I'm OK, but I did drip some blood in the shop. I was cutting bamboo with a Japanese saw. As best I can reconstruct, I probably pulled the saw back too far; then on the push stroke, the tip of the saw caught in the cut. As I pushed forward, the tip broke off; I later found it embedded in the cut. As I pushed forward, the saw sprung to the left, where my left hand was holding the bamboo. The left hand was a couple of inches away, but the saw has a log of spring. It all happened so fast I wasn't immediately sure what happened, just that my finger hurt and was bleeding like made.
Fortunately, the finger seems to work fine. She who wanted a bamboo garden trellis is a retired doctor and cleaned, disinfected and bandaged my finger. ("What were you doing?" she asked. "I was making a bamboo garden trellis," I replied so that blame would be properly assigned.)
I try to be cautious in the shop, but had never anticipated this particular possibility.
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