[DMCForum] Re: McQuinlan's (?) Fingers

["wannadelorean" <mcquinlan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The wood shaper has got to be one of the most dangerous tools.  A 
table saw will kick towards you so your hands usually get thrown 
away from the blade.  When a shaper catches a knot or starts to 
chatter, it tends to pull your hands toward the blade.  The large 
panel cutters make it especially dangerous too because the wood is 
covering the blade and you can't tell where your hand is relative to 
the blade.  I didn't realize my hand was in the path of the blade 
until the board got yanked through the cutter and took my hand with 
it.

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "content22207" <brobertson@xxxx> 
wrote:
> Fellow I work with lost his making doors with a moulding head 
cutter
> in the table saw (extremely dangerous -- much better to use a 
proper
> shaper, your unfortunate experience notwithstanding).
> 
> Did you see pics of my carb adapter? Cut it myself from a block of
> aluminum using steel bladed wood working tools. Put up about the 
same
> resistance to those blades as oak to carbide. Consistency was 
closer
> to pine (didn't chip at all). Ran the tools full speed yet the 
blades
> never got hot.
> 
> Bill Robertson
> #5939
> 
> >--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "wannadelorean" <mcquinlan@xxxx> 
wrote:
> > I lost mine on a large wood shaper (making raised panel doors 
for 
> > custom cabinets in my house).  I lost all 3 fingers at the first 
> > knuckle.  Couldn't save them (shredded).  Wood working is a 
hobby of 
> > mine but I'm doing less and less all the time.  My shop is being 
> > relocated to make room for a Delorean.  It is a little harder to 
> > lose appendages on car.  Took me a good year to learn to type 
again 
> > and they hurt all the time.  
> >

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