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Your momentary loss of concentration can cost you!

Ken Fitzgerald said:
Earlier this week I began constructing a wood storage rack that requires quite a few dados on 8' 2x4s.

Early this afternoon, I was cutting those dados with pattern bit....turned off my plunge router.....I didn't wait for the bit to spin down. I flipped it over to adjust the base to adjust it to cut another 1/4". My mind was elsewhere and my wrist made contact with the still spinning bit.

As the PA said as she sewed it up.....it's like sewing up a puzzle...luckily I put some together with my kids at Christmas.

14 stitches later, I'm home.

Don't let anything distract you!
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Sometimes fear is a good thing... I don't have a router anymore since mine burned out, but I have a horror of seeing a finger surgically removed by my chop saw or table saw.... I concentrate carefully whenever I use them.... I never lift the chop saw until the blade has stopped.... and the table saw has almost been relegated to a catch all table until I get the switch fixed (again)... I have to plug it in and unplug it to start and stop it.

Sorry for the stitches and hope you heal quickly.
 
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