Machine madness

[Eshmiel]

YouBoob used to be a rare thing for me but taking up the spoon carving had me watching lots, as its all about techniques with knives and axes. Whilst sculling about in vid land, many other woodworking subjects were visited in passing. Many exhibit horror-show antics, especially with machines.

Here's an example of someone making a nice wee box. How he still has any fingers left to do so amazes me. As well as "how to make a box" its an object lesson in "how not to do it with machines". I can hardly bear to look!



Anyone else care to post their own horror show of fingers awaiting their end?

 

[Keith 66]

Here's a good one, This guy is undeniably good at his job but showing others tools like this grinder with a saw blade on it only encourages others to do the same. The day i saw this vid is the last time i watched him.

 

[peter-harrison]

If I was risking my fingers that much, it wouldn't be in aid of making an ugly box.

 

[TRITON]

I can hardly bear to look!

I got 11 second in and thought - 'thats enough for me'

Short pieces going through the saw and no riving knife. Sleeves down and coming into close proximity to the moving blade
Bloke is an accident waiting to happen

 

[SammyQ]

Here's a good one, This guy is undeniably good at his job but showing others tools like this grinder with a saw blade on it only encourages others to do the same. The day i saw this vid is the last time i watched him.

2.23 in...Dear Deity...where he has his thumb...pure Darwninism. (Yes, I know that juxtaposition is an oxymoron!).

 

[Windows]

2.23 in...Dear Deity...where he has his thumb...pure Darwninism. (Yes, I know that juxtaposition is an oxymoron!).

At 3:00 he just holds his palm against the teeth of a hand saw while he’s sawing with it, so he doesn’t just play fast and loose with power tools.

 

[imageel]

Whilst the 'hands so close to the saw-blade' made me wince, the proximity of his digits whilst routing with the router bench mounted were buttock clenchingly horrid..
In my earlier woodworking years I too was using an improvised router table and fence to put a groove into some small section stock and I hit a knot that picked up and launched the work-piece into oblivion, and as I am predominantly left-handed that one got outta the way PDQ but unfortunately my right hand didn't and followed the timber through the cutter path....
The carbide cutter made a mess of the tip of my ring finger, entering as it did from the nail side down to the bone... - after I'd recovered from the initial shock of the loud bang and timber disappearing from view the next was to survey what my right hand looked like and I quickly surmised that an Elastoplast wasn't gonna cut-the-mustard and got myself to A&E...
My digit made an almost full recovery minus some nerve damage, but am reminded of the brave lady who posted on this forum maybe a year ago whose none dominant hand similarly followed through and trimmed a couple of digits, followed by a horrific posting by some poor chap whose hand had been mauled whilst doing a stopped cut on a spindle molder....
..stay safe out there..!!

 

[Keith 66]

At 3:00 he just holds his palm against the teeth of a hand saw while he’s sawing with it, so he doesn’t just play fast and loose with power tools.

If someone wants to do this in the privacy of their own workshop its their lookout. But the risk is that someone less skilled or lucky will copy them & get maimed.