Thread: Lets hear some stories: Things gone bad in the shop...

Does this count...

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Originally Posted by Philadelph

Does this count...

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Ouch! Thats brutal.

Originally Posted by Philadelph

Does this count...

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WOW now that looks painful

that's gonna leave a mark......by the way, my right middle finger is presently super-glued and bandaged from a hand-sanding slip this afternoon. Did my thumb on Sunday. I hope these razors look good when I'm done hacking myself to pieces on them.

So today I was making my second set of scales ever, and for the first set I had done it all by hand, so this time around I wasn't gonna fool around for three hours just rough shaping them. I did use a coping saw to cut out the general shape and since I don't have access to a band saw I thought I would give the table saw a try to split the scales. It did cross my mind that I will probably destroy the piece, but why not give it a try. Sure enough.. just what I had thought, the saw grabbed it and smashed it to the ground. Oh well.. I had ripped several blanks from an old Plumb tree limb so, nothing ventured nothing gained.
Cheers

I was sanding the end of a pin on my 400 grit belt sander when the belt split. Sounded like a shotgun. It was turning at 3200 rpm. Slaped my hand about 20 times in one second, before I could get away. Don't know where the pin went and my hands were lacerated badly. too many small cuts to count and brused badly.

I was drilling the pivot pin on a set of micarta scales last night. I had hand sanded and buffed the scales to awfully darn shiny (~3hrs of sanding/buffing). I got the wedge pin exactly where I wanted,but missed the pivot by about 1/32ths. I tried to use the drill bit to ream the hole out a little. I was working the drill bit up and down in the existing hole while pushing the scales into the drill. I lifted the bit a little too high and before I could stop myself I had drilled a second hole for the pivot.

The two holes were close enough to attempt to use a big washer to cover them, but after 3 attempts, I determined that the scales will need to be replaced. Argh.

Damn buffer!!! I had a nice worked back boker that I was wanting to put that "perfect" touch on it. Scales were finished and ready to be pinned. Loss of concentration & it snatched it from my grasp & broke about 3/8" off the edge toe. I shortened it later after "the sickness" had resided... It's still a sad memory of ruining a really nice razor.