Oh my god!!!! That's horrible man. Did you go to the ER to have it sewn back on?
Super glue and some duct tape will fix it right up...
What did you do in your shop today?
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Oh my god!!!! That's horrible man. Did you go to the ER to have it sewn back on?
Super glue and some duct tape will fix it right up...
I like my Kershaw Volt, without a doubt the closest thing to switchblade one can legally pack. Not sure it isn't faster than a switchblade honestly, and it's certainly more stable than most given it's size and weight.
The most common question, Did you go to the ER? LOL. Nope.
They'd just clean it up, wrap it up, and send you a bill for $2500.
Pretty much and thus, between my training in first aid ( I was a fireman for a number of years and had advanced emergency medical training back in the day) and my wife's training as a nurses aid and my middle daughter who is a surgical / trauma nurse we did what they would do only somewhat cheaper. I do have a complete surgical kit and contemplated sewing it back on, but all things considered, chose not to go that route as I would have to suture it with my right hand and I am left handed.
I am not anti medical or doctors. But, we are extremely poor, living very much like those we minister too. As such insurance, etc is cost prohibitive for us. For the amount of money insurance costs I can feed a hundred people for a week. So.... we opted out of insurance when it became legal for us to do so again.
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I have a few of the crkt no time off model knives...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00SVE9WEC?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_pd_title
And I put my own bubinga scales on em...
Here's one in cocobolo I did a while back....
https://woodbarter.com/threads/crkt-grips-from-cocobolo.25237/#post-321136
https://woodbarter.com/threads/crkt-grips-from-cocobolo.25237/#post-321136
Not sure why that Kershaw Volt link above came out on the Stainless Steel model. I don't have that one, I have this Kershaw Volt.
Nice job on the scale replacement! Have an old Volt that the pocket clip came off of that I should buff and rescale for fun and games.
Nice job on the scale replacement! Have an old Volt that the pocket clip came off of that I should buff and rescale for fun and games.
On those crkt knives, they have ridiculously small ballbearings around the screw to hold the blade. Supposed to be smooth action with em. Make sure when you open yours up, that you don't lose em, if that knife has em. I doubt it will, but just be prepared....
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Yeah, the wife cut her finger opening a can of mushrooms in the kitchen at the local tavern, she helped out on weekends. Called me up and wanted to know if she should go to the ER and get it sewed up. Told her to put pressure on it, I'd be there in a minute. I arrived, she showed me the finger, again asked my opinion. I told her she was talking to someone with a PhD in Blue Shop Towel and Electrician's Tape, that it would be a cold day in ----, before I set foot in the ER for a minor cut like that. That unless the finger was dangling by a thin thread of skin, I would bandage it and go on about my business, I do it often. My buddy, the Security Guard/Certified EMT was in the backroom, so I yelled at him, and had him come look at it. He was kinda non-committal with a, "Well, it wouldn't hurt to go up and have them check it out." $800 and 4 stitches later, she was happy, however in the course of practicing her stitching, the NP on duty that evening said...
"Well normally we wouldn't go to the trouble of stitching something of this nature, we'd just apply a pressure bandage." (My wife made mention of the Blue Shop Towel and Electrician's Tape, eh! Which the NP, agreed would have probably worked. But what the hell do I know!) Then said...
"But, because of it's proximity to the joint, I'm a little afraid it might pull loose." (I'm standing there thinking, "Uhmmm... so extend the shop towel and tape over the joint, and immobilize it! HELLO!!! Are you sure you went to med school?") And, then she says...
"At the same time, the stitches might not hold, because it is a flap wound, and the edges of the skin may die, regardless of how hard we try to save it."
But they elected to sew it back together, and when the wife got the bill for that little adventure, she about feinted, and decided maybe she should have listened to me! But she still doesn't! If the dog doesn't poo on schedule, she hauls his little ass to the doggy ER!
Uh... she didn’t. That’s why she’s got the NP on the end of her name badge.
Nothing against NPs or PA... there are some fantastic examples of each in my community. There are some less than stellar MDs and DOs also... med school doesn’t assure competency(even though it should).
I've got a PA in town I trust with my life, 2 MD's I won't go to unless I have no other choice. Of course for a lot of stuff I use superglue and a band aid
I recently had to go to a doc for and SSD eval...researched the doc before I went and found out that he lost his ability to prescribe narcotics because he was involved in an online pill mill and then was charged with practicing without a license. Now all he does are evils for social security. The eval visit was kinda scary experience.
SSD - Is that like Scratch and Sniff Disease?
That's cool! Need to do that with my little Delta/Rockwell
Rocky, you should. I think this will be much better than some bolt together stand with no storage. And this gives me a built in extension wing.
This is a second table saw for me and will be located in my basement workshop space - it will allow me the use of a table saw to work on some small projects when it's too hot or too cold in the garage shop to work. I really wanted storage built in so as to give me a place to store tools. Most of the time the drawers will probably be mostly empty. But it will give me a place to store whatever tools I bring down from the garage to use during those times I can't work in the garage.
Might contemplate peg board for drawer bottoms Matt. They won't hold saw dust that way. If you have any small items to stash in the drawers, a tackle pack or two keeps it organized, and handy.
Long as the kids don't try and stand in them it should hold up reasonably well. Have a cabinet/mobile work bench I built 15 years ago I did that in, and it's never given me a problem. Never had a problem with sawdust in the drawers either, although I've sawed and routed on top of the table many times over the years.
Long as the kids don't try and stand in them it should hold up reasonably well. Have a cabinet/mobile work bench I built 15 years ago I did that in, and it's never given me a problem. Never had a problem with sawdust in the drawers either, although I've sawed and routed on top of the table many times over the years.
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The peg board as drawer bottoms would drive me nuts! I will be building wood internal dividers in some of the drawers as well. But there won't really be much in them that is very small. Unless I decide to take one of the small upper drawers and divide it out for some screw storage.
Tackle packs are much easier than dividers, and when you need goodies from the drawer on the other side of the room, a great deal more convenient.
I kinda debated it at first. Gotta be careful not to toss loose screws and nails in the drawer, as they will fall through and hang on the drawer beneath.
I kinda debated it at first. Gotta be careful not to toss loose screws and nails in the drawer, as they will fall through and hang on the drawer beneath.