I broke my first belt!!! What is next?

OK I'm ordering a proper drill press vise. I've been hammering nails in plywood and holding the plywood. Good for a couple ouches.

Dr. "Does any one in your house smoke?"

Me "No but I'm planning to start"

Same guy asked me if I had any guns in the house. Yea I got em all for my wifes' birthday. Stupid question. How else would I shoot things?
 
no we are just relating what can and does happen if you work with machines and pointy/ sharp and hot pieces of metal. if a little blood and pain are not for you, you should take up water color painting or pottery. or something that has nothing sharper than crayons.
 
Now if you think knifemaking is dangerous try a little furniture making. Eric will enjoy this....I have shot myself 4 times now with the nail gun. I keep forgetting that it will handle 2 1/2 finish nails and if I don't check it I shoot right through what I'm working on. Guess what's holding what I'm working on.:D :o :eek:
 
But I just laughed out loud for at least 5 minutes. That sounds like something I'd do. I did staple my finger TWICE... :D
 
I havent seriously injured myself making knives, yet.
But, I've ground my hands/finger-tips, cut myself, gotten steel splinters, drilled myself (it wasnt straight in, hand just hit the side of the running bit), and some unique forms of self injury.

Like the other day, in a momentary lapse of nueral activity, I dropped the piece i was working on, and bent over to pick it up. Without thinking to turn off my grinder first.
Grinder+Head=:eek: and a storm of cussing. Didnt draw blood, or leave a bald patch, but was definatly something I dont want to repeat. Talk about brain farts... LOL.

When I first met my girlfriend (before I knew she was to be my g/f someday) she was asking me a lot about knife making, and I warned her about the various nicks, dings, and other hurts she had to look forward too... I think I scared her off from making blades ;) but I dont think for good... hehe.
 
you didn't scare me off - i knew basically that type of thing was to be expected in the knifemaking process. I've just not taken the time to research as i should have the total process of it all or taken the responsibility to save for tools.... you know me, love, i'm a tough girl, i don't mind a couple cuts or a few whip lashings...hehe..hehehehe....:D :rolleyes:
 
i almost did the same thing today. after i dropped a blade in the quench bucket! LOL:D
 
Oh that's funny Satin....I thought I had done every stupid thing that could be done but I haven't done that!.....Yet:D :D
 
This thread reads like a book about myself in the shop!

I was shapening a fillet knife on a 9u belt, the belt broke and the knife stuck in my gut. It was winter and my shop was cold so I had a lot of clothes on. I pulled the knife out of my gut and it had only penetrated about 1/2". I was very lucky.

Another time I had just sharpened an Elephant Ivory handled full double edge fighter and promptly dropped it. I tried to catch it with my foot and it stuck in my leg slitting my femural artery. I was bleeding very bad and was home alone so I wrapped a towel around it and headed to the hospital about 15 miles away.........and ran out of gas! Hitch hiked from there. :p Yes, I did survive it.....

Some of the worst are belt grinder cuts, like actually cutting yourself on say a 400 grit belt, the hurt like hell and take forever to heal.
 
This is getting better all the time. I once set my sweat pants on fire (full blaze),using an angle grinder to profile a blade.:D
 
My worst was heattreating and dropping the 1500 degree blade and visegrips into my knee on the way to quench.I still have that knife,won't sell it,kind of keep it as a reminder of what not to do.Dave:D
 
Dave, did the knee quench work like an edge quench? :confused: When you get as collectible as Scagel or Moran, people will be paying a hundred grand for your knee quench knife. :D
 
Did any of you discover how much energy (in form of heat) a good hand filing can put in a piece of metal when he took up the innocent looking slab of iron just to feel it was between "Searing Hot" and "Volcano Heat" ? :)
 
Man I think we all just get into that Zone and forget that we shouldn't do these things.Funny how when you are in that perfect groove how a cut doesn't seem bad untill later.
I have done the spinning drill bit catch a thin piece of bass against the thumb before,my wife keeps telling me I need to cut my finger nails but she doesn't realize how many times I have ground them off instead of my finger tip.
I was grinding one time and had a spark hit the inside of my glasses and ricoshay into my eye,the doctor had to numb my eye and pick the metal out with a needle as the magnet trick wouldn't work (this has happened twice)Ever notice how if this would happen to a normal person:p the doctor would put big patches on them and tell them to go home and rest for a day or two but when they see us regular knifemakers coming they just patch us up and never say nothing about resting.I asked the doctor one time if he was going to tell me to go home and rest and stay out of the shop,he gave me a funny look and asked if it would do him any good,I said no and he just shook his head and said thats what I thought so I wasn't going to say anything.
Guess they just get to know us after awhile.
Hey anybody else done this,Get a billet of Damascus up to welding heat and on the first hammer blow have a ball of molten Borax fly out and down the back side of your glove,but instead of loosing the heat you have you just keep on welding then when you are one with that heat and stick it back in the fire the pain is pretty well just a stinging burn so you don't look untill about 4-5 hours later when you stop and then you notice a nice big hole in your hand,And then you try and figure out how it got so bad as you don't remember nothing because you are to excited about the really cool billet you are holding (done this a bunch of times)
I read somewhere once when I first started making knives that knifemakers are the only people who will watch a blister form on there finger before they will stop that perfect grind they are doing.Boy was that true..
Guess I should stop rambling,Shop horror stories can last for hours.:D ;) :D
Bruce
 
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