Bite from a RAT Izula

[ToolyMcgee]

That sucks... I've cut a few to the bone. It's hard to tell how bad it is until it's healed a little and the swelling goes down. Clean cuts have always ended up giving me all my feeling back, but I picked a hedgetrimmer up by the sickle and something hit the trigger... everything I can feel in that index finger is wierd.

Can you still move it? That's the important part. Feelings are for ladies.

[the lockpickkid]

Holy crap! A hedgetrimmer? That would suck! My finger has partial feeling, but when it gets cold it hurts really bad, it was crushed, it took awhile before I could do much with it!

[HallisChalmers]

That sucks... I've cut a few to the bone. It's hard to tell how bad it is until it's healed a little and the swelling goes down. Clean cuts have always ended up giving me all my feeling back, but I picked a hedgetrimmer up by the sickle and something hit the trigger... everything I can feel in that index finger is wierd.

Can you still move it? That's the important part. Feelings are for ladies.

Yep. just like the circus fat lady said to the horny midget - "It's a little stiff".

But the finger does flex pretty good. Hopefully it'll get some feeling back after the stitches come out. Right now it feels like I'm wearing a glove on that finger. Strange.

[barbarian]

..... There was a guy a few weeks ago on one of the knife forums who cut off his palm sharpening one. Like a fish fillet...

OK... I threw up a bit in my mouth and swallowed it...

Don't you guys have some kind of a guard to protect the edge when you work on these razors? I guess you can't while you are sharpening, but while you are lacing the handle. I'm thinking a thick piece of leather tied on or maybe some clear plastic hose over the edge. Butchers glove? Something ?

[elbowmacaroni]

..... There was a guy a few weeks ago on one of the knife forums who cut off his palm sharpening one. Like a fish fillet...

OK... I threw up a bit in my mouth and swallowed it...

Don't you guys have some kind of a guard to protect the edge when you work on these razors? I guess you can't while you are sharpening, but while you are lacing the handle. I'm thinking a thick piece of leather tied on or maybe some clear plastic hose over the edge. Butchers glove? Something ?

I wondered the same thing, but I too am guilty of not fully respecting the edge on occasion (it only takes a split second) and subsequently seeing bone... oh well, live and maybe learn... maybe... Usually, the cuts from the really sharp blades aren't so bad until after a day or two, it's impact wounds that tear that are a bitch. Of course, I'll probably die awash in a blazing fire or blow myself up doing something stupid so what the hell...

[Hobbs]

Man, I tried to post to this thread three or four times in a row and the software kept logging me out for some reason - bizarre!

Anyways, RATs (Now known as ESEE Knives) are excellent knives, my wife and I both have Izulas and RAT/ESEE-3s and I also have the H.E.S.T. and some of Randall's survival gear - all excellent products, to say the least.

[HallisChalmers]

I agree...I bought a HEST recently and it is another tough little blade, built like a tank. I like to think of it's like an
Izula...but wrapped in body armor.

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[Hobbs]

It is a tough little bugger!

I had some of these French Military Rations, they still have them in the can, but they are like large sardine cans. I used the HEST to cut an X in the bottom of them, just so I could take pictures for my blog and website for upcoming survival articles - you can make animal traps out of sardine and other cans, etc.

Didn't even faze the HEST, marred the black finish just a bit, didn't hurt the point or edge at all.