Which fingers are missing?

[CJ]

I just was digging around on the main site, here, and the wiki and couldn't find a clear answer.  It's entirely probable that I've just overlooked it.  But.

Which fingers is Sol missing?  How much of said fingers is gone? 

[mocknot]

I'm pretty sure it's the ring and pinky fingers of his left hand, and I've been thinking that it was the second and third phalanges that were missing, but I might be making this up. I do distinctly recall that he has a habit of holding his hand so it gives the illusion that the fingers are just curled under, which is why I was assuming there had to be at least a bit of a stump.

[tamnonlinear]

Ring and pinkie. According to one tall tale, bitten off by his wife after she caught him in bed with twin aerialists:

http://shadowunit.org/ringfinger.html

[CJ]

Aha!  Thank you!

I remembered the story, but not which fingers it was, or where the story was.  Does he have stump fingers left?  Do we know?  I remember that somewhere someone said he folds his hand in a way to conceal that he's missing fingers at least some of the time.

[tamnonlinear]

From knock on coffins:

Lau startled when Todd put a plate of rice and Buddha's Delight in her hands, the partially-missing fingers folded under automatically. He hid it better than James Doohan: she'd known him six months before she'd realized he was maimed, and when she asked about it he'd told some improbable Vonnegutesque story about following a girl who didn't love him to a communal farm in New Hampshire, and nearly freezing and/or starving to death the first and only winter. "Mangia," he said. "Tea?"

[ebony14]

Personally, I keep waiting for Sol to use a variant of Vlad Taltos' explanation for his missing finger. Probably starting with, "You know how the movies make you think that people who know kung fu can catch bullets? Well, the truth is, we can, but it doesn't always go well."

[Mattador]

Personally, I've been waiting for a story about how they were chopped off by a mutant lobster...

[MadGastronomer]

I've been waiting for one about how he was bitten by an extremely rare and deadly venomous <insert improbable animal here> and had to cut them off himself to prevent the venom from spreading.

[jimsmyth]

Nah.  There's gotta me a mummy in there somewhere.

[txanne]

Or he tried catching a knife with the flat of his hand. Huzzah for literary allusions!

[CJ]

Chopping wood as a kid, like Jerry Garcia?  Or is that not exciting enough?

[Emma Bull]

He was doing the undercover-journalist thing, writing an article on an Amish community. He was grinding coffee beans in one of those hand-crank grinders. It jammed on an especially hard-roasted bean, and he stuck his hand in the grinding apparatus to free it up, and...

Feel free to tell him you don't believe he'd hand-crank his own fingers off. He'll have a perfectly (im)plausible explanation for that part, too.

[ebony14]

Or he tried catching a knife with the flat of his hand. Huzzah for literary allusions!

Hence the Vlad Taltos comment above.