involve a knife but a Esse Gibson axe. So I was camping with a buddy in 10 degree temps while sharing a bottle of good Virginia spirits. I let said buddy split a few pieces of kiln only to look down in the fire and see the Gibson stuck in a piece of wood actually in the fire. First time, last time letting that happen. lol
Tightening the knot on a leather lanyard - pulling the lanyard one way and the knife the other way. The leather snapped and I stabbed myself in the leg. About an inch and a half deep puncture. Luckily I missed the femoral artery and my manhood, but I still have physical and emotional scars.
Cutting into a round loaf of frozen sourdough without letting it thaw. Five stitches.
Dumbest thing I ever did with a knife was hand my Manix 2 XL to a fishing buddy who proceeded to saw off a fish head on
steel piling under the bridge we were fishing. This was before I could sharpen.
I was at a knife show in an old building with a wooden floor when the guy next to me flicked a knife open and let it slip. Pinned his foot to the floor, and medics were called to the scene.
One of my stupid knife moments was thumb flicking a brand new TRM Atom in the dark after a few beers with my left hand (I'm a righty.) I failed to deploy the blade fully and the resulting follow through sliced from the top of the nail half way down the middle of my thumb. I told my wife I did that one at work.
In my early teens I was cutting an apple for my hamster & sliced my left index finger across the proximal interphalangeal joint. I am in my late 60's & still have the scar today!
I was doing a paracord wrap on the Civivi Minimus. I should have taped the edge but I was just using the sheath. I was pulling the last knot tight when the sheath slipped off and I found out exactly how slicey that Minimius is. Cut my left index fingertip super deep. 9 stitches later I felt like an idiot. It’s been a long time and I still can’t feel much in that fingertip.
Stupid knife story:
In high school I traded an Italian full auto for a BM42. Yes I am old :P. And no, i do not much to my dismay, still have the BM42.
I had been using/carrying a cheap flea market butterfly and was fluent in openings. I immediately opened it with a standard rollover.
What I did not know: cheap knives reverse blade orientation. 4 stitches later, and a lovely scar on my knuckle I was quickly coming up with a white lie for the school.
The dumb part: I did it in the school library.... How does one lie about that?
I really dig old knife stories, there is my dumbest move.
Enjoy!
Good vid as usuall. I too did something stupid with a fixed blade. knife had no sheath. reaching for it on a high shelf. I lost gripe on it. Instiively i grabbed for it,, BIG MASTAKE, bad cut between poniter finger and thumb. 11 stichies and 3 weeks later kost rannge of motion on my thumb. What a stupid thing tp do.
Worked retail and we were moving shop. I was popping the plastic rivets they used to attach signage holders to perforated shelves. Was wasier to pry than cut the plastic rivets, until it snapped my cheap 7cr Smith and Wesson knife lol now I have better knives and I don't pry with them...much
The only dumb thing I did with a knife was use a Cold Steel Recon 1 as a step. Jammed it in a 2 ×4 and reached up for what I needed.
A guy I knew handed me his knife because I had never held an OTF knife before. It deployed with a lot more force than I was expecting and his microtech fell to the concrete… breaking the tip.
He was nice about it and made it out to be no big deal. It wasn’t until I got more into knives that I learned how expensive those are.
Ny cousin did the same to may side opening auto. Got the tip reprofiled OK so ...
Shaved a 2 inch patch of skin off my knee while carving on a thick stick. I was 12 years old, camping in an island in Northern Lake Huron with 4 other kids. We Sailed there on a 23ft sailboat.
Knife was a Normark Big Swede made by EKA Sweden.
Stupid knife story: First day I got hired at my job I was using a 4max Scout to cut open a box of caulk and was cutting across the front of the box along the perforated line and figured " this knife is sharp it'll cut it no problem " well the knife slipped and my right forearm was in the way and needless to say I cut a 2 inch gash in my arm and bleed all over the shop. My supervisors were Champs and wrapped it up and took me to urgent care. It took 12 stitches and a month to close. At least on the bright side I'll never forget the date I was hired. 🤣
Stupidest thing that I have ever done is trying to baton with a lock back knife and ended up breaking the lock. Thankfully the knife was used and had a broken tip when I found it in an old toolbox. It was made by American Eagle knives
On a separate topic:
After watching a video about Bowie knives on a different UA-cam channel, I watched FAQ #75 where you talk about Bowie knives. The other video went into the history of the Bowie knife, and essentially a Bowie knife is any large blade American knife. They were originally used for bushcraft which is one reason why they were well suited for the American West (according to the video). This did bring up a question:
If a Bowie knife is just a large blade American Knife, then what is the difference between a Bowie knife and a Machete?
Loving all the work and great information you are putting into your videos! Keep up the good work!
Not to take away from your great content here, but the other video is on "The Knife Life" channel and it is called "The DREADED Bowie Knife! What You NEED to Know"
Yeap, dropped my new RAT 3 the day I got it. Instead of letting it drop to the ground and picking it up safely, my reaction was to reach out and try to catch it… This resulted in liquid stitching my thumb together. 👍🏼
I remembered one smart knife story. This was when I was in 5th grade, so about '68...just before the summer of love...the schools used to take field trips to Knotts Berry Farm. As a kid it wasn't as cool as Disneyland, but Knotts Berry Farm did have this western town and there was a knife shop. We lived about an hour from Knotts Berry Farms in the San Gabriel Valley. While I was there I spotted the knife shop, I hadn't seen that with my family before...but think I had only been to KBF once prior. I was 10 years old and the knife store sold me a stiletto type knife that looked like a switch blade, but it wasn't, the button was the lock. It could have been made in Mexico, we used to get switch blades in Mexico and/or from Mexico in California. The world would tell you what a bad story this is that a 10 year old boy could buy a knife on a school trip without his parents, but I think of it as a good story...no bad ever happened with that knife! 😇
I've been wanting to stock up on folding knives to keep in our various bags/med kits/vehicles so that we always have one handy. If you had to pick one knife to buy 5-10 of for this purpose, which would you go with in the $30-50 range? I prefer flippers, but it's not a hard stop either way. I have some experience with Civivi knives and really like them for the price range. The Badlands Vagabond caught my eye, but I'm open to being persuaded otherwise. What would you suggest for something that would not often see heavy use, but would be ready for action if needed? Not looking for self defense, just camping/survival purposes.
I got my first dagger (double edged) some years ago. I am used to handle regular knives, i always polished them and cleaned them without ever cutting myself.
Then to clean it i slid, as i usually did, the "spine" of my double edged dagger on the palm of my hand while i was holding a cloth on the bladed half. Picture the scene. Imagine the result.
That's not pretty. I hope that you healed without permanent damage.
Regarding Steve Wealthy's question, I have a chef's knife from the Boker Pure collection made of CPM-154. Under $200. Fantastic performance.
I made the mistake of letting someone borrow my Blackhawk Be-Wharned folder to "use real quick." They came back with it and the tip was completely broke off. I asked "what the heck did you use it for?!" (with a few other choice words), and he said that he used it to pry open a container......
Like why wouldn't you just find a screwdriver or something that's NOT the sharpest/most pointy thing available. Here's your knife back bro 🥴🤦🏻♂️
Never hand someone your knife before asking them what they are doing with it or making them do whatever it is right in front of you. Learned that one the hard way myself
Knife story. My friends & I were throwing knives at a small board attached to a tree while out camping. Didn't think to check the backdrop. I threw my beloved TOPS Brakimo knife at the board, misses and watched a $200+ knife go flying off a cliff into a wooded valley below. Yes I cried. No I did not find the knife. Must have been 5-6 years ago and I still get emotional thinking about it. 😢 I think I have post traumatic knife disorder.
Its worse because you did it willingly. RIP Brakimo
stupidest thing I've done with a knife, I was younger and first getting into knives and didn't quite know how they worked, was trying to stab into something with a partially serrated western tanto blade with a very dull tip, and had my thumb right on the liner lock, and after a minute of pushing my thumb disengaged the lock and the serrated part went straight down on top of the knuckle on my thumb, had to glue it shut and now about 10 years later I still can't straighten it out
Sounds like you went through a tendon or ligament.
I recently bought the lansky turnbox crock stick sharpener. I have little experience with sharpening and I'm wondering if I should hesitate to reprofile the angles of my more expensive knives and instead wait until I'm comfortable with a whetstone. Thanks!
I've gotten some of the worst cuts doing BBQ competitions. My BBQ knives are absurdly sharp, and due to the nature of competitions you tend to focus less on safe cutting habits. Not much you can do except put a new glove on to catch the blood and keep going til turn-ins are done.
My more embarrassing story would be when I got my Reate Exo gravity knife. Stabbed/cut myself quite a bit with that one learning the different methods of opening/closing it.
The other one that got me really bad was the KC exclusive Artisan Small Archaeo, the tip stuck into the side of my ring finger upon closing, but was closed enough that my finger got wedged in the blade and handle...basically had to push it into my finger further to open the blade and get it out of me...and anyone who has one knows how pointy that thing is.
Hi DCA, can you please explain the difference between the different blade coatings? Cerakote, titanium nitride, teflon, powder coating etc? Are they food safe? Do they all effectively serve the same purpose? Thanks in advance.
this would be good to know
“Have you ever done anything dumb with a knife?” If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have these scars.🙄
Dropping your knife in a campfire shouldn’t effect the heat treat unless you leave it there and don’t get it out right away. The dumbest thing I ever did was a knife- I was making a knife sheath in the middle of the night and using the knife it was for to trim the edge my hand spammed and I cut the tip of my finger off. No amount of pressure or cold water would stop the bleeding. My wife doesn’t drive so I wrapped my hand in a towel and drove myself to the emergency room.
I was playing with my Protech Newport and eating won tons.I pushed the button and it flew out of my hand and sunk into my upper thigh about 2 inches deep.Protech really pop lol
Oof!
HAHA, yeah, almost done that with auto's. Everyone has a story :)
I was trying to resheath a large double edged knife (Boker Escrima) and put the tip an inch into the web of my left hand. I was motorcycle camping at Dawson City, Yukon.
I was camping in the California redwoods many years ago and not having a fork handy went to turn my steak over the campfire with my Case Sodbuster. It slipped off the knife and I instinctively went to catch it. Stabbed the point of the knife into the palm of my other hand. It was a very dark night in the woods and my girlfriend had gotten lost coming back from the restroom. After going to find her, I just lay back in my truck to recover.
I still have the Case almost 40 years later.
I think SOG captured lightning in a bottle with the Terminus XR. I have the D2 crimson G10 version, but if I ever need to buy it again I will get the premium version. The more recent versions don't have *SOG* plastered everywhere.
My boy DCA, What should I look for in blade steel for Kitchen Knives? I love the EDC knife world but I'm looking into getting into the culinary knives community and don't know where to start.
from personal experience with daily use...the Wusthof Ikon has the best ergos (as long as you don't use pinch grip), but Enso chef knives hold the longest sharpened edge
I am a retired LEO, Urban Search & Rescue, former Army and former Firefighter. I still carry a "rescue knife/tool" EDC. (Leatherman Skeletool RX) Have carried many different knives over the years. They are now very out dated. What are the up and coming Rescue Pro's options. I'm looking for recommendations and gifts for the next generation.
Check out the Leatherman Raptor Rescue sheers and the Benchmade Triage
Wish you’d do a review with a Sencut Sachse. Could not find it on KnifeCenter when I purchased one. Think it’s a all round winner for the sub 50 dollar flipper, button, thumbstud fidget friendly knives.
My stupid knife story: I needed to open some instant noodles. You know, something you do with scissors...
Instead I held the top of the packet and wielded my sharpest kitchen knife like a saber, as I had done before. The cut went through the packet and the edge of my thumb and forefinger. Blood everywhere, especially the thumb. Even today I have a matching pair of scars.
Hello DCA and Team, I have a question about knife requironments:
Which knives would you recommend to someone who wants a one-handed opener that doesn't lock?
- Preferably with a flipper, but not nessesarily.
- Knife-steel should be relatively decent. It doesn't need to be high end, but at least middle-class-ish. (I still like 440C, 12C27, VG10 and D2 a lot for example.)
- Blade-length should somewhat be between 2,75591 and 4,33071 inches. (Sorry for the weird numbers there, I converted them from 7 and 11 centimeters.)
- Blade-shape should be somewhat slicey. (Not too thick and nice grind for cutting.)
- Knife overall can be quite filigree. (Not intended for hard use.)
Somewhat deviating from these sub-specifications within reason is acceptable and appreciated! ♥
(Blade length is not law-related for example, we don't have blade length limits on folding knives per sé.)
Greetings from Germany! 🙂
The Knife Center exclusive Artisan Cutlery Small Archaeo detent flipper is definitely the knife you want.
@@arrowheadguys7637 I just looked it up and you might be right! I think I might give it a shot, but it really looks promising. Thank you very much!
Maybe I will find some more to choose from D:
The non-locking Small Archaeo is probably made just for you. They have a couple of Archaeo versions available, so make sure you are getting the one without the lock!
Another one to look at might be the Civivi Stylum. It is a "front flipper" with a similar detent-style construction.
@@Leftyotism I have one and it is really a nice small knife. Super slicey.
Thanks a lot guys! ♥
I got my first para 3 maybe 3 or so years ago and was fidgeting with the compression lock while sitting on the couch. Lost my grip and the knife fell, it spun in the air a bit and just so happened to land perfectly straight down on the tip and into the top of my foot. I didn’t even feel the cut, just the impact so for a split second I didn’t think I got cut. New knife was so sharp it bounced in and out so fast and left such a thin razor blade like little hole, it didn’t bleed until I touched my foot and moved the skin around and the cut opened. Lesson learned the hard way.
Picked up the CJRB Silax as a petty knife in kitchen. Love it, not a world class slicer but works well for most things. RPM9 too, similar steel to D2.
I was stealing salt from my college cafeteria to add to my dorm room salt shaker. I was trying to cut the top of the stolen shaker and I pierced through it and went deep into my palm. I had to get 7 stitches to stop the bleeding. After leaving the urgent care I finished stealing the salt from the container.
Talking about adding salt to the wound!
@@arrowheadguys7637 2TU
Buying salt would have been cheaper lol! -DCA
Oh boy I sure do hope episode 100 is a reverse tanto special!
Stupidest knife story for me is when I was 17 and had just bought a charge al( they were only $5 more than the wave back then). I was attempting to cut a hole out of the cap of a water bottle to use it as a make shift lantern, dumb idea #1. I held the bottle with my left hand and started cutting away, dumb idea #2. I slipped and cut my right index finger really deep.
Stupidest knife story I have is giving my daughter a $300 Benchmade after graduating fire training academy. She lost it within a week.
It’s the thought that counts 👍
Stupid would be giving her another 🤣
I made a similar mistake with giving my dad a zt 0505 🤦♂️ that knife is one of my favorite zt models and he has no idea where it's at.
Try with a copy from Aliexpress next time, 6 times cheaper. 😬😬
Which is why I say paying more than $150 for a EDC is insane... If u carry it every day u must expect it to be lost or stolen and thus must be replaceable.
I've been looking for a crossback lock + flipper opened folder for a while, and last year (or a couple of years ago?) I watched one of your videos about the SOG Terminus XR. I pondered, and thought about it, then wondered and thought about it some more, and at last an updated version of that knife in S35VN should knock at my door in the next couple of days.
I live in Italy so it was a little more expensive than the US price, but for 104-105 euros (postage included) I can't really complain.
Long story short, I followed your advice and I'm pretty sure I'm going to love that little fidgety blade. I also hand-sharpen knives and shears for a living, so I'm excited about that S35VN! I'll have to refrain myself from grabbing the 10K+ stones. And of course I'll go higher than than, who am I kidding? 😁
I really like mine. I got 2 for $100 in the States.
Going over kitchen knives, a couple of questions came up:
- "As seen on TV" knives, are they a complete waste of time? Are there any pros to owning one? I have always been skeptical of these knives and their claims.
- On Instagram, I have been seeing a lot of "custom" knives: Coolina, Forged Steel, etc. Any thoughts on which of these knives are worth checking out, and which ones to avoid?
As Seen On TV: Like anything else, I would probably stay away from their knives
Instagram: This one is harder. I see a lot of custom knife accounts in Insta that are definitely just re-selling the worst chinese garbage you can imagine and passing them off as handmade customs. There are also a lot of great handmade custom makers on Insta. My advice would be to stay away from them if you can't tell the difference. But if you really must, a couple give-aways is that legit brands will usually have a website, and also some sort of extended lead time on their knives. If they are shipping you a knife the same day you order it, its probably not legit.
The "As-seen-on-TV" knives will probably do what you need them to do as far as slicing veggies and whatnot. Just approach their purchase and overall use as if they are cheap and utterly disposable knives, because that is basically what they are.
"as seen on TV knives" that I've used have been terrible. My favorite chef knives for work are the Wusthof Ikon and for home use the Enso 8". I'd recommend asking a chef/someone in food service what they like to use.
Hello to DCA and the entire KnifeCenter crew!
I recently went out of my comfort zone and spent around $80 on a nice kitchen knife, specifically a carving knife as I cook a lot of meat.
Well now I've got an itch for more, I was wondering if you had any recommendations for a do-it-all style chef's knife with a meat focus or smaller paring knives to use along side the bigger knives? Budget would be around $200, but I don't mind spending a little more.
Hello DCA.
I know you made a video about different fixed knives for EDC but I would like to know what would you recommend depending on the sheath.
Difrent options of carry and what would be the most versatile sheath so it can be pocket carry, neck and/or belt knife.
I feel like I don't see a forest of trees.
Also I would like that it can do some bushcraft tasks if my main knife breaks like my Boker Mini Tracker and I relied on my smal Brisa neck knife for rest of the trip.