[Woodcarver] Re:Red Chip Award

[dick carter]

>From: SunshineCarver at aol.com

>Gee, just when I was getting back into the swing of carving I decided to 
>use
>a grinder that I have never used before, to remove a large nick from an old
>knife.
>Yup! Had to drive myself to the ER and have 10 stitches, (and the x-ray guy
>says it cut into the bone) around the first joint of the first finger of 
>the
>right hand. Hopefully the bone will not get infected and they will not have 
>to
>remove the end of the finger.


This is a good example for having the wheels run away from you for your
grinding/honeing/stropping carving applications.

Way back, I had some small 'kick-back' episodes & I could never see where 
the tool was in
relation to the wheel.

Hope you heal well & there's no complications.


Dick Carter
>From the Manadnock area of NH
rhc511 at hotmail.com
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