wood/finger rasp

[JABK]

A month ago or so I felled a 12" by about 45' pipe straight pincherry.  It twisted on the way down and caught on an ash sapling and bounced into my chest.  Luckily I tossed the chainsaw when I saw it coming.  So I had two trees to make bows from instead of one.  But growing up on the farm my dad has cut many a tree down on me, so I have the tree strike to the chest technique mastered.

Perhaps I'm not cut out (ha) for a chainsaw.

[turtle]

Once i was flattening a small piece of wood for tipoverlays on my belts sander when my hand slipped. Took over half of a finger nail down to the quick.

[Holten101]

I have had a few close calls with my hachet and was half an inch from ripping off my nipple when a yew warbow exploded at full draw. Upper limb broke in 3 pieces and the low swiped upwards and graced my chest....hurt like hell but .5 inch to the left would have send me screaming;-). I dont fancy yew after that.

Tools are usually good to me...think I cut my self for a life time as a kid.

Cheers

[Bryce]

Was exercising a Yew bow and it exploded and fractured my finger.

[randman]

I figure the pieces of wood that draw blood from me have a special "medicine" about them. Sort of a blood atonement (at-one-ment).

[Kpete]

most of the damage in bow building is to my wallet.  But I did sand a nice notch in my left middle finger using a Woodchuck taper tool and  it was just 2 weeks ago.  The scab is about to fall off.

[vinemaplebows]

finger through the jointer.

[Poggins]

I'm with the osage bunch, the ones that came up with the splinter under the nail as a form of torcher must have been a bower. I get my hands with the rasp and get slapped by limbs  smashed fingers but the splinters hurt the most.

[Kpete]

Vinemaple,
The first time my young son saw me use a joiner he commented that it must be a nice safe tool because the blades are tucked away down under the "deck".   So we stuck a piece of nice hard osage down against the blades.  He said he was glad that was not his finger!

[George Tsoukalas]

I've bled on every bow I've made or started. That's a lot of blood lost. Jawge

[Stringman]

I've bled on every bow I've made or started. That's a lot of blood lost. Jawge

Wow! Seriously?!? That's quite a statement!

I have had such a rough childhood, I was forever cut, bruised or otherwise leaking from inappropriate places, that I feel I have finally started to avoid some of the more obvious mistakes (my wife probably would not agree.) I still offer the occasional blood sacrifice to the flint fairies, but I am hopefully gaining caution (and wisdom) with age. 

Scott