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IT HAS TASTED BLOOD.
Nov. 16th, 2018 09:53 pmIn other news, Richard's finger hasn't fallen off yet.
If you are wondering what I am talking about, you obviously haven't seen his Facebook posts.
Richard took last week off work, to tidy the house and work on building a guitar out of wood. Unfortunately we spent Monday night at A&E after he took a router cutter to the finger. He didn't actually need stitches, they glued it all together with some sort of medical gel. But he had to have an anti-tetanus injection and a week's worth of antibiotics. And because he is squeamish, the entire thing was VERY TRAUMATIC for him.
He was feeling very embarrassed because he'd literally only just started cutting when the accident happened. This was the first part of the guitar to be made out of thick wood, and he didn't think about the direction of the wood grain before feeding it to the cutter. As a result, when the wood slipped, it dragged his hand into the cutter instead of away.
Apparently the router was brand new. NOW IT HAS TASTED BLOOD.
On the plus side, it's his little finger so it's not massively important. Also, it has been a valuable learning experience and he's never going to make that mistake again! On the minus side, the injury is on his dominant hand, so he has been feeling very disabled, and has not been able to do any more work on the guitar. In fact, he had to spend most of last week resting.
If you are wondering what I am talking about, you obviously haven't seen his Facebook posts.
Richard took last week off work, to tidy the house and work on building a guitar out of wood. Unfortunately we spent Monday night at A&E after he took a router cutter to the finger. He didn't actually need stitches, they glued it all together with some sort of medical gel. But he had to have an anti-tetanus injection and a week's worth of antibiotics. And because he is squeamish, the entire thing was VERY TRAUMATIC for him.
He was feeling very embarrassed because he'd literally only just started cutting when the accident happened. This was the first part of the guitar to be made out of thick wood, and he didn't think about the direction of the wood grain before feeding it to the cutter. As a result, when the wood slipped, it dragged his hand into the cutter instead of away.
Apparently the router was brand new. NOW IT HAS TASTED BLOOD.
On the plus side, it's his little finger so it's not massively important. Also, it has been a valuable learning experience and he's never going to make that mistake again! On the minus side, the injury is on his dominant hand, so he has been feeling very disabled, and has not been able to do any more work on the guitar. In fact, he had to spend most of last week resting.