did two fingers crosscutting the nose in 73’ the index finger down to the bone the other looked just like your photo SS,… man you were probably still in nappies back then.
nope, wasnt even born untill 79!
Though it does make me feel a little better knowing that I am not the only one!
I’ve been using power tools since 1965, when I was seven. Always had a full wood and machine shop at home - my dad was a designer fabricator too. My dad taught me to always see red before using tools - “imagine what would happen if”… I’ve never had an accident, although I’ve witnessed several.
At art school in New York, I watched a girl cut off two fingers on a thickness planer. Her hand went through with the wood. I’ll never forget the look on her face as it happened. While others rushed her to the hospital, we dug through the sawdust to gather the parts of her fingers we could find.
One of my friends is a general contractor… comes from a family full of them. His father and his uncle both lost fingers to Skil saws within a couple months of each other. Both stopped mid-cut, then started from where they stopped… bad idea. Kickback is a bitch.
Last note… one of the most dangerous tools in a woodshop is the bandsaw. More injuries than any other tool happen here. They don’t seem as dangerous as some other tools, and that makes people lax about safety.
If you were in a room with a rabbid dog, you’d pay attention to what it was doing at all times. Think of your power tools as rabbid dogs.
one good thing, I do like to use a sading pad on my grinder to shape…
what do you guys think of or who uses one in their planer?
Shapers Barrel
Fits Hitachi P20 S. Used and endorsed by Australia’s leading Shapers, The Shapers Barrel® is a must for any Shaper. Superior to planer blades in that it does not chop or splinter the foam, rather it sands through the foam leaving a smoother finish. Coated in a unique and patented Tungsten Carbide “Super-Grit™” that sands through the foam rather then chopping. The Shapers Barrel® also allows the shaper to cross-cut stringers without splintering
After years of hearing about it I finally bought one. Having shaped a few boards with it now, I have mixed feelings about it. First, it’s very silent as compared to blades. You also have a feeling that it’s less dangerous than blades which I think is just a feeling: imagine what this can do to your flesh…
As to the “smoother finish”, it’s not exactly smoother. Actually, the foam surface is even rougher as it’s been “rasped” rather than neatly cut but there is less abrupt lines between passes so it’s a bit easier to sand to a perfect finish:
The downside comes more from the planer itself than from the barrel. I find the Hitachi PS20B to be way less powerful than the old Ryobi L22 that I was using before. Mowing foam is a joke, of course, but when it comes to a 1/4" red cedar stringer it’s just a whole other story. Granted, you can cross-cut it, but it slows down a lot when hitting it.
In fact, I HAD TO change to the barrel because blades didn’t seem to work with the Burford blanks that I have been shaping lately: I kept tearing the foam and had to spend a lot of time getting it smooth. Some foams just don’t like blades…
Of course, the solution would be to have a barrel installed in the Ryobi or in another powerful planer but there seems to be adaptations issues.
here’s what happened to my pinky on my first board while i was doing the rails. (this is a few days into the healing i think?)
Howzit Brose, One of the funniest stories I ever heard was Ole Olsen telling me how he cut off the ends of his fingers, 2 different times. Ole was a wood shop teacher and both times he was giving safety instructions the first day of wood shop. First time was on a table saw and the second time was the jig saw. He had me rolling in the aisles.Aloha,Kokua
I was laughing so hard picturing you doing all that stuff in your story! a comedy of errors! one after another!
very very funny stuff. glad there was no serious injuries sustained, just a bruised ego, but it’s great that you don’t mind telling people about it!
Balsa,
I’ve been thinking about one of these barrels… ever since I saw one at work in Cape Town work on Polystyrene with them… but ooh it’s an expense if you already have a planer that you like eh… Interesting to hear that it rips up your burfords, I expected it to tear polystyrene but it doesn’t, at least not that I saw in CT shop. Now if we could get a barrel like this into the Bosch range of 82mm planers… ach ha… Of course you can get those awesome looking festool jobs with spiralled blades…
ARGHH HARDWARE JUNKY!!!