(50 grit sandpaper + random orbital sander + hand) - attention = OUCH

ouch.keep it clean so it doesn’t get infected.

-- Roper - master of sawdust-

OUCH is Right!!!

mmmmmmm…........skin vs small gravel———gravel wins every time. Sorry bout your injury buddy, take it easy for a couple of days, keep it clean/dry/covered.

AND…..pay attention….lol (sorry had to throw that in, meant no disrespect)

-- Adrian ..... The 11th Commandment...."Thou Shalt Not Buy A Wobble Dado"

Oh, that hurt! That bites too! I can remember doing something like that. Its good to remember how easy it happens. Take care Dex.

-- Bill, S.E. Iowa

What is bad about it is that I can’t keep anything on it…bandaids fall off, kerlex won’t stay in place either, and the worst is, I am in the Army and we can’t roll our sleeves up like we used to, so the cuff keeps rubbing on it! I am also an EMT, and short of wrapping up my whole hand, which wont work either, cuz I have to type alot at work, I can’t think of anything I could put on/over it that would stay in place. lazyfireman… you are a paramedic if I remember right… do you have any suggestions?

-- If it ain't country, it ain't music!

Try covering it with superglue. They use that to put cuts back together, but you are looking for a covering. The superglue might work.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Karson has it right…..superglue or check with you medic and see if he has any “dermabond”....medical superglue. You might also try steri-strips…uses an activated adhesive thats secures bandaid type material to keep it covered.

Instead of kerlex, try coban….your medic should have some. like kerlex but binds to itself. off post pharmacy should have otc dermabond or coban.

-- Adrian ..... The 11th Commandment...."Thou Shalt Not Buy A Wobble Dado"

This is a little long but informative regarding Super Glue. I copied it from another forum where a MD had placed a warning about its use. This was added as a response to his short warning.

Superglue Stitches
For years midwives have been using over-the-counter superglue to “suture” perineal tears after birth. It’s better than stitches. Veteran backpackers have been known to pack a tiny tube of super glue for emergency repairs of deep cuts in places where there is no doctor.

Superglue is ethyl-cyanoacrylate. While fine for small cuts, it has several weaknesses when used as a substitute for heavy-duty suturing. An improved version, butyl-cyanoacrylate was developed for heavier surgical repairs, and this stuff was used widely in the Vietnam War to patch up soldiers in the field. Butyl-cyanoacrylate is a little more flexible on a wound than commercial superglue, generates fewer toxic byproducts, and is now commonly used by vets to repair animal wounds. You can buy the stuff as 3M Vetbond. This is also what midwives have started using.

In 2000, the FDA approved a new version of tissue adhesive for human use, sold as Dermabond. This new composition, octyl-cyanoacrylate, is a longer chain, still more flexible, and possess the yet-unexplained ability to inhibit bacterial growth—a godsend in surgery. It’s strong enough that it will likely replace a lot of suturing altogether someday. Small quantities of octyl-cyanoacrylate are sold to non-medicals for “research purposes”—it’s the genuine stuff, only in dispensers that aren’t sterilized, and therefore not approved for human use (only animal use).

To use any cyanoacrylate on a wound, keep it on the surface layer of skin, not down in the well of the wound – imagine you are taping the top of the wound together. The glue sloughs off by itself in time.

Despite all the improvements of cyanoacrylate, small amounts of hardware store superglue will work in a pinch. I know a physician who uses ordinary superglue at home on his kid’s cuts. A vial of Vetbond would be even better. It’s dyed blue so you can easily see where it is on the skin and where it is not, and it is made for cuts.

Vetbond
(Butyl-cyanoacrylate)
3ml
$15
Revival Animal Health
Also from Amazon

-- Roger1

You could always graft some skin from one of your cheeks right?

Seriously though thanks for the warning as someone just starting out the safety advice is well recieved. I’d like to keep all my digits so I can do this stuff for years to come.

I hope it heals quickly.

-- Rob

Thanks for the info on the CA-type glues. I have been keeping it clean and applying Neosporin quite regularly. It is healing quite well, but I will have a pretty good “reminder” scar.

-- If it ain't country, it ain't music!

Thats why I am designing a sign to warn people “If Power tools are running, wait to enter”

-- Rick Kruse, Rick's Rustics Handcrafted wood products Grand Rapids, MI

You can go to the local pharmacy and get liquid bandage. I has an antiseptic that burns like he double hokey sticks and then hardens. I use it for small cuts and small abrasions. Once again did I tell you hit burns like the dickens?

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