Good news is I still have all my fingers.
Had a bad kickback from cutting the material. Crunched my left hand with the flying board edge – no blade contact. X-Rays show nothing broken. Fingers pretty lacerated and swollen. Got a long overdue Tetanus shot.
Accident was 100% avoidable. Should have been more careful and should have set up an outfeed table. Probably should not have worked alone. Then again, my 16-year old would have done it right and not had a problem to begin with. I get on him constantly about safety and using pushblocks but got lazy myself.
Taking a few days off. Will get some help this weekend from my 16-year old. Disappointed because I wanted to accomplish something on my own. Not gonna happen this time.
-- Doug - When all you own is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Greg The Cajun Box Sculptor
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#1 posted 584 days ago
Ouch!
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#2 posted 584 days ago
Probably should not have worked alone
When ever possible I have the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders in the shop with me.
Sometimes I have Halle Berry, Megan Fox, Gwenneth Paltrow, or Qui Shi but my fav is Madoka Ozawa.
I’m confused: Ya see for me woodworking is a solitary affair. I am all alone in my shop all the time.
In fact the only time I have company is when my grand daughter is over and she’s feeling like she wants to spend time with me. So she’ll come and hang out and I’ll find stuff for her to do which inevitably takes me away from everything else.
How is that you might not have been working alone?
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#3 posted 584 days ago
should have set up an outfeed table
That would be my recommendation. I hate trying to fight gravity while I’m trying to make a cut. It isn’t very safe, it isn’t very fun, and the results aren’t very good either. Using a helper for outfeed support can be a real disaster unless you both are paying attention and know what you should be doing.
I work alone in my shop all the time. Every once in a great while someone is in there with me and I find it distracting.
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LegendInMyOwnMind
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#4 posted 583 days ago
My 16-year old and I do most of the projects together. I promised him (and his brothers) a shop some years back and finally built one and now we work together in the shop. I mostly do the Sketchup designs and he builds the stuff but when he gets stuck we stick our heads together and try to come up with solutions. On occasion, I try to build something myself. This was one of those occasions where I wanted to do something by myself and it only turned out so well.
-- Doug - When all you own is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
LegendInMyOwnMind
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#5 posted 583 days ago
Truth be told he does most of the work and I do the cleanup. I’m basically his go-fer. It’s been a working plan so far, but with him being 16-1/2 now I think he needs to apprentice one of the younger brothers :)
-- Doug - When all you own is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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