First Blood

[mikeg]

I'm good about putting on my glove and thumb guard when I open my tool box to carve. Tonight I was using my pocket knife to carve some chain links on the end of a ball and cage I'd been working on while grilling for supper. I had the thumb guard I keep in my pocket but no glove, I managed to stick my knife into my finger. :P Not serious but I had to shave some blood off my cage. :

Just goes to show, those accidents can happen any time. That's why I keep bandaids in my wallet.

Oh well,

mikeg

Welcome to the club...now if you cut the same finger tomorrow, with the same blade of the same knife...you can be vice president of the club ha ha

Whittling small items is one of the best ways I know to realease the red stuff. It will take awhile, but you'll eventualy get the hang of where to keep you fingers and how bit a cut to take (or so they tell me, I'm still learning (I hope).

[mikeg]

I bought a second thumb guard. I keep my Case small congress in it and keep that in my pocket. I bought a bunch of 1x1x6' pieces of basswood from ebay. I keep a couple of pieces in my desk, some more in my backpack, and a couple in my car. I figure that way I always have access to some wood if I'm stuck somewhere.

So far I've done a chain, and a ball in a cage with a couple of chain links on the end. Usually worked on them at lunch if the weather's not good for a walk or if I'm outside by myself grilling.

My biggest concern is to make sure I don't close the knife on myself. I did it once as a kid and still have the scar. It's not a major concern, just something I try to stay aware of.

mikeg

[Kenny_S]

I have a 1 inche long gash that happened last Friday. To late for the local doctors to stitch up becase they don't take patients after 4 pm. Anyways, Flu has hit locally and it was a 4 hour wait at the ER. So my son is a paramedic and he superglued it together and put Sterie strips and a fingerguard on it and said, 2 weeks before I take it off. Yuper, Just one last cut after the glove came off. Will I ever learn.

To my Darling little bride,, 'Do as I say and not as I do'. Save a lot of bleeding for sure.

Good old super glue, one of a carvers best friends!