IT HAS TASTED BLOOD.

[baratron]

In 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.

Comments

[lovingboth]

Ouch, and hooray for the injury being relatively minor compared with what it could have been.

One brother-in-law lost a couple of fingers to something like this, and was reasonably lucky to survive (alone in the factory using serious a power tool without safety gear what could possibly go wrong??) but fortunately managed to get help.

A friend nearly lost fingers with another sort too. I am trying to remember what they did - put it down on the desk while still spinning, I think...

[damerell]

I read "Apparently the router was brand new. NOW IT HAS TASTED BLOOD." first and was very confused; the kind of router I think of can't really draw blood very easily...

[rhialto]

This is the kind of router that is actually pronounced like the other kind is often mispronounced :-)

[lovingboth]

I dunno, the computer kind has led to much tearing out of hair etc...

[ludy]

hope wuzzie-finger continuing to heal well. I did somehow see the picture of FB even though i only pop by there occasionally and the algorithm of what it shows you makes no sense. It looked dramatic!