My Saw Bit Me. Three Times!

Dude!

Listen 2 your wife. Your supposed to keep your fingers away from those little pointy thingys. They’re sharp!

Now let her rub some stingy stuff on there to remind you not to do that again <g>

-- Scott - Chico California http://chicowoodnut.home.comcast.net

Those kinds of cuts are nothing to me anymore, I almost laugh when I get them because nothing beats a table saw biting. But I wish it hadn’t anyway.

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

I know, I know – but as a neanderthal I don’t lose TOO much blood so I have to whine about it when it happens. :^)

-- Eric at http://adventuresinwoodworking.com

nothing wrong with that at all

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

You’ll have to develop an OSHA approved blade guard for your handsaw.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Would you believe I removed it? Ha!

(Check in the pic, you can see the plastic blade guard in the background.)

-- Eric at http://adventuresinwoodworking.com

I am glad your injury was not too bad. This hobby (vocation) can have some serious consequences.

oh man i’ve done that countless times. its funny everyone at school has no clue what to thing when they see all the saw marks :)

Behind every good man is a good woman… rolling her eyes. Sigh. Glad it was not your tailed apprentice that was so hungry for flesh!

-- There's no tool like an old tool...

My dad used to say to me was that if you cut yourself, or hit yourself with a hammer, then you were thinking about something else other than your work. I’m not saying that this was true in your case, but I wil say that everytime I have hit my fingers with a hammer, he was dead on.

-- Julian, Park Forest, IL

rule number one keep your fingers AWAY from the sharp thing.

-- Roper - Master of sawdust-

rule number two : keep your sharp tools away from your fingers.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

Yep, been bit by my ryoba too. Brain is not programmed to watch out for the second edge. Hopefully it has learned.

-- Doug, woodworking in Alabama

Remember,

You’re in good company. Have you ever seen Roy Underhill’s fingers?

-- Scott - Chico California http://chicowoodnut.home.comcast.net

wow this injury is more common than i realized. just last night i put a pretty good (but short) slice in my finger, just wasn’t thinking about the sharp backside i guess. and here i was thinking, “man i bet this only happens to me”

~isaac

-- "Who but a fool would discard seeminly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent engineering" -- Aldo Leopold

Scott,

Roy Underhill reminds me of Less Nessman, from the TV show WRKP in Cinncinnatti. They both always have a bandage on in every episode.

-- Julian, Park Forest, IL

It is the nature of the beast to bite the Master. I have nicked my finger on the table saw and on the scroll saw same hand same finger 2 different times. Within weeks of each other. Doh!! Hopefully I don’t have to be told a 3rd time to keep my hands away from the mouth and claws of the beast. Glad you are okay. And FOR GOD’S SAKE LISTEN TO SWMBO. LOL

-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

Keep your blade sharp it will make a cleaner cut watch the fingers

-- Jim, Kentucky

Eric, there is an old carpenter’s rule. “Never put your finger where you would’nt put your diddle”, works every time.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python