Be careful what you want

[Pekka Huhta]

Am I allowed to say a bad word?

Perkele!

(notably, that MAY even catch some of the automatic erasers)

I miss my fingertip. This morning I still had it and it just decided to part me. Or I just was just an idiot losing it.

Just Monday I just said that I would give a limb for the birthday presents I gave to myself. Three wee E. Prestons, an I.Sorby #5½ and a neat Spiers smoother. All that a man could hope for.

Well, my wife gave me a steamboat cruise to the Porvoo city (real city, 12 000 citizens and all). Visited two ancient toolshops with antique tools, bought a kilo of old saw files original from 40's, a box of old #12 screws for hinges and and old pair of roofmaker's pliers). I had my best friends with me, we ate escargots and had a ball. They were bored to death and I had fun.

And all of it made me say that I would give a limb for all of that. I almost did.

I went on with my bathroom project. And just stuck my finger to the portable circular saw. There it went. And hurt a little. Hurts like hell now, though.

I gave a limb out of that joy. Not much, but there isn't much left of the fingerprint I had. Imagine a hungry rat with very, veery rectangular teeth. I can swear that I really felt four individual teth and I really felt the shape on the metal between the teeth whe the finger flipped there. The doctor just said that there wasn't anything to stitch together in the mush.

There is a lot left on the finger, but I'm happy with it. It may be a finger after a while. My old bench was an old one-hand carpenters bench, so a nine-finger owner for the bench would have been quite fancy .

Why couln't I stay with the ordinary tools? Do you think I'll be craving for more power tools still? :wink:

Pekka

 

[mailee]

sorry to hear of your mishap Pekka, still you were lucky as it could have been a lot worse. (circular saws don't usually take prisoners) At least you only lost a fingerprint and not a hand full of digits. Get well soon.

 

[promhandicam]

Pekka, sorry to hear about your mishap. I have to say that I'm glad that the picture was of your birthday presents and not of your digit! get well soon - Steve

 

[Paul Chapman]

Very sorry to hear of your mishap, Pekka - I hope it heals up soon.

Looks like some nice tools you have there - and much safer than circular saws :wink:

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Chris Knight]

Pekka.

Sounds painful - but was it worth it?
Quae nocent, saepe docent :wink:

 

[Alf]

Cripes, starting to think I may be fortunate not to have made it into the workshop for weeks. :shock: Hope you heal up well and speedily, Pekka - and nice I Sorby!

Cheers, Alf

 

[Slim]

Sorry to hear that Pekaa. Can you only count to 9 3/4 now?

Quae nocent, saepe docent

Right Chris, thats twice you have written that. For the younger generations who never did latin at school, What does it mean?

 

[Alf]

As a younger generation who's learnt to use Google: What hurts, often instructs :wink:

Cheers, Alf

 

[Slim]

As a younger generation who's learnt to use Google: What hurts, often instructs :wink:

Cheers, Alf

Smart alec :wink:

 

[DaveL]

Smart alec :wink:

No No, smart Alf :roll:

 

[Paul Chapman]

What hurts, often instructs :wink:

And that's why the old-school method of teaching tables, by rhythmically banging pupils on the head with the blackboard rubber as they recited them, was so effective :lol: :lol:

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Smudger]

Ah, the good old days...
My RE teacher used to hit us round the head with a Bible.
Our metalwork teacher used to throw hammers at us. I once spent the whole lunchtime with my leg chained to a bench.
In woodwork I started a lathe without taking the chuck key out. It hit me squarely between they eyes (no safety glasses in those days) and then rebounded out through a closed window. First I was slippered, then sent for first-aid.

Best days of our lives?


ps - I did learn a permanent lesson about chuck keys, though...

 

[Paul Chapman]

First I was slippered, then sent for first-aid.

They obviously had their priorities right at your old school, Smudger :lol: :lol:

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[DomValente]

Our Latin teacher used to throw a blackboard compass, one day I raised my desktop in defence and it cracked the damned thing(shoddy workmanship)
Got caned, six on each hand, for damaging school property.

Dom

 

[Vormulac]

Our woodworking teacher was known to throw chisels. I didn't do woodwork at school, wonder why...

 

[Pekka Huhta]

Well perhaps I learnt something. Putting your finger in the saw does not hurt as much as I thought :wink:

My metal- and woodwork teacher had wonderful ideas of keeping us lads clamped down. In addition to the usual hair-pulling he had this big signboard on the wall with the words "Bugger of the Week" on top of it. Every time someone mishanded any tools or did something remarkably stupid, the tool was hanged to the signboard and the name of the wrongdoer written down, in addition to an usually quite colourful description of what had been done wrong.

Shame sure is more effective teacher than pain, says I...


The finger will probably be OK, but it sure looks ugly when I changed the bandages yesterday. Actually it loks a bit like half-blind dovetails :mrgreen:

Darn, I have been waiting half a year that I'll get the bathroom in good shape when I start my summer holiday. And then I end up doing something this stupid on the first ful day I'm working over there... Bravo! =D>

Pekka

 

[Bodrighy]

What hurts, often instructs :wink:

And that's why the old-school method of teaching tables, by rhythmically banging pupils on the head with the blackboard rubber as they recited them, was so effective :lol: :lol:

Cheers :wink:

Paul

Also explains why I can recite all my tables up tthe 12x table but get dizzy spells when I try and use a calculator

Pete

 

[Modernist]

A newly qualified factory inspoector visiting a local timber merchant was surprised to see so much dangerous machinery being used by hand (as we do).

She said to an old hand he must be very skilled not to have had any accidents in his career. No madame he said - only lucky!.

Food for thought for us all. :?

 

[promhandicam]

As SWMBO is a teacher I have to be careful what I say, but we had a metalwork teacher who was know to throw ball Pein hammers at the more recalcitrant students. What is it with teachers and throwing lethal objects? :shock:

Steve
(Home alone with the kids as SWMBO is on a teaching course in London - probably learning how to aim and throw projectiles :lol: )