Finger biopsies

Re: Finger biopsies

Paul M. in San Diego


>Gack! I don't know which is worse. Seeing a title like that, or realizing it uses the plural for biopsy.

I consider the red stuff to be a makers mark. There's some of it deep in the wood on almost every project!

Been There

Ron in Kokomo


>Used to be a recurring thread over on the Porch. I lurk there now. Not as much laughing going on as there used to be. IMHO

Re: Finger biopsies

Ernie Miller


>so you use the DNA pen to sign all of you projects. I can see the Keno boys now. We can positivle attribute this to paul M. because of the DNA profile he left here on the leg and we also found one here on the drawer where he was cutting his dovetails. notice his detail to the even gaps in the pins 100 years agor that would have been considered sloppy but today that is craftsmanship other wise it would have been a sign of machine made.

LOL, Ernie!

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

The slow approach

Bob Hackett


>When engaged in sharpening I prefer to abrade the pads off my fingers.

To each thier own I guess.

Seems a shame that after finally being smart enough to keep all body parts behind the cutting edge I find myself so clever that I`m able to find ingenious ways to still get my blood on whatever I`m working on.

Mainely,Bob

Re: Finger biopsies

Paul M. in San Diego


>Hey Ernie,

That was funny!

BTW. The way you can tell the difference between hand and machine made is the *quantity* of blood in the project. You don't want the table made by the Shaper operator with the severe hangover! There's a lot of "natural pigment dye" in that one!

Thumb biopsies

David Miller from Iowa


>A good, cautionary tale. I used to keep all my chisels on the wall attached to a very strong strip magnet. It was a great solution -readily available and the working end wasn't rolling around in some drawer getting dull. Until the day I knocked the slick off and had that automatic catch reflex, nearly severing my thumb. Probably $3000 in medical costs outside of insurance and my thumb will never work properly again. Be careful out there...

Re: Thumb biopsies

Paul M. in San Diego


>David's split second decision process:

Thumb biopsy or toe reattachment? ;-)

I know that my automatic reaction is to try to stop the falling object by stopping its fall with my foot. I wonder if I would be smart enough to bypass that reaction if it was a heavy sharpened slick? Yow!

No biopsies

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX


>Can't believe you guys do this. First thing I learned in the kitchen, and I was a late bloomer there, having waited until after college to do more in the kitchen than eat dinner, was to jump back when sharp and/or heavy things start falling to the floor.

Now, if you want to talk about the care and feeding of a table saw....

Pam

Re: Finger biopsies

Adam Cherubini, NJ


>Sorry about that bob.

We've talked about this at Pennsbury Manor. In years past, there were few injuries, but we're getting better at sharpening and I think we currently working pretty hard. My point is the same ole same ole isn't always good enough. When we were boy scouts we couldn't cut jack with our belt axes. Now, my "bench hatchet" (that's a new tool description btw) is sharper than most people's chef's knives.

What I do (is particularly crazy) is hold one end of teh draw knife against my chest and push the other against a planing stop or post vise or something, and hone with my right hand. But most drawknives won't stay in that position and the tool slips. I got REAL lucky one day and I now wear one of those fancy draw knife sharpening gloves (okay it's a crispy old leather work glove made for a man whose hands are 6" across and has 1-1/2" long fingers (probably a power tool user)).

Adam

Re: Finger biopsies

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away


>When we were boy scouts we couldn't cut jack with our belt axes.

I had no problems cutting Jack, I even got Joe and Fred a few times as well! ;~)

Bob, I hope that fingers heals up quckly, and from the sounds of it it already is. :~) Also sounds like you've mastered the skills to get a drawknife razor sharp as well. Do you put a back-bevel on yours?

Todd O.

Who also tries to break the fall of tools with his foot, and has his slick sitting FIRMLY in a rack!

Re: Thumb biopsies

Frank D. in Montreal


>I did it with a scrub blade (that was really sharp)...wouldn't want a nicked blade now would we? I saved the edge but it cost me 5 stitches and a pint of blood (the cambered edge digs quite deeply into the flesh...hogging it out as they say)!

Re: drawknives

paul womack


>Strange things.

At first sight, they look dangerous, but with both hands on the handles, you're quite safe. You're pulling it towards your self (bellly), but to acutally cut yourself, you'd need to go to quite an extreme an unnnatural posture.

Sharpening the things, however, is lethal, and terrifies me.

The core of the problem is that our sharpneing stones are quite small, and hence the hand holding the stone is rather to close to the blade, and running up and down it.

In the world of horticulture, where blade are long (scythes, slashers, reap hooks etc), the sharpening stones are normally 10-14 inches long, allowing the hand to be a "better" distance away.

So ... let's be careful out there!

BugBear

Re: drawknives

ken


>Well I don't own any drawknives (I don't have the time to use the tools I have now), so this is pure speculation... It would seem a straightforward thing to put together a holder that would keep your hands out of harms way. Something along the lines of a clamp to hold the stone with a handle(s) on the back. That coupled with a clamp for the drawknife would mean you could "plane" your edge sharp. Perhaps I'm just not seeing things as they are.