[TheForge] fingers

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Grunt..
The awkward truth is that we  can get away with shit like that 
hundreds of times before it bites us.
Tired, in a hurry, at the end of a long day, and BAM!
I trust once was enough!

On Jan 11, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Andy Gladish wrote:

Jer, I already feel like the world's biggest idiot, so have at it!
I went out to the shop a week ago intending to get busy again after a
for-the=record=books busy holiday season, and thought I'd begin by
repairing a knife handle by enlarging the slot with a hand held grinder.

The operation is similar to one I used to do when knocking these out by the
dozen, from surplus bandsaw blade- it's my biggest seller in the knife
department...but first, I don't do it that way anymore (it's so quick to
just blast a hole for the handle rivet with the OA) and also, I did it on
unsharpened steel with a board backing. Can you imagine? Holding it down on
the table with one hand and running a grinder with the other? I'd have come
running over and hit anyone on the head with the damn grinder if I'd seen
em doing this in my shop...
So it caught on the wheel and whipped around.

Yeah, I know- this is the kind of thing I spend all day NOT doing...but one
bad day I did everything wrong and wasn't lucky.

My buddy was telling me a few days later about temporarily losing a thumb-
he leaned over a table saw and put his hand down...."shudder"...now this
guy is a top notch cabinetmaker with decades of experience. Why would he do
it?

The angle grinder is the "table saw" of the metalworking shop, just waiting
for a chance to get ya.

-- 
Andy Gladish, Element Fe Metal Studio
Blacksmithing and Blades

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human
life. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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