G'day,
Since you were knee high to a grasshopper you were told to always work away from you and never to you.
Those words of wisdom should also have added to them: with a chisel that you have just sharpened up real sharp.
In an effort to finish fixing a piano chair for my SIL last night I called up to SWMBO at 9:00pm that I was just going down to the shed to fix the chair.
So off I go.
Grab the nasty sharp 1" chisel, the arm rest and proced to pare away the bog so I can redowel it.
Herein begins saftey 101.
Put the thing in the vice, don't hold the thing you're working on with your left hand as you chisel with the right, because the rotten thing will slip and cut yourself.
Yep and that's what I did. The chisel let go with a mighty race to my pointer finger on my left hand and found a nice spot to slice into between the1st and 2nd knuckle. :doh:
Holy hell did it hurt! looked down to my finger and there was an almighty gouge there with blood pouring claret left right and centre. :o
(when you bleed, try not to get it on the stock which you are cutting dovetails into for you hand tool cabinet which you were using as a steady - managed not to do that. :2tsup:
Safety lessong 2 in chisel 101 - Rags.
Rags are used to stem the flow of claret. They are also used around the shed to mop up glue, wipe off dust from stuff and a million other things. In a race to stem the flow I grabbed the nearest rag which had all the above on it. Keep a rag for said emergencies.
So anyway I stumbled out into the night in a nice quiet street moaning things like "Holy shyte, $#@!, ooh man, cor this hurts, #$@!, shtye" These calls of pain will get SWMBO to pop her head out the window and ask if you are OK. In any other circumstances she'll tell you to clean your mouth out and stop swearing, must be the way to moan such words.
So a moments decision to do something other than for myself turned into disaster and I also missed the anime movie on SBS last night. :C
Two hours in emrmency waiting, three stitches later and I'm now incapicitated for 10 days which means I can't work on my hand tool cabinet or pick my daugter up :C , I can't even spray smelly stuff under my right arm SWMBO has to do that for me.
Bugger.
