Thread: Warning! Mild Gore.

that's not even remotely gore-y

On various knife making groups on FB, I see pics coming by that illustrate why it is a bad to wear rings when using power tools (basically the finger is a white bone stem with all the skin, muscle and tendons and a mangeld ring being mushroom-topped around the nail bed). Or pics of shattered grinding discs embedded in a skull or throat. One guy (not a knifemaker probably) had nearly half his head topped off by a huge high power grinding disc that spun apart.

I make it a point to actually look at those pictures when they come by. Yes I am revolted by them, but I want to keep a healthy fear of power tools alive by confronting myself with someone else's mistakes. That day you become comfortable around power tools you become complacent. And then one day you're suddenly looking at a finger being gloved off or a piece of your body lying on the ground.