Slightly hilarious safety mishap
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28 May 2015 at 6:24 pm #127369
Hi All
Brand new to this and very much enjoying a daily dose of WWMC. Best teacher I’ve ever had, on any subject. I have a funny little anecdote to share. I received in the post today my first ever plane, a record no.4, proper excited about it. Got some old rough sawn pine from the yard and started. I soon realised that the iron had been sharpenened lovely, but was so out of square that the adjustment couldn’t bring it back. So I got the sharpening stone out and went to it. It came back eventually, got lovely shavings. But of course I had a taste for sharpening by then, so out came all my chisels and augur bits and i went through the lot. Perfect! about four hours of sharpening and honing. I thought I’d go back to the new plane and try getting the rough sawn pine into square. The plane seemed to skip about and I decided to try the oily rag in a tin thing that Paul swears by, found a small tin in the cupboard and emptied the contents. Here’s the funny bit. While I had managed to sharpen for a good few hours without gouging myself, washing the tin out was a step to far it seems. I managed to slice my thumb open on the tin, resulting in a good pumping of blood all over the kitchen, and no more planing today.
Sigh
George28 May 2015 at 7:32 pm #127370Bad luck George. Your name georgesoton doesn’t have anything to do with Southampton England does it?
Matt
28 May 2015 at 11:00 pm #127374It does indeed Matt, it’s where I’m from. Moved away now, but know the place well. Couldn’t believe I got through all the sharp blades and severed myself washing out a tin can! Such is life! Should have put it in the vice lol
Those can edges can be very under estimated. One of my friends son was opening a can of dog food and managed to cut himself so badle that he need several surgeries to repair nerve and tendon damage.
I’ve cut myself a few times with these supper sharp tools (thank you Paul for teaching me so well) and sometimes get a little blood on the work peice. I made my son a humidor a few years ago and just told him that the little stain on the undeside insured that he would always have my DNA…. 🙂
29 May 2015 at 7:19 pm #127391Crikey, at least no surgery was required… Still, I’m ready for action now, with a very fine plane to try out
😀29 May 2015 at 10:21 pm #127395Ha, I knew it! If you moved away a long time ago you probably wouldn’t recognise a lot of town now, it’s moving steadily into the sky in that sort of half-hearted way that biggish British cities do so well. Have you gone far?
The rag in a tin really is handy, I used to use a plain old oily rag but got fed up of washing my hands. Mine is squished up in a plastic Skippy peanut butter pot, more plentiful if like me you don’t eat a lot of beans, never realised it might have saved me from a mortal injury as well.
Matt
30 May 2015 at 12:04 am #127396Hiya Matt, I only moved a couple of years ago, up to Cumbria. Beautiful up here, so glad I did it. More space, more time, should have done it sooner. And the peanut butter pot is a brilliant idea. Could have saved half a pint of precious tomato sauce lol
30 May 2015 at 11:09 pm #127408My dad and I have done a lot of walking up there, lakes, hadrian’s wall and so on, I really do envy you.
I don’t know about brilliant, one advantage over using a tin though is that you can screw a lid on it. Saves the oil contaminating other things if you ever have to take it somewhere. Of course you could easily put the tinned rag in a plastic bag to acheive the same thing.
Matt
1 June 2015 at 11:57 am #127435Now that George has owned up to his mishap I have to put my hand up and confess to having done exactly the same thing. I was trying to force the rag into the can using a twisting motion and I can still feel the sensation of the lip of the can biting in now, one year later. Luckily no stitches required but it did smart a bit (and pump the blood).
Jon
1 June 2015 at 10:42 pm #127443After flattening the bottom of one of my chisels I began paring.. little did I know then that the side of the chisel had become very very sharp and cut really deep into my finger.
Ouch did that hurt!
A couple of days ago I nicked myself with an axe, of all things.
I had been watching some of the videos with axes being involved and had to go sharpen one up. I then split up a small log into useable sizes and set the axe aside. Reaching for something later, I grazed it slightly. Just like a paper cut, it made a small nick that made a big mess.
Lesson #1: Put away your sharp tools correctly.
Lesson #2: I must be getting pretty good at sharpening.
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