Proper Tools & safety!

[Whittled Thumb]

Can't stress it enough! Use a glove! BUT use a proper glove! I use a leather work glove that has proven to work up to yesterday. I sliced right thru it and into my finger, thru the nail and out the other end! Six stitches and i'm grounded from carving for now. I can not hold a peice as my finger is in a splint. Needless to say, I will be getting a proper glove and lesson learned!

[Tom Ellis]

Guess you will have to change your name to whittled finger. Even the kevlar gloves are only cut resistant. One of the wire filet gloves may fit the bill for you, and just make sure which way the knife is headed.

Speedy recovery, Tom

[AlArchie]

I'll go again on these Kevlar gloves. They are good, but not fool proof. They won't stop a stabbing or a slicing. Kevlar is designed to absorb BLUNT force, so the gloves are very effective if your blade slips and contacts the gloved member straight on.....if it's "slicing", hang on to you bandaids, cuz you'll need em.

I've told this several times before, but just to emphasise the point, I'll go again. I was called to break up a bar fight, and when I took my uniform off that night, I noticed some blood on the back of my t-shirt. checking further, I found a cut across my back, about 3 inches long, but just breaking the skin. I then checked my uniform shirt and "bullet proof vest" (kevlar body armor about 3/8 thick, designed to stop a .44 magnum) and found both had been sliced, the shirt and vest clean through. When these vests are sold they come with the caveat thay are NOT effective against knife attacks. Don't get me wrong, I'm very glad I wore it because if I hadn't had it on, that slice would have probably been through my liver. : (/

So, one layer of woven Kevlar is not likely to stop a slicing cut, but it will, no doubt limit the amount of damage that is done.

Al

[Miehas]

Even with a proper glove, you can still cut yourself. It is very important that you always know where your fingers are and where the knife is. I keep thinking if this wood slips or the knife slips, then where will it go? Usually I have to move a body part out of the way.

I learned this the hard way when my wood cleaved and cut my finger and nail through the yellow with blue grips kevlar glove you can get at most carving supply shops.

Carve safe,
Miehas

[Whittled Thumb]

Archie lol no bandaid would have fixed this! Took stitches! I normally know where my fingers are, I think the glove threw that off a bit

[RUssL.]

I took todouble gloving quite a while back.
The outer glove is a "hardware store specials" of leather and the inner glove is a
"cut-resistant" glove of kevlar, steel thread, Dynema or some combination of these or other cut-resistant material.
Though it doesn't cause me to act me fool-hardy, double gloving has proven to be virtually cut and puncture proof to a large, if not 100%, degree.
I would have to focus on trying to do damage to the flesh under the two gloves in order to cause more than a slight breaking of skin.

[Gulf Coast Handyman]

Sorry to hear that, hope you heal up real soon.

Dave

[Grayhorn]

Originally Posted by Tom Ellis

Guess you will have to change your name to whittled finger. Even the kevlar gloves are only cut resistant. One of the wire filet gloves may fit the bill for you, and just make sure which way the knife is headed.

Speedy recovery, Tom

Even with a Wire Filet Glove, stabbing is stabbing. As per my previous post I stuck a knife through one like it wasn't there. So as above take good care. Sorry to hear about your injury and hope it heals well.

[Dan S]

Sorry about the injury. I split a finger once. Hurt like all heck! I was too big a sissy to go get stitches. The glove helps, but like the other said, nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently tallented fool!

Take care,
Dan

[Woody1961]

I will never forget the first time I stabbed my thumb through my kevlar glove - I was dumbstruck. There I was bleeding all over my pants and thinking that thing isn't woven tightly enough or something. I really do find myself more apt to carve toward myself when I have that glove on. I have some of that coban tape that sticks to itself over the important parts now-a-days (thumb & forefinger). I like those little thumb guard things too for my cutting hand. I have a large one for my thumb, and a medium one that is longer for my forefinger. Works pretty good, but after carving pretty steady for a couple of weeks, I get a good callus going on my pushing thumbs.