Quote Originally Posted by Maximilian View Post
working with the burgundy micarta is a big bloody mess. Red dust everywhere. Your fingers turn red from sanding, the belt sander looks red,... everything looks red. It's the messiest micarta I have worked with so far. I'm glad to be wearing a dust mask at all times.

It was this material that made me realize I needed a ventilator, and fast. I merely roughed out this set of scales with the bandsaw a couple weeks ago..and afterwards I went and blew my nose and it was red... I didn't touch the micarta until I picked up the ventilator that I now wear all the time when sanding and cutting.

When I was finishing up the scales by wetsanding, I literally had to look at my fingers every few minutes to double check I wasn't bleeding somewhere. the dust + water literally looked like blood!

So very messy! lol