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AudioKinesis Cabs Part VI...
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Seriously, take care of those hands man!
Well, and the rest of you.
Well, and the rest of you.
Duke,
As a human being, an Audiokinesis fan, and a lefty, I wish your hand an easy and complete recovery!
-tim
As a human being, an Audiokinesis fan, and a lefty, I wish your hand an easy and complete recovery!
-tim
Yikes! Time to consider an apprentice? ...not that their fingers would be any less valuable. Get better soon!
As a fellow table-saw/hand injury club member, best wishes for recovery.
Inasmuch as I was working on a home-improvement project when my encounter occurred, I was able to bargain for substantial spousal 'comforting' post-incident. Sadly, when the surgeries were done, she left me to my own devices ....... called it 'therapy' .... I would also advise my fellow TB'ers that the tablesaw/hand-injury is, imo, not a balanced bargain for acquiring spousal-comfort (and my spouse is a nurse AND a former cheerleader from New Jersey).
Also during my convalescence, I got a bottle of tequila, a comfortable chair and watched while an employee sledgehammered my table saw to a mangled pile of metal and haul it off. nothing but table router for me now.
Inasmuch as I was working on a home-improvement project when my encounter occurred, I was able to bargain for substantial spousal 'comforting' post-incident. Sadly, when the surgeries were done, she left me to my own devices ....... called it 'therapy' .... I would also advise my fellow TB'ers that the tablesaw/hand-injury is, imo, not a balanced bargain for acquiring spousal-comfort (and my spouse is a nurse AND a former cheerleader from New Jersey).
Also during my convalescence, I got a bottle of tequila, a comfortable chair and watched while an employee sledgehammered my table saw to a mangled pile of metal and haul it off. nothing but table router for me now.
I hope you feel better soon @DukeLeJeune ! I think we're all just glad you didn't saw something off!
Speedy recovery Duke!!! And here's some musical meme advice:
That's the song my wife and I used as our introduction music at our wedding reception. Not everyone got the joke. We stopped short of having my father-in-law follow us out with a shotgun, which he would have been more than happy to do.
....and now it's stuck in my head.
- Nov 24, 2008
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Thank you all very much for your kind thoughts and posts and songs!
Just to clarify a bit, I was using a miter saw to trim the length of a plastic port tube. Something like this:
I think I varied the pressure a bit as I braced the plastic port against the fence while bringing the blade down. As the pressure on the port changed, it flexed a little bit and that caused the blade to grab the end of the port and climb across the top of it (this based on the teeth mark pattern left on the port), slinging it across the workshop. As it started its journey across the room, somehow the port knocked a flap of skin off the end of my left traffic finger and hyperextended my left thumb. The traffic finger will be fine in a few days, and the horn on my car horn still works so I'm good there anyway.
While there is room for improvement in my technique, and a fine-toothed blade would probably help, my conclusion is that that saw is simply the wrong tool for that job. I'm going back to using a miter box and a hand saw.
Just to clarify a bit, I was using a miter saw to trim the length of a plastic port tube. Something like this:
I think I varied the pressure a bit as I braced the plastic port against the fence while bringing the blade down. As the pressure on the port changed, it flexed a little bit and that caused the blade to grab the end of the port and climb across the top of it (this based on the teeth mark pattern left on the port), slinging it across the workshop. As it started its journey across the room, somehow the port knocked a flap of skin off the end of my left traffic finger and hyperextended my left thumb. The traffic finger will be fine in a few days, and the horn on my car horn still works so I'm good there anyway.
While there is room for improvement in my technique, and a fine-toothed blade would probably help, my conclusion is that that saw is simply the wrong tool for that job. I'm going back to using a miter box and a hand saw.
Passinwind
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Thank you all very much for your kind thoughts and posts and songs!
Just to clarify a bit, I was using a miter saw to trim the length of a plastic port tube. Something like this:
I think I varied the pressure a bit as I braced the plastic port against the fence while bringing the blade down. As the pressure on the port changed, it flexed a little bit and that caused the blade to grab the end of the port and climb across the top of it (this based on the teeth mark pattern left on the port), slinging it across the workshop. As it started its journey across the room, somehow the port knocked a flap of skin off the end of my left traffic finger and hyperextended my left thumb. The traffic finger will be fine in a few days, and the horn on my car horn still works so I'm good there anyway.
While there is room for improvement in my technique, and a fine-toothed blade would probably help, my conclusion is that that saw is simply the wrong tool for that job. I'm going back to using a miter box and a hand saw.
I have a miter box with what looks like a huge hacksaw with replaceable blades. Got it at Home Depot and it'd be perfect for that sort of work.
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Ha! "Traffic finger"
That's a new one for me. I love it. Get well soon, Duke!
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That sounds perfect - Thanks!!
However even switching to a hand saw is no guarantee... when I was a kid, I sawed a notch into my knee with a handsaw... (anyone seeing a pattern here??)
I would be more interested in a 2x10 personally. A small format 2x10 that would have more power than a 112 would be amazing.
And I'm glad your accident wasn't worse! My brother in law chopped half of his thumb off with a router. Best of luck with the recovery.
Passinwind
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Ouch! I added a link in my post BTW.
And I am trying to be extra careful about finger burns today as I work on a few last minute things for the BassCon. The silver plated wire I often use conducts heat really well (especially the mil spec stuff with thin Teflon insulation), and that's not always a bonus when hand soldering.
Has anyone tried guitar (and a guitar head) through a Hathor cab?
I am currently eyeballing a baritone and considering what else I might need (want) if playing it goes farther than expected. I thought it might be neat to have a 20-30W tube head with a decent reverb channel (or pedal) running through the 1203.
My most relevant experience was trying the bottom four bari. string gauges using D'Addario XL nickels on a bass. It sounded surprisingly great through my Ashdown ABM500 and a Baer ML112 (before I had the 1203).
My imagination pictures a small tube guitar amp atop a 1203 and my ABM500 atop a 1533 for doubling (if necessary, keys could cover bass when I am on baritone).
I am currently eyeballing a baritone and considering what else I might need (want) if playing it goes farther than expected. I thought it might be neat to have a 20-30W tube head with a decent reverb channel (or pedal) running through the 1203.
My most relevant experience was trying the bottom four bari. string gauges using D'Addario XL nickels on a bass. It sounded surprisingly great through my Ashdown ABM500 and a Baer ML112 (before I had the 1203).
My imagination pictures a small tube guitar amp atop a 1203 and my ABM500 atop a 1533 for doubling (if necessary, keys could cover bass when I am on baritone).
