Warning:Graphic Pic. When cutting mortises...

[Mike Baker 2]

....try not to stab yourself in your fat, stupid belly.
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Just came off a pasted strop. Nice and sharp.
Only went in about 1/4 inch. I slapped a bandaid on it and kept working, but please be careful.
Full disclosure, it was my fault entirely.
I have no vice, actually not even a bench yet. I was cutting mortises on my porch railing. Board had a bit of a crown. I was paring the corners straight, and the board wobbled and fell toward me, sending the chisel into my belly. I broke pretty much every rule I can think of RE safety.
When I went back to work, I guarantee you I clamped the piece down.
Don't do what I did. Be smart ,and safe, folks.

[Jim Koepke]

I always try to plan with what can go wrong in mind. Well at least when I am thinking about what I am doing. It is usually when my brain goes on autopilot that something untoward happens.

jtk

[Mike Baker 2]

I can promise you I'll be more conscious of that from now on. Could have been a lot worse.

[Joe Williams]

That photo is blurry enough it almost looks profane :P I am sorry you got hurt, always good to have warnings where nothing too serious happened.

[Mike Baker 2]

Thanks, Joe.

[Jim Koepke]

When I went back to work, I guarantee you I clamped the piece down.

Good to know it didn't keep you from getting back to work. Hope the healing is fast.

jtk

[Mike Baker 2]

Thanks, Jim.

[Andrew Pitonyak]

Only went in about 1/4 inch. I slapped a bandaid on it and kept working, but please be careful.


Can I recommend that you use a butterfly bandage? or some equivalent generic.... Their purpose is to hold the wound closed, and that one looks to be NOT CLOSED. They look like this and you can get them many places

https://www.amazon.com/Adhesive-Bandages-Sterile-Butterfly-x1-13/dp/B0013H2YM6

I bought my latest batch from CVS.

[Andrew Pitonyak]

I did something very similar to my leg when either I dropped a chisel or it rolled off the bench; don't remember which right now. The wound looked remarkably similar.

[Mike Baker 2]

Andrew, I meant to pick some of those up yesterday. Thanks.
I never even felt it; the chisel was so sharp. I thought it just contacted me. Did not realize I was even cut until I looked down while working and saw the cut in my shirt.

[Andrew Pitonyak]

Andrew, I meant to pick some of those up yesterday. Thanks.
I never even felt it; the chisel was so sharp. I thought it just contacted me. Did not realize I was even cut until I looked down while working and saw the cut in my shirt.

It was the same for me. That chisel was very sharp!

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?191789-My-first-little-chest-of-drawers-(and-a-chisel-in-the-leg)&p=1980569#post1980569

Can you guess how I shaved the hair around the wound? Yep, CHISEL!

[Mike Baker 2]

Nice job on the chest (and the bandages).
I thought about shaving around the wound, but was leery of getting a stray hair actually in the wound.

[Frank Drew]

Mike,

Since the laceration happened yesterday, you don't really want to close it tightly now; clean it well with soap and water, put a loose dressing over it, and if your last tetanus shot was more than 5 years ago, get one today.

[Mike Baker 2]

Yep, I'm washing it once daily, and keeping an eye on it.

[John Kananis]

With no bench, try sitting on your work-piece (on a sitting bench) and mortise while holding the work in place with your butt and or leg -I'd imagine it a little safer than the porch rail. Sorry to hear of your mishap; feel better.

[Mike Baker 2]

Thanks, John. I'll give that a go.

[george wilson]

Bet that stings!! I have cut myself with HAND tools many times more often than with machine tools. In fact,I can only recall 2 times when I cut myself with machines!

[Gary Cunningham]

Eh, rub some dirt on it. You'll be fine.
;)

[Mike Baker 2]

LOL! Probably so.
:D

[Adam Cruea]

Eh, rub some dirt on it. You'll be fine.
;)

Sawdust. Soak up the blood better.

Don't ask how I know.

[Mike Baker 2]

Sawdust. Soak up the blood better.

Don't ask how I know.


Perhaps because your moniker is the Barefoot
Woodworker? :D

[Frank Drew]

Eh, rub some dirt on it. You'll be fine.
;)

Ha! I cut a finger with a chisel while working with some Japanese and Korean carpenters; they took some tobacco from a cigarette and packed it around the wound, said it was a natural disinfectant. I did go the the ER to get it stitched and the doctor didn't entirely dismiss the tobacco theory but said it was new to him.

[Mike Baker 2]

Ha! I cut a finger with a chisel while working with some Japanese and Korean carpenters; they took some tobacco from a cigarette and packed it around the wound, said it was a natural disinfectant. I did go the the ER to get it stitched and the doctor didn't entirely dismiss the tobacco theory but said it was new to him.


This is an old remedy. Same with honey, or salt.
I remember my Grandmother trying to chop the head off a chicken. She missed and laid her hand wide open. She said, "Boy, go get me the salt". I brought the box of salt to her, and she poured it into the wound. Stopped the bleeding quick, but what stays with me still today is not a winch, not a wimper, not a single sound. I would have screamed like a three year old girl, even today. Sterner stuff, that one.

[Chris Hachet]

Ouch! Hurt myself in similar ways...