I won't show you my bandaged & bleeding finger.........

[tim]

...but I will remind you to keep your knives SHARP!!

Used it yesterday & thought 'that's got an edge like a saw - must sharpen'. Didn't, & today it splipped.

[tim]

[lorna]

Tim Good advice, hope injury is not too serious.
Lorna

[Robert_Brenchley]

Quite right, I've done the same before now. Another thing to watch out for is sharpening anything curved like a grass hook. It's horribly easy to cut yourself.

[sally_cinnamon]

I find it horribly easy to cut myself on anything - the other day I slit my wrist on a clingfilm box.  Okay, exaggeration, but still - a clingfilm box for heavens sake!

Tim - hope your injury is not impeding you too much.

[triffid]

 :-* better for Tim's poor finger

[cookie]

I am wearing a very fetching blue plaster on my left thumb at the moment! Tried peeling a  butternut squash with a brand new VERY SHARP KNIFE!!!
My very old  veg knife gave up the ghost last week,so treated myself to a new one. Barrie very kindly sharpened it before I went to work!!! Nearly passed out! so much  :'( :'(blood!!!!!

[Larkspur]

I have had two new gardening knives in the last ten years. The first thing I did with BOTH of them was test them for sharpness on my thumb and cut myself :-[.

[ACE]

I have had two new gardening knives in the last ten years. The first thing I did with BOTH of them was test them for sharpness on my thumb and cut myself :-[.

Once is a mistake, twice is deliberate.

[tim]

Clingfilm box?? I've cut my hand tearing the plastic 'envelope' off the Sunday mags!!

[sally_cinnamon]

Clingfilm box?? I've cut my hand tearing the plastic 'envelope' off the Sunday mags!!

Yeah, it's the serrated edge, gets me sooo many times!  Strangely enough, my knives haven't yet caused me a problem! ??? ::)

[saddad]

I managed to "prune" my little finger with secateurs, I still have all the fingers and a fetching little scar...
:o