I Think The Router Won!

OOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

lew said it all -

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://americancraftsmanworkshop.com

I’m sorry about you injury I hope you post will encourage all of us to be more careful .I hope your fingers heal quickly.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

If this is the only injury I ever get I will be very happy. It has made life a little difficult, and I am taking pain meds every 6 hours so it is not so bad. All of the daily tasks have become interesting also. I am right handed and of course it damaged the right middle finger.

Sorry Tearen, I didn’t mean to. Hop e the finger feels better.

-- www.carvingandturningsbyrick.com, Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

Seeing your blog and the pictures made me shudder….ooooooow!! while I have not had this happen to me..your blog made me that much more aware we need to be while using cutters that spin at a whopping 25,000+ RPM.. my closest call was while using a fingerpull cutter on my router table and got distracted during set-up..forgot to tighten the bit in the router and accidently turned it on.. the bit spun for about 3 seconds before flying out of the collets and bouncing all over inside the router table..the carbide cutter cracked and chipped itself to pieces and landed a few feet away from me..I thank God it didn’t hit me anywhere and considered myself very, very fortunate.. but it taught me a valuable lesson to double check EVERYTHING twice and stand clear when first turning it on to make sure it’s properly seated..again..thanks for posting and I hope you heal well..

-- Randall Child http://www.racfurniture.com/

I often wonder why I read these kinds of posts and look at the pictures, while I’m eating breakfast or any meal for that matter. Your observations, after the fact as they are, are very correct about cutting smaller pieces after they’ve been routed. I’ve never understood why people risk injuring themselves with small pieces on a router. I guess so they can find out for themselves.

The more injuries that get posted here, the more I wish there was a special section for all of OUR postings about how we got injured and follow-ups on how we are doing days, weeks, months, years alter. Being in this not so exclusive group who’s permanently damaged a digit, I also find myself wondering how it was that I could look at my own injury and not feel queasy, but when I look at injuries from other people, bring on that queasiness.

Our forefathers are probably laughing at the fact that they never got kickbacks from tablesaws or running their fingers into router bits, because they didn’t have power tools. Their injuries were far less. They never had the luxury of having a piece of wood come back at their mouth and leave them bleeding like we get to have.

-- Respect your shop tools and they will respect you - Ric

Once again, been there, done that…...........Ooooooow it hurts as I well know. I guess you learned your lesson.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

Ouch, hope you finger get to feeling better here soon!

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

Speedy recovery to you !
There’s nothing like the feeling of flesh meeting power cutting tool by accident : (
Would’ve , could’ve , should have used that darned push stick ! Thanks for sharing your pix with us . I never got any pix of my injury.

-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.

Wow!!! This is a serious injury but I am glad it was not any worse. This will put you out of commission for a little while but I am hoping that you get back into the shop and back to your “normal” routine soon.

-- Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful- Joshua Marine

I forgive you Rustic.

I plan on being back to work in the shop tonight. Need to make some more stock for the next couple of craft shows. Some new ideas to try out and some other ideas that I have seen on here. I hope I don’t get any emails about stealing ideas!

Ow ow ow! Hope everything heals up OK, and thankful you weren’t hurt worse!

-- The days are long and the years are short...

Ouch! thats hurt!

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

These threads always give me the heebie jeebies but I open them to keep myself paranoid when I’m working.

Hope your finger feels better soon!

(shudder)

-- Beth