Maybe I should get some gloves?

[Josh]

Hahaha, funny story Tom! Yeah I think most people get so ingrained with western medicine that they forget all of the natural stuff that has been done throughout the centuries! The proof is in the pudding shall we say! I am definitely impressed! I doubt I will even have a scar. Thanks for sharing about your incident!

[Mark76]

I’m glad to hear this, Josh. I must say your finger looks a lot better, too. :cheer:

Molecule Polishing: my blog about sharpening with the Wicked Edge

[Ziggy]

Glad you’re healing Josh.
Making me think twice … my problem is I’m all feel and visual.
Not just burr, vibration and sound, even with a steel.

Maybe if I cut the thumbs off …. my main guide, I could still follow/feel the bur.

My only real cuts are stabs in the palms.
Love my felt cubes but I do screw up and have had stubborn burrs on hard steels needed pressure and pop goes the tip off the cube into the left palm.

I’ve seen long ones but too thin, meant more like a strop.

Perhaps glue a row onto something, but kills a lot of real estate.

[Daniel Willard]

Truly happy to see that finger has healed nicely! Thanks for sharing your adventure. We all need to remember: Wicked Edge means Wicked Edge!

1: Haste makes Waste. And shortens fingers.
2: Not something to do when you are tired or distracted.
3: Do not drink and drive (sharpen either).

Thanks again for sharing with us.

[tcmeyer]

So here I wuz… working on a jig for my drill press when it occurred to me that my AngleCube would be just the thing I needed. I reached over the WEPS and on the return felt a nasty bite. It seems I had left my old Buck 110 clamped up after testing some new film on my new brass blocks. The photo here is about 30 hours later.

My palm was facing upward, so the point of the knife went into the pad of the pinkie with the point aiming down. It really didn’t bleed much, considering I’m on blood thinners. I got a Band-Aid on the main cut and then noticed a big drop of blood forming at the tip of the finger. Apparently, the tip of the blade penetrated all the way to that little dark speck you see, which would have been an exit wound.

Moral of the story? Don’t leave knives in your vise where they can reach out and bite you.

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[Pinkfloyd]

These are the gloves I use, fit is snug, comfortable

http://www.amazon.com/NoCry-Cut-Resistant-Gloves-Small-Medium/dp/B00IVM1TKO/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1428659829&sr=8-15&keywords=no+cry

[Josh]

Tom, in your situation gloves would not have helped much anyway as Mark showed in his blog post on stabbing w/ a point. Hope you heal well man! Mine healed up nicely! can’t even tell anymore… no scarring

[jimbo45]

Geez man that’s not good. Lucky it didn’t split your finger in half

[Gib Curry]

So here I wuz… working on a jig for my drill press when it occurred to me that my AngleCube would be just the thing I needed. I reached over the WEPS and on the return felt a nasty bite. It seems I had left my old Buck 110 clamped up after testing some new film on my new brass blocks. The photo here is about 30 hours later.

My palm was facing upward, so the point of the knife went into the pad of the pinkie with the point aiming down. It really didn’t bleed much, considering I’m on blood thinners. I got a Band-Aid on the main cut and then noticed a big drop of blood forming at the tip of the finger. Apparently, the tip of the blade penetrated all the way to that little dark speck you see, which would have been an exit wound.

Moral of the story? Don’t leave knives in your vise where they can reach out and bite you.

Ouch….. as if it helps you for me to say that now!??! But, really……… ouch.

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For Now,

Gib

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