Warning:Graphic Pic. When cutting mortises...

[Mike Baker 2]

Thanks, John. I'll give that a go.

[george wilson]

Bet that stings!! I have cut myself with HAND tools many times more often than with machine tools. In fact,I can only recall 2 times when I cut myself with machines!

[Gary Cunningham]

Eh, rub some dirt on it. You'll be fine.

[Mike Baker 2]

LOL! Probably so.

[Adam Cruea]

Eh, rub some dirt on it. You'll be fine.

Sawdust. Soak up the blood better.

Don't ask how I know.

[Mike Baker 2]

Sawdust. Soak up the blood better.

Don't ask how I know.

Perhaps because your moniker is the Barefoot
Woodworker?

[Frank Drew]

Eh, rub some dirt on it. You'll be fine.

Ha! I cut a finger with a chisel while working with some Japanese and Korean carpenters; they took some tobacco from a cigarette and packed it around the wound, said it was a natural disinfectant. I did go the the ER to get it stitched and the doctor didn't entirely dismiss the tobacco theory but said it was new to him.

[Mike Baker 2]

Ha! I cut a finger with a chisel while working with some Japanese and Korean carpenters; they took some tobacco from a cigarette and packed it around the wound, said it was a natural disinfectant. I did go the the ER to get it stitched and the doctor didn't entirely dismiss the tobacco theory but said it was new to him.

This is an old remedy. Same with honey, or salt.
I remember my Grandmother trying to chop the head off a chicken. She missed and laid her hand wide open. She said, "Boy, go get me the salt". I brought the box of salt to her, and she poured it into the wound. Stopped the bleeding quick, but what stays with me still today is not a winch, not a wimper, not a single sound. I would have screamed like a three year old girl, even today. Sterner stuff, that one.

[Chris Hachet]

Ouch! Hurt myself in similar ways...