Last Saturday I gave a day-long seminar to the Michigan Woodworkers Guild that was a bit of a disaster.
I started with a sharpening demonstration. First thing: I picked up my #1,000-grit waterstone; it slipped from my hand and cracked into a dozen bits on the floor. So I muddied through with a diamond plate.
After lunch, as I was demonstrating full-blind lap dovetails, I nicked my thumb with a chisel – right by the fingernail. As Dr. Gary Assarian noted as he was bandaging me up – there is a lot of vascular activity right there. Boy was he right. I was squirting blood like the Buckingham Fountain.
(The blood-spattered joint went together quite well, thanks for asking.)
Anyway, there were several items I promised I would post links to here on my blog. So here you go:
- The chart on sharpening media that converts everything to microns is here.
- You can read how to grind and hone a fore plane blade here.
- And here is the article on 16th-century try squares.
Thank you Michigan woodworkers; and sorry about the mess.
— Christopher Schwarz
You’ve been hanging out with Roy too much.
I have a vision of the woodworking version of Dan Aykroyd doing Julia Child’s on SNL.
…Julia Child… (originally read “Child’s show”)
It’s true.. Woodworking requires human sacrifice.
You paid the iron price…
Here’s the advice my shop teacher gave for such situations, “Don’t bleed on the wood.”
The advice I received went more along the lines of “Dammit, that will cause rust! Clean the tool, THEN go see the nurse.”
We were also told not to report it or the insurance would go up
Sounds like your mind was not fully in Detroit with you.
You really can’t say you been to Detroit if you don’t leave bleeding.
YOU’VE been…Jeez