Don't ask me how I know

[Peter Blair]

I read with interest the many 'Tips' that have been posted since I became a member of the Creek but I wonder how many of you have learned a hard lesson and would be willing to share that experience here to save others from the same fate. I think it would be best to try to limit it to one instance per comment.

I'll start.

If you turn wet wood, which I know most of us love to do, don't position your sharpening station in line with the water thrown from spinning wet wood, especially if you have CBN wheels.

Don't ask me how I know!!!

[Brian Kent]

Never try a bandsaw cut across a log. It catches, spins, and wrenches the blade. I ruined 2 blades this way. Thankfully I did not get hurt, but only because the blade did not break and my hands were clear to the side.

[Steve Peterson]

OK, I won't ask how you know not to do it. But do you know what happens if you do? :) Do they load up with wet mushy gunk? Or do they get all rusty? Does it somehow destroy the wheels or just make them look bad?

Steve

[alex grams]

+1 on brian. The blade will catch, kink, and come off the wheels. I tried it once with no jig... bad idea. I wouldn't mind doing it now with a very solid jig, but also be careful about extremely wet wood that will swell into the kerf. Fortunately I only lost 1 blade, not 2, so I guess I have that going for me....

Careful on loose clothing on a drum sander. I have a light jacket that has a nice sanded section on it. Fortunately, it was a smaller drum sander and I could pull the clothing out...

[Dan Hintz]

Don't take a laxative and a sleeping pill in the same night... :D

[ray hampton]

Don't take a laxative and a sleeping pill in the same night... :D

If you take both then sleep on the commode

[Bill Bukovec]

Never offer to help someone who has rusty tools.

They have no idea what they are doing, or how to do it.

A neighbor was trying to dig a hole to plant a shrub.

For some reason, her husband wasn't helping her. ( oh wait, he had his PHD in being an a$$hole).

So I grabbed the rusty shovel (it was about 3 months old and already rusty) and dug the hole for he.

Cut right through her phone line. She failed to tell me there was buried stuff right were she was digging.

Thank God those losers moved away.

Good luck,

Bill

[Peter Blair]

Steve, still seems to work but it is now a sort of rusty black colour.

[Sid Matheny]

Always have debonder in EASY reach when using CA glue!


Sid

[Mike Cruz]

Never ever hold what you are drilling with your other hand. The bit could break, and 269683269684

[Michael Stafford]

You cannot round up your turning blank with your tool rest no matter how sharp it is.:rolleyes:

[Brian Kent]

You cannot round up your turning blank with your tool rest no matter how sharp it is.:rolleyes:

Quick, Michael! Patent that HSS sharpened tool rest!

[Harry Robinette]

Out the back door of my garage is about a 45* hill say 5' high. My buddy was helping me stage a load of wood,I usually use a 2 wheeler but he decided to roll one. NEVER roll the log down the hill. They tend to wipe-out the neighbors fence.$134.00 I hate living in town.

[Tim Janssen]

A bandsaw blade installed "upside down" doesn't cut very well! I can guarantee you that.

Tim

[Fred Belknap]

Make sure your tool rest extends past the center of the bowl, strange things happen when you run off the end of the tool rest. So I been told.

[Ryan Mooney]

Both hands on the angle grinder with the carving tool until it has completely spun down. If you do take one hand off definitely make sure its not the hand on the trigger anyway.

[Bill White]

Never believe that a tool is sharp even though it is new.
Bill