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Thread: Chiselled!
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3rd July 2005, 09:14 PM #1
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Chiselled!
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't
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 helped
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3rd July 2005, 09:24 PM #2
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Steve when it comes to hurting ones self I am normally good for a tale.
but I'll bow out of this one................ you win!Specializing in O positive timber stains
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3rd July 2005, 09:26 PM #3
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Serves you right, I intend useing a router to make the roll top groove in mine.
Ouch.....:eek:
Al
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3rd July 2005, 09:44 PM #4
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Thankfully no.
Originally Posted by Steve.Bisson@te
I always try to make sure that anything sharp points away from me.
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3rd July 2005, 09:55 PM #5
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Don't ya just love sympathy.... Originally Posted by ozwinner
Serves you right, I intend useing a router to make the roll top groove in mine.
Ouch.....:eek:
Al
I'd thought about using a router, but, being an enthusiastic "wanna be", I wanted to (and still do, damn-it), try a wholly hand-built approach. No electrickery involved... Just wet, red, sticky stuff
Cheers!
Steve B
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3rd July 2005, 10:03 PM #6
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Sympathy on this forum ha!!!! Originally Posted by Steve.Bisson@te
Don't ya just love sympathy....
The only way you'll find sympathy look betweem merde and syphilis in the dictionary
The trouble with life is there's no background music.
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3rd July 2005, 10:07 PM #7
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Steve, seeing as you're so close, I should bring a healing ale around...but I'd make sure that new hole is well plugged, first. Wouldn't want any beer leaks on that new router table!
Regards,
Rusty.The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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3rd July 2005, 10:20 PM #8
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Tell you what Rusty, Originally Posted by Rusty
Steve, seeing as you're so close, I should bring a healing ale around...but I'd make sure that new hole is well plugged, first. Wouldn't want any beer leaks on that new router table!
Regards,
Rusty.
PM me a short list of your favourite watering-holes, ann maybe we could meet for a yarn or two?
Cheers!
Steve B
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3rd July 2005, 10:26 PM #9
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Mate, I think there is only one pub around here...I'll drop you a line shortly!
Regards,
Rusty.The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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7th July 2005, 10:00 PM #10
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Pictures, pictures, where's the pictures.
how about this one.Any thing with sharp teeth eats meat.
Most powertools have sharp teeth.
People are made of meat.
Abrasives can be just as dangerous as a blade.....and 10 times more painfull.
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7th July 2005, 10:09 PM #11
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That's a ripper, Soundman; I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation..
Sad to report that having met Steve B. the other night he seemed to be recovering well, no gory wounds or hot nurses in attendance. The benefit of sharp tools is that lacerations heal nicely!
Regards,
Rusty.The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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8th July 2005, 09:31 AM #12
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I remember my little brother when he was about 12, holding a piece of wood in his palm and carving with the blade towards him, slip, straight into the wrist.
Impressive spurt of blood, about a metre high, he thought it was funny, but he has always been a dickhead.Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.
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8th July 2005, 10:04 AM #13
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yeh,,,,sounds like my brother two.....but of course he'd have reason to say the same about me ! the cheeky bugger Originally Posted by Iain
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