Safety in the workshop

[Steve Maskery]

I'm really good with eye protection, I really am. I even have a pair of safety readers, about +1.5, on a cord round my neck. So I don't have any excuse, they protect me and I can see what I am doing.

I was glad of them today. I bent down to get something out of one of the lower drawers of my tool cabinet and got the shock of my life. I'd left one of the upper drawers open and hit myself in the face. It would have been right in my eye without my specs, and the corners of the drawer are sharp.
So no damage but a salutary reminder.

On the other hand...

I've made a new planer knife honing guide today, too, and it produces a razor edge. I have the bandaged finger to prove it. Now there really is no excuse for that one, is there? (Especially as I did it twice.)

 

[Racers]

I gashed my head on a metal shelf at work, loads of blood, I didn't think it was too bad but everybody was stairing at me, so I went to clean it up and was shocked my self, I had dabbed it and spread the blood all over the place.

Pete

 

[owsnap]

 

[finneyb]

The excuse for doing it twice is that the edge was so sharp you didn't feel the first cut - (and I suspect there is more than a grain of truth in that statement. )

Brian

 

[Steve Maskery]

Actually you are right, the first one was sharp and brief, it didn't even start to bleed for a little while.
The second one made me shout though, it's in at a very shallow angle...

And of course it is my right index finger, used for scrollig the mose, typin, just about everyting.
Sic.

 

[finneyb]

If my father, a joiner, got a splinter, he would sharpen a chisel and cut the skin above it to lift it out , a clean cut without any pain.

Brian

 

[LancsRick]

I'm a bit like that with kitchen knives. I've got some lovely Henckels that I keep a ridiculous edge on, but they've also tasted my blood a few times as a result - even brushing against them is enough!

 

[MattRoberts]

The best purchase I ever made was a pair of really lightweight clear safety glasses. I put them on the minute I enter the workshop and they're so comfortable, I never take them off

 

[DiscoStu]

I wear goggles when I feel I need to but that's all because I wear glasses normally. I think it might be time to invest in some prescription safety specs


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