Long story
So ... a week or so ago, I picked up some Olivewood from a local member of WB. I had a great time picking out pieces and talking to Tim for several hours. I was so excited to work with the Olivewood that I scooted out to my shop early in the next morning and when the temp was well below freezing. Heavy coat, and leather gloves. I walked into my shop and to the back wall to where my thermostat was for my gas shop heater and got it cranked up to start heating things up.
I then went right to my new stack of Olivewood and picked out a piece to work on. I pretty quickly got it shaped into a short cylinder on my bandsaw but noticed a number of cracks that I wanted to fill before I started turning. I grabbed my superglue (4oz, thin and fast) and attempted to open the spout. Like all superglue bottles, it was glued so hard together that you'd imagine it was always a single piece of plastic and not a dispensing spout. So I moved on to unscrewing the main spout from the bottle. As I was struggling with it, the main spout popped off, and the bottle which was in my other gloved hand, got slammed down on the workbench ... ejecting a huge quantity of CA upwards ...
Well, it got into my hair, ears, my mustache/beard, on my teeth, nose, cheeks, forehead and yes ... into both eyes. I quickly wiped my left sorta well, but my right eye was glued solidly shut with big hardened blobs in the tear duct area. I had glued my eyelid to eyeball and all my eyelashes glued together. I was able to just peek a bit through my left eye to make it back to the house (500ft away) and my wife took me to the ER. It hurt to peek out my left eye because if I moved my left eye, my right eye tracked with it ... except that my right eye was glued to my eyelid which didn't allow that eye to move. Ouch. I think my wife only hit a few high spots in the road during our 45-minute drive. Who knew a Jeep could "fly" ?
The ER basically just put in some eye numbing drops and kept rubbing Vaseline into my eyes (through a tiny separation) and then waiting for some degradation of the glue joints. I had to try to pry my eyelid off my eyeball and scrape the glue off my skin and eyelashes with my fingernails. It took about 3 hours to finally work everything apart. My eye was quite irritated, but the CA itself does not do any chemical damage. After a couple of days, my eye irritation was largely gone.
Where is this going?
As I walked into my freezing shop, I walked right past my tray of safety glasses that I keep right by the door (so that I always grab a pair when in the shop), and went back in the shop to start the heater. I never thought to go get a pair after that.
ALWAYS, ALWAYS at minimum, wear safety glasses as soon as entering your shop area. You know this; I know this, I practice this at all times (HAHAHA) ... but still, I screwed up.
I'll attach a pic of the now finished piece in a day or so
So ... a week or so ago, I picked up some Olivewood from a local member of WB. I had a great time picking out pieces and talking to Tim for several hours. I was so excited to work with the Olivewood that I scooted out to my shop early in the next morning and when the temp was well below freezing. Heavy coat, and leather gloves. I walked into my shop and to the back wall to where my thermostat was for my gas shop heater and got it cranked up to start heating things up.
I then went right to my new stack of Olivewood and picked out a piece to work on. I pretty quickly got it shaped into a short cylinder on my bandsaw but noticed a number of cracks that I wanted to fill before I started turning. I grabbed my superglue (4oz, thin and fast) and attempted to open the spout. Like all superglue bottles, it was glued so hard together that you'd imagine it was always a single piece of plastic and not a dispensing spout. So I moved on to unscrewing the main spout from the bottle. As I was struggling with it, the main spout popped off, and the bottle which was in my other gloved hand, got slammed down on the workbench ... ejecting a huge quantity of CA upwards ...
Well, it got into my hair, ears, my mustache/beard, on my teeth, nose, cheeks, forehead and yes ... into both eyes. I quickly wiped my left sorta well, but my right eye was glued solidly shut with big hardened blobs in the tear duct area. I had glued my eyelid to eyeball and all my eyelashes glued together. I was able to just peek a bit through my left eye to make it back to the house (500ft away) and my wife took me to the ER. It hurt to peek out my left eye because if I moved my left eye, my right eye tracked with it ... except that my right eye was glued to my eyelid which didn't allow that eye to move. Ouch. I think my wife only hit a few high spots in the road during our 45-minute drive. Who knew a Jeep could "fly" ?
The ER basically just put in some eye numbing drops and kept rubbing Vaseline into my eyes (through a tiny separation) and then waiting for some degradation of the glue joints. I had to try to pry my eyelid off my eyeball and scrape the glue off my skin and eyelashes with my fingernails. It took about 3 hours to finally work everything apart. My eye was quite irritated, but the CA itself does not do any chemical damage. After a couple of days, my eye irritation was largely gone.
Where is this going?
As I walked into my freezing shop, I walked right past my tray of safety glasses that I keep right by the door (so that I always grab a pair when in the shop), and went back in the shop to start the heater. I never thought to go get a pair after that. ALWAYS, ALWAYS at minimum, wear safety glasses as soon as entering your shop area. You know this; I know this, I practice this at all times (HAHAHA) ... but still, I screwed up.
I'll attach a pic of the now finished piece in a day or so
