splinters....ooooh!

[Mark Singer]

Shedua is like wenge in the splinter department and they refuse to come out...silver gripper and all! They seem to get infected right away. I have worked with it many times before...this is the worst though...

[Alan Turner]

I feel for you. But, on my list of awful splinters, I need to add ebony. Sharp as can be so they go deep, they infect in just an instant.

[Dan Forman]

OUCH!!!! Tigerwood is nasty in the sliver department too.

Dan

[Kirk (KC) Constable]

Gimme a splinter anyday over an invisible bit of steel wool. :eek:

KC

[Brian Hale]

Ipe burns me as soon as it goes in. Seems to affect different folks to different extents though...

Brian :)

[Jim Becker]

Fortunately, eggnog is in season as an anesthetic, Mark! (Sorry to hear about the splinters...nasty little buggers!)

[Lee DeRaud]

Gimme a splinter anyday over an invisible bit of steel wool. :eek: Or fiberglass.

[Chris Giles]

Wenge is like working with an angry porcupine! Never had so many slivers in my life.:eek::mad:

[Roger Everett]

Purpleheart in the rough gets my vote, seems to fester up at the latest , the next day.
Roger

[Barry O'Mahony]

Gimme a splinter anyday over an invisible bit of steel wool. or a tiny bit of steel in the eye. Especially if you don't realize it's in their until the next day, after it's had a chance to rust. Actually, 'happened to LOML once. We now remember it as a good incentive to put on those safety glasses.

[Jim W. White]

Ouch Mark! ....I feel for you

I'll add to the list of nasty splinters with Chechen. It's not prone to splintering like some other woods that have been mentioned but the wood is so crisp when machined that I cut myself on several occasions. I found out after the project that one of it's common names was "poison wood" :(