Ouch!!

[calanneh]

About 2 hours ago......

I was cutting a piece of 9 oz vegtan earlier this evening and I was using my sharpest knife. I love using it as it goes right thru the leather even better then the best razor knife blades I can find....

Well, it goes up the side of my pointer finger and can skin an inch long section of flesh just as good!!!

Took abtou 15 mins to get it to stop bleeding. Luckily it only got skin, not meat. IF my hand would have been turned a tad more, it would have gone into my finger and probably thru my thumb......

Told ya I wasn't an easy child to raise......just ask my wife!!!!!!! hehehe

William

[Rawhide]

Man these are great stories.

My only one so far is, I was saddle stitching a project and punching the holes with an awl. I went through the leather and the top of my middle finger's nail down to the bed of the nail. After many words of distress that I care not to repeat, It bled under the nail for a while. A few days later I was able to scratch the nail down to the bed and get the dried blood out.

Marlon

[Hilly]

Man these are great stories.

My only one so far is, I was saddle stitching a project and punching the holes with an awl. I went through the leather and the top of my middle finger's nail down to the bed of the nail. After many words of distress that I care not to repeat, It bled under the nail for a while. A few days later I was able to scratch the nail down to the bed and get the dried blood out.

Marlon

Dang it, Marlon! There's very few things that make me feel squeamish, but nail injuries is top of my list! I wince just reading your post.

I got stepped on by a horse when I was a teenager, and it tore my big toe nail up all the way around. It was only stuck down in the middle. Walked a mile home with a shoe full of blood. Got hauled to the ER where they jabbed about 12 needles into my toe to attempt to freeze it (didn't work). They then sliced away the remainder of the nail where it was still attached, and proceeded to cauterize the meat. Took a big fat nurse laying across my knees to keep me from kicking the doctor in the face as he worked. Dad suddenly became aware of just how many cuss words his little girl knew, and I was grounded for a full month afterwards.

I guess there's a reason I never liked horses....

Hilly

[TomSwede]

This morning:

Best thing that happened to me today was that I didn't have to participate in moving my X-girlfriends stuff from hour home because I cut my wrist open when dismounting the bookshelf... Missed the main artery by juuuuust that little!!!! Judging by all the blood I thought I was in a bit of trouble there for a while he he a wide open gap it was and blood was pumping really good (still have blood spatterns left on walls) and I was at home alone aswell. 4 stitches and nooo carrying heavy stuff for a couple of weeks;-) wich means I do not need to take a sick leave from work nor will I have to participate in the sometimes very heavy work we have to endure...phew. Think it'll be ok to do leatherwork. It was my left wrist and I am right handed.

Just not sure what they'll say at work when I show up with a suicide bandage on the wrist ha ha and scar too, lol....

Sorry about the suicide note, no pun intended. Just what everyone will try to tease me about he he but I've been laughing over this all day now. Couldn't have had better timing with this accident, lol. (No pun intended towards my X-girlfriend either- we stand on good foot with each other, it was my brother who got to do all the hard work instead of me)

Tom

[CitizenKate]

My silly injury happened a few years ago, I had been sewing up a belt late in the evening and was very happy with the way it was coming out. I decided to show it to my wife for that much needed wifely support. She was already in bed so I sat down on the edge of the bed to show her the belt, when the awl sliped out of my hand and fell towards my open lap. Before I could stop my self I automaticly closed my knees together to catch it. (didn't want it to stick into my foot I guess!) My right leg caught the handle end of the awl about six inches up from never never land and pushed the freshly polished pointy end of the awl into the muscle of the left leg, all the way to the handle. I don't recall getting much support from the wife for that one......She is a nurse and she helped me pull it out and dressed the wound, after she caught her breath and stopped shaking with laughter.

That "much needed wifely support" often times comes in the form of uncontrollable laughter. Approval and affirmation are patronizing and over-rated.

But I can laugh at that one, since I also had an accident with a stitching awl that put it right through my forearm muscle. And it wasn't even out of the package yet!

The worst one that almost happened to me was when I first got my table saw. I had never owned or used one before. I had read enough of the manual to get it set up and adjusted to run, but was too anxious to try it out to read much more. Bad idea!

I got it all set up, adjusted the alignment of the guard, plugged it in, and grabbed a 2x4 to make a test cut. I had the blade set too high, so when it got close to the end of the cut, the wood got kicked back out of the saw blade with enough force to make a dent in the wall 20 ft behind me. Fwing! Thud! Fortunately, I had just moved to one side of the saw blade for some reason I no longer remember, but I was standing right in front of it when I started the cut.

Hmmmm... Note to self: It's probably a good idea not to stand in front of the blade when cutting.

I turned off the saw, took the manual, and read the entire thing from front to back, word for word. And since that time, I've NEVER operated a power tool without thoroughly reading and completely understanding all the safety precautions.

Kate