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I think I read somewhere that babies can regrow the tip of their fingers, I might have just made that up though.Shame his fingers never grew back though.
I think I read somewhere that babies can regrow the tip of their fingers, I might have just made that up though.Shame his fingers never grew back though.
your right there mate..iff our fingers were made from hard steel they would be little 1/4" stubbs by now after all the graft they have done..soft flesh and still the same sizeAmazing thing the human body
Some bits can repair themselves
The ice bucket idea sounds good, but I ain't changing anything now.Glad your splinter has got sorted, nice table as well.
I'm about to start a similar one myself, made out of some old decking frame I have lying around. I intend to stick a rectangular planter in the centre to act as an ice bucket, suspended under the table with a cover for the top. Hopefully I won't end up in a and e!!
I'd like to claim it as my own idea, but it's just a rip off of someone else's design! (A gurl, as it happens!)The ice bucket idea sounds good, but I ain't changing anything now.
I will post a thread of the table construction later on
If a baby has a operation while in the womb its skin wont scarI think I read somewhere that babies can regrow the tip of their fingers, I might have just made that up though.
instead of making things to cook on or with, today I decided to make a garden table, two new ish scaffold boards, some 100 mm fence posts and a couple of lengths of 3x2 resulted in the table shown. When sanding smooth all the edges and on the last blinking one I manged to get a splinter under the nail on my right thumb, tried to remove it at home but it snapped. Went to A&E where they found that there is splinter about 15mm long firmly embedded under my nail, gotta go and have an operation in the morning to have it removed.
Table looks good though, and dont even mention my day job!!!
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Thinking about this in the cold light of day, gloves are quite impractical when sanding as you need to be able to feel the surface as you are going along. From every incident there is always some learning to be had and I have had my thinking cap on. As scaff boards are rough sawn finish it would have been much better to sand and prepare the materials before assembly. This way I could have used a palm sander which would have been much quicker and safer as I wouldn't have had to mess around doing all the fiddly bits by hand and sustaining an injury.Looks very nice...
What sort of gloves would you recommend for someone sanding a table..
That sound much nastier than what I had, hope she's okOn a similar vein, (no pun intended) my son's other half was using the hedge cutter yesterday, caught her fingers in the blades. They spent 7 hours in A & E, cut tendon, broken finger. She's back in today to have it repaired under general anaesthetic. Just waiting to hear she's ok.
I'll report back as soon as I know Parm. We've all had nasty moments with power tools, trouble is, they take no prisoners.That sound much nastier than what I had, hope she's ok
On a similar vein, (no pun intended) my son's other half was using the hedge cutter yesterday, caught her fingers in the blades. They spent 7 hours in A & E, cut tendon, broken finger. She's back in today to have it repaired under general anaesthetic. Just waiting to hear she's ok.
Just spoken to my boy, he took his partner in to the hospital at 07:30 this morning, into surgery at 10:00, back out all plastered up to the elbow at 15:00. Back home by 17:00, via supermarket for a bottle of vino Collapso. He said, for all the media complains about the NHS the treatment was superb. Here's hoping there's no permanent damage.I'll report back as soon as I know Parm. We've all had nasty moments with power tools, trouble is, they take no prisoners.