Pain!

Jerry Hossom

Jerry Hossom

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Since the subject is very fresh in my mind, I say that saw cuts hurt the most. Much more than knife cuts (the least hurtful) and grinder nicks, even the kind you get from the sides of a Micron belt (though those do hurt). About once a year I get a little rushed and do something stupid, usually on the band saw. I hate that thing!

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Jerry Hossom
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Pain! yep, been there doing, that! I have to say that the worst pain is by blade by far. Stab, not cut, and you have to do it right, through the artery and into the bone! Didn't hurt by the way, when I did it! It was later that the PAIN began. Second I would say for me has been the grinder, and I should say there is just no point in grinding flesh with a micron belt! you must do it with a fresh 24 grit! It is so much more efficient! It doesn't even burn, POOF it's gone! Another thing! Those micron belt paper cuts, the best thing for them is to scrub them real good with alcohol and then super glue them, you won't even know they are there! Stay away from the saws they do things that won't grow back! Haven't done that! Your friend in Wyoming Audra Draper.
 
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I thought without pain there was no gain. Arent we born to suffer?????

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Don't ya just HATE it when.....You are sawing something with a jewelers saw, the blades starts to get dull, then ping!:mad it breaks and the down stroke stabs that micro serrated needle of a blade deep into the index finger of left hand holding the work. these small puncture wounds stay sore forever.
 
Hi Audra! On the blade thing, I haven't tried points yet, I bet that does hurt. The problem with saw cuts is they're just too ragged for that super glue trick. I've done the 36 grit knuckle duster before though, but I usually don't even know I've done it until I see a clean spot where a knuckle used to be. It's almost painless.

Tom, I must be gaining pretty fast, 'cause I'm almost always healing from something. Just before the Blade Show last year, my older grinder broke, and ripped a piece of flesh off the palm of my left hand (now THAT hurt!). I had to go to the show with my hand all bandaged, and of course took an insufferable amount to abuse from my fellow knifemakers. I'm not sure what hurt most - the wounded hand or the wounded pride. Grin.

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Gerry,
The worst cut I ever got from a bandsaw was while it wasn't running!! I was about 12 or 13 and was trying to raise the guide on my dads saw. I loosened the knob and pushed the guide up but it wouldn't move. At this point I grabed the guide with both hands and pushed up as hard as I could. Up it went and the coarse wood blade bogged down into my right thumbnail all the way to the cuticle
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OUCH!!!!
I thought I was going to faint!! I could feel each tooth as my thumb flew up the blade!! My first reaction was to yank my hand back but it was stuck.... I had to PULL my thumb off the blade!!! OWWWWWWWWWCH
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Neil


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I had the blade out of a DoAll band saw and was running it at the slow crawl speed so that I could clean lube wax off the drive wheels (I was going to cut honeycomb aluminum and needed a wax-free bonding surface). I was holding a scrub brush against the wheel when it caught and jammed my hand between the wheel and the frame. The shop foreman and I together couldn't back off the drive wheel in that low gear. He had to partly disassemble the unit to get me out. I can still see the scar 25 years later.
 
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