Thread: Blood sacrifice for Japanese joiney

Yep - a pack of bandaids is essential fitout to every workshop.
Glad you are enjoying the joinery - save the chisel for the wooden joints
Tom

Watch out for freshly sharpened chisels - you don't feel the slice, the first thing you know is the blood dripping on the work piece.

DAMHIKT!

Roy Underhill, who did a long-running TV series here in the U.S. on traditional methods of hand tool woodworking ("The Woodwright's Shop" - I have no idea how easy* it is to find in Oz), was famous for bleeding all over his work regularly. And I suspect there's blood DNA in a great many furniture pieces in the museums or passed down in families.

Roy also wrote some books on the subject - excellent works.

Yep, the gods of woodworking demand their blood sacrifices.

My arthritic fingers are becoming clumsier & I nick myself far more often than I used to, so like Tom, I keep a stack of various sizes of band-aids handy. Even a small drop of blood goes a long way & can leave a nasty blotch on a light-coloured wood!

Cheers,

I've got band aids & antiseptics in the garage now

If this is what it takes to create beautiful pieces, I'm happy to draw some blood once in a while!

Here at "Happy Acres" sheltered workshops we don't have much call for soaking up bodily fluids but we do at times need restraining devices to mediate attendees who sometimes get a little agitated at the frustrations of woodworking. Any manifestations of excitement such as screaming and throwing are met with immediate suppression techniques which usually culminate with a the subject woodworker encased in a canvas body shroud (as opposed to the less humane strait jacket) and tightly strapped. The hood and gag follows if these initial measures are not successful although I, myself have never been that far gone. The electric probes are enough for me to concentrate on perfect joints. Anyway I think a small first aid kit is essential in any workshop along with watchful attendants.
Doggie (Better now thank you)