Thread: Story time: make sure the edge is taped or secured on a surface

Did the same thing.Cut my index finger down to and into the nail.Now I use cut-proof gloves every time I'm sanding a blade.

And here is the perpetrator!
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is this the same hand you caught a razor with?

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

is this the same hand you caught a razor with?

Why...yes it is! And it just healed up too.



My left hand has been suffering the most lately from a cut to the thumb pad, so I forgot about the razor dropping incident.

Originally Posted by Leighton

Why...yes it is! And it just healed up too.



My left hand has been suffering the most lately from a cut to the thumb pad, so I forgot about the razor dropping incident.

I took a divot out of my left index finger and i big gash out of the top of my left hand so far this year. luckily i'm right handed...i guess

Me too. I ripped my nail out folding up a big magliner handtruck. it somehow got caught in a hinge. If memory serves me correct the nail bed just hardened over and in a few months it started growing like a regular nail. Gross stuff.

Originally Posted by VeeDubb65

The worst I ever had was I had a finger broken in a car door, and the way it broke, the back of the nail was actually popped right out of my finger, so I truely ripped it off all the way down to the very root.

Just epoxy the nail back together - what could go wrong?

I bought a rectangular retrieval magnet from Harbor Freight for less than $10. I lay a piece of leather over the edge of the magnet and it makes a shelf just right to hold a razor flat for polishing. The magnet is about 25 pound pull, I think, and is strong enough to keep it from moving at all. (That's not to say I don't find ever newer and more imaginative ways to wound myself!)

Originally Posted by Roadkill

Just epoxy the nail back together - what could go wrong?

I bought a rectangular retrieval magnet from Harbor Freight for less than $10. I lay a piece of leather over the edge of the magnet and it makes a shelf just right to hold a razor flat for polishing. The magnet is about 25 pound pull, I think, and is strong enough to keep it from moving at all. (That's not to say I don't find ever newer and more imaginative ways to wound myself!)

Funny you mention the magnet holder. I actually have one. I even know how to do this without chopping my finger off. I was just too careless and determined to remove the small little pit mark that I forgoe all safety precautions I should have taken.

Btw, magnets are useless when polishing the spine unless the edge is dull. But a good thought!

Originally Posted by Roadkill

I bought a rectangular retrieval magnet from Harbor Freight for less than $10. I lay a piece of leather over the edge of the magnet and it makes a shelf just right to hold a razor flat for polishing. The magnet is about 25 pound pull, I think, and is strong enough to keep it from moving at all.

If you want something even stronger, you could get a "Death Magnet" with 100 Kg pull.

The name may be quite accurate if you bring a razor anywhere near it!

Originally Posted by Roadkill

Just epoxy the nail back together - what could go wrong?

I've actually done that before. Well, super glue covered up with nail acrylic that my ex-wife had. I used to to construction work, and did some ugly things to my hands along the way.

Gluing the crap out of it will keep you from catching it on things, and encourage the rear portion that is still growing out to push off the cut portion like it should.

Of course, none of the things that have happened to my nails have been as bad as the time I shot myself in the hand with a nail gun......