Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: BOWMAN53 on September 23, 2012, 12:08:16 pm
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Rasped my finger yesterday, always fun lol. What's the worst you have hurt yourself while making a bow?
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only thing that comes to mind is grabbing (the sharp edge of) my drawknife to keep it from falling to the ground.
cut a couple of fingers but only bad enough that I had to bandage for a few days.
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Ouch lol. Trying to catch a falling blade never ends well.
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using a rasp and then catching the side of the bow with a splinter, its was painful...
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While splitting hickory staves with no safety glasses, a piece of the hammer head chipped off and hit me right in the bridge of the nose. It bled like crazy and my entire nose was so sore I couldn't touch it for a couple of days. I was lucky though. I would have lost an eye if it had hit me just a little to either side.
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Yeah the rasp is my worst, I'm V careful with the bandsaw. The day you get complacent is the day you loose a finger.
Damn... lost a finger
How did that happen?
I just did, this... dang there goes another one >:D
Del
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I got myself pretty good with a hand saw when I taking the branches off of my piece of wood about 3 or 4 days ago. I sawed off a branch and the saw fell down and took out a chunk of my thumb at the top lol. My hand also slipped a few times while rasping and that doesn't feel too good.
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Draw knifing osage, got my index finger too close to the ragged edge and a huge splinter slid nicely up under my fingernail for about a half inch. Really sucked pulling that sucker out. Think i've hurt myself worse, but that's one of the most memorable cuz that long stroke i made with the knife made it feel like it went all the way up my finger.
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I seem to bleed just looking at tools but the rasp is the worst for me...
My dad had a furniture mill and produced in volume for hotel chains and the like. He produced in such quantity that the workers usually had one maybe two pieces of equipment they were assigned to. When he would hire a new worker one of the first thing he would do was trace there hand on a piece of wood then cut it out and hang it over the station the worker was assigned to. It was interesting watching over the years as some of the didgets were cut away from the hanging hands!!!!! He thought it made the workers a bit more aware of how easy it was to loose a didget ..... sorry had a Cliff Clavin moment :(
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Hand Planing Bamboo backing. That stuff gets very sharp ,and it dulls the plane quickly. The plane skipped half way down the piece and left my hand that was guiding it to run a couple inches down the edge.Nasty gash, lots of blood. Wrapped it up and continued working. I don't remember how it happened butabout 10 minutes later ,I cut the other hand just as bad. That signaled the end of the bow making for the day. Don't work when you are tired and in a hurry, that's when accidents happen. The bow is still not finished ,more than a year later.It's all glued up and ready to tiller , I'm just afraid it's cursed.
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sharpening my draw knife my hand slipped...yep it was sharp enough :o Cut the second joint on my index finger thru the skin, I think I damage tendon because it was 8 months before I could fully curl my finger again. At the time I put a bandage on and kept going.
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I find that the wood Seems to injure me the most... splinters , slivers , smashed fingers , I pinched fingers , and 1 time 1 even punch me in the face :-\
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Working barefoot and dropped a plane on my foot
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Hand Planing Bamboo backing. That stuff gets very sharp ,and it dulls the plane quickly. The plane skipped half way down the piece and left my hand that was guiding it to run a couple inches down the edge.Nasty gash, lots of blood. Wrapped it up and continued working. I don't remember how it happened butabout 10 minutes later ,I cut the other hand just as bad. That signaled the end of the bow making for the day. Don't work when you are tired and in a hurry, that's when accidents happen. The bow is still not finished ,more than a year later.It's all glued up and ready to tiller , I'm just afraid it's cursed.
That bow is not cursed, just the opposite...it's thirsty for blood. The sooner you get it out in the field hunting the sooner it will leave you alone!
I think the most painful has to be the inevitable osage splinter up under the fingernail. It would be reduntant to set it on fire, it already burns badly enough!
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I'm forever running the rasp over my hand and fingers. Got to where I wear gloves most of the time, at least for the rough work with the farrier's rasp. Otherwise, I've been pretty fortunate. It might help that I'm slower than Christmas coming so I have plenty of time to see what retardedness I am about to visit upon myself... Not that that always prevents it from happening.
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A month ago or so I felled a 12" by about 45' pipe straight pincherry. It twisted on the way down and caught on an ash sapling and bounced into my chest. Luckily I tossed the chainsaw when I saw it coming. So I had two trees to make bows from instead of one. But growing up on the farm my dad has cut many a tree down on me, so I have the tree strike to the chest technique mastered. ;)
Perhaps I'm not cut out (ha) for a chainsaw.
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Once i was flattening a small piece of wood for tipoverlays on my belts sander when my hand slipped. Took over half of a finger nail down to the quick.
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I have had a few close calls with my hachet and was half an inch from ripping off my nipple when a yew warbow exploded at full draw. Upper limb broke in 3 pieces and the low swiped upwards and graced my chest....hurt like hell but .5 inch to the left would have send me screaming;-). I dont fancy yew after that.
Tools are usually good to me...think I cut my self for a life time as a kid.
Cheers
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Was exercising a Yew bow and it exploded and fractured my finger.
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I figure the pieces of wood that draw blood from me have a special "medicine" about them. Sort of a blood atonement (at-one-ment). ;D
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most of the damage in bow building is to my wallet. But I did sand a nice notch in my left middle finger using a Woodchuck taper tool and it was just 2 weeks ago. The scab is about to fall off.
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finger through the jointer. >:(
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I'm with the osage bunch, the ones that came up with the splinter under the nail as a form of torcher must have been a bower. I get my hands with the rasp and get slapped by limbs smashed fingers but the splinters hurt the most.
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Vinemaple,
The first time my young son saw me use a joiner he commented that it must be a nice safe tool because the blades are tucked away down under the "deck". So we stuck a piece of nice hard osage down against the blades. He said he was glad that was not his finger!
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I've bled on every bow I've made or started. That's a lot of blood lost. Jawge
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I've bled on every bow I've made or started. That's a lot of blood lost. Jawge
Wow! Seriously?!? That's quite a statement!
I have had such a rough childhood, I was forever cut, bruised or otherwise leaking from inappropriate places, that I feel I have finally started to avoid some of the more obvious mistakes (my wife probably would not agree.) I still offer the occasional blood sacrifice to the flint fairies, but I am hopefully gaining caution (and wisdom) with age. ::)
Scott