Sanding My Fingers
I’ve been working pretty hard the past few weeks trying to get ready for what I hope is a better holiday season than last year. I didn’t have much ready and I don’t want that to happen again.
I’ll tell you, sanding little pieces of wood on an oscillating belt sander is hard on my fingers. I usually keep my fingernails long enough to pick up small items, but lately they’re down to the quick. I can’t pick up anything small at all. I’ve also got a pretty good idea of what a criminal who sands off his fingerprints feels like. It hurts. I would not even notice what I was doing until my finger felt a little hot, and then when I looked, there was a pink spot. I got tired of having 3 or 4 band-aids on all of the time.
Things are better now that I got a new sander. It’s a 1 x 42 inch belt sander. That makes it harder to hit the fingers. It is combined with an 8 inch disk sander. That tool works great.
Right now I have no band-aids on, but I still have no fingernails on 6 fingers and one thumb.
Oh, I also got a little block caught on the belt sander and it hit my thumb so hard I thought I would cry. Half of my thumb nail is blackish blue and 4 days later I still can’t put much pressure on it. Man, do I like to suffer.
December 12th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Woodworking…
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