Blood

#1 04-27-2003, 02:24 PM

Note to self and any other carvers dumb as me:

When pulling a sharp knife through wood toward your thumb:

1. It can and WILL slip; and
2. It can and WILL make your thumb bleed.

Teri (queen of most thumb scars) :

#2 04-27-2003, 03:09 PM

Hey Teri! better invest in a thumb guard! They are cheaper than a Doctors visit! By the way, really like your Freedom Santa....looks great! When do I get mine?

#3 04-27-2003, 05:10 PM

Terry, you're supposed to keep your thumb BELOW the blade arc! thumb guard is a good and CHEAP idea!

Al

#4 04-27-2003, 07:37 PM

Here's what I like better than a regulation thumb guard. Wrap a layer of masking tape or the white first aid tape sticky side out around your thumb then cover it over with the tape sticky side in. Fits a lot tighter than a thumb guard so doesn't get in the way as much. If it gets nicked up, just add more tape.

Nancy_G · #5 04-28-2003, 12:08 AM

:-[ OUCH !! Just what a carver needs.....a sore thumb.
I hope you didn't nick your knife

#6 04-28-2003, 05:17 AM

Nancy_G: Great workshop, How much imput did the cats have??

I showed my wife she still will not give me the spare bedroom. I'll have to stick with a corner of the garage.

steve

Callynne · #7 04-28-2003, 07:03 AM

Oh man, that just makes me shudder!!! Hope you didn't need stitches this time!! I buy bunches of thumb guards, from the way I go though them I know what my thumb would look like without them! Be careful!! Callynne

Colin_Partridge · #8 04-28-2003, 08:00 AM

Hi Teri,
I think it just comes as part and parcel of being a carver I have more scars than you can shake a stitch at. I find that it isnt so much as when I am concentrating its when someone asks me a question or a pretty girl walks by. When people are watching me carve and that happens I just make lite of it and tell them I'm now at the painting stage. :

Colin

masker001 · #9 04-28-2003, 12:19 PM

Teri,contrary to what Colin said,blood does not really make a good coloring agent,far to expensive.Also,as my carving instructor says,if it don,t cut to the bone,your knife aint sharp enough.
Mark
P.S.I try to get other people to test the sharpness of my knives.Far to painful for me.

#10 04-28-2003, 01:30 PM

Blood in your carving. Makes it part of you....
I had very nasty cuts even with guards specially when the knife jump up where there is no guard.
My advise:
Do not drink and carve!!!