Saftey when using knives!

**rjwood_uk** · 31-03-2006

I know its common sence not to cut towards yourself,

but let face it, holding a piece and cutting towards yor thumb is far more controllable than any other way!

I know everyone does it this way but i have learnt my lesson!

A brand new blade whent straight into my thumb, it was parallel to it as well, thats what amazed me, how sharp it actually was!

so please everyone, resist temptation.

I know we all feel these "helth & saftey" rules are a load of rubish.....but they are there for a reason!!!

Nigel.D · 31-03-2006

Richard you now belong to the modellers society of "ohh f***** hell bas**** i cut myself"

Phoenix · 31-03-2006

yup

the joys of knifes eh

also never leave old plane blades for a david plane or the like around cos they my be blunt but they are still sharp enough to cut you i learned my lesson when i cought my pinky at the side of my nail on one in my garage

**rjwood_uk** · 01-04-2006

oh i have cut myself many times before, doing many different things.

the strange thing is im a chef and have been fro the past 5 years, and iv only ever cut myself with a knife whilst cooking, in 5 years....twice!

many other time though, usually doing stupid things.

i have a scare (along with scars from the stitches) on my left index finger going from half way accross to half way down from when i was about 7...trying to open a packet of biscuits with a 10" carving knife! (nice trip to casulty that was...one ruined tea-towel!!) lol

(i remember the triage (however you spell it) bent it down as far as she could and asked "does that hurt"...if had been older than 7 i dont know what i would have said!!!)i guess it was to see if i had severed any nerve endings.not quite...hit the bone though!!!)

another bad one is on my right arm...you have to try and picture this one....

my brother was pissing me off and pretending to threaten me with his swiss-army knife. so i had a halloween pitch fork in my right arm, and my swiss-army knife in a horizontal "slashing" hold in my let arm. As i lunched at him with the pitch fork the main blade of my swiss-army knife whent straight into my upper right arm!

my parents were out and i thought i would get in trouble for playing with my knife so i just put a plaster on! suprisingly it didnt bleed much...left a nice scar though!!!

(The 1st picture is of my finger, the flash was too bright so i have had to draw on how the scar roughly goes, and the 2nd is of my right arm, i have circled the scare...no imagine a 3x0.5" blade sticking in that!!!)

Pogo · 01-04-2006

My turn. Tuesday . Sat on setee in living roon with buccaneer on floor, paring down seam line on leading edge of wings. Put scalpel down on cushion and it rolled between the two. Wet and dry sanding didnt take enough off so i reached for the knife and pushed hand between cushion. Right onto tip of blade with forefinger. Mother in law is sat on chair just a few feet away and jumped when i did . Did it hurt? was her question. Not half as much as it will if i bleed on cushion. It was a tiny cut and it bleed like a pig. But not in the living room. Moral? Dont do it!!!!!

Pogo · 01-04-2006

My turn. Tuesday . Sat on setee in living roon with buccaneer on floor, paring down seam line on leading edge of wings. Put scalpel down on cushion and it rolled between the two. Wet and dry sanding didnt take enough off so i reached for the knife and pushed hand between cushion. Right onto tip of blade with forefinger. Mother in law is sat on chair just a few feet away and jumped when i did . Did it hurt? was her question. Not half as much as it will if i bleed on cushion. It was a tiny cut and it bleed like a pig. But not in the living room. Moral? Dont do it!!!!!

**rjwood_uk** · 01-04-2006

so it all goes back to my original point....these health and safty "regulations" are their for a reason, and a good one at that! we all think to ourselves, na, they are just for stupid...im far to clever and experienced to hurt myself....bollocks to that i say!

always follow them!!!

Pogo · 01-04-2006

**John** · 01-04-2006

I had a fear for ages of craft knifes, Stanley knifes and all the other types of sharps knifes you can think of, when I was young I was trying to get the wood effect sticky stuff of a CB radio I had using a window paint scraper, it slipt and sliced a vain in my hand it was spurting like mad, ever since then I've been really careful, probably a bit too much it's always in the back of my mind

**rjwood_uk** · 01-04-2006

lol john, how can something 0.5mm cut you?

well stupid question, obviously it can, any chance you can tell us about it without desturbing yourself too much?