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If you want to see how the re-growth is coming,here is the hand today,nine months later.
The chunk of meat is still in the freezer.I still am going to tan it and use it some day.
 
bladsmth said:
If you want to see how the re-growth is coming,here is the hand today,nine months later.
The chunk of meat is still in the freezer.I still am going to tan it and use it some day.
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We can hope no one forgets and fries it up for finger food :D :D
 
bladsmth said:
FIRST THE GOOD NEWS:
I finished all 23 knives I was working on this evening.
I had the fastest in-out time at the ER I have ever experienced.
THE BAD NEWS:
I went to the ER tonight.

I was finishing power stropping the last fillet knife on the Badder with a 2" leather belt.I have been working 70 hours a week at the jewelery store and getting in 3 or 4 hours a night in the knife shop.Sleep is between 1AM and 5AM.I was running the belt too fast (for a strop dead slow is almost too fast) and the tip snagged. The knife kicked around against my gloved left hand.Didn't feel a thing.Looked down and saw a section of glove on the bench.Grabbed a wad of paper towels and applied pressure to the heel of my left hand.Didn't have to look,I knew what wasn't there.Cut at 9PM,ER at 9:15,left ER at 9:45,pharmacy at 10,home at 10:30. Not a slow down or a hitch in it all.Hand barely hurts (at least not yet).The attached photo is of the piece of my hand I got out of the shop after getting home.It was still attached to the slice of glove.Man that knife was scary sharp (or in this case scarry sharp).
Hey IG what is the best way to tan a small piece of hide?

What is there to learn from this? Don't work when you are tired.Don't run a honing belt at anything but dead slow.Don't think it can't happen to you.Most anyone who knows me will tell you there is not a more safety conscious person around,but I will have a permanent 1" round scar to remind me of a momentary lapse of judgment.
I'm just glad it wasn't a bad cut that involved anything deeper than skin and some meat.
Take care Bros and sisters - Stacy
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Hey!!! To bad you did save the HT'g relish for yourself???? You could of avoided the ER and could of tanned the hide with it.:eek: :eek: :eek:
 
rhrocker said:
A couple of days ago I was using my rotary platen, had the knife on the tool rest, and pressed to hard into the platen. Well, it's flexible, and I ended up opening enough of the rubber to let the knife get down between the sandpaper and tool rest. I heard a "flomp", looked around, no knife. Looked at my tummy, thighs, other areas, no knife. Then I saw water on the floor. The knife shot down and into my grit catching/cooling bucket, and stuck in the side, that is, stuck in the side of the inside. I ran and got another bucket and exchanged the water, then sat back and went over what I had done wrong; Pressed to hard on the material I was grinding against the rotary platen, causing it to open enough to allow the knife to slam through. Be careful out there!!!
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Will if it would of hit you between the legs it wouldn't of cut anything anyway. HEHEHEHEHE!!!!:p
 
eye yie yie!

This thread was a butt clincher last winter......and 10 months later.....It is still a butt clincher!
 
man if you pound that thing thin, you could roll it up with some proscuitto and sage light flouring and saute in some buerre noir, you'd have one heck of a meal

Ouch I hope it feels alright now and good thing thats all it was
 
The skin grew in from the sides most of the way.The center is just pink pseudo-skin and very soft. It splits and bleeds when it gets wet and worked hard. It heals back up in a day.It is a little tender,but not painful.It may take several years for the skin to take over all the area again,if it ever does.I was VERY LUCKY! I think well whenever I sharpen now.
I am going to tan it and resin impregnate it,then put it on the butt cap of a personal knife.I have a couple of ideas.
 
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