I keep seeing this on the front page of Craftisian, It's nice to see someone doing a bit of hand carving, but shouldn't they be working away from their thumb?
Yeah but above the article says “Our content is meticulously curated through independent research, testing, reviews, and AI-driven recommendations, all designed to present you with the finest product choices” so it’s all good.
I also like that one of the safety precautions is: "Consider investing in thumb guards to keep your hands protected from any accidental slips of the chisel."
“If there are no stupid questions, what do you call this?” — Horace the Horse
Really good carvers are partly really good, because they have excellent hand control. I know a couple of guys that I love to see their work, but I absolutely get weak kneed watching them, because they so often look like they are about to carve themselves. Now I worked ER for over 25 years, and every day saw blood and guts enough that you would think I wouldn't ever get weak kneed. I believe the difference was with my carver friends I thought I was going to see it happen, with patients all the damage was already done, all that was left was to try to fix it.
So in the end, if every time you carve, you end up in the ER, buy some guards, or chainmail gloves, which BTW is what I wear. Or you may wanna swap to knitting?
A 54-year-old woman was brought to the emergency department (ED) by ambulance after falling and piercing herself in the chest with a 12-cm wooden knitting needle. She reported walking upstairs holding her knitting needles and accidentally tripping onto one of them approximately 30 min before arrival at the ED. Initially unaware of her injury, the patient noted a persistent pain in her chest upon respiration, at which time she noted a 4-cm segment of broken wooden knitting needle protruding from ...
“If there are no stupid questions, what do you call this?” — Horace the Horse
