Cutting corners (small gore content)

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shaker

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As good a place as any to put this i guess?
The following happened 6 weeks ago to me at work
I work in a machine shop and my main duties are sharpening straight blades, wood chipper blades, zamboni blades, wood planner blades, every thing from small blades
to 10 feet long.
So anyways I just finished sharpening a paper guillitine blade that was 59" long and bolted it to its wooded board. they bolt onto board with two bolts
that screw into a threaded "t-nut" which is pressed into the board from back side . problem with that is over the years this t-nut tends to get pulled through
the wood till one day when unsuspecting sharpening person accidently drops one end of board on the floor while carrying and t-nuts pull through the board and razor sharp 59 inch
blade springs off the board and just barely slices corner off of finger. after stopping bleeding I picked up board and blade off of floorand lo-and-behold
there it lay , slice of skin with slice of fingernail still attached.
Cut so cleanly it did not hurt at all , of course while healing it hurt whenever i banged it, which was often.



If you look at 1st finger you can see two small slices that just barely took a few layers of skin off
You can also see how neatly it took piece of fingernail off as well

fingertipsideview1.jpg


In this picture you can see how flat and straight the cut was. It was even flatter then it looks in picture since this was taken several
hours after cut and blood was congealed up a bit.

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Did you guys know that the fingertip is only part of human body that will grow back if not too much is cut off?. Its all grown back now.
 
Now for the big question....... was it toothy or polished ;)
 
On the one hand, OUCH! :eek:

On the other hand, it looks like you do your job very well (I'm assuming this happened AFTER you'd sharpened it?). An edge that wicked sharp on a 5 ft. long blade is impressive.

Looks like luck was working in your favor that day, could've been a whole lot worse. Glad to hear you're OK.
 
Obsessed with Edges said:
On the one hand, OUCH! :eek:

On the other hand, it looks like you do your job very well (I'm assuming this happened AFTER you'd sharpened it?). An edge that wicked sharp on a 5 ft. long blade is impressive.

Looks like luck was working in your favor that day, could've been a whole lot worse. Glad to hear you're OK.
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believe me these blades are very sharp even when they are dull,,when they are sharp they have to be sharp enough to cut a 4" stack of cardboard without squishing them ,,in this case thats what they use this blade for.if the blades are dull even a little bit the cardboard squishes down before cutting and gets an uneven cut.

yes i was lucky enough after all it grew back totally,,nail and all
 
What I really want to know is...

Did you sharpen it freehand, or did you use a Lansky? :p

Obviously your machining skills rank right up there to get such a large blade so well sharpened. Please tell us about the machine you use for this. It's waaaaay out of our league.
Stitchawl
 
It's great how they mostly grow back, I copped a similar injury many years back when used I to work in a commercial photographic mural darkroom (working in total darkness). Naturally part of the process was cutting photographic paper to length in darkness..... well it doesn't take a genius to figure out that it was going to happen one day...
At the time I knew I had cut myself and thought that it might possibly be bad, although I decided to continue on with what I was about to print, as I had a fair amount of valuable paper open in the dark and didn't want to risk ruining it by turning the lights on. Anyway I plodded along through the process, setting up the vacuum easel, exposing the print, feeding it into to the processor.... 10 minutes later I was able to turn on the lights on ....only to discovery blood absolutely every where and sizable chunk of my finger still sitting on the cutting table.
About 5 mins later I decided to pass out, but not before getting one of the fine young ladies I used to work with to find me a band aid.

Bo.
 
Amazing! Sounds like you have a cool job for a knife nut.

Have any pictures of the other side of the cut (what came off)?
 
The grinder is a reform knife grinder ,can sharpen straight blades up to 10 feet long.
Actually I did save the piece that came off.Got it in a pill bottle. not much use taking its picture now since it is shrivelled up now, should have put some fluid of some sort in there lol
I did save the piece at first since I initally thought I might be able to get it sewed back on. After looking at it for a bit I decided they could not sew it back on and it would likely grow back. I was right on both accounts.
 
shaker said:
The grinder is a reform knife grinder ,can sharpen straight blades up to 10 feet long.
Actually I did save the piece that came off.Got it in a pill bottle. not much use taking its picture now since it is shrivelled up now, should have put some fluid of some sort in there lol
I did save the piece at first since I initally thought I might be able to get it sewed back on. After looking at it for a bit I decided they could not sew it back on and it would likely grow back. I was right on both accounts.
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Hey padjo, I was you, I'd hide it or bury it somewhere, me. If A Ju-Ju woman gets hold of it, she can put the gris-gris on you, and even a good Mojo Hand straight out of a New Orleans bayou ain't gonna do you no good, no! :eek:

Stitchawl (dreaming of an oyster po'boy and a spearment snowball.)

Having used a four foot guillotine cutter on reams of paper, let me be the first to say those blades scare the living daylights out of me! Sharp x10! I'd be afraid to just remove and replace one, to say nothing of sharpening one! My hat's off to you!
 
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