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Originally Posted by Chris Fitzgerald  That is indeed some scary ****, and my thoughts go out to him. I once came within an inch of losing several fingers to a radial arm saw, and I turned it off and sold it immediately afterward, never firing it up again. My furniture making days are over. I hope Mark is able to recover. |
I feel for this young player's injuries. I hope he makes a full recovery.
Chris, I worked around shop tools for nearly 20 years, coming really close to a running bandsaw blade one time. Part of my job duties was to introduce complete greenhorns to the use of power tools and how to operate them safely.
One of my main selling points of the danger involved in operating these saws, etc., was this. The tool will do it's assigned job, pefectly, every time. It is desgned to cut. Mistakes or errors will not be due to the machine, but due to the human operating it.
Proper planning, along with proper technique and compete attention to the task at hand, will yield safely produced, wanted results.
Sim Daley, noted mandolin maker in the Nashville, TN area (mandolins played by Dan Tyminski, Adam Steffey) has a copy of the x-ray where he cut the end off his left thumb and the pins that now hold it in place, in his office. It's a good thing he plays the banjo right-handed.
Sim will be the first to tell you that it was his fault, not paying attention.
