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once again...for the one millionth time, i grabbed the hot end of the knife i was grinding....ouch!!!!!!! busy being somewhere else in my brain...its funny cause i only got burned..but when gil hibben made a little bo bo he ended up with a knife in his main artery in his leg...lets all pay attention and die of old age...and i hope, end up where i am going....with HIM.

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I know exactly how you feel , I've done that many times. Makes you feel stupid.
Also I learned many years ago that if you are watching someone grind a blade and he stops and hands it to you to inspect, don't take it. He'll always hand you the hot end.
Steve
 
hahahahaha....i did that to glenn hornby so many times he would just laugh when i tried to hand him a knife to look at.
 
I am sitting here at the computer, letting my fingers cool. Ditto Tom, I thought I was the only one.
 
Tom,
I know what you mean. Several years ago (when I worked as a draftsman) I was handed a prototype of a piece that I designed. I grabbed it and looked at it and said "You know, this thing is hot". I kept a firm grip on it for a few seconds and finally PEELED my fingers off of it and let it hit the floor. The parts had just been welded together and were VERY HOT. I should have known something
was not right when the guy handed me the part with a pair of pliers.
 
I ended up with a knife in my femural artery once, then as I was driving to the hospital bleeding profusely I ran out of gas on the interstate! I think He was a bit upset with me that day, but not enough to take me. Good words Tom

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Barry-

A great example of the love/HATE relationship between the designers and the fabricators.

It's a little funny, when you consider how much each needs the other to stay working, but hey, that's the quick of it.

Nick
 
Well said.
I've been there too its no fun. I think the last time I was taking a bit out of the drill press. The bit was old and dull and it had taken awhile to get the hole drilled.Of course it never crossed my mind that that had made it hot when I grabbed it out of the chuck. I had a spiral tatoo'd on my fingers for a few weeks.
Lucky for us, He watches out for us when we forget to watch out for ourselves.

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Fix it right the first time, use Baling Wire !
 
I now have a second thumb on my left hand!!I just got done smashing my ring finger on it. Got the entire last joint of it. I don't think it's broken, but it sure is swollen and kinked at an odd angle. Man, the abuse us knife makers go through just to satisfy a knife collector!!!!! Whewww! Michael

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"Always think of your fellow knife makers as partners in the search for the perfect blade, not as people trying to compete with you and your work!"


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Darrel - I did that with a large Bowie once. Won't let it happen again.

L6 - That sounds better than having to rip your thumb out of the metal-cutting bandsaw (while running). I have done that as well.

Nick - I think that the fabricators have something against us designers.

I sit back and thank HIM that all of my fingers are still here and working.
 
same here barry, i thank him too. i always hold onto blades while i'm finished grinding a section, and burn myself, probably cause i'm a fool. anyway, now i use welding gloves while grinding, and i'm getting a magnet too. you won't get burnt through that. i use extremely sharp cobalt drill bits, so that they don't get to hot and burn me. except once when it got so hot a chip welded it's self to the edge. i usually cut my thumbs up pretty bad, all my friends ask why i have about 5 scars on my thumbs. i feel for you rob, wew that must have hurt. my dad's business partner was throwing a knife into the air and catching it, while talking to his wife on the phone, he missed it once and had the point land in his thigh. that's one of those "oh my god, that's not suppose to be in there." and of corse the "that knife was sharper than i thought it was" how bout' when you have to explain it to the nurse, "i was buffing, then i got a knife stuck in me"
 
i learned long ago to take the knife out of the vise when i am going ANYWHERE...but occassionally i forget...that is a very dangerous thing...that knife point sticking out of the vise..or is it vice...ken onion (he probably doesnt want me to spread this around) was working on a completely finished drop point hunter...sharp and all...point down in the vise...sitting down...wasnt too careful about getting up...ask him to see the scar when you see him...he was on crutches for a couple of months....went in about 3 inches.....into the top of the knee. i think the key is to remember where you are and what you are doing...often i have no idea of either.....lost in space...grew up in the sixties in calif...

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DON'T use magnet with flat platen!!!!!
I thought I was brilliant...right up to the point the magnet sucked itself to the platen, the belt split, and whooped me about the head and shoulders till I could retreat. Coulda been worse....
 
When you concider how monotanus some of our knife making tasks are, it's amazing any of us still have everything where it belongs!!
Ouch Barry!!!!! What got ya in that spot??
I use a knife maker's magnet I picked up from a gent that quit the business, and it will pull it's self into the platen if you're not careful. I mostly use it on my 6 by 48 when I flat grind.

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"Always think of your fellow knife makers as partners in the search for the perfect blade, not as people trying to compete with you and your work!"
 
There is a friend of mine (name withheld to protect the friendship) that had a knife clamped in a vise that he had just epoxied scales on the night before. He decided to cut the excess pins off before he went to work that morning. Well, as he was doing this with a hacksaw, the blade grabbed and the knife tip swiveled back towards him in the vise and before he knew it, on the next "down stroke", he shoved his hand into the blade. This was nothing that 16 stitches couldn't fix...at least the "missus" drove him to the emergency room, but he had to listen about the blood on the carpet all the way there.


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C Wilkins
Just remember this one thing........
Every day before you start working on blades hold your hands up and count your fingers.
Now make a solemn oath to yourself and say "This is the number of fingers I want to go to sleep with tonight".
 
Gee, running into a knife sticking out of a vice has to be the worst! I worked in a glass shop for a while, horrible conditions, but you quickly develope habits that avoid disaster, like do NOT ever push stuff down in a waste can. In my shop now if I bend over to get something thats rolled under the bench, with a knife in the vice, I crab walk out into the middle of the floor before I stand up! If someone peeked in they'd think I was strange, bent double, peering over my shoulder to see if its safe to straighten up!
 
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