Alway Facemask John....Always Facemask!!!

[Dick Wilson]

John, I am posting a new thread rather than add to Roger's thread.

You mentioned in his thread that "sometimes you do not wear the face mask" Please wear it. I NEVER turn my lathe without having the face mask on!! Here is a great story to prove my point.

The piece is a hollowed to finish spaulted Sycamore form. 8" x 6". Zero problem turning it or hollowing. With my face mask ON I started sanding the outside at 450 RPM. Everything was normal until almost half the turning shattered my face shield. I was looking througH huge cracks and missing pieces of the mask. My whole face felt like someone had wacked me with the broad side of a canoe paddle. I staggered around for a minute with "what the hell happened?" running through my head. After I made sure I didn't need to go to the med center (I had already hit the emergency stop on my lathe) I started looking at the pieces. You see the leather stitching? The leather stitching is holding the piece hit me. I was using a chuck to hold the turning. When it blew up it pulled part of the tenon out of the chuck too:eek::eek:. The reason it blew up was the beautiful spault lines (now the crack with stitching) went all the way through and I am sure that the wood was so weak that it cut loose.

The end of the story is that I put Humpty Dumpty back together. I cut out a large hole at the top and now use it for my brochures at my tent sales. Always a reminder of what could have been......I would have spent some time in the hospital.

WEAR IT JOHN AND EVERYONE ELSE, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!221359

[John Keeton]

Wise words, Dick - wise words!! I try, I promise I do, but I will try harder!:o

[Tony De Masi]

Always do, Always will. Everyone who turns at my place will always have one on too. If they don't want to use one then they don't turn. Period.

[Bill White]

I DO wear my shield, and I really like the "recovery" of the workpiece.
Great post.
Bill

[John Beaver]

I'm another one who won't turn the lathe on with out wearing a shield. Please do the same

[Jim Burr]

To support you're stand Dick, I had 2 out of 3 very sharp and fast moving chunks of olive give my Trend a "Glad to meet ya!" two weeks ago. After insuring my undergarments would survive a few more hours and evaluating my shield...I chucked up a piece of walnut and went about my day. There is a word for people who are unsafe on purpose...starts with and "S". Not using a any kind of valid protection is a choice made on purpose wether due to ego or ignorance, it's still a choice...and a bad one at that.

[Bill Wyko]

All it takes is once!!! Once is typically the time you don't have on your shield. I don't even have safety glasses in my shop. Only 3 shields. Safety glasses won't stop your teeth from getting knocked out. Glad you're ok. Cool idea for the repair too.

[Brian Libby]

I was always one that did not need one-they got in the way. I have "retrained" myself to wear a faceshield !!!! In my "old age" I have become extremely safety conscious- (the body takes a lot longer to heal !!!)

[Gene Hintze]

People don't even get to watch me turn without wearing a faceshield.

[Sid Matheny]

Me, almost never! Yeah I know but us old rednecks learn the hard way.


Sid

[Alan Zenreich]

People don't even get to watch me turn without wearing a faceshield.

That's the way it is in my shop.

Same thing while carrying a passenger on my motorcycle... In the event of an unintentional ejection from the bike, they would hit the same road as I would. So the deserve (and get) the same level of (excellent) protective gear that I use.

[Peter Blair]

I gotta admit the I only wear one when I 'think' the process that I'm doing is dangerous. With my farsightedness and glasses and a face shield I stubble to see well enough but THANKS for the reminder. I guess not being able to see well enough is better than not being able to see at all!!