Blade Show and Butterfly Bandages

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Anyone else in the middle of a cut yourself real bad once a week phase? I've needed stitches on every finger in the last few weeks it seems. I think of myself as a pretty OK knifemaker, but I make a killer butterfly bandage. A true master of the craft.:cool:
 
only thing i make fast in the shop is mistakes really proper words to hang in any workshop
mistakes coudl be simply refinishing a blde or it coudl be a cut that sidelines you from your work (how much work you get done then ?)
 
If it were not for Super Glue, I would have bled-out long ago.

Seems that lately, I am overlapping places that I just Super Glued a couple of days ago. My poor old hands are starting to look like a map of Georgia dirt roads.
 
I usually just slap on a latex glove and finish the step I'm on. Dylan will catch me with a glove full of blood sometimes. LOL.
 
butcher_block said:
only thing i make fast in the shop is mistakes really proper words to hang in any workshop
mistakes coudl be simply refinishing a blde or it coudl be a cut that sidelines you from your work (how much work you get done then ?)
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I worry about it. Thats why I haven't tried any cutting competition stuff. I can see myself cutting my own arm off.
 
When you think about how big, heavy, sharp and quickly swung those competition cutters are, it is a minor miracle there isn't foaming arterial blood spray splattering the spectators on a regular basis.

There is a saying in the machine trade: first you get good, then you get fast. We all want to be fast because that's how you make money, but if I'm not slow, methodical and deliberate, I'm bleeding.
 
Funny thing is that most of the cuts aren't coming from the machines. I get them from the knives.
 
We had a Mothers' Day shin-dig for my Dad's side of the family last Sunday. Many on that side hadn't seen a knife of mine, in hand, for 10 years (if ever).

So my Dad asked me to bring a couple knives to show.

I was taking a damascus fighter out of its zippered case and managed to put a big 'ol gash in my index finger. (nothing super glue couldn't handle ;) ).

They seemed to be pretty perplexed that I could make something like that, yet couldn't handle it without cutting myself wide open. :o LMAO

At least that kept any of them from dragging their thumb over the blade to see if it was a "real knife." ;) LOL
 
My wife's first mothers day was spent in an emergency room as I learned a valuable lesson about kickback from my table saw.
 
Every time I walk up to one of my tools, my first thought is "if this blows up, what is the most likely trajectory?" It was instilled in me in grade 10 shop class. We had to explain it to the shop teacher every time we learned a new tool.
 
Machinery has a brain of its own. It sits idly by for just the right moment, and when it thinks you are not paying attention, it strikes like a snake in the grass. All of my equipment is possessed. I am sure of it. I had an exorcist come by last year. He took one look and said, "Son, I can't help you......Good luck".
 
I didn´t even explain what a spine wack is at the emergency room, just told then I cut myself.
My GF made me go to the emergency room when I sayd: look you can see white in there...
 
NickWheeler said:
At least that kept any of them from dragging their thumb over the blade to see if it was a "real knife." ;) LOL
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II was at a street fair hawking my knives and a guy did exactly that after I handed it to him saying be careful it is really sharp.
 
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