Yup, it's sharp.

[Hilly]

Well, I've used my new head knife and a skiving knife I bought not long ago. I noticed the head knife taking a bit more effort to cut through leather with, and decided to touch up the edge a bit. Belive it or not, I ran it through a ceramic sharpener a couple times on each side of the blade, stropped it, and now I can shave the hairs off my arm with it again. The sharpener I used had a very steep angle, and I could not see daylight under the edge of the head knife when I ran it through. I don't know how good this is for the blade, but I'm a total redneck when it comes to sharpening, and I figured if it sharpens my fillet knives good enough then maybe it will work on my head knife. It worked great.

Next, I moved on to the skiving knife I got, which wasn't all that sharp. I ran it through the ceramic sharpener a few times, and shaved some more hair off my arm. I saw one tiny shiny spot on the edge of the blade, so thought I'd run it through one more time before I sropped it. I set the knife in the groove, and when I pulled it back, the blade slipped and sliced deeply into my index finger between the first and second knuckles. Oops. Guess Mom was right when she told me not to play with knives .

Now, I feel bad for being so darn dumb, and I'm hoping you all will share your dumb stories with me to make me feel better. Misery loves company, ya know!

[bruce johnson]

Hilly,

Nope never done anything like that except;

1) there was this one time I tried to feed a strap into the draw gauge instead on pulling the drawgauge into the strap. The blade stuck far enough into the bone to hang there. Not a recommended storage method for draw gauges. The "draw" in draw gauge has a double meaning, as in " to draw blood".

2) oh yes. Then there was the time I was wearing flipflops in the shop. You know that string bleeders have a round handle. When they roll off the bench, they will tip and end up point down, stuck in that large vein running across the top of your bare foot. It really doesn't bleed much until you pull it out. That is right before you flatten one side of the handle to keep it from rolling off the bench. I found the reason that tool is called a "bleeder".

[anne newkold]

mine was not a leather tool mishap, but it was a tool. Thank God it was Swiss made so it was very very sharp! I had taken a wood turning class and made a vase. Went to take the nipple off the bottom from where it was attached to the base while turning, I was using a 3/8th" sweep gouge. Well I had my kevlar carving glove laying next to me, I thought I really should put that on. Well I just had to make that one more cut..... 6 stitches and in a split for 6 weeks when it glanced off and sliced my index finger open really pretty! Was not fun driving myself to the emergency room. Much later I did finally get the vase done.

[Luke Hatley]

mine was not a leather tool mishap, but it was a tool. Thank God it was Swiss made so it was very very sharp! I had taken a wood turning class and made a vase. Went to take the nipple off the bottom from where it was attached to the base while turning, I was using a 3/8th" sweep gouge. Well I had my kevlar carving glove laying next to me, I thought I really should put that on. Well I just had to make that one more cut..... 6 stitches and in a split for 6 weeks when it glanced off and sliced my index finger open really pretty! Was not fun driving myself to the emergency room. Much later I did finally get the vase done.

well if you did that with a knife.......DONT EVER PICK UP A BB GUN>>>

[TracyMoss]

Well, I've been victim to hte draw gauge as well, the thumb. Split it open. Another Saddle Maker I worked for at one time ran his fingers into a strap cutter. mad a notch between his middle finger and ring finger.

[rawhide1]

Hilly

Don't feel bad I've got a nice 3inch scar below my left thumb from a draw gauge slipping. One of my better ones was when I was building my house and nailed three of my fingers together. It didn't hurt going in but it seemes the nails have a friction activated glue on them. And when I pulled the nail out with a pair of plyers I dang near wet myself. Stuff happens.

Mike

[JohnD]

Not Leather related, But still dumb.

When I was in the service, I was inspecting my squads weapons. One particular gun required that you press a detent and turn a knob to remove the barrel, And expose an area were dirt accumilates that most dont know about.

Now, thinking I'm cool for knowing this and ready to give this Marine crap for finding his wepon dirty, I asked him to hand me his bayonet and proceeded to press the detent and turn the knob WHOOPS. The bayonet slipped and went about half way through the palm of my hand.

I tried to pretend it didn't happen and continued inspecting weapons but the other Marines didn't appreciate me bleeding all over their clean weapons and, if you've ever had a particularly deep pucture wound, You know that you can tend to get woozy. So I asked my team leaders to finish inspecting their teams weapons and ended up walking away to find a seat, out of sight. It was a while before I heard the end of that one.

I actually have quite a few dumb mishaps with knife stories, But I'll spare you all the gory details.

John

[Hilly]

Not Leather related, But still dumb.

When I was in the service, I was inspecting my squads weapons. One particular gun required that you press a detent and turn a knob to remove the barrel, And expose an area were dirt accumilates that most dont know about.

Now, thinking I'm cool for knowing this and ready to give this Marine crap for finding his wepon dirty, I asked him to hand me his bayonet and proceeded to press the detent and turn the knob WHOOPS. The bayonet slipped and went about half way through the palm of my hand.

I tried to pretend it didn't happen and continued inspecting weapons but the other Marines didn't appreciate me bleeding all over their clean weapons and, if you've ever had a particularly deep pucture wound, You know that you can tend to get woozy. So I asked my team leaders to finish inspecting their teams weapons and ended up walking away to find a seat, out of sight. It was a while before I heard the end of that one.

I actually have quite a few dumb mishaps with knife stories, But I'll spare you all the gory details.

John

I have a dumb knife story of my own... My husband had left a cool looking knife laying on the table, and being the nosey wife I am, I picked it up and was looking at it, wondering what that little button was for. I pressed that little button to find that it was not a regular knife, but a stilletto. The blade came out of the handle with enough force to go halfway through my hand.

[Kani]

Boy I sure don't want you all in my kitchen. Could be a little scary with all the knives I have. Could be down right dangerous. If you know what I mean.

[TracyMoss]

Boy I sure don't want you all in my kitchen. Could be a little scary with all the knives I have. Could be down right dangerous. If you know what I mean.

Give it time, you'll be adding a story of your own.