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[markblue777]

A blind wood worker ,blooming impressive.

http://vimeo.com/55742240

Mark

 

[Steve Maskery]

Yes, very impressive. I was going to comment on the lack of eye protection but decided it might appear just a tad insensitive. No excuse for the unguarded tablesaw, though.
We don't have to go as far as Milwaukee though to find blind woodworkers. We had one on this forum for a while, who makes musical instruments - bagpipes IIRC, and there was a mag article a few years ago of a boatbuilder who is blind.

My eyesight is crap and getting worse, but I get by because I live in a country and an era where society generosity and technology is available to put right that which nature got wrong. So at 6 feet I cannot recognise you, but with my contact lenses I can drive. So I try to carry on as if it will always be like that.

But if the day comes when the CLs don't work any more, I don't think I shall be operating machinery.

I hope he continues for a long time yet.
S

 

[Woodchips2]

I belonged to a woodturning club where one of the members was totally blind. Once you'd spoken to him he could remember your voice and name. One of his specialist pieces was solitaire boards and he drilled the indents with a jig with protruding nails to mark the centres. Sharpening was the thing he found most difficult so he often brought his tools to be sharpened in the club. Amazing chap but sadly he died.

Regards Keith