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Heck yes! My stint in the Marine Corps taught me that superglue and Motrin can fix quite a few injuries.

I cut myself once or twice a year. Glue it. Spray it with kicker and get right back to work with virtually no delay.

For the love of god if your going to do this on anything that is either deep or wide flush it first. People have had to have their fingers amputated because they just super glued a cut that needed stitches and the glue just trapped in the infection making the cut turn gangrenous.

Wait, you guys bleed before you superglue?

Usually when I'm working on a model, my fingers end up so covered in superglue that when I do get cut it's pretty much already sealed up...

No I dont do that....and while that may work as a servival technique in training...I dont think I would habitually practice that solution. I wouldnt want the chemicals in superglue being exposed to my capillaries...im just saying.

I've done it in the past. Prefer to try not to cut myself these days - and have been known to put a band aid on the ball of my thumb prior to starting knife work to prevent such occurences.

Oh, and it was originally developed in WWII as a replacement for gun sights - it did not work there -

From Wikipedia - The original cyanoacrylates (the chemical name for the glue) were discovered in 1942 in a search for materials to make clear plastic gun sights for World War II when a team of scientists headed by Harry Wesley Coover Jr. stumbled upon a formulation that stuck to everything that it came in contact with.[1] However, cyanoacrylates were quickly rejected by the American researchers precisely because they stuck to everything. In 1951, cyanoacrylates were rediscovered by Eastman Kodak researchers Harry Coover and Fred Joyner, who recognized their true commercial potential, and it was first sold as a commercial product "Eastman #910" (later "Eastman 910") in 1958.

 Alleton wrote:
When I was in the Army, I had been told that super glue was originally meant to be used as a battlefield patch for this sort of thing, replacing bandages for smaller wounds. Before that it was discovered accidentally when they were looking for a clear plastic-like material for gunsights or something.

True.

"Some rock climbers use cyanoacrylate to repair damage to the skin on their fingertips.[8][9] Similarly, stringed-instrument players can form protective finger caps (in addition to calluses) with cyanoacrylates.

CA glue was in veterinary use for mending bone, hide, and tortoise shell by at least the early 1970s. Harry Coover said in 1966 that a CA spray was used in the Vietnam War to slow bleeding in wounded soldiers until they could be brought to a hospital. Butyl cyanoacrylate has been used medically since the 1970s outside the US, but, due to its potential to irritate the skin, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not approve its use as a medical adhesive until 1998 with Dermabond.[10] Research has demonstrated the use of cyanoacrylate in wound closure as being safer and more functional than traditional suturing (stitches).[11] The adhesive has demonstrated superior performance in the time required to close a wound, incidence of infection (suture canals through the skin's epidermal, dermal, and subcutaneous fat layers introduce extra routes of contamination),[11] and final cosmetic appearance."

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate#Uses

I've used Super-Glue to close cuts as well. The only problem is if the cut is on a bit of skin the regularly flexes (finger joints / finger pads) it will open up within an hour (the bleeding will have stopped though). For cuts like that, a small bandage (don't use until the glue cures) helps restrict movement and helps to keep the wound shut.

If anyone is wondering; no, it does not burn.

Did the same. Modeling knife slipped and gave me a cut that nearly took the tip of my finger off. Pushed it together and super glued it and it healed up without a scar. Hell, even the nerve endings rejoined as i had no feeling in the tip of my finger.

I find that if I don't play guitar for a while, the skin on my fingertips starts to soften. It can be quite painful sliding your fingers around on metal strings when you are not used to it. So I sometimes put blobs of Superglue on my finger tips. It's like instant callus solution. Then you can play all day long.

I've never tried it on cuts, but I don't usually cut myself. When I was younger I slipped with a stanley knife and nearly cut my finger in half. It wasn't the good type of cut in half either when the blade goes neatly across. It was the bad type when the blade goes through the tip and down the middle.

I find following a few simple rules like always cutting away from yourself prevents most cuts. If I'm not able to cut away from myself, I usually hold the knife in a loosely clenched fist, connect my hands, and then use the action of clenching my fist tighter to move the blade. You can apply quite a lot of force that way (much more than with your arms), but the range of motion is so small that if the blade suddenly slips it can only move a few millimetres, then your hand is closed. I haven't cut myself for quite a number of years.