PSA- the pointy end of a sharp skew is sharp

[Tim Starliper]

Not advisable to grab for it when you have a catch and it bounces.

No stitches needed (or, at least, not planning on any - butterfly closure if that), but in a bad spot on my palm. Just below the space between my pinky and ring finger on my right hand. Except for writing, just about everything else I use my right hand for. Have a bandaid (not doing much) and a nitrile glove on that hand until I can get in the house and properly clean and dress it.

So...how was YOUR day in the shop?

 

[hockenbery]

Glad you are not seriously hurt.

Brings back a fond memory

Teaching an ornament class decide to point something out with my finger while the other hand is holding the skew on the tool rest.
Bring finger back across the tip of the skew.
Excuse myself and wrap finger with a paper towel before it started to bleed.
Finish the demo of the ornament finial with the paper towel wrapped tight.
While the students go back to their lathes I grab a bandaid from the first aid kit.
Students never knew I cut myself…

 

[Tim Starliper]

Glad you are not seriously hurt.

Brings back a fond memory

Teaching an ornament class decide to point something out with my finger while the other hand is holding the skew on the tool rest.
Bring finger back across the tip of the skew.
Excuse myself and wrap finger with a paper towel before it started to bleed.
Finish the demo of the ornament finial with the paper towel wrapped tight.
While the students go back to their lathes I grab a bandaid from the first aid kit.
Students never knew I cut myself…

Thanks. Nice job covering your injury

This would have been noticeable. It was bleeding by the time I pulled my hand away. Because of location, I could not just bandaid it, either - at least, not in a way it would stick. I put some antibiotic cream on it, put a bandaid over that, then wrapped my hand in some painters tape (because it was the most handy). That worked until I realized I could just put a glove on it - which I would need to do anyway to finish the weedpot I was working on at the time. Now it has a knuckle bandage on it. Works perfectly. I also need to stop tomorrow and get more knuckle bandages - probably 2 boxes so I can keep one in the shop (surprised I didn't have any in the new first aid kit out there - I should probably go through that and see what I have and supplement it).

 

[robo hippy]

I have band aids all over the shop. My skin has gotten thin to the point where if I look at some thing wrong, my skin tears and I bleed...... Old age ain't for sissies! Having a full on med kit might not be a bad idea either...

robo hippy

 

[Tom Gall]

I have band aids all over the shop. My skin has gotten thin to the point where if I look at some thing wrong, my skin tears and I bleed...... Old age ain't for sissies! Having a full on med kit might not be a bad idea either...

robo hippy

You don't know what old age is ..... yet!!!

 

[Earl McLain]

I have band aids all over the shop. My skin has gotten thin to the point where if I look at some thing wrong, my skin tears and I bleed...... Old age ain't for sissies! Having a full on med kit might not be a bad idea either...

robo hippy

Glad you're mostly okay Tim!!

@robo hippy I used to have them all over--found that on the lawnmower cutting deck is not a good place to store a new box of band-aids. Makes a weird noise when the blades detonate the box that vibrates off, and a spectacular confetti. Surprisingly, despite the ripped wrappers, they were mostly intact, and last long enough to get me into the house for a real clean-up. Wish i had a video of that day!!
earl
PS--I, too, wish i could remember why i put that box on the mower deck. As soon as i figured out it was band-aids, i remembered putting the box down, but no clue why!!

 

[Tim Starliper]

Glad you're mostly okay Tim!!

@robo hippy I used to have them all over--found that on the lawnmower cutting deck is not a good place to store a new box of band-aids. Makes a weird noise when the blades detonate the box that vibrates off, and a spectacular confetti. Surprisingly, despite the ripped wrappers, they were mostly intact, and last long enough to get me into the house for a real clean-up. Wish i had a video of that day!!
earl
PS--I, too, wish i could remember why i put that box on the mower deck. As soon as i figured out it was band-aids, i remembered putting the box down, but no clue why!!

If you are anything like me, your brain went something like 'Oh, bandaids. I need to take them to <place>. I'll set them in this convenient spot so I will remember to put them where they need to go'. That thought, was likely immediately followed by 'Squirrel!' and all memory of the original thought completely deleted.

 

[robo hippy]

Well, I am only 71. My dad turns 100 in August, and he still goes in to work, engineer at a family business in the mid west. "I am not going to retire until my birth certificate expires!" Me too!

robo hippy

 

[Don Wattenhofer]

When ever I drop a tool my first reaction is to jump out of the way and if it is a skew Murphy's Law makes sure it lands on the point.

 

[Tim Starliper]

When ever I drop a tool my first reaction is to jump out of the way and if it is a skew Murphy's Law makes sure it lands on the point.

In this case, it wasn't so much a drop as it was a bounce - a catch caused the skew to jump. Why I moved to catch it is beyond me. Sometimes we do things that, when we look back on them, we tell ourselves "that was pretty stupid, knucklehead. Don't do that again!". This, for me, was one of those times.

I do agree, though, Mr. Murphy does make sure the tool, when dropped, will generally require some quality time on the grinder. Unless it's carbide - in which case you simply remove the broken carbide cutter and replace it