Superglue to seal cuts, the downside of knives is that they cut…

Posted: April 1st, 2010 | Author: Thomas | Filed under: My life & general musings | No Comments »

 

If you are new to my blog you will soon come to realize that I have a fondness of gallivanting around in nature wielding awesome tools made of steel with sharp edges and as you can imagine this particular hobby of mine (one of many) does come with its own downsides… namely the unavoidable cuts that sporadically crop up on my hand leaving me bemused as to why I like to play with knives in the first place.

 

Thankfully man has invented the perfect remedy for small cuts and to a lesser degree deep ones as I discovered yesterday, although what I did is not recommended for sane people, please visit the doctors etc. !

I am either stupid or very lucky and I take NO responsibility in what you do after reading this entry.

Envision if you will this scenario; I am innocently sharpening a knife while simultaneously engaging myself in a stimulating conversation with my homie (JJ to be precise) when completely unexpectedly the knife which was previously behaving itself decides to bite down on my innocent pinkie.

Ouch you say?

Nay.

It was mega sharp and as such, while it cut down to the bone I felt not a thing.

Nada!

My first reaction was naturally to do what I always do when small cuts happen which is to seal it up with some Superglue, a technique I assure you, that works extremely well.

However this was my first time with a wound this deep and being a manly man and as such not phazed by gore which would make lesser men weep like little girls, I went ahead with my little experiment.

After emptying half a tube (2grams roughly) of Superglue on my pinkie, it has more or less healed with not lingering pain!

Somewhat graphic photographs coming up!

The cut was about 8mm deep and thus did bite the bone but due to the sharpness of the knife in question (an Opinel No. 8 Carbon) I felt absolutely nothing.

 

Before

After

Anyway, I will be back with normal sort of posts very soon, sorry about the break but I was burning out with pressure from work! ,

Diamine inks & other fun things coming up as well as Boker’s new 2010 collection.

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