Good things to remember about saftey
Mar 13, 2009 16:03:09 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2009 16:03:09 GMT
So I have been working on some of my first customizations recently. A new handle for a tinker longsword. new tsuka for a Cheness O-katana, and a new tsuka for a Dynasty forge Bushi class katana.
things are going well, and i've been using alot of sources and info from the SBG boards, but there is one thing i forgot.
I'm working on live blades.
So far i had been doing well, but i just neglected to tape the blade's so i wouldn't cut myself while handling them. STUPID! i quite literally took the tip of my middle finger off (like to the bone) after i was doing the final pressure fit on the tsuka for the Cheness, I was so excited to glue the thing that i moved to quickly and there it went.
It took about 30 minutes if elevation, cold cloths, and pressure to stop the bleeding enough to put a bandage on it. This was not joke.
Worse I was working alone, without my phone near me (my girlfriend was out of town) so if i had really hurt myself I could have really been in trouble. These swords were deceptively sharp.
I have worked on and with tools for most of my life, and i'm no stranger to wounds having spent a great deal of my youth of Farms. In fact usually I'm overly cautious. All it took was for me to underestimate the edge of these blades, and carelessly forget to cover them.
Somewhere it should have donned on me that that is precisely what swords were invented for...cutting dumb people like me.
The project still is going well ( If anyone needs info on how to start find Erick Nelson's guide "Construction of the Shinken
in the Modern Age", it will be an invaluable tool ), but i made sure as soon as my finger looked like a light bulb, to tape up all the blades I'm working on with three layers of painters tape.
lesson...?
Always pause before starting a new project and respect these blades as the weapons they are intended to be.
Hopefully someone will learn from my foolishness.
things are going well, and i've been using alot of sources and info from the SBG boards, but there is one thing i forgot.
I'm working on live blades.
So far i had been doing well, but i just neglected to tape the blade's so i wouldn't cut myself while handling them. STUPID! i quite literally took the tip of my middle finger off (like to the bone) after i was doing the final pressure fit on the tsuka for the Cheness, I was so excited to glue the thing that i moved to quickly and there it went.
It took about 30 minutes if elevation, cold cloths, and pressure to stop the bleeding enough to put a bandage on it. This was not joke.
Worse I was working alone, without my phone near me (my girlfriend was out of town) so if i had really hurt myself I could have really been in trouble. These swords were deceptively sharp.
I have worked on and with tools for most of my life, and i'm no stranger to wounds having spent a great deal of my youth of Farms. In fact usually I'm overly cautious. All it took was for me to underestimate the edge of these blades, and carelessly forget to cover them.
Somewhere it should have donned on me that that is precisely what swords were invented for...cutting dumb people like me.
The project still is going well ( If anyone needs info on how to start find Erick Nelson's guide "Construction of the Shinken
in the Modern Age", it will be an invaluable tool ), but i made sure as soon as my finger looked like a light bulb, to tape up all the blades I'm working on with three layers of painters tape.
lesson...?
Always pause before starting a new project and respect these blades as the weapons they are intended to be.
Hopefully someone will learn from my foolishness.