I survived my first Wood Turning Explosion!

I can’t remember any “near Misses” my blow outs usually do hit me first. Never gain enough confidence to try turning without that face shield, never!

-- Dan-- Info for all @ http://www.hoistman.com

I’m with Dan, I never turn the lathe on without the face shield. Best blow up? Probably the bowl that broke off at the tennon (bigger bark inclusion than I thought!) and missed me but hit my wife’s bmw…..nice round dent. Lesson: no more turning with the car in the garage.

Wow glad your alright.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Certainly glad you were not hurt.

My near misses usually result in blood drops on the lathe or a trip to the emergency room!

Haven’t had any yet…............Just lucky I guess. Glad you weren’t hurt.

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

the one good thing you get out of seeing things fly of the lathe is you learn not to stand in that path. best explosion is hard to say but it was probably when i started doing hollow forms and i cut right through the bottom, you only do that once. be safe and have fun.

-- Roper - Master of sawdust-

Have had several. But when you use old pallets for wood, sometime those cracks are hard to see. Have not been hit yet (thankfully) I think the worst was finishing a bottom on a small bowl and have it come off the lathe. Did not fly but it sure danced across the bench and floor a while before it slowed down.(3000 RPM) Had a LOT of sanding to remove dents from that one, but it was saved.

Glad you weren’t hurt. ALWAYS use that face sheild.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

I don’t have a lathe (yet…. ) but I have had a few incidents that could have been near misses with the table saw – when a piece decides to shoot back out on you. Luckily, I took classes before buying a machine and learned the right way to stand – outside the line of fire. It sounds like common sense, but I have seen and still see plenty of people taking their chances.

I also tend to “break in” new knives and carving equipment as soon as I get them by getting a nice deep cut. Over-enthusiasm (with a bit of stupidity).

Otherwise, most of my accidents are outside of the sphere of woodworking.

Glad you werent hurt. Those things are always scary.

-- Wayne - Plymouth MN

My first one DID fly off and into the face shield, which did its job splendidly, no blood, no bruises, just rung my bell a little bit.

-- Trying to follow the example of the master.

i really need a face mask, guess i’ve been living dangerously, or more appropriately, stupidly…lol any suggestions on best money for the buy? i’m near Broke, haven’t even gotten the new live/spur centers i need…been out of commission for a while…but those cheap ones don’t seem like they’d do much. sometimes i wear my wrap around glasses and respirator mask, so i suppose my only fear then is a broken nose or somethin to the forehead. lol

Chris, the one I use was about $10 at home Depot. Been using it for 8 years and hasn’t failed me yet.

-- Dan-- Info for all @ http://www.hoistman.com

This is what I’m using.

http://www.napaonline.com/MasterPages/NOLMaster.aspx?PageId=470&LineCode=SAS&PartNumber=5145&Description=Safety+Face+Shield

I had it knocked off by a spindle between centers. It was over before I knew what happened. We both survived.

If the lathe is running, I wear it.

-- I'm a lumberjock and I'm ok, I sleep all night and I work all day!

Haven’t gotten a lathe yet. I may in the next couple weeks though until I have my hand back to 100%.

This happened Saturday AM. Second time I have had a bad cut with this hand. Never carve when distracted. I was using a pelican knife and turn my hand holding the wood and the knife at the wrong time. I call it a close call because it could have been a lot worse than it is. A few weeks of typing with half a hand and no real use of the thumb.

-- ~too many hobbies, not enough free time.

Ouch! maybe one of those chain maille gloves. Really shows that safety gear pays for itself. Glad it wasn’t worse and everybody seems to safe.

-- a little bit of stupid goes a long way

Wow you better practice safer working there girl.Glad you weren’t hurt tooooo badly.

-- Dustygirl..Hastings,Ontario.. How much wood can 1 gal chuck if 1 gal can't cut wood?

Hi Glad not hurt. My worst was a plate no 95 of 3500 that hit me in the face broke specs and 13 sutures later,
went and bought a nova chuck and gave the record chuck to a friend. no design oppurtunities since. the plates were over a 3.5 year period. Could do with a order like that now HA HA
kind regards Roger in SA

-- Always give it your best shot

congratulations! what’s next on the list?

my fav near miss was when I didn’t give my bandsaw the respect it deserves after everyone is stating that it’s the safest tool in the shop – I was cutting off 4” off of a log as a test cut, and pushed the log on it’s round side… blade cought int, tried to spin the log on the table, and it went flying by, knocked my fingers real good. luckily, other than a sore finger (no, not that one) nothing major happened.

-- When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

It happens when we are not all there.I was working on a job once and my job was to shoot metal door jambs to a concrete floor. I shot one down backwards so had to pop it up and turn it around. Hammer and chisel safe enough right I did a full swing with a 22 oz estwing hammer glanced off the chisel and hit myself in the knee that knocked my leg out from under me and my chest hit the concrete floor,knocked the wind out of me.So Im moaning and gasping on the floor and a coworker comes up to me and asked me if I was alright. When I could breathe I said yes and he asked me if I could do it again he missed it.

-- jim nevada

i tried to cut my hand off witha contractors worm drive ‘Skil’ saw. Nearly made it. Spent a nite in the hospital and 9 week doing almost nothing useful.
OUCH
Ira

-- Rustfever, Central California