shop safety tip!!

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hi all..i guess i get to post my first safety tip as i just got home from gettin stitches.
make sure if you have a work rest like as on a bench grinder,make sure it is close to the belt or wheel an is tight!!!This morning i was grindin away nicely on a hunter wit a gut hook and the tang got yanked under the rest and you guessed it the gut hook got me,tore a nice slash across my palm and half way through the ole index finger..OUCH!!!@#$%^&*().hey heres another i guess i could have put some kind of leather holder over the end of the blade and gut hook just for that purpose ,i know ,i know i was told more than once to do that,i`ll learn now!!
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sorry about that!!!!!
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ouch!!!! the most important safety tip of all is to PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU ARE DOING AT ALL TIMES. personally, i think nonadherence to this principle is the main cause of things like the above-especially when you are all too familiar with the tool and the project you are doing....a very good friend of mine who is one of the best woodworkers in America (no kidding really) told me most woodworkers cut off their fingers after about 20 years of using the table saw. they just arent afraid of it anymore. so be careful
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O1 fan

Welcome to the club...one that I wish I wasn't a member of! About 1 1/2 yrs ago, I had a Bowie knife shoot out from between the workrest and belt on my burr king. The hidden tang sunk about 3/4 in. deep into my thigh just above the knee. YEE OW Needless to say, I don't sit while grinding any more! Fortunately, the knife sold for enough to pay for the E.R. bill. Every time I put that pair of jeans on (the ones with the hole just above the knee) I think back to just how fast things can happen. The only thing I can say is try and be as careful as possible and learn from what happened. Hope you heal up real soon, so's you can go get back on that horse that bucked ya!
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Had a bowie blade ripped out of my hands on Sunday because the work rest wasn't tight. The 60 grit belt got the skin on the tip of my finger. Sure hurts. Lesson learned and I can sympathize.

Marcel
 
OK, I'll fess up! So far, only George Tichbourne knows about this, and to my knowledge, he has only chuckled to himself.

About three weeks ago, I went to a trade show here in Houston and at one of the display tables was some of George's work. I picked one of his knives up and admired it. These were two that Mr. Tichbourne had spent quite a bit of time on the scrim work. Beautiful, I may add. The dealer showed another blade and as I took it out of the sheath, I poked my little finger with it. Luckily the bone kept the blade from going all the way through the finger to the other side! Well, there I was bleeding like the proverbial stuck pig! I was very embarrassed and ever so grateful for the paper towels and band-aid. The only thing that would have made it more humorous would be if it would have been one of George's knives!

The friend that was with me kept saying, "Oh yeah, I'm a knifemaker, I handle these things all the time!"

C Wilkins
 
When our guild holds a show we usually have a social event the evening before the show called "show and tell" and all of the knifemakers come dressed up looking like regular people and put something new on the table. The difficult part is telling the knifemakers from the general public or it was until I noticed that almost all of the makers were wearing bandaids.

I wonder why knifemakers are so prone to injury from knives.

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A few years ago I did a forge welding demonstration at a craft show(basically it was the "hey, watch me turn a piece of cable into a knife" bit). I had a fair number of people watching me and when it came to the first fold, I wanted to make sure I got the weld right so I gave it a bit of a hard smack. Now I was being fashionable and wearing a very nice open necked shirt
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Anyways, the hammer came down and I got a perfect weld but in the process a big ball of flux flies out and in a perfect arc, flies right down the neck of my shirt and lands proudly on my stomach. So they got see the making of damascus and the knifemakers version of riverdance
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