Thread: Yet another razor accident

Well...... I managed to cut my finger good this time!

I was sanding a blade by hand when i slipped and cut a 3-4mm deep x 12mm-14mm long cut on my right index finger.

After the shock and cursing i started to clean it up. After the bleeding slowed down i thought, what a good opportunity for a photo moment. So i got my fiance to snap a few photos with my camera phone...

Happily thinking i got some snap shot's of it, i finished bandaging it up and decided I could get away without stitches for this one.. I think.. (thank goodness!)

Later, i went to my PC to have a look at the photos she snapped, what did my fiance manage to capture.....? NOTHING! LOL

In the 4 photos she took, she managed to snap a little blood on some tissue's and all 4 shots had a blurry finger that you cant see anything! How disappointing! LOL

I almost felt that i needed to unwrap the thing to take another to prove it actually happened! !!

Ah well, next time i will get one.

My fiance said she was too worried about my finger and wasn't concentrating on the camera so i guess that's a good thing Better she worries about me then a stupid photo lol

Get a pair of Kevlar gloves... cheap, yet they will save your fingers!

Well, I was wrong.. she wasn't worried about me.... she was worried about the mess!!!! Lol

Originally Posted by Fiance' Facebook

So im in bed at 11.15pm and chris yells out "um, babe...i mighta cut myself...bad!" So i get up and there's blood dripping on my kitchen floor because he sluced his finger while sharpening a blade. Does he want a towel/bandage? No. A photo cause it looks good lmao

Originally Posted by Fiance' Friend

so where is the photo

Originally Posted by Fiance' Facebook

Haha apparently i didnt get a good shot...it was all blurry. I was more worried about the mess! Lol

Ah well, I'm sure she still did care.. a little..

Sounds like you have a loving and caring gal there...best of luck on the healing.

Gotta love Facebook. The first place to go to catch the scoop.

The sinful old veterans of the First World War and earlier experiences, among whom I spent my early childhood, taught me that you must treat a bloodstain with cold water, never hot, but brain tissue should be left to dry and then brushed off. That would probably get a child taken into care nowadays.

A cut like that would be a precious possession to a small boy. 55 years later, I've still got mine.

Originally Posted by Caledonian

A cut like that would be a precious possession to a small boy. 55 years later, I've still got mine.

Many, many years ago, I worked in a machine shop to pay my way through college. I still have all of my fingers and plenty of trophy scars.

You could always cut another finger & take another snapshot!

Originally Posted by WBK

Get a pair of Kevlar gloves... cheap, yet they will save your fingers!

Hindsight is a wonderful thing! lol

It really was a 'spear of the moment' thing and i probably deserved it for what i was doing to my razor and considering i should have been in bed at the time lol. (And the truth comes out)

I just finished lapping a jnat and tested a blade on it, it sharpened up nice and sharp unfortunately lol. After testing my blade i left the blade and the stone on my table next to some thin Japanese sword polishing stones that came free with one of my jnats. (im guessing you can work out the rest but anyway here it is)

I walked past the blade, stone and sword polishing stones a few times and I thought.... i wonder if they work lol

So i snapped a piece off, rubbed it on my jnat to smooth it out and create a slurry and ran it over the blade a few times.... Not a good idea!

Originally Posted by Firefighter2

You could always cut another finger & take another snapshot!

haha ill pass on that one!

Below is the poor photo she took, i there is actually a nice sized cut there LOL

Cuts and scars go hand in hand with hobby/biz, the trick is to learn from the mistakes and not let it happen again.
And then again there are the accidents that you just can't help. Now matter how careful you are things still happen.

I should probably get a Kevlar suit...LOL

Heal quick and be safe.