Auld Bassoon
3rd July 2005, 09:14 PM
I'm not sure if I should be admitting this, but last Tuesday evening, after a trying day at the orifice, I thought I needed a bit of 'therapy' in the workshop.
Well, I've been in the throes of making a roll-top desk, and needed to finish-up the elliptical trences in both upper sides that will take, eventually, the roll-top.
Normally, I'm quite careful as to where I 'point' my chisels, but in coming to the end of the ellipse, I found the angle to be all wrong for me, so I just flipped the piece around.
The long and the short of it is that the final section of maple (thankfully beyond the final edge that I want) just split, and even though I wasn't using much pressure, the chisel just went straight through, and into the Auld Bassoon's gut to the depth of about an inch...
The chisel's fine, but the Bassoon's gut isn'thttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon9.gif
It's amazing how much lint, shirt-material and wood chips get into such a little hole - or so the white-coated ones at the nearest hospital tell me. C'est un merde. Une grande merde!
Three days off work, and it's still sore.
Maybe it's just me being clumsy, but has anyone else had any similar nasties?
Cheers!
Steve B
PS several large dollops of friendly red-juice later in the evening certainly helpedhttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon10.gif
Well, I've been in the throes of making a roll-top desk, and needed to finish-up the elliptical trences in both upper sides that will take, eventually, the roll-top.
Normally, I'm quite careful as to where I 'point' my chisels, but in coming to the end of the ellipse, I found the angle to be all wrong for me, so I just flipped the piece around.
The long and the short of it is that the final section of maple (thankfully beyond the final edge that I want) just split, and even though I wasn't using much pressure, the chisel just went straight through, and into the Auld Bassoon's gut to the depth of about an inch...
The chisel's fine, but the Bassoon's gut isn'thttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon9.gif
It's amazing how much lint, shirt-material and wood chips get into such a little hole - or so the white-coated ones at the nearest hospital tell me. C'est un merde. Une grande merde!
Three days off work, and it's still sore.
Maybe it's just me being clumsy, but has anyone else had any similar nasties?
Cheers!
Steve B
PS several large dollops of friendly red-juice later in the evening certainly helpedhttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon10.gif