[pianotech] Of Chisels

[Susan Kline]

  On 10/9/2010 12:05 PM, PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com wrote:
> I've seen nowhere in the responses to this thread, among the 
> recommendations for gloves, the simple /caveat:/ don't aim blades at 
> yourself, under any circumstances. We use push sticks and feather 
> boards and paddles on all sorts of power tools to avoid aiming our 
> hands into moving blades. The same principle works with chisels: they 
> always move away from our body parts, never toward them. :-)
One might even say that the most dangerous tool is not a sharp chisel, 
it's the laziness of turning your left hand into a vise to hold the work 
piece.

I saw a horrific scar on the left wrist of a magnificently skilled 
woodworking teacher, who worked with dangerous power tools every day, 
but it was a chisel which injured him. Whoever has a left hand scarred 
by a chisel, you are not alone. It only takes a moment of inattention 
when one is in a hurry.

Susan


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