WouldWerker wrote:


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


I always figured the biscuit joiner was about the safest blade-equipped
power tool in my shop. Thanks for the reminder to be careful.

As a recovering alcoholic with 10 years of sobriety, I can tell you that
I am definitely glad I waited till I quit drinking to take up
woodworking! :-)

Charlie