Oh Snap!....
When was this?....
Is this a "Today's Find"....or is this from the archives?...
Yea, the bandsaw would have made quite the mess for sure. Thanks for posting, and sure hope you heal well.
Probably close to a year ago, I was attempting to put on a dust boot with the tool engaged ,,, I told myself in advance to be very careful, fingers are going to be close to the spinning bit, and the boot takes some wiggling to get it on. I even thought back, you think maybe then I should turn it off first ? To which I thought naw, no need. This will take 3 seconds, just be careful thats all.
My premonition was correct, and my finger engaged the spinning tool and quickly retreated. Really just tore up some skin, routers are pretty forgiving as far as cuts, by nature they are almost always localized and not too deep.
Had an incident at work a year before that, I was cutting off some dried adhesive from the back of a decorative piece with a razor knife that wasn't sitting flush because of the dried adhesive. Once again, I told myself in advance to be very careful, one slip and it could get messy. Seconds later, it slipped and tore into my palm with force. Ripped open my hand and cut down to the tendons, we aren't allowed to carry phones at this particular job site so no pics of that one unfortunately. Was probably lucky it didn't tear across my wrist, that would have been serious.
To those who might think I am a clumsy oaf that shouldn't be around sharp tools, I'm a journeyman union carpenter and have made my living and a significant part of my personal life using dangerous tools and doing dangerous things, those are the only 2 semi serious injuries I have had in decades [outside of nailing myself in the face with a claw hammer, but that didn't draw much blood - Saw some cool spinning stars though, just like on Popeye].
Goes to show, ignore that inner voice of caution at your own risk - Like good old mom, it always knows best.
