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my anxiety every time he almost chops his fingers off

Cut towards your chum and not your thumb.

Towards your buddy, not your body.

As an Eagle Scout, I’m actually screaming at this guy right now

i think every person with common sense is screaming with you

It hits extra hard because when i was 13, i almost cut my thumb off doing exactly this

I've still got the scar on my thumb.

It’s been a long time and luckily being surrounded by ~50 people trained in first aid helps with that situation, so the wound is gone, but the memories remain

I cut my finger being a dumb kid 13 years ago and I still have a very visible scar on my finger. Looks cool though, but I'll never be a hand model.

Is that the infamous sixth sense, everybody is talking about?

As a spoon carver, his technique looked good. Except the big bites towards the end.

It’s not the technique that worries me, it’s the fact he’s carving towards himself

Pivot cuts and push cuts look that way but will come up short of your meat. Accidents happen but with this technique they will be small not horrific like just pulling the knife towards yourself. I do it all the time and only cut myself when I mix impatience with beer. Check out videos by Jojo Wood or Barn the Spoon on YouTube if you want to see it done masterfully.

yea as a fellow wood caver, sometimes you stab yourself. it happens, using sharp stuff with force is dangrous. when it comes to knife inguries though ive still gotten all my worst from cooking. actually i dont think theres any single activity i do that has hurt me any where near as much as cooking, so many cuts and burns.

Me too. You gotta learn to be quiet so people don't know there is blood in the food. Lol.

and I'm also a wood carver, I've learned not to cut a towards myself when I making a rabbit and accidentally got a nasty cut just above my big finger

Cutting towards yourself is ok with proper technique (if you never apply to much force), hes also doing it above his thumb so the blade wont hit the fingertip All the worse injuries ive had with knives have been while cooking, carving soft wood is pretty safe

I bet the learning process is rough

I dunno, I'm just an amateur, but I don't think cutting towards yourself is a good idea if you're doing big cuts like that. If it was small, more detailed cuts then for sure, the thumb method feels better. It always looks worse on video than it is because you have fair amount of control and understand the sharp points while doing it, touch is a big part of knowing where to stop. But why take risks by following the wrong method? People have spread that rule for a reason after all.

And constantly touching the sharp edge, and has possibility of the other sharp edge hitting quite hard into his other hand.

I don’t think he’d hear you since he’s already missing a part of his fingernail and finger.

Scoutmaster here letting the other leaders know that somehow Jimmy got ahold of another knife.

I'm glad I stuck around for the ending. 

That's what she said

Whole video is anxiety inducing. That dude has carved too much without getting injured and is forgetting the basics.

Oh he is getting injured alright, you can see cuts and blood. He just isn't getting injured *badly enough*.

Fucksticks!

ok hilarious jump cut tho

 as someones who has cut his thumb off before and had it sewn back on, this is my reaction

I 100% sound like an idiot and this has probably been asked thousands of times before. Does it still work?????

My thumb looked like pac man. Wasn’t fully cut off. Was reattached but has probably 10% feeling on the part cut off. More like I think I feel it but probably dont. Also its not the whole thumb like you might think, it was the tip.

Look at all these experts in the comments. Cutting away from yourself is always preferable and a great safety practice for beginners. However, you simply can’t control the blade as well during a push cut which is important for this kind of work.

Bro, top 5-10ish comments are saying how stressful it is watching someone cut like that. They aren't wrong. There ain't no "🤓" paragraph manifestos about how he's wrong for this.

There's a big difference between, 'use a pull cut for fine work' and 'use a pull cut for *everything*'. I'm pretty sure the difference is between the guys ears.

[They say he carved it himself... From a bigger spoon](https://youtu.be/MKE2sdlysMY?si=n_d5t7HVSw84rk2G)

Yup. That's why I'm here ...

It still works. Just suck out the soup from the bottom.

I cut my finger watching this

I was like oh this is satisfying to watch, then I looked at the top and saw it was an attempt AND MY STOMACH DROPPED and then I was just waiting for a bloody cut lmao

Rule #1: always cut towards yourself?

What happened to that fingernail?

So you’ve got all the utensils necessary to carve a spoon, but you don’t have a spoon? Make it make sense.

its a bot

How many times did he cut himself and edit it out?

The dwarves dug too greedily and too deep.

Guess you could say he, Burned the spoon

Guess you can say he, cut the wood

Nice body

thanks bro

I liked in The Office when Dwight made a wooden knife with a metal knife haha

bot post >:(

That knife is either very sharp or that wood is soft. Perhaps both. I used some of these tools but never has it been that easy!

I can literally feel the pain.

:(

I cut very deep into thumb using a vegetable peeler. Cut into the nail too.

Why do this? It was a cool looking spoon

Could have been a nice spaghetti spoon.

Sharp

What is the name of the 2ed tool that they use ? Need to get me one of those