B A R R Y wrote:
Andy wrote:
Anything you have to add to the
list?

Beer

I hope you're joking... alcohol and power tools are a dangerous
combination... I speak from the experience of recently cutting the
back of two fingers severely with a plate joiner; partly due to having
just drank a beer on an empty stomach. This caused me to be a little
less cognizant of what I was doing... and I did the dumb thing of
holding a small piece of wood with my left hand, plunging down on it
with the joiner, joiner grapped and ran across my finger (took 18
stitches, including 2 to hold tendons together). Again, in retrospect,
I believe the beer dulled my thinking enough to have me do something I
would probably have thought otherwise. BTW, this was the first serious
accident in 30 years of woodworking.

Chris