Quick First Aid Tip

You've all got duct tape in your PSK right?

Here's a tip I applied for the past couple of days thanks to a careless error in judgment.

I was sharpening my SAK on a Fallkniven DC3 and thinking to myself, "Huh, my fingers are really in a poor position and could be cut easily" at just about the same time as I noticed a line of blood starting to form on the tip of my thumb.

Fingertip cuts are the worst because I'm constantly breaking them open during the healing process and it drags things out by days.

What I needed and didn't have was a butterfly bandage to keep things held together but allow airflow to get to the cut.

I cut strips off the duct tape (bright pink gaffer's tape in this instance) and then cut the "V" notches on each side in the middle and used it with great success to hold the cut together until the skin healed enough to keep itself together.

The tape held when wet, greasy, and dirty and it was easy and cheap to change.

Thanks for reading,


B