Ouch!

[Tyranid Fodder]

Well yesterday I was playing around with a new knife I got and sliced off a good portion of skin from my index finger. Not too bad but I'll have a scar there now.

I remembered the TSOALR comic and decided to ask: Have any of you had a bad run in with a hobby knife?

[Ghost Fist]

Well, I was cutting up popsicle sticks with the big kitchen scissors. You know, the ones you use to cut up chicken bones? So I cut a little too far, and sliced my hand open. It needed 3 stitches, and you could see the bone. Good times....

[cog[nitive]]

3AM, im drilling holes in a metal terminator model for pinning. i drill the arm hole, push too hard and drive the pin vice straight through the model and a centimeter into the palm of my hand.

Ouch indeed.

[Dufflious]

The catch on my old knife was really sub standard. Sliced my thumb open like a grapefruit.

More recently, I lent my Hobby knife to someone to cut a cake (it's pretty big) and they swung it around and cut a good 2-3 milimeters of my skin off. no blood, but worrying.

[NightLord48]

I've had one like that, but i was using a swiss army knife. I was scraping down a surface and slipped. It slit open my index finger and it hit the bone. It really didn't hurt, but my mom freaked out and had a panic attack.

It was pretty stupid.

[ArchDuke of Macragge2]

I once managed to cut myself open three times in about a minute, but kept hobbying. My friend was on the phone at the time and kept telling me to stop.

[IRBABOON]

im stupid enough to hold my models in my hands and cut towards my thumb, so, am always getting cuts and stuff!!! thought i would of learnt by now, but oviosly not!!!

[Selezen]

When I was about 15 I was cutting a piece of thick, hard plastic (not styrene) into a sword shape with a serrated kitchen knife whilst watching a video (cos it was taking ages).

I failed to notice the knife jump out of the groove in the plastic and began sawing into my finger. I only realised when I began sawing against the bone, which vibrated. I removed the knife, remember thinking "Ooh, that's gonna hurt in a few seconds" and waiting for it to start. When the pain came I shook my hand in some odd effort to alleviate aforesaid pain, which resulted in blood going all over the walls.

Mum had gone out, so I had to tell the child-minder (next door neighbour) who was a nurse. I showed her the wound and she immediately went into full panic mode. Despite the dripping blood and searing pain, I was in fits of laughter.

That was a good day. I have a lovely scar on my left index finger now.

[Dufflious]

Slighty unrelated, but I had an electronics assingment to hand in, and it was the night before. I'm sat on the kitchen floor with my Soldering Iron and all my componants. It's 10 in the evening and i'm shattered from having done Electronics Coursework all afternoon. So i'm sat, solding into my PCB (Printed Circuit board) makin' a D6, and I smell something, sorta like a quick-cooked steak... My exact words were

"Something sounds nice. Wait, that's me!"

I had actually soldered my thumb about 4 times, red marks and I could feel the swellings. Little bit of Lavander oil and I was fine ^^;

[Tyranid Fodder]

I should have known all of you would have good, well bad, stories about knives.

I'd hate to ask about other accidents we've had, becuase I have good bit of those stories.

[ragingpotato]

Well I havent had too many mishaps with knife (other than the time I accidently snapped a steak knife in half while trying to cut a metal model). Glue on the other hand...
I had just got a bottle of glue in a container that was designed to prevent spilling. 30 seconds after opening it i spill a good deal of it on my carpet. It is still there to this day.
With that same glue I was putting together some empire militiamen (I love empire militiamen) and I got too much glue on the little brush thingy and it flew onto my favorite shirt. I tried to get it out and ended up tearing a hole in it.
Moral of the story, never glue while wearing nice clothes

[B-Kun]

Well, I was using a sharp, bran new hobby knife for converting thos humans who were fighting for the Tau. Back then, I was a Tau guy all the way, but then I slipped and cut my finger. Needed five stiches and the scar is still there. And the day after that I immedatly swiched to Orks. I think that is a sign....

[Dufflious]

That you're an idiot?

[Aelix Eisenhorn]

Knives? no, not yet. Glue? yes. when i first started buying modles i used, not the right glue, but industrial strength modeling glue. It literaly melted parts of the Necron Destroyer i was trying to make. And it kept falling apart. It smelled nasty too. That poor miss-shapen thing is now in some cabnet never to be seen again(cept for the rats, they see everything ) When i got smart and bought the real glue for these kinds of figures i was also prompted to buy the un-stick stuff for the gule. I am so happy i got that. Some guy told me about how he guled his hands together wiht some real gule and ripped skin off trying to un-stick it. oi!

[Dufflious]

Glue? Heh. My girlfriend got some SUper Glue in her eye when she was making something in GW. They were all going crazy over her "Oh my God, someone get her an eyebath!"

She was fine, in the end.